Sentences with phrase «at modern cultures»

When you look at modern cultures that have strict gun control laws, the crazy maniacs who are set on killing people just use other tools to kill people, like bombs, machetes, and cars.

Not exact matches

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

The guestrooms and suites at Marriott Vacation Club Pulse properties echo the cosmopolitan nature of their surroundings, each with an updated, modern look and feel that reflects the personal energy and unique culture of their host cities.

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

In addition to the expected human drama that comes along with any reality gameshow, the StartupBus is also a fascinating look at a modern pathway to (relative, at least) fame in a culture obsessed with celebrity.

He was very effective at clearly explaining the challenge which modern science makes to our culture and the outlines of the appropriate response, particularly that made by Stanley Jaki.

If I remember correctly the Lindsay Commission noted the teaching of history as the point at which rational and moral evaluations of traditional and modern cultures could be made most effectively.

The challenge to «horizontal enchantment» from people like Taylor and MacIntyre, if I may audaciously attempt to boil it down to one paragraph, is this: At the root of horizontal culture (the modern world of democratic republics and entrepreneurial economies) is the claim that people can and should Reform the world.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.

And while we're at it, another of modern culture's formal determinations that would probably be worth discarding is its all - consuming obsession with all things sexual.

Paul S. Boyer, professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is the author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992).

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....

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

Dr Peter Hodgson, formerly head of the Nuclear Physics theoretical division at the University of Oxford, has long been involved in the science — faith debate and has contributed widely to the Catholic Church's appreciation of modern physics, especially as a consultant to the Pontifical Council of Culture.

The most this period could have done was to buy time for a fuller and better synthesis to be worked out between Catholic theology, and what is either well proven, or at least intrinsically probable in the philosophy of modern science, and the culture built upon it.

The pluralism of modern culture does much to fragment our attempts at a well - structured identity.

But that these concerns would reappear in fresh and vigorous power, not only in the midst of a modern scientific and industrial culture but as a conscious and relevant reaction to the tensions and dilemmas created by that culture — that was not at all expected.

Justin points out that «rape had been used at times a s a symbol of domination, with armies raping the (male) leader of a conquered enemy... Clearly, in some cultures and contexts — whether in ancient times or in modern - day prisons — male - male rape had been used or threatened as a method of violent humiliation and domination.»

St Albert, pegging away at his botany, and St Thomas, discussing whether or not the angels could be divided into species, were fast allies, and lived by a common culture; their modern representatives move in different orbits.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Modern intellectual culture assumes the «fact - value dichotomy» so easily, in fact, that the future relations of piety and intellect at Union will undoubtedly involve some mighty wrestling to keep the two intimate with each other, no matter how insulated some of our university colleagues prefer them to be.

All these formulations about God's disappearance from modern culture, says Altizer, do not get at the heart of the matter.

Despite his refusal to speak of the death of God in metaphysical terms, a process theologian, such as Cobb, will not at all reject the irrefutable evidence of the absence of God in modern culture.

John M. Staudenmaier, «The Influence of Communication Technologies on Modern American Culture: A Framework for Analysis,» paper presented at the University of Dayton Conference on Religious Telecommunications, Dayton, OH, September 26, 1988, p. 4.

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

It is at this point, I believe, that the traditional Christian doctrine of love is in the deepest trouble with sensitive and critical minds in modern culture.

We would concur noting that the task of defending these spiritual and supernatural realms as fulfilling and flowing from our knowledge of the physical and natural realms is the philosophical challenge at the heart of the modern culture war.

Keys and his colleagues, with support from the sugar industry, were effective at discrediting research from around the same time by John Yudkin that sugar, not cholesterol from saturated fats, is the main dietary source of most modern Western culture's obesity, diabetes, and cardiac issues.

A modern, 198 - room ultra-chic hotel, The Highland Dallas is located at North Central and Mockingbird Lane and defines an intersection of style, culture, sophistication and comfort.

Assembled by Chris Tanghe, Master Sommelier, the list solidifies the bond between Modern Spain's food and wine culture that Tanghe describes as: «at the same time fiercely traditional and ultra progressive, creating a diverse and fascinating breadth of wines with varying styles.»

I don't like this modern day football culture its embarrassing and the culture created and now at Arsenal

But i must complement wenger he has changed the culture of the club and given the team a spirit But does that give him the right to neglect the needs of the fans for some trophies Arsenal tickets are the most expensive yet the fans settle for good football as opposed to winning football as mentioned on this blog i don't get it But wenger knows once you keep the share holders happy then your in business It puzzles me that a modern manager can go six (6) yes six seasons without a single trophy and some people can come here making bone dry excuses, the ambition of the club has dropped wenger can coach at no other top club in Europe and not win a trophy he would be shown the door.

Looking at relationships in different ways is a more realistic approach to modern living and the evolving culture.

What Modern Culture Says About Divorce Society encourages you to pursue true love at all costs.

Still, Pettay says, it's culture, not genes, that explains why Westerners delay parenthood: «In modern society there tends to be a low number of offspring per couple, so natural selection isn't at work.

By investigating modern Puebloan culture as well as looking at the geological environment, the researchers used a holistic approach to investigate how the culture flourished.

Exposed, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on display through April 17, 2011, examines how voyeurism pervades our everyday life, focusing particular attention on 19th - and 20th - century photography, celebrity culture and the growth of new surveillance technologies.

Forensic experts at North Carolina State University have now published guidance on how research into modern - day forensic analysis of child - abuse victims can be used to shed light on how children of earlier cultures were treated.

Biological anthropologists look at skeletal remains of past cultures to gain insight into how earlier peoples lived, and forensic anthropologists work with modern - day law enforcement to decipher skeletal evidence and solve crimes.

But in looking at the realities of the modern work culture this couldn't be further from the truth.

Where modern food processing aims at destroying nutrients to preserve food, traditional cultures actually preserved food by enhancing their nutrient content.

Her love for the performing arts led her to study Voice Performance and Modern Media & Culture at Oberlin College & Conservatory.

Like we said, modern Muslim dating is pretty different from the kind of dating that seems normal to the culture at large.

You can connect with Debra on Facebook, take a look at her speaking schedule, or contact her online to hear more of what she has to say about the value of love in modern dating culture.

Whether it's a review of the latest online dating app, a deeply - reported analysis of marriage equality laws, or a first - person account of what it's like to «manscape,» the HowAboutWe Media network will provide an entirely unfettered, honest look at the world of modern love and culture.