Sentences with phrase «accept modernity»

Still, some ancient cultures survived and those who belong to the same are not yet ready to accept modernity.

He argued that mainline churches like the U.S. Episcopal Church are in disarray because of their inattention to church teaching and scripture and because they accept modernity's relegation of religion to the private realm of feeling.

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In other words, taking an apologetic and defensive approach accepts the worldview offered by modernity and defends the Bible by a rational standard that, according to Enns, «the Bible itself challenges rather than acknowledges.»

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

«119 Here he pictures man as having either to accept the modern world and «live the death of God» it implies, or to refuse modernity and isolate his faith to preserve it.

We should now, in the spirit of modernity, fully acknowledge and accept our own creative role in such projections.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

Here, perhaps, we find the crucial element of the Christian modernity that Yeago calls for: Norms can be accepted more readily as they are seen to nourish our spiritual appetite to thrive in love.

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

For instance, the development of European culture during Renaissance and Reformation diminished the scope of similar cultures and the whole world accepted the characteristics of modernity.