Sentences with phrase «west of modern»

In an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Holland).

Not exact matches

China is trying to transform itself from an agrarian backwater into a modern industrial power in the span of a single generation — a feat that took the West a century of ups and downs, harsh lessons and hard - won victories.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Founded in 1935, this was the first contemporary art museum on the West Coast.

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In modern - day terms, you might say West put in his 10,000 hours of scouting.

It's a sleek - and - modern affair, but in typical West Coast fashion, management makes an effort to let guests know they're eco-friendly, which means an in - room supply of custom - roasted fair - trade coffee.

«While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president [in the West Wing], I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,» she said.

«The modern tech sector began on the West Coast when it was about developing new technology and programming,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of RXR Realty, a Google landlord at Pier 57, a new mixed - use space on the Hudson River that is scheduled to open this year.

While most of the businesses in the West Bank will remain small, a growing number of businesses are maturing to the next level, adopting higher standards, more modern processes and reaching international markets.

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

The defining feature of modern Christianity has been its desire to reconcile modernity in the West with Christianity.

Only for a brief period in the history of the West — the period of modern times — did anyone seriously suppose that human beings could hold knowledge without God.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

But what many Catholics in the West have learned from modern biblical scholarship is a profound distrust of the Bible: This didn't happen; that's just a metaphor; this is a myth.

But he continued to believe that the great religious upheaval in the Christian West at the dawn of the modern era had involved both the necessity of reform and a division at once scandalous and tragic.

In the West, our modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life of toys and trinkets.

Over the past three decades, the French philosopher Pierre Manent has published a series of works on the destiny of the West and our modern political condition that are both profound and — atypical of Parisian intellectuals — expressed in luminous prose.

In modern secular Britain - indeed, in the modern secular West - any claim that there is anything like a real and absolute Truth is viewed with suspicion at the very least and most of the time with a sustained antagonism.

The West also needs a world view to underlie and support its quest for a spirituality that avoids the sheer materialism and relativism of modern atheism without returning to the supernatural, omnipotent, intervening, moralistic, and anthropocentric «God» against which it has reacted.

He also holds very firmly that Western civilization is essentially Islamic since the West has adopted most of the leading principles of Islam and made them an integral part of the structure of modern civilization.

In the modern West adoptees themselves are often highly critical of current practices that leave many adoptees extremely wounded souls without acknowledgement and permission to show their grief, and thus without knowledge and access to support and healing therapies.

Drawing mainly from Protestant authors of the early modern period, John Witte, Jr. discusses «the interplay among law, theology, and marriage in the West.»

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Unlike cities of the modern West, the Greco — Roman city was as much a religious as a political organization, and citizens were expected to participate in thoroughly religious civic festivals, which included sacrifices to the gods and goddesses who served as protectors of the city, whether Athena in Athens, or Artemis in Ephesus.

Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and foe alike the essential expression of what it means to he a political animal in the modern West.

The rise of the modern West is at heart the rise of the free individual, the free individual conceived as a moral agent imbued with an inviolable conscience, and thus the linchpin of the religious project of personal autonomy in a redeemed 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....

In his modern city hall office we listened as Khalaf alternately boasted of the future West Bank state and deplored Israeli actions that appear to go counter to that future.

Unfortunately, most of the traditional ones come from another era, another culture, a time a place and a context which seem only distantly related to us in these modern days whether we have been brought up in the West or the East.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

Rorty calls us «the liberal Rawlsian searchers for consensus» and «the community of the liberal intellectuals of the secular modern West» (CIS 12).

In other words, there is a certain sub-group within the culture of the modern West which lives «aesthetically;» there is another sub-group which lives «ethically;» and there is another sub-group which lives «religiously.»

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Or is he not a rather familiar figure, perhaps all - too - well socialized into certain aspects of the modern and postmodern West?

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

Such people were confident that Islam could absorb the full impact of scientifically based modern thought coming from the West.

Likewise, we can see through Fowden's lens why the more admirable but no less secular ideologies of the West have produced neither world empire nor commonwealth in modern times.

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.

Modern Family members Ed O'Neill and Ty Burrell will play an octopus who's missing a tentacle and a whale respectively, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton will lend their pipes as Dory's parents, Idris Elba and Dominic West are a couple of sea lions and Kaitlin Olsen will voice a lovable whale shark.

As R. R. Reno argued in the December issue of First Things, the most pressing danger to the integrity and even the existence of Catholicism in the modern West is bourgeois accommodationism.

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

The process has continued to the present; the black tents of the nomads pitched in convenient spots as far west as the shoulder of Carmel at the entrance to the Plain of Accho are, for those who can understand, among the revealing sights of modern Palestine.

Modern influences from the West tend to modify the educational process, but there are still parts of the world where the greater part of education, from the primary school through the university, finds its basis in the Koran.

The perplexity of this leader from the image — ridden West, standing in the presence of a mystery that still evaded him, is a true symbol of Israel's place in the ancient world: a place that might well be equally unique in the modern, save for our debt to Israel herself.

Theosophy has taken over some of the basic ideas of the Upanishads and popularized them in the West, and their indirect influence is to be seen in a number of small modern religious movements in America.42

Worlds Made of Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton Harvard, 432 pages, $ 29.95 Alas, poor Casaubon!

However, unless you pronounced «Thus saith the Lord» and declared that you were a prophet and etc. etc. (demonstrated some of the signs in a and b) then I think comparing Israel and the modern day US is like comparing the East and the West as the same thing.

We find that the rise of modern culture in the Christian west, followed by its rapid spread around the world, has been both a blessing and a curse.

It is an alternative from which bad Christians and agnostics alike have begun to shrink in horror, for even if the Church had no more within her to give the modern age, even so would she be a better light to men than the black slavery of the spirit which has arisen out of the East, and stands upon the shores of the West.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.