Sentences with phrase «as modern forms»

Comparisons of vocabularies and root words in the most ancient as well as modern forms of the related languages, as well as comparisons of their historically attested mythologies and lore, revealed remarkable similarities.

Think of social media as the modern form of «word of mouth marketing».

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

Mr Prescott also called on ministers to ratify the European Convention on Human Trafficking, described by campaigners as the modern form of slavery.

His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears.

Travel insurance is thought of as a modern form of insurance, as it's become especially popular over the last 50 years or so.

Not exact matches

Then you're are likely engaging in a form of self - torture that many psychologists now recognize as a modern - day epidemic — part obsessive - compulsive disorder, part overbearing superego, part digital - age narcissistic nightmare, and nearly always on the edge of miserable.

Gold and Silver a unique in the modern financial system, as they are both highly liquid, and not a form of faith based debt.

Not many ex-Communists in fact posed this question, because to do so would be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the present only as it leads on to some future.»

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

In this modern age, the form of persecution has also evolved, but they are as much a form of persecution to stop the message from spreading.

Oneness Pentecostalism has a strong affirmation of the incarnation also, which means it can not be classified as a form of Unitarianism or even a modern - day version of modalism.

It's a hidden system that disguises itself as «righteous», being a modern form of sacrificial violence that lurks within the dualistic world of religion.

Economics, at least in the classical and neoclassical forms that have dominated its modern development, is a science that analyzes interactions as exchanges relevant to ends determined by consumer preferences, such that the ends lie beyond the domain of the inquiry.

In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

What defines this line is the way in which all positions on it, from one end to the other, are committed to a form of modern liberalism which, as we noted above, prioritizes the individual and the present.

Although Leibniz did, in a most modern way, conceive of space as inherently relational, as an «order of co-existence,» rather than as a self - subsistent «container,» his prejudice in favor of the subject - predicate form for propositions led him to interpret relational forms as ultimately reducible to predicational forms, and to assume that the latter had primary metaphysical significance.

In its modern form, the character is commonly depicted as a blackamoor, with blackface make - up, and dressed in stylized colourful Renaissance attire, akin to Maures in European heraldry, and similar to Moorish characters in the «Moors and Christians» Iberian folk festivals commemorating the Reconquista.

To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the discoveries of modern science.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

As Silk suggests, the - Unitarian heritage helped form the basis for the modern social responsibility creed that David Rockefeller articulated in the 1970s as business being a «public mission» with public responsibilitieAs Silk suggests, the - Unitarian heritage helped form the basis for the modern social responsibility creed that David Rockefeller articulated in the 1970s as business being a «public mission» with public responsibilitieas business being a «public mission» with public responsibilities.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

If we are to speak theologically, must we not finally say that this image of God as Satan is either itself a satanic and all too modern form of deicide, or else a new and radical form of the Christian faith?

For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world.

I have honestly tried never to picture an ancient way of conceiving facts as though it were identical with modern thinking, but always to portray the Biblical writers as using their own mental forms of thought in their own way, however diverse from ours those forms may be.

There is now a movement among young modern Zoroastrians to go back to the earlier purer form of their faith, not unlike movements that have occurred within Hinduism and Christianity under such names as «Back to the Vedas,» or «Back to Christ,» or «Back to the gospels,» in an attempt to throw off the accretions of the years which are felt to have obscured the original teachings of those fajths.

This forms the background to his lifelong battle against what he sees as modern Protestant theology's subjectivism.

forms of plot development) which were not necessarily the same as the techniques used in modern Western narrative.

While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»

Nor are there separate articles on literary forms and genres» such as fiction, drama, poetry» all of which have gone through interesting and important changes and developments in Islamic lands in the modern period.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

Later in the book, he seems to condemn some modern forms of philosophy as being unhelpful for developing theology.

In fact, it is not going too far to say that modern skepticism about heaven typically takes the form of portraying it as a kind of prison.

Although patriarchy as a complete sociopolitical system has been modified in the course of history, the classical politics of patriarchal domination has decisively shaped — and still does so today — modern Euro - American forms of democracy.

He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

For a republic, and especially for its democratic rather than aristocratic form, the principle of social life is virtue, which James Sellers has recently paraphrased in more modern language as «willed initiative.»

Modern study of the Bible has brought the discovery that the Christian hope is not at all exclusively tied to an other - worldly form; indeed, as we have seen, that is just what it had started to lead men away from.

The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility.

Though this theory of knowledge as detached reflection appeals to our cultural prejudices, formed as they are by an unreflective scientism, it is a relatively modern notion that has been thoroughly dismantled by the phenomenological tradition.

I also read recently that the basis for modern - day «tithing» as some churches teach (mine included) was on the Catholic church's reinstatement of it in the form of a «church tax» (something to that effect... that's something I'll have to check into on my own).

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

«67 This Christian interpretation rejects the criterion of rational intelligibility as the final court of appeal in both its Greek (historical events have no significance) and modern forms (history itself is redemptive).

As Niebuhr contemplated the shambles of the Depression, he became deeply convinced that modern liberalism, whether in its secular or its religious form, could not provide relevant guidance for social and political reconstruction.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

Thinkers who have been more faithful to Thomistic Realism, with its a posteriori abstraction of the universal form, have rejected the idea that formality is a priori to observation in general but kept it as a priori to modern experimental observation.

As this example illustrates, explanation in modern physics is almost entirely in terms of mathematical structure and involves an enormously rich set of ideas about form.

When one appeals to «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» as the common basis for understanding man and his world, do we not have to be more definitive and discriminating within scientific imagery itself than either Bultmann or Ogden appear to be?

In these he proposes a highly convincing readjustment of the old ideas of «matter» and «form», overcoming some of the difficulties inherent in the scholastic theory of a real distinction between the principles of «act» and «potency» as dual constituents of reality, especially in the light of modern scientific knowledge.

Thus the form or plan found its way in to modern science as formal relations, plans, formulae.