Sentences with phrase «even in a modern context»

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This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

Even more to the point, no two modern - day scholars seem able to draw up the same common list of errors, each finding on the other's worksheet difficulties which have, in their opinion, plausible modern - day alternate explanations often involving a reassessment of the author's intention and / or cultural context.

So far as I understand the matter, the conditions of reasonableness in our situation are secular, even if not secularistic, conditions, i.e., they demand the unqualified acceptance both of the method and world - picture of modern science and critical history and of the reality and significance of this world of time and change, which is the context of our lives as secular men.

Heidegger's radical link between — up to an identification of — Being and Time would have been unthinkable in a mediaeval and even a modern context: to talk about Being and Time would have been something like talking about God and the world, or about the (eternal) Infinite and the (temporal) finite.

But in the context of Adventures of Ideas there is no doubt in my mind that even mediated by modern institutions, he has deep roots in the antiquity that produced Christianity.

As you point out, many English words in a religious context do not mean the same thing in their original context... and sometimes not even in a modern non-religious context!

As the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existence.

Given this context, it is reasonable to postulate that diets low in carbohydrate may be as healthy as, or even healthier than, the higher - carbohydrate diets introduced into modern society only recently.

According to Lenton, Fasolo and Todd, who considered this choice effect in the context of online dating, the «downsides of increased choice may be even greater in the modern mating game».

Even if you're an individual with strong faith, great friendships and a healthy appreciation of yourself already, living in this fast - paced modern context can make it hard to find and devote time to socializing.

Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to websites such as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.

Twenty - five years is a mere eyeblink in the story of Egyptian, Mayan or even medieval English art, but it is a long time in the modern or (weasel word) post-modern context, and if one is given a single programme - a mere 55 minutes - to bring the story up to date from where The Shock of the New left off when we finished making the series, one is bound to fail.

As can be seen in the context of real world emissions, even prior to the modern industrial / consumer age, the pipeline emissions add up to squat.

But even in those contexts, players still often have a hardwired sense of modern game mechanics.