Sentences with phrase «most modern men»

Most modern men understand the basic fashion rules and are aware of the numerous styles that are in trend.

Three issues ago, and then again in the last issue, he's devoted «The Back Page» to persuading us that most modern men and women, even the faithful among us, find it hard to think of nature as morally purposeful, and therefore won't be persuaded by arguments that draw upon a robust notion of what things are for.

As surely as even the most modern man is a sinful man who can not atone for his guilt, so surely the Gospel of the Grace of God is proclaimed to him.

Not exact matches

Ferdinand Piëch, the man most responsible for the modern Volkswagen.Nigel Treblin — AFP / Getty Images

«Being [CEO, Alan] Mulally's right - hand man during what have been the most transformative years for Ford in the modern era has been a valuable development experience.»

Are you a fashionable man or woman who is also completely overwhelmed by the most impossibly simple task of modern life: putting on your pants and then your shoes?

Well, the concensus of most modern NT exegetes is that said simple, preacher man did not rise from the dead so bottom line it is time to admit to the fraud and to return our money.

If Adolf Hitler (The most evil man in modern history) had, in his last moments, turned to JC, begged forgiveness for all his sins in genuine repentance and found God, is he or is he not in heaven?

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

Evolutionists line up the most promising choices to present a gradual progression from monkey to modern man.

T. S. Eliot once remarked, in praising Baudelaire, that most of us moderns are not men enough to be damned.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

How a man rejected by the China Inland Mission became one of the most significant figures in modern missions.

11 Altizer contends that the modern man of faith must say Yes to the most illogical of all views of the world: Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence.

Modern man can know faith only as a «scandal»; faith is wholly other than the reality which we most deeply are.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

When you look at the New Testament model, Jeremy, as you have done in this series... one cultural difference that I think most people fail to really account for is that those men, Paul and others who worked, generally worked in a modern day trade equivalent.

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

Ours is a situation that is peculiarly open to the vision of the most radical of all modern Christian visionaries, William Blake, for no poet or seer before him had so profoundly sensed the cataclysmic collapse of the cosmos created by Western man.

As I've written before, I have found it interesting that your Sophia is a thin, young, sexy [by modern fashionable standards] female — not a woman that most women I know could identify with, though most men may.

I am a modern day deist and of all the man made gods I find the Christian one the most disgusting and has caused so much suffering in the world.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

For the opposing position, Buchanan quotes George C. Ball: «The urgent need of modern man [is] to use the world's resources in the most efficient manner.

When modern theorists envisage man as a being who knows what he wants, or who at least possesses an «unconscious» that knows for him, they may simply have failed to perceive the domain in which human uncertainty is most extreme.

There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing men of a century ago had outlined their....

This sickness of modern man is manifested most clearly of all, however, in the individualism and nationalism which make power an end in itself.

Among all the ancient traditions, Buddhism is Christianity's most serious competitor for modern man's attention and loyalty.

People seem to conveniently forget that most modern science exists as a continuation of the work done by men and women who believed in a creator God.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

Carl R. Rogers, a justly famous modern psychologist, said that Niebuhr's contention that man is primarily the victim of self - love can be maintained only if one views individuals on the most superficial or external basis.

Amid confusion and chaos in the outward scene, disharmony among the nations, high prices and high wages and high taxes, uncertainty as to the political or economic future, what would modern man like most to have?

Unlike most modern Western males, I read in various sources that men of the Ancient Near East didn't feel «weirded out» by sharing a bed with another man.

Of all the views of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient world, that of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human condition.

Most of the founding fathers of modern science were men of profound religious faith.

In this way women are made to fear the disapproval of society if they did not play the right game in a man's world, playing this game means allowing oneself to be marginalized from most modern structures.

But more than most major artists of the last century, he is a modern man.

The beauty the world has to offer is what is lost by the «Rationalist,» the type of modern man whose character Oakeshott sketched in his most famous essay, «Rationalism in Politics,» first published in 1947 and republished fifty years ago in his essay collection of the same name.

Then geneticists came and proved that modern man shares a common ancester that goes back at MOST 100,000 years.

At a first level, the most extrinsic and superficial one and hence the most obvious, it is modern man who demythologizes.

Perhaps that ought to be the case; most certainly it is not always the case with modern Christian men and women.

Since the phase of man's life which makes modern man's situation most obviously different from that of all his ancestors is technical or mechanical achievement, it is reasonable to suspect that our predicament is associated, in some way or other, with this development.

What degree of reality and what ontological significance are we to attribute to this strange shift of the current, as a result of which modern man, scarcely entered into what he supposed to be the haven of his individual rights, finds himself suddenly drawn into a great unitary whirlpool where it seems that his most hard - won attributes, those of his incommunicable, personal being, are in danger of being destroyed?

Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth - century Catholicism as did Berkouwer,» writes Peter Leithart of the man Timothy George has called «the most important Reformed theologian of the twentieth century next to Karl Barth.»

But in terms of our modern neoanthropocentricity, Man, both diminished and enlarged, becomes the head (terrestrial) of a Universe that is in the process of psychic transformation — Man, the last - formed, most complex and most conscious of «molecules».

Nietzsche, the greatest modern master of understanding man, has taught us an ironical and intimately human mode of listening, and this listening is often most effective when it listens to what is not said.

The sterile liturgies that often resulted from this attitude seem to support the opinion of most modern psychologists that man can not be so arbitrarily divided.

They underline the virtues of quiet meditation, of contemplation and of control of the body by the mind and spirit in a way which is foreign to most Western minds, but which might yet prove valuable to modern Western man in his busy, noise - infested world.

To our ears such words sound very like the most blatant human imperialism toward the rest of nature, as does the divine commission to man in Genesis 1:28; and in modern times they may have fostered such an attitude and been used as a divine «exploiters» charter» to justify it.