Sentences with phrase «as handmaid»

He looks for guidance to the seventeenth century, specifically to Descartes, whose philosophy was meant as a handmaid of science and whose physics — developed much more fully by Newton — became the foundation of the new cosmology.

We are referring to the step from a working hypothesis as a handmaid of research to an affirmation of faith.

Even with such a sketchy picture of the methodology of liberation theology, it must be apparent that philosophy's role as handmaid to theology must come into question.

But on the whole the most important function of knowledge was to serve as a handmaid to understanding and contemplation.

Our vision is to help our pupils and staff link together the different branches of knowledge to the Catholic Faith through philosophy, where the latteracts as the handmaid of theology.»

In this essay, I wish to briefly survey this harmonious relationship as perhaps the supreme example of reason at the service of revelation, or of philosophy as the handmaid to theology.

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

There was silent protest outside the Senate Republican conference room by women dressed as handmaids, similar to characters in the Hulu show «The Handmaid's Tale.»

In March of last year, women dressed as Handmaids protested in Texas.

Not exact matches

Untethered viewing is coming to Hulu subscribers, as will a third season of «The Handmaids Tale» and a new series by Mindy Kaling.

For Clement of Alexandria, writing toward the end of the second century CE, philosophy is «the handmaid of theology,» given to the Greeks as preparation for Christ in a manner similar to the Law being given to the Hebrews (Stromata, 1:5).

Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of human existence, as well as providing our culture with a shared vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.

Even simple ordinary folk today put reason before faith, unlike before the «enlightenment» when theology was accepted as the «queen of sciences» and science its handmaid.

So she had to use a male servant (as per your bible and handmaids).

Luther would come to echo the modernists that philosophy was indeed in no sense the handmaid of theology, not because of the merely intellectual inappropriateness of this as he saw it, but because the whole world of man, all the world of philosophy was thrown entirely into the deepest of shadows under the sign of sin when a man had become bound by the Word of God.

My dominant idea was: «Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me even as thou wilt,» and a perfect confidence that all would be well, that all was well.

A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nóra just as rumors begin to spread that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley.