Sentences with phrase «by the modernity of»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Jean joins Jim in being a wavist, in explaining with all kinds of evidence from TR and others that the «first wave» of modernity was transformed into the «second wave» by the progressives.

Nowadays the liberated writers, free to join the decadent chorus of modernity, are deliberately destroying that tradition, brick by brick.

If Bulliet is right (and on this he surely is) that there is a deep kinship between Islam and Christianity characterized by exchange of ideas as much as by clash of arms, Islam should be particularly well situated to absorb Western, Christian modernity on specifically Muslim terms.

The internal dynamics of the Church itself, attentive to the promptings of the divine Bridegroom and the unique challenges posed to the Great Commission by late modernity and postmodernity, have, together, impelled a new evolution in the Church's self - understanding and self - expression.

The Foucault by whom we are first moved to question modernity, the Foucault by whom we are first shown the absurdity of the modern project from its beginning, is not the Foucault of the epistemological Order of Things and Archaeology of Knowledge, but the Foucault of the historical Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization, and Birth of the Clinic.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Modernity is shaped by its deliberate rejection of the past, and modernity itself is Modernity is shaped by its deliberate rejection of the past, and modernity itself is modernity itself is our past.

There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

A better way into Ralph's thought on this is to note that he was the translator of a neglected classic of contemporary French political philosophy, Philippe Bénéton's Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement (2004, ISI; 1997 publication in France).

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Catholicism has long stood fiercely against the protections and rights offered by secular modernity, including women's equality, the freedom of sexual identity, respect for children's autonomy and reproductive choice.

Building on the emphasis on the individual in pietism, moving through Kant, and in this century appropriating existentialism, Lutheranism has too frequently tried to construct in the private experience of justification an area for faith that can not be touched by the challenges of 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.

The piety of my youth had been shattered by its encounter with modernity, and I teetered on the brink of total abandonment.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Pentecostals live, in other words, by what George Weigel has called the Iron Law of Christianity in Modernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) witherModernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) withermodernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) wither and die.

Greenberg thus provides a radical endorsement of the epoch of maximal withdrawal, of secular modernity, as an emblem of the human maturity required by the God of covenant.

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

And to the second objection, I would begin by noting that my remarks here do not concern the entirety of human experience, nature, or culture; they concern one particular location in time and space: late Western modernity.

Three cheers for Russell Hittinger's identification of the problem created by the split in Thomistic philosophy as a result of the attempt to respond to modernity.

It must be left to Muslims to refute Islamic fundamentalism by showing how Islam can best come to terms with the challenge of modernity.

In regard to the first objection, I would wish to reply by making clear that I do not intend to suggest that, because modernity has lost the organic integrity of Christianity's moral grammar, every person living in modern society must therefore become heartless, violent, or unprincipled.

Many of these shared beliefs and values are by - products of modernity and higher education.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

I move into this by very briefly contrasting Bible as sacrament, with two ways of seeing the Bible that dominated modernity.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

Modernity has also been marked by an awareness of religious pluralism and, among some Christians, an affirmation of religious pluralism.

From the exposes of the illusions of modern conscious rationality by Freud, Marx and Nietzsche through contemporary feminist theory, modernity has been forced to rethink its Enlightenment heritage on both reason and.

The very best of nineteenth - and twentieth - century theology, both Protesant and Catholic, has been engaged in executing modernity's turn to the subject and, by now, its corrective in postmodern categories.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Many people try to solve this basic, problem by simply condemning the typical products of the scientific age and by reasserting the values of the past — that is, by a resolute renunciation of modernity in favor of the «classical» tradition.

Okay, here's a shorter way, for those of you who haven't the patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate - modernity was the era of the self - repressing Oligarchic Soul, and &laquModernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate - modernity was the era of the self - repressing Oligarchic Soul, and &laqumodernity was the era of the self - repressing Oligarchic Soul, and «the....

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

James and Niebuhr serve him as exemplars of liberal modernity whose errors are transcended once and for all by the Christocentric Barth.

Even such a brilliant and subtle study as The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Gillespie, simply assumes that nominalism attained victory over the older tradition because of an intrinsic superiority.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

The author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.

My concern is more fundamental: to alter the imaginative horizon of American Catholics so that they resist, at times, the categories suggested by modernity and by the nation - state.

Private conscience or individually great persons are insufficient to counteract the social injustices intensified by the technological and bureaucratic power of modernity (SMW 255, CPST 234 - 59).

Return for a moment to modernity — that great sea - change of human consciousness of the past several centuries (characterized by pluralism and uncertainty) that is leading us to a new Axial period.

Okay, here's a shorter way, for those of you who haven't the patience for my full cinemascopic link - littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity

Stegall's exploration of the causes of the deculturation of modernity needs to be addressed by the scholars here at PoMoCon, in what could be a delightful....

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

Now my questions about decaying modernity are being shaped by ancient, consensual, classic Christian exegesis of holy writ.