Sentences with phrase «about modern men»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

The Ray Bradbury short story «A Sound of Thunder,» an unnerving morality tale about modern man's arrogant disregard for nature, ends with time - traveling dinosaur hunters returning to the future to discover that by stepping on...

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We're currently paying the price for getting overly excited about becoming an energy superpower, and robots man the modern factory.

Wolff's other books include, TELEVISION IS THE NEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet years.

Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't change the fact that Christianity is based on a lie about a man who supposedly walked on water, reincarnated, was born from a woman who claimed to a be virgin, and changed water in to wine.

In our modern world there are many people who make up imaginary stories about early man.

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

The question before anyone who cares about the fate of men and women in the modern world is the question how a really saving faith can be encouraged and promoted.

How can modern man, whose world seems to topple about him, regain a living faith in the Living God, so that he can feel once more both the dignity of his own life and the dignity of the lives of his fellow men — everywhere?

Intellectual Roots of Acedia The roots of this spiritual sadness that has now thoroughly invaded the soul of modern man are to be found in a misunderstanding of what science has revealed to us about the modern world.

And we find that the deepest discoveries of modern physics and mathematics give hints, if not proof, that the mind of man has something about it that lies beyond the power of either physics or mathematics to describe.

When the practicing Christian talks to modern man about the «Law of God,» the «Teaching of the Church,» or invokes the authority of Holy Scripture, he is to his own mind bringing out the heaviest weapons in his armory.

But he knew more than Barth did about what was actually in the mind of modern man — or perhaps he was not so dismayed by it.

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....

(ENTIRE BOOK) Twelve basic affirmations of our Christian faith as each relates to modern man are discussed: What we believe about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, Man, Sin, Experience, Perfection, the Church, the Kingdom of God, Divine Judgment and Eternal Liman are discussed: What we believe about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, Man, Sin, Experience, Perfection, the Church, the Kingdom of God, Divine Judgment and Eternal LiMan, Sin, Experience, Perfection, the Church, the Kingdom of God, Divine Judgment and Eternal Life.

The vogue of psychiatry and of various «peace of mind» cults — whether overtly religious or not — give evidence that modern man is gravely concerned about himself.

«We do not here advocate an unheard - of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.»

Denying what seem like core Christian claims about God could be a way of affirming Christianity, perhaps the proper way for modern man.

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....

BOOKS ABOUT WHITEHEAD»S THOUGHT Emmet, D. M., Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism, Macmillan, 1932 Johnson, A. M., Whitehead's Theory of Reality, Dover, 1952 Whitehead's Philosophy of Civilization, Dover, 1958 Lowe, Victor, Understanding Whitehead, Johns Hopkins, 1962 Peters, F. H., The Creative Advance, Bethany, 1966 BOOKS ABOUT PROCESS - THEOLOGY Hamilton, P. N., The Living God and the Modern World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967 Hartshorne, Charles, Man's Vision of God, Harper, 1941 James, Ralph F., The Concrete God, Bobbs - Merrill, 1968 Ogden, Schubert, The Reality of God, S.C.M. Press, 1967 Pittenger, Norman, Process - Thought and Christian Faith, S.C.M. Press, 1968

Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.

The «God - is - dead» theology has suggested that all talk about God should be abandoned because it is meaningless to modern man.

The daring assertions about the nature of God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, man, and the world strain the credulity of the modern man.

In «Christianity and Myth» Cobb again considers the possibility of Christian theism for the modern mind.120 The profane spirit of contemporary man finds it impossible to talk about some «reality radically different from all other reality...,» i.e., to speak mythically.

The World Teacher is already here, emerging right at this moment into the everyday world as a man concerned about modern issues.

Modern man has existed for about 50,000 years.

«The trouble of the modern age,» he said, «is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did.»

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

17 Eric Mascall, in a review of W. Richard's book, Secularization Theology, in The Thomist, 32 (1968), pp. 106 - 115, says that «existentialist theology is out of harmony with what modern science tells us about man.»

All the talk of certain modern schools of theology about the lost condition of man apart from God would have been to the Hebrew thinker just so much crackling of thorns under a pot.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for ChristmMan, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmman as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmman as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmas.

We can talk to modern man about the crisis in which he stands in rebellion against God only after the question of mythology has been solved.

Modern Western culture is weakened by a great vacuum of systematic thought about the nature of man.

Therefore all reflection about the effect of prayer on the spiritual condition of the suppliant, which so pleases the modern man, is lacking here however true in themselves such reflections may be.

Say, for instance, a man in the 1279 had a dream about a modern day helicopter... He would attempt to explain what he «saw» to his friends in the terminology of the 1200's.

Prayer is a perennial fact about men as men; and one might say that insofar as sophisticated moderns have assumed that prayer is an outworn, superstitious practice, they have by that token ceased to be men and have contented themselves with being a rather sophisticated variety of simian.

And isn't God executed as a criminal about as unreasonable as you can get, both to stone age and modern scientifically sophisticated men?

You probably have a list of scriptures (the same ones I once used) for this purpose, but if you look at them honestly they do not mention the Bible, but rather «the law», writings of «men of old», «the Word of God», «this book», «this prophecy», «the scripture» or other specified or unspecified writing (s)-- NOT ONE says «the Bible» or can be reasonably interpreted to refer to the Protestant or Catholic canon WE moderns mean when we talk about «the Bible».

This consequence of the old supernaturalism is a major difficulty in many a modern man's thinking about God.

This has been a book about prayer, intended for modern men and women who find difficulty not only in seeing how prayer is possible but in understanding what it really is.

This idea that women are emotional, men are wanting to follow Jesus (in a warrior masculine way - whatever that looks like) stuff can be okay at times - but drawing to strict lines about this stuff is what I find repellent in a lot of modern Christian circles.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

Thus we have the simultaneous growth in our minds of two essentially modern concepts, those of collectivity and of an organic future: a double development precisely engendering the deep - rooted change of heart that was required to bring about the direct transformation of a childlike and instinctive faith in Man into its rational, adult state of constructive, militant faith in Mankind!

Also, it is clear that, theories and world views apart, the modern situation continues to pose ethical problems of great gravity — but that is not quite the same as what the dialogue with «modern man» was to be about.

But if it is because of a real conflict with the way in which any decent modern man is bound to think, then indeed it is time to talk about removing the offensive elements from the Biblical story by radical translation into harmless terms.

The company had this to say about him, probably written by Frank G. Ryan, the president, writing in Modern Pharmacy but covered in the Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association: «Three or four years ago, in the gradual development of our scientific staff, we secured the services of Professor Wilbur L. Scoville, a pharmacist well known to the country and a man preeminent in the field of what has been termed pharmaceutical elegance.