Sentences with phrase «modern characteristics of»

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The series also included the example of a modern banking model that combined characteristics of both the fragmented 19th century US and great resilience, thanks to its peculiar liability - sharing, funds transfer mechanism and cross-control structure: the German Sparkassen Finanzgruppe (saving banks group; see post here).

Our preaching and theology has been one ceaseless effort to conform to the canons of intelligibility produced by the economic and intellectual formations characteristic of modern and liberal societies.

What could be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin» are essential and unavoidable characteristics of the human condition?

In this case, the rapid increase in nearsightedness appears to be due to a characteristic of modern life: more and more time spent indoors under artificial lights.

The characteristic modern is not a sheer pagan and certainly will not be attracted to the claims of synthetic barbarism as presented by either its major or its minor prophets.

Indeed, it requires a difficult tour de force of imagination for the modern mind to grasp the ideas of man's inner nature characteristic of Biblical religion.

Anthony Ehrhardt has a great series going on about the Characteristics of Pharisees for modern churches.

This dilemma has become particularly acute because, for all its animus toward modernity, the Christian right has made one of the most characteristic of modern political beliefs the foundation of its entire agenda.

Modern philosophy was a little like fundamentalism in that the characteristic obsession of the rationalist with clarity and decontextualized truth expresses a fear that once you put things in context, once you let contingency back in, cherished verities may crumble.

Complicating this whole process is the traditional discipline structure of much theological education and the inability of that structure to handle the multiplication of information and expansion of ideas characteristic of modern society.

It is the product, in part, of two characteristics of our modern habits...

It is argued that these characteristics may be associated with one another at a sufficiently high level that overall portrayals of various societies as more or less modern make a good deal of empirical sense.

Another characteristic aspect that process theology derives from Hartshorne is its decisive rejection of humanism as a satisfactory option for modern man.

In order to see the history of humanity in the West more clearly, we need to turn on its head a characteristic, self - congratulating modern description of the philosophical achievement that Descartes is thought to have accomplished.

This dependence on knowledge is increasingly characteristic of modern social planners.

The concept of artistry in its fullest form is characteristic only of the modern mindset.

Stokes moves exceedingly close to Neville's description of Being - Itself when he characterizes creativity as «indeterminate [having] no character of its own,» yet possessing a fundamental (reality not reducible to the characteristics of the actual entities («Recent Interpretations of Whitehead's Creativity,» The Modern Schoolman, XXXIX, 2 [May 1962], 32sf.

The endless strife between science and religion has been characteristic of the modern era, from Copernicus to Darwin.

If one desires to know caste rules, or how women should be regarded, or the obligations of servant to master, or wife to husband, or children to parents, or king to people, or people to ruler, or concerning almost any question of social relationship, here may be found what, until quite recent modern times, was the characteristic Indian answer.45

That is entirely characteristic of the modern age.

These saving new ideas have been characteristic of modern Protestantism to the present day.

No ancient texts reflect the attitudes characteristic of the modern western world, and some of the difficulties we see in texts about Jesus could be matched by difficulties to be seen in texts about Pythagoras or Socrates.

Also contributing to an increasingly inhospitable climate for mediating structures have been the special characteristics of the technocrats who predominate in modern governments, political parties, corporations, and mass media.

Some characteristics of biblical narrative are easily recognised as literature by modern standards.

None of these developments is unique to the United States; all, to one degree or another, are characteristics of a growing global culture that defines how organizations should behave and what it means to be modern.

In this way the Whiteheadian cosmology incorporates the principle of the relativity of simultaneity, actually the principle of the causal independence of contemporary events, characteristic of modern theories of relativity.

An interesting allusion to this «final interpretation» (Process and Reality) is found in Science and the Modern World, in the consideration that serves as a characteristic Whiteheadian proof of the existence of God.

But it can legitimately be asked whether many of these characteristics are unique to the modern period, whether they are intensifying, or whether they might not also have characterized Western religion a century or even a millennium ago.

The Humiliation of the Word powerfully and convincingly demonstrates the wholesale abuse of language and this dangerous addiction to images characteristic of modern society.

Building on his previous work, he continued to describe modern society as a product of evolutionary development, but he also suggested that a fundamental characteristic of modern society is its inevitable and enduring confrontation with paradox At one level, the basic paradox confronting modern society can be seen in the fact that there must be closure for communication to occur, yet there must also be openness in order to cope with the high degree of complexity and change in modern society.

Of course, modern theology has not been monolithic, but in its most characteristic expressions, it depicted God as a sovereign will outside the world and unaffected by events within it.

The founder of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, held that whereas the primary characteristic of the entities making up the physical world is extension, the primary characteristic of minds is thought.

Characteristic of the modern world are the physical categories, such as location, gender, ethnicity, appearance, from which cyberspace seems to liberate us.

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

It is a great pity that the casual Bible reader almost inevitably reads the Old Testament against the background of a sophisticated modern world, for then the first things to strike him are characteristics which are strange to him just because they reflect the ancient period.

The methodology in each chapter is a clue: after a brief vignette from Francis's life, Boff carefully analyzes some characteristic of our modern world, and then suggests how St. Francis's perspective might illuminate that situation.

However, its feathers, wings, furcula («wishbone») and reduced fingers are all characteristics of modern birds.»

Modern Homo sapiens are remarkably sophisticated creatures, capable of writing symphonies, solving the Poincare Conjecture, and inventing Nutella, yet we carry around a number of fears that seem to be more characteristic of our ancient past.

One of the chief drawbacks to reading Buddhist sacred literature that has not been edited for the modern reader, is its repetitiousness which we saw to be a characteristic of Hindu literature also, particularly of the Brahmanas.

Due to the complexity of this phenomenon, one of the main challenges of the modern wine industry is to be able to deliver to consumers wines with consistent and enjoyable sensory characteristics.

A descendant of these early Mongol - Chinese hot pots, modern «Mongolian» hot pots share characteristics with Japanese hot pots (especially shabu - shabu) and with many regional Chinese versions popular all over China today.

«The big thing,» Weatherby says, «is to use enough modern, slow - burning powder and to shape your case to the burning characteristics of the powder.

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In addressing the subject of exit strategies, this book necessarily delves into and contributes to one of the most important unresolved scholarly debates of modern times: namely the characteristics and requirements of a sustainable peace.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

But the defining characteristics of modern politics in the United States are a corrupt campaign finance system that enables corporate and wealthy elites to purchase political outcomes; and an abundance of anti-democratic electoral, ballot access and debate rules designed to minimize participation and choice.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

Organisms that old lacked many distinguishing characteristics of modern life forms, making their fossils exceptionally rare.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

«The morphology of the skull indicates that it is that of a modern human of African origin, bearing characteristics of early European Upper Palaeolithic populations.