Sentences with phrase «early modern religion»

Here he differs strikingly from another distinguished American Catholic historian of early modern religion, Brad Gregory.

Eire is one of America's most distinguished historians of early modern religion, and his absorption of the newer historiography is proclaimed in the fact that his book is entitled Reformations, in the plural.

It agrees about the oppressiveness of the early modern religion of radical transcendence that pictured God chiefly as lawgiver and judge.

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In Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France, Karen Carter examines catechisms and visitation records from multiple dioceses to explore why, by the time of the French Revolution, French Catholics knew» and zealously embraced» «the doctrines and behaviors of their religion.»

Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous knots.

These people associate Modern Paganism with the pagan religions of antiquity, which were in direct competition with early Christianity.

Process thought is usually defined in one of three ways: (1) as any view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

The short answer is that changes in society and religion in early modern Western Europe secularized the breast.

Mormonism is a great «modern day» example of how the early religions formed.

In the early days of what we know as modern science, the hard sciences — physics, chemistry, astronomy — were thought to be (and often thought themselves) the enemies of revelation and biblical religion.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

No one would doubt that before the privatization of religion, which is the chief sign of secularization, religion pervaded the entire world of early modern Europeans and there were religious roots to everything as there were nonreligious entanglements in everything deemed religious.

The early modern evangelicals were possessed of a marvelous insight: that religion in their world was at last, and virtually for the first time in history, no longer to be passed through the genes.

After celebrating Christmas with one of cinema's bleakest — and funniest — depictions of religion, MUBI prepares to ring in the new year with a look back at some of the earlier works of the best modern and upcoming filmmakers, from Yorgos Lanthimos to (coming soon) The Safdie Brothers.

There will be a less prominent world history section and pupils will be asked to study a theme such as changes in politics, religion or culture across the medieval, early modern and modern eras.

Egan nimbly builds a fantasy world resembling early modern Europe — with a class system, scourge survivors, prescribed religion, and witch hunts — and laces it with original mythologies to fuel the story's action.