Sentences with phrase «culture of humanist»

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Not exact matches

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

For the Christian humanists, culture is a kind of tumbling ground for the spiritual, the social, the historical, and the psychological.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Here some elements of the Benedict Option become essential: educating our children, rebuilding our parishes, and patiently building little bulwarks of truly humanist culture within our decaying civilization.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

And the four - term governor often speaks of a culture war between the nation's Christians and secular humanists, who he says are trying to stamp religion out of the public square.

Like the late - medieval humanists and Reformers, they search the sources for indications of present direction in «an effort to combat the culture of political despair, spiritual pessimism, and moral relativism in order to preserve the hard residue of humanistic values... against the barbarian threats of Nazism and Stalinism.»

It is the contemporary situation of the relation between Modern Technology, Humanist Culture and Religious Pluralism that I want to highlight today.

The three themes emphasized in the college tradition from the foundation are: modern medical technology, the humanist culture of service and justice to the community of the poor and the needy, and religion as the source of the humanist culture.

And today, the threat to the further development of common humanist culture comes from religious fundamentalism and communalism which deny the reality of religious pluralism and the possibility of a composite human culture reinforced by many faiths and ideologies.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

But despite the rise in the number of non-religious personnel, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which coordinates the national service of remembrance, still refuses to include Humanist representatives at the ceremony, and have twice rejected the BHA and UKAFHA's request for representation.

Director Antonio Campos» drama CHRISTINE crafts an engrossing, humanist portrait of Chubbuck's tortured soul, showcasing a news hungry culture that still resonates today.

Although he embraced American culture, Tworkov often expressed a sense of alienation both in his public life as well as in his private existence as a deeply intellectual painter who defied the whims of the avant - garde in order to forge his own progressive and humanist approach to art.

A dominant focus in the Gallery's collection has always been images of women; whether in humanist, fashion, or conceptual contexts, a theme of elegance and grace unites them across cultures and periods.