Sentences with phrase «fill of hedonism»

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Given that the pagan philosophies detailed in this history are resonant today, Adamson's attempt to fill in the gaps provides greater context to understand the ongoing conflicts between hedonism and orthodox Abrahamic traditions that animate so much of Western thought.

The church conceived as it is in I Peter as «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation» would have to be regarded as a sacerdotal throwback, a repristinization of an archaic vision that Western civilization has consumed and digested — drawing from it nourishment for altogether new purposes: Thus, as the command «fill the earth and subdue it» (Gen. 1:28) helped inspire Western civilization to create science and technology, so Jesus» celebration of love has been culturally recombined with the materialism of the Bible to produce the vital hedonism of our civilization.