Sentences with phrase «by modernity»

They treat the alternatives as the product of the traditional society that I have described more positively, rather than as the result of the destruction of the traditional economy by modernity.

So before I turn to those criticisms, let me briefly honor the genuine contributions to human and religious understanding made by modernity, and I provide you with only a partial list.

It was believed that gardens had been buried by modernity under the triumph of green spaces limiting the organic to functional areas.

Plans were afoot to build an airport on the remote island, famous for its mysterious sculptures of enormous heads, and the group wanted to study the people, flora and fauna while they remained largely untouched by modernity.

These new extremes were brought about mostly by the modernity of sports science, the commercial desire for winning football and of course, the pursuit for intellectual and sporting development within the footballing profession.

Undoubtedly the disorientation caused by modernity and postmodernity is key.

If the state was to retreat the communities, families and individuals that composed civil society must resume the moral functions eroded by modernity's fashions: secularisation, bureaucratisation and socialism.

I mentioned that the Hermetic model rejected by modernity also affirmed action, or influence, at a distance.

A: It was important to explain the nature of pre-modern society and spirituality so that the reader could appreciate the magnitude of the changes wrought by modernity.

It's a Midrashic way of reading scripture — a Talmudic form of reasoning — that was dominant in rabbinic times, but interrupted by modernity.»

By entering into conversation with texts from these traditions and considering perspectives largely forgotten by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to live better lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to do likewise.

My frank goal has been to help free persons from feeling intimidated by modernity, which while it often seems awesome is rapidly losing its moral power, and to grasp the emerging vision of a postmodern classical Christianity.9

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Dean M. Kelley's Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, which argued in part that people are dazed by modernity's mazes of complexity, ambiguity and sheer madness, and are desperate for direction.

In the twentieth century, Copts began to organize themselves to defy both the familiar persecution and new threats posed by modernity.

The crucial factor here is the element of simultaneity — the fact that Kurzweil and Leibowitz feel drawn to and repulsed by modernity at one and the same time.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

Aware of the cultural decline of the West and of the weakening of Western civilisation, non-Western cultures are sitting on the fence: seduced by modernity, wanting to participate in the process of globalisation, they also want to remain faithful to their identity.

We must ask, though, why hierarchical thinking has been rejected to such a large extent by modernity.

Key beliefs that are supposedly validated by modernity include ««freedom», «objectivity», «rationality», privacy, the authority of conscience, and freedom of self - expression.»

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

Feminine beauty is one of the eternal themes discussed at all times; each era has its own canons of female beauty, which are dictated by modernity: in one period of years, it is fashionable one, tomorrow there are new standards, sometimes totally opposite to the previous, and a few decades again come into vogue long - forgotten images.

The Seance, like its predecessor The Ghost Writer, takes up the bookish thread of classic British supernatural fiction as if it had never been cut by modernity.

A great theoretician, his work is inseparable from his brilliant reading of art history and modernity: according to him, we haven't yet dealt with the fundamental questions raised by modernity.

Elsewhere, find yourself bewitched by the modernity and glamour of 1930s cinema at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, and wear your best black and shades for the urban noir of America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper at the Ashmolean Museum.

Later intrigued by the modernity of Western art forms such as oil painting, he studied stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985.

It is a quest focusing on one's experience of reality, a step towards expressing the idea of a foundation of our existence, which always seeks to sort through the realities presented by modernity: being, ground, or substance.

His pieces exude light, vitality, and an Eden threatened by modernity.

Hamilton is an artist fascinated by modernity.

Charlie's Tiny House, much like Patricia's is totally influenced by the modernity of 20th century American design.

The peaceful gardens and ancient monuments contrast with the modernity of the skyscrapers and the admittedly convenient high speed train The imposing grandeur of the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, and the mystical symmetry of the Temple of Heaven remain untouched by modernity.

Pierre Manent, an eminent French political theorist, has a lengthy essay in City Journal in which he meditates on the political forms which both created and are eroded by modernity:

These churches have lost a clear - sighted Christian understanding of human nature, and have replaced it with the inadequate understandings of human nature offered by modernity.

A Whiteheadian postmodernism recovers something of the rationalism rejected by modernity.

Utopian environmentalism has, to some extent, always promised to heal the alienation wrought by modernity.

Since «the Christian faith is the gift and practice of liberation,» it should strive to liberate children from the widespread and often unacknowledged suffering caused them by modernity's culture of divorce.

Peter humorously accuses Deneen and his fellow travelers of a kind of insincerity since they seem to take great enjoyment in the many advantages afforded us by the modernity they often disdain.

What this really highlights to me is a wider problem with how Christians approach the scientific, moral and epistemic challenges laid down by modernity.

Amazing, surreal, largely untouched by modernity — there are a ton of ways to describe Myanmar (also known as Burma), but it's better to visit and see for your... Read More

Amazing, surreal, largely untouched by modernity — there are a ton of ways to describe Myanmar (also known as Burma), but it's better to visit and see for yourself.

Another great reason to include Vladimir on your itinerary is for the chance to head further afield and explore the Golden Ring, a collection of historic towns that have gone virtually untouched by modernity.

Upon arrival in Monteverde, you will find that much of this village remains untouched by modernity, and most of the people here still lead rural lives, although there are many elegant restaurants, hotels, banks, souvenir shops and cafes.