Sentences with phrase «contemporary secular people»
I do believe that most contemporary secular people are not asking if there is life after death, but if there is life before death.
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«18 It is partly in response to that void of an Italian Reformation that we may understand Gramsci's fascination, and not Gramsci's alone but that of almost every major modern Italian intellectual with Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian contemporary of Luther and Calvin.19 Gramsci treats Machiavelli as a Reformer in secular guise, a «precocious Jacobin,» with a vision of a people armed, a national Italy, and Gramsci used the figure of Machiavelli's Prince to express the unifying and leading function of the modern Communist party.
Phyllis Tickle on why the biblical hermeneutics of the 16th century Reformers no longer resonates with many people in contemporary society whether they are Christian or secular: