Sentences with phrase «belief in progress»

The second is a 5 1/2 x 7 foot multi-panel work on paper representing the tenacious human belief in progress — our desire to make life happier and the world a better place.

They do not have the sense of optimism and belief in progress that their parents and grandparents had during the course of the earlier decades.

Ritschl was intent on helping to bring in the Kingdom of God on earth and reflected and influenced the optimistic belief in progress which characterized much of the Occident of that day.

The period before World War I was an optimistic era of belief in progress.

One is the belief in progress.4 The expectation that life gets better for most people as time passes has been widespread since the 18th century.5 A basic source of the confidence in progress is the Biblical idea that the Kingdom of God will come at the end of time.

But belief in progress has been badly shaken by the catastrophes of the 20th century.

It would seem, then, that the grand phenomenon which we are now witnessing represents a new and possibly final division of Mankind, based no longer on wealth but on belief in progress.

Furthermore, how do the loss of a transcendent horizon, a materialist view of human nature, and an exaggerated belief in progress facilitate the loss of political freedom?

Many of the events of the twentieth century have eroded human self - confidence and belief in progress.

Liberal Christianity shared the belief in progress that came to dominate the culture.

The classical Christian teaching about the universality and persistence of sin has not been the main cause of the rejection of this sober belief in progress though it is a ground for doing so.

In the compass of two lives, Bergman's film shows us what the 19th century belief in progress through technology and treatment — vastly expanding in the 20th — has brought in «interpersonal relationships.»

There is a neat partnership between epistemological hubris and the quasi-religious belief in progress.

I maintain that it is possible, by following this road, to find substantial reasons for belief in Progress.

But systematically to make positive judgments of politics or technology leads to the rejection of all realism in regard to them and to a belief in progress.

Anyone who expects to be emancipated by technological hardware, or by a system of hardware however structured, is the victim of an obscure belief in progress.

Although his prescriptions were regarded as odd, his descriptions of the new age as informed with secular beliefs in progress through the rational, scientific organization of societies, for the purpose of ever increasing industrialization and ever new technologies of control, was very typical of modernity.

Not exact matches

By comparing the career trajectories of 1,001 CEOs in the U.S. and 21 European countries, she found that contrary to popular belief, the longer individuals stayed with a firm, the more rapidly they progressed to a firm's upper echelons.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

Not only are we constantly being bombarded by the religious beliefs of the faithful (Christians mostly in America) we can see how religious beliefs are stifling human progress and perpetuating hatred and segregation.

A non-theological version of this idea is the belief in automatic or inevitable progress, resulting in the final establishment of some sort of utopian order.

Many people have thought that a belief in destiny implies that everything will happen by itself, whether we wish it or not, and that such a belief will make people apathetic and indifferent toward all progress.

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

History is not the inevitable march of progress, but there can be progress in history, and the last half century's widespread promulgation of the belief that there are universal human rights is an instance of progress.

From belief in idealism or confidence in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties in some cosmic lawsuit with human nature in the dock.

A greater belief in the reality of evil, certainly, and an impatient rejection of the shallow optimism and naïve faith in progress of preceding ages.

For many believers in this group, it is about finding a righteous (and humane) path to oneness with their god and for non-believers (like myself) it is about the defense of certain freedoms and a right to live our lives unhampered by the beliefs of others while still maintaining those common values that are important to the progress and betterment of mankind.

Considering the religious beliefs or lack thereof of our founding fathers, I find it difficult that we have only regressed in our intellectualism over the last 250 years, not progressed.

We are each at different points in our journeys and our belief will evolve as we progress.

The second wave — developed largely by various historicist schools of thought, especially in the nineteenth century — replaced belief in the idea of a fixed human nature with a belief in human «plasticity» and capacity for moral progress and transformation.

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s - e-x education, etc etc etc so it's not us atheists holding back education it's the religious nut jobs getting in the way of progress for the sake of their own personal beliefs.

«2 What follows, as the witness of the Nineteenth Century, is only plausible as a confident expression of the extraordinary belief in Western - style Progress that Rauschenbusch and his generation and social stratum breathed daily.

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In other words, the message of messianic pacifism finds a ready home in those who have already accepted certain beliefs of a liberal — humanistic persuasion (e.g., that the use of force is out of step with the moral and spiritual progress of humanityIn other words, the message of messianic pacifism finds a ready home in those who have already accepted certain beliefs of a liberal — humanistic persuasion (e.g., that the use of force is out of step with the moral and spiritual progress of humanityin those who have already accepted certain beliefs of a liberal — humanistic persuasion (e.g., that the use of force is out of step with the moral and spiritual progress of humanity).

if belief in white apples on mars caused wars, impeded civil rights and medical progress, and aided the spread of disease (not to mention had the effect of making us mindless, irrational zombies), we'd be against that, too!

Thus, belief in the ultimate victory of the biblical God may indeed be grounded in events in history, but not as part of self - evident progress; they are parabolic moments which point to the eschatological potential of God's power.

Underlying his argument is Altizer's basic belief that the Christ that is now present (that has negated and moved beyond the forms of the historical Jesus and the Christ of the Gospels) is an Incarnate Word that is fully immanent in the world and in all human energy and life and progress.

The chief ways in which this change appears are the rejection of the belief in the essential goodness of man and the twin belief in automatic progress.

The idea of progress in the modern world is closely tied up with a belief that science and technology will open up an infinite cornucopia of goods to replace the ones we use up.

Firstly the idea that little of scientific consequence occurred during the period due to a mindset that was «darkened» through a belief in God, and secondly that the Catholic Church held back scientific progress in this period for it only to be liberated through the advance of a more «scientific» and secular age.

It's sad they define the world we live in... Think about how much further we would progress as a HUMAN civilization without this simple minded thinking and beliefs getting in our way.

«Checklist Evanglelism» gives as the content of faith a series of ascending beliefs starting in Hamartiology, progressing through Christology, and ending in Soteriology.

His was a philosophy of change, but — as appeared in another vote — without the belief that we have a criterion of progress.

Today, as a devout Jew, he is well aware of the need for something beyond an optimistic belief in human progress as a basis for shaping a nation.

Our heavy defeat to Bayern Munich in midweek hasn't dented his belief that we can still progress this season, in fact he sounds very positive.

If wellbeck can build a connection with ozil he will give us more than giroud also if wilshere can continue his recent progress then a wilshere ozil wellbeck Sanchez chamberlain attacking line up could be damn good but how any serious manager could leave us with our defensive options beggars belief... We are slow old and mistake prone in too many positions....

I am constant in my belief that in order for AFC to progress AW must depart.

«We have made progress, we have better defensive stability, the belief in the team is strengthened for a big challenge next year and we have overcome a hurdle that we did not do last season, to exist in the big games,» he said.

He expressed his belief in the advancement of African countries and admonished all African leaders and Africans at large to continue working towards deepening democratic consolidation in their respective countries to progress and develop.