Sentences with phrase «modern debates about»

Some of you might have heard some echoes from the modern debate about church.

Not exact matches

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

The problems of Babel are reflected in modern America in our ongoing debates about history, identity, the future, and how we can live together as a nation.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

Such actions on the part of God should give us moderns pause when we reason about «nature» in the same - sex attraction debates.

In addition to our debates about general education, The Great Civilized Conversation has something important to say about the Chinese tradition and the modern world.

Louis Fisher surveys the full sweep of U.S. history» from colonial debates about religious liberty to modern judicial, legislative, and executive positions on the status of conscientious objection, compulsory flag salutes, school prayer, Indian religious practices, and the religious use of peyote.

Most modern definitions of God are based on Platonic philosophy anyway, so maybe it is time for a reset on the entire debate about God anyway...

Now all this may seem a longish way from debates about modern feminism.

And there is much debate about whether Finland's lower infant mortality rate has anything to do with cardboard boxes as bassinets and perhaps more to do with modern antibiotics, immunization and prenatal care.

slapped above the recent Time Magazine cover story about the latest trends in parenting stung, and has sparked a heated debate about the modern relationship between mom and baby.

This is evident in parliamentary debates about suffrage but also in the modern language of «makers and takers», «skivers and strivers», or Mitt Romney's famous «47 % comment».

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

What to do about EU membership has, as a direct consequence, become one of the most important debates in modern politics, one that has caused no end of confusion in Tory ranks.

Compare that with Parliament, which is always full of people, bustling about, seeking out and sometimes haranguing their elected representatives, accessing and engaging in modern democracy and observing vibrant, but often rough and tumble, debate.

There has been debate about the cause of these discrepancies, and it has been proposed that a hominin migration out of Africa might have occurred prior to the major dispersal of modern humans.

«Modern math sheds new light on long - standing debate about Viking - age Ireland conflict.»

«But there's been a lot of debate about the prevalence of CO in modern populations, with some saying it had effectively disappeared,» says Ann Ross, director of the Forensic Sciences Institute at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work.

Most debates about the Châtelperronian — which begins about 40,000 years ago — have revolved around whether Neandertals invented it or simply copied the behavior of incoming modern humans.

In «Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen,» Wall explores the subversive, witty and largely undocumented ways that women of the period used recipes and food to do everything from read, write and treat illness to wax philosophic about issues still debated today.

The studies fanned the flames of the ongoing debate about whether Neandertals and modern humans interbred.

Sadly, the debate today is not about how to create the best courses that reflect the wonders and excitement of modern biology but rather over whether to teach creationism.

Anthropologists have long debated about a penetrating wound seen in Shanidar 3's rib cage: Was he injured by another Neanderthal in a fight — or was it an early modern human who went after him?

In doing so, she was wading into a debate about eastern box turtle variation that has lasted more than 80 years, with some scientists suggesting that fossil and modern box turtles are all the same species, while others — pointing to a distinction in size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct species.

The study contributes to a long - running academic debate about why other hominins, including our immediate ancestors, had gigantic brow ridges while anatomically modern humans evolved flatter foreheads.

Scientists have finally been able to tackle a much - debated topic about the shape of Neanderthals» skulls compared to modern humans.

«There is a huge debate about how different Neanderthals were from modern humans,» said Shannon McPherron, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.

I was reminded of the old debate and the modern evidence about it by Ted Kerasote's excellent and best - selling book on all things dog, «Merle's Door.»

University of California at Los Angeles scientist Robert K. Wayne brought the power of modern genetics to bear on this old debate about the origin of dogs.

«What surprised me the most about the modern human origins debate when I first started learning about it is how little people really knew about what is going on in Asia,» Bae said.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

Behave by Andromeda Romano - Lax This page - turning historical novel about a complicated relationship between two scientists in the early 20th century touches on themes that will resonate with modern readers — the enduring debate of nature vs. nurture, as well as the eternal struggle women face to balance family life and career opportunities.

Or rather, books about God have, specifically those about whether or not such a thing exists, with ample ink given to how misguided believers or atheists are, depending on which author you turn to.Now Karen Armstrong has joined the debate over religion's sway in modern society.

As modern pet anesthetics have become a lot safer, with fewer side effects, the debate about the recommended age of canine neutering has been reopened in the veterinary world with some vets now allowing their clients to opt for an early - age spay or neuter, provided they appreciate that there are greater, albeit minimal, anaesthetic risks to the very young pet when compared to the more mature pet.

The American debate about video game violence is a battlefield as vast and pocked as any you might find in a modern first - person shooter game.

This week we gush about Journey, rip Syndicate a new one, discuss the big GDC debate surrounding modern Japanese games, take a look at the Kara traiiler, and ask if Peter Molyneux is better off without Microsoft breathing down his neck.

Tate Modern director Frances Morris noted that her work is regarded for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us,» the Guardian reported.

It was not partisan in the rather tedious debates of the time about the modern versus the American, but perhaps legible as a gay, cosmopolitan sensibility.

The controversy was a debate about the value of modern art itself, that could equally well have had many other pieces of art as its provocation.

The final section will also consider the artist's post-war reputation, from the widespread hostility provoked by the 1945 - 6 V&A exhibition which re-ignited many of the fierce debates about modern art that first raged before the First World War, to the phenomenally successful survey of his career at the Tate in 1960.

Yes, there were anxieties and debates back then about styles of painting and where painting needed to go to remain modern and relevant — but there was no existential crisis about its continuing primacy and validity.

Tate Modern's director Frances Morris commented: «Tania Bruguera is well known for the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.»

As for its modern - day efficacy, there is plenty of debate about the theory.

Frances Morris, the director of Tate Modern, said Bruguera was well known for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.

«But at least for the first time in many years there's a real serious debate about modern architecture on the streets of Wakefield.

UNLIKE many of those who wade into debates about the Turner Prize or modern art, Dr Kim Howells at least has a good claim to know what he's talking about.

Kim Howells Turner Prize Row: Passion for Art Based on Expertise Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 1, 2002; 469 words UNLIKE many of those who wade into debates about the Turner Prize or modern art, Dr Kim Howells at least has a good claim to know what he's talking about.

Arts Editor Joe Riley on the Public Challenge of the Turner Prize; «WHEN PRIZE WINNER IS NAMED THERE WIILL BE THE USUAL DEBATE ABOUT MODERN ART TAKING LEAVE OF ITS SENSES» Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); October 19, 2007; 700 + words... visual arts award.