Sentences with phrase «by modern ideas»

They returned to their own country more or less influenced by the modern ideas acquired during their years of study in Egypt.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

Not exact matches

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the idea behind Bitcoin was endorsed years ago by Milton Friedman, the shaman of modern free - market economics.

And by doing that, we'll be able to help push the conversation towards a new, more modern understanding of America's middle class challenges — and spur fresh ideas for a new era.

Now that the author has so successfully catalogued many of the great ideas of Charlie Munger, I hope to read future works by Griffin that are focused on more controversial subjects at the margins of modern value investing.

By bringing fun, modern and creative ideas to their events, Pinot's Palette curates a unique, rewarding experience while providing a worthwhile contribution to the community.

It seems to be the tired old shtick where you adapt Shakespeare's Romans or Danes or Scots by dressing them up in modern military uniforms, which tends to convey the idea that the characters are basically fascists.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Finally, I admit that, even if I accept the Lawlerian idea that Locke partially corrects Aristotle, by stealing certain Christian insights about the limits of the polis (see chapter 7 of Modern and American Dignity especially), I still hold that Aristotle is better than Locke.

Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success of modern science (for example Jaeger's article in our last issue and in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).

These ideas are recommended by their usefulness and authenticity in promoting and explaining the Catholic faith in the modern world.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

But by calling it a preunderstanding she assimilates it to the idea that it arises in an autonomous modern world and then becomes our special basis for questioning Jesus.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

«One theme that I keep encountering in SR sessions,» he says, «is the idea that there's something called modern discourse, which operates according to rigid rules dictated by secular liberalism.

He even flirts with the idea that «modern unbelief is providential,» since the gains brought by the Enlightenment might not have been possible without it, and, besides, one can always find one's way back to transcendent faith, as he has.

Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the modern sense.

and to say a roman emporer is responsible for the modern Bible shows you have no idea of the history of the Bible... we have a list of almost ALL the NT that was ALREADY accepted widely by the church in 150 AD!

And so the simple idea of secularization theory — that over time modern secularity replaces premodern religious credulity — is negated by an exact reverse in the case of leading scholars in the development of British anthropology.

Indeed, the modern religious right was birthed by the idea that Christians needed to get out of their churches and exercise political power and influence.

If Augustine's modern, secular children Marx and Freud have taught us anything, it is that the idea that we are unaffected by the sins, economic interests and neuroses of our parents, class, nation, race and gender is absurd.

This idea of twoness above is not as vague as it sounds, for we can agree on a certain arbitrary model set containing what we call two things, our cow and rock if we wish, got by counting or other means, and declare that any other set has two things if it can be put in one - to - one correspondence (in modern terminology, bijective correspondence) with our model set.

The modern age has become obsessed by the idea that the cure of our ills is to be found in the spread of biological information.

Here Kierkegaard is debunking, like Girard, the idea that the desires of the «modern» person are spontaneous and unmediated by society.

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

BOOKS BY WHITEHEAD Science and the Modern World, I 925 Religion in the Making, 1926 Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology, 1929 (best read in conjunction with D. S. Sherburne, A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality, 1965) The Adventures of Ideas, 1938 Modes of Thought, 1938 All published by Cambridge University PresBY WHITEHEAD Science and the Modern World, I 925 Religion in the Making, 1926 Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology, 1929 (best read in conjunction with D. S. Sherburne, A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality, 1965) The Adventures of Ideas, 1938 Modes of Thought, 1938 All published by Cambridge University Presby Cambridge University Press.

This was the secret of the fatal breach, as it is pinpointed by a modern Jewish writer, and one who is by no means insensitive to the many noble ideas which he finds in the teaching of Jesus.45 he writes:

As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or public policy can not be established merely by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.

i do stick by my claim that vision and the idea of goals and modern leadership is damaging to the church.

We true Catholics are not swayed by the wrong and inmoral ideas from the «modern» world.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

The germ of the Terror, the dream of the regeneration of humanity by political means, may already be present in the radically modern idea of sovereignty that informs the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.

In more modern thinking, by contrast, these ideas may seem a bit quaint, if not positively offensive.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1939, «The idea of the resurrection of the body is a Biblical symbol in which modern minds find the greatest offence and which has long since been displaced in most modern versions of the Christian faith by the idea of the immortality of the soul.61

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This idea is certainly fantastic, although no more so than many that have been made commonplace by modern physics.

The more modern twist on this pagan idea is that probiotics may now even be «idolized» by some based on various articles and marketing that I've seen.

George, Christianity took over the world by force, this is no difference (modern weapons maybe), but the idea of spreading religion at the point of a sword is not unique to Muslims.

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).

Having already addressed these first two issues, in the present chapter we shall focus on the questions raised by modern critics about the consonance of rational and scientific discourse with the idea of revelation.

Here are some quotations from the introduction to that gospel, taken from my copy of the New American Bible (p. 91, N.T.): «Modern critical analysis makes it difficult to accept the idea that the gospel as it now stands was written by one man.»

What results from the foregoing is that, confronted by this technico - social embrace of the human mass, modern man, in so far as he has any clear idea of what is happening, tends to take fright as though at an impending disaster.

The three books — Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality, Adventures of Ideas — are an endeavor to express a way 0f understanding the nature of things, and to point out how that way of understanding is illustrated by a survey of the mutations of human experience.

It is, on the other hand, the cornerstone of the systematic approach; for this last approach holds that any in - depth interpretation of Process and Reality must be conducted under the illumination provided, at the very least, by correlative in - depth interpretations of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, and Modes of Thought.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave voice to the «modern» project in law: It would be a gain, he said, «if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted which should convey legal ideas uncolored by anything outside the law.»

In the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AI).

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

In more modern times, as is well known, this view was overturned by the Copernican idea that the Sun is at the centre (and ultimately that there is no determinate centre at all).

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.