Sentences with phrase «called humanism»

It is called humanism.

The idea of God the Creator challenges your desire to be your «own god» which allows you to do whatever you want, whatever «feels» good at the time (which is called humanism).

But I do not think we should call this humanism «anthropocentric.»

Acceptance of these ideas constitutes, in general, what we call humanism; and, whatever else we are, most of us are humanists in this broad sense.

Not exact matches

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

The situation calls for the search for a new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and secular ideologies.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

That's why Nick Spencer and I wrote a report called The Case for Christian Humanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in ChrisHumanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in Chrishumanism, and humanists in Christianity.

The first question has to do with Marxist humanism or with Marxism as a humanism: how, at the very core of an estranged humanity, are we able to rely on the hope calling us to a fully human future, when this project itself is nothing but the visualization of alienated people?

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Long before President George W Bush initiated what he called «the war on terrorism», fundamentalists had launched a war on what they called modernism, secularism and humanism.

The present Humanism, whether we call it scientific or existentialist, is only the natural and nal culmination of those principles of autonomy and nominalism in philosophy, which oversowed the New Learning.

It calls its belief system humanism.

If Humanism does not do justice to religion, it certainly does take seriously what we called the spirit of secularism.

What I have termed anthropocentrism, Midgley calls «reductive humanism.»

The second area of concern is the rightists» view that American morals are being eroded by what they call «secular humanism.»

In response to these questions Augustine developed a remarkable form of what I would cautiously call a Christian humanism.

Furthermore, dualism gives legitimacy to what we call «inner» experience.17 It provides a basis for the sense of freedom and dignity without which a genuine humanism would collapse.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

This «flawed humanism,» as Sennett and Cobb call it, provides a perverse justification of the inequities of the class system, and confirms those on the bottom or middle or even uppermost rungs in their anxiety about their lives.

«Faith is an individual calling, and whatever a person has faith in — be it God, science, humanism, nature, or some combination of the above — should be respected.»

Even if one of the traditional religious communities dominates the culture, it is now likely to be in competition with values stemming from the European Enlightenment — what I called scientific humanism.

Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually called secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic humanism.

28 religious leaders have called on schools minister Nick Gibb to reverse the Government's decision to exclude an annex on Humanism from new RS GCSEs and preclude similar systematic study from AS and A levels.

(Allen Lane) by Steven Pinker describes the impact of humanism on on human progress, and presents a call to arms not to allow such progress to be washed away.

Read the previous BHA statement, Option to study humanism excluded from new GCSE and A level criteria; academics, teachers, parents call on Government to reconsider: https://humanism.org.uk/2014/11/07/option-study-humanism-excluded-new-gcse-level-criteria-academics-teachers-parents-call-government-reconsider/

Option to study humanism excluded from new GCSE and A level criteria; academics, teachers, parents call on government to reconsider

The BHA is urging all parents, teachers, young people and academics to respond to the consultation and call on the Government to include the humanism annex.

Even at its full length, showing off a more seductive rhythm and the buoyant humanism that is this director's calling card, it remains as ripe a subject for therapy as for criticism.

A Day in the Country (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD)-- Jean Renoir has long been called the cinematic successor to the French Impressionists — he is, after all, the son of Auguste Renoir, and his generosity and humanism and interest in the lives of working class folks is in the spirit of the movement.

Her embrace of what she called De Palma's trashiness was central to her celebration of youthfulness in both movie art and movie audiences — especially the kind that regarded leftist humanism as square and choked with noble intentions.

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The fact that Eggers also happens to have «established» McSweeney's Books — responsible for publishing the title that the Times reviewer calls, «a kind of Death of a Globalized Salesman `, alight with all of Arthur Miller's compassion and humanism» — is casually mentioned on the inside page of the review, as if writing and self - publishing a great book was a regular occurrence.

The fact that Eggers happens to have «established» McSweeney's Books — responsible for publishing the title that the Times reviewer calls, «a kind of Death of a Globalized Salesman», alight with all of Arthur Miller's compassion and humanism» — is casually mentioned on the inside page, as if writing and self - publishing a great book was a regular occurrence.

Call it a distinctly American humanism, however, as funky and as ordinary as a Harlem street corner for Gordon Parks.

Call it a primitive humanism.

«Christine Macel has called it an Exhibition inspired by humanism.

There seems to be this alluring tendency to dress oneself in the garb of humanism (a mirror image of those dressing themselves up as so - called «skeptics») so that one can think better of oneself, while at the same time seeming to do something that is objectively good.

«Changes in the world call for the development of a new humanism that is not only theoretical but practical, that is not only focused on the search for values — which it must also be — but oriented towards the implementation of concrete programmes that have tangible results.»