Sentences with phrase «contemporaries of little faith»

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At the same time, Wills says surprisingly little about the underpinnings of mistrust of a powerful state that lie in the faith many Americans have long had in the virtues of competitive markets free of government interference — a faith conjoining odd fellows like radical Jacksonians and contemporary cybercapitalists.

Niebuhr provides a helpful analogy illustrating how relation to a community's «internal history» can connect contemporary believers with the saving events that are often of little interest to those outside of the Christian faith tradition.

During the last generations the anthropocentric faith has entered deeply into the structure of society and has contributed not a little to the megapolitanism and megalomania of contemporary civilization.