Sentences with phrase «for modern»

An interview with Catholic Islamologist Michel Cuypers earlier this year with Il Regno, has highlighted this and that today a growing number of Islamic scholars are calling for modern Biblical - like exegesis.

The psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Jung, and others who have laid the foundation for modern psychiatry provide merely one approach to the understanding of human behavior.

Neuhaus» oft «repeated claim that a separation of church and state is a necessary condition for modern societies: is this an absolute necessity, based upon its intrinsic goodness?

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

George Orwell said that one of the biggest dangers for modern democratic life is dishonest political language.

Some of them are a little difficult for modern ears, as, for example, the ancient theory that man, having been sold to the Devil, must be brought back by God; and so God paid a price to Satan.

The method increasingly chosen by theologians who wish to understand anew the interdependence of Christianity and Judaism is to focus on the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Judaism of his day, and then to extrapolate some contemporary theological challenges for modern Christians and Jews.

Time for a modern prophet to tell these phony - balonies off.

But as obnoxious as they are, they aren't trying to do things like make ancient theological thought, much of which is of neolithic vintage, the guiding principle for modern society's legal system.

An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration [1977](Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1994).

Then the existentialism of the early Heidegger seemed to provide the key to the problem of interpreting Scripture meaningfully for modern hearers.

But it has remained for modern biology and biochemistry to disclose this contrast, which lay observation could do no more than perceive, in all its persistence and sharpness.

And his Gospel, though not a pattern of an ecclesiastical system nor yet a program for modern social reform, is still «social» through and through — social because religious, in the ancient biblical understanding of religion.5

If the theory needs to be democratized and updated to account for modern technology, so be it.

The bishops rejected this as a just cause for modern war.

For any modern reader at all familiar with the text knows that (1) «Pharisees» are hypocrites and (2) Jesus praises the publican.

His Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge movies are practically required viewing for modern film students, but his flashy, excessive style strikes some as the wrong tone for what might be rightly considered the Great American Novel.

This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

It is that, appropriately for the modern world:

The resurrection of Jesus is just as difficult for modern man, if it means an event whereby a living supernatural power is released which can henceforth be appropriated through the sacraments.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

The problem which the Gospels involve for the modern Christian is twofold: it is an interesting and difficult historical problem and a poignant and perplexing religious problem.

El Salvador, and by extension the whole region, had been selected as «an ideal testing ground» for modern low - intensity conflict.

«The protection of wealth by burying it in the ground was a sort of ancient equivalent for the modern safety deposit box.»

Can you name others that might be appropriate for modern Christians?

There our evidence fails completely, even when we recognize that the term would of necessity cover much less than for modern geographic and astronomic knowledge.

There are others, however, who consider this move a regression, for the modern world which sees reality as evolving gives a truer picture than the static world - view of the past.

For another, it allows the perspective of the text to become plausible as a perspective for the modern congregation.

It is for a modern mind, formed by historical criticism, that companionship with Jesus and the encounter with the resurrected Lord are distinct things.

So Niebuhr advised: «If it is not possible for modern man to hold by faith that there is a larger meaning in the intricate patterns of history than those which his own virtues or skills supply, he would do well to emphasize fortune and caprice in his calculations.»

Theissen concluded that for the modern world, peace must also be a concern of all, not just of the governing classes.

For them, and for modern secularism generally, the conjunction of «liberation» and «theology» would be a contradiction in terms.

Virtually all art historians who have critiqued this painting see it as a rejection of religion (particularly the Bible) for the modern, joyous lifestyle of 19th - century France.

It would be to do for the modern era what Aristotle succeeded in doing for an earlier age — it would be to find a way, given the modern world's understanding of nature, to do justice to human being as a part of nature so understood.

From his analysis emerges perhaps the most important task of all for modern Christians: Christians should not only advocate peace to fend off the negative threat of nuclear war, but must articulate, espouse and live a positive vision and motivation for peace that is grounded in the biblical tradition.

He understood, as the Songbook once discussed, that celebrity generally, but especially that of Rock Stardom, allowed a new sort of heroism, and one better suited for modern democratic times.

They signal the acceptance of the disconnection between faith and art for modern man, which during the past two centuries has been advocated by the avant garde.

Culture, for modern scholars (and also in colloquial use), has nothing to do with Matthew Arnold's deployment of universal standards of reason and taste to identify «the best which has been thought and said in the world.»

In thus presenting a theistic interpretation of Jesus and his resurrection, insisting upon an ontological element where others see only myth, I will be held by some to have abandoned all claim to offer proposals for a modern Christology.

1For a lengthier treatment of this topic, see my An Introduction to the Process Understanding of Science, Society, and the Self: A Philosophy for Modern Humanity (Lewiston / Queenston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988), 75 - 78.

We search almost in vain for a modern Catholic writer who can show us that the grace of God not only redeems nature but loves and completes it, for one who can imagine a world where God is not simply a specter haunting our consciences from the alleyway, but the author of all things.

My third qualm has to do with the suitability of these two titles for our modern day and age.

But, as we have discussed at length over the past year, for modern - day Christian patriarchalists (sometimes called complementarians), hierarchal gender relationships are God - ordained, so the essence of masculinity is authority, and essence of femininity is submission.

In «Christianity and Myth» Cobb again considers the possibility of Christian theism for the modern mind.120 The profane spirit of contemporary man finds it impossible to talk about some «reality radically different from all other reality...,» i.e., to speak mythically.

As such she did much to clarify the truth of God's Word for the modern world.

For modern scientific method is just sophisticated observation.

FAITH Magazine January - February 2008 Ecumenical and inter-religious developments in the search for a modern apologetic

MARY DOUGLAS AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR MODERN BRITAIN Dear Fr Editor Some of the more thoughtful parts of the secular media have recently acknowledged the passing of Mary Douglas, who Commonwealdescribes as «one of most influential Catholic intellectuals of the postwar era, and... perhaps the most influential social anthropologist from any background».

Materiality and life (soul) are as much mysteries for modern science as they were for ancient Greek philosophy.