Sentences with phrase «alternative modern tradition»

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The inadequacy of the modern, secularist alternative to medieval disputationism (whether of the rejectionist or accommodationist type) is that it assumes that humans can transcend their traditions and simply reconstitute themselves in an ahistorical realm, one whose simplicity and transparent rationality will overcome the complexities of the past.

Old cultural traditions have been obliterated by communism; Christianity provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»

In fact, through the work of several philosophers both in America and in Europe, our century has witnessed the emergence of a distinctively modern metaphysical outlook which at last offers a real alternative to the philosophia perennis of our Western tradition.

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

Often without formal training, and facing economic insecurity and racial discrimination, these artists created profound works from both conventional art media and cast - off materials, giving visual power to a highly developed vernacular tradition that enriches an alternative to conventional narratives of modern art.