Sentences with phrase «for modern culture»

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

Atheism is profoundly healthy, especially for modern cultures.

Professor Thilo Rehren, of the UCL Institute of Archaeology, explains the significance of these results: «The invention of metallurgy is foundational for all modern cultures, and clearly happened repeatedly in different places across the globe.

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It's a hybrid business model that demands a unique corporate culture, a modern organizational structure, an appetite for risk and, most important, a talented and flexible team.

Modern corporate culture extends to social media and blogging activities, setting the tone for companies.

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social channels.

Scroll down to hear David and Brian discuss strategies, anecdotes, and key industry statistics that support the preeminence of great sales culture as the defining trait of today's top sales organizations - and the north star for modern VPs, Managers, and Operations Leads charged with hitting high growth numbers.

For the rest of us, it's a reminder that Christians are in a unique place in modern society, with a message of redemption through Christ in an era when mainstream culture has little to say about hope for the futuFor the rest of us, it's a reminder that Christians are in a unique place in modern society, with a message of redemption through Christ in an era when mainstream culture has little to say about hope for the futufor the future.

In refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracy.

As conduits for «postmodern spirituality,» argues Wells, these churches «appear to be succeeding, not because they are offering an alternative to our modern culture, rather because they are speaking with its voice, mimicking its moves.»

They, and many allies from John Dewey to James B. Conant, posited science as the modern substitute for religion as the proper source of values and culture.

Perhaps we just got too smart for him, or perhaps our modern culture is better than anything he can offer?

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

It was the late Paul Tillich who, more than anyother modern theologian, introduced Christians to the need for a theology of culture.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

Otherwise, we end up the laziness, veiled intentions, all - or - nothing pursuits, hook - up culture, loaded expectations and all the rest that modern dating is so easily critiqued for.

Many of the distinctive problems of modern societies, he tells us, e.g., the expansion of welfare state entitlements versus traditional free market liberalism, reflect this fundamental tension between a desire for a common good and the profound individualism of our culture.

Nobody submits to anyone and we're out for Number One, like in our modern individualist secular culture.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

These are the very energies that must be synthesised in a unity of wisdom if any absolute meaning and last goal is to be offered for human striving or affirmed of the human person in a modern culture.

I am not very unlike you, very cynical of the modern culture of the «church», but I have found, for me, that to fixate on the problems of the church does not seem to build the Lingdom of God.

On the other hand, Eastern Europe, although for a thousand years it had had a higher culture than the West, might never have developed modern science.

For Genesis, that audience is an ancient near - eastern culture, not our modern scientific one.

Please note that the review article was a summary of the New Torah for Modern Minds written and published by 1.5 million Conservative Jews and their rabbis so your culture and its myths are well known.

And, as a result, we have now entered the age of the Last Men, whom Nietzsche depicts in terms too close for comfort to the banality, conformity, and self - indulgence of modern mass culture.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

But maybe that set apartness is supposed to be more in the way we show grace for people we dislike, or the way we treat others, not in what aspects of modern culture we eschew.

@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.

I think the big failure in modern culture is that nobody takes responsibility for their own actions.

This, I presume, is what William Schmidt had in mind when he called for a theology which would relate faith to the «modern world of culture,» and one which would theologize «consciously and with a measure of clarity» («Theology: Servant or Queen?»

This paradoxically Christian justification for anti-Christian sentiments is among the most powerful religious impulses in modern Western culture, as well as one of the best disguised.

There are also stories in culture that paint a bleak picture of humanity, and which clearly illustrate the need for God and his grace; the modern equivalent perhaps of that Athenian altar.

Like you said, many of these leaders were progressive for their time, but not all of their culture, teachings and actions will apply to modern life.

«For the educated person can not play his full part in modern life unless he has a clear sense of the nature and achievements of Christian culture: how Western civilisation became Christian and how far it is Christian today and in what ways it has ceased to be Christian»

CALL FOR A CULTURE WITH VISION We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or re-establish Eden - with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

The most this period could have done was to buy time for a fuller and better synthesis to be worked out between Catholic theology, and what is either well proven, or at least intrinsically probable in the philosophy of modern science, and the culture built upon it.

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.»

Woodfinden highlights two tenets of modern culture: a moral repugnance for Christianity and a love for human rights.

Bruges was a monastic city but not (before modern tourism) a pilgrimage city, politically significant for a time because of its wealth and artistic culture, but never an imperial capital or a major ecclesiastical center.

Niebuhr said that modern culture too easily assumes that the level of sanctification in the life of the individual can be regarded as a simple possibility for social groups.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

The Bible can be used as a guide to faith that transcends the particularities of time and place for those who remember that both the original readers and modern readers are influenced by a culture.

The implications don't just provide for thought - proving questions about modern culture, but also about the nature of truth itself.

After all, modern university culture inclines to the proposition that objective truth is one thing; the love that commends it — in the person of a great teacher, for example — is quite another thing.

Some find the highly individualistic, utilitarian culture of modern America unsatisfying, and are looking for a warm, open and accepting environment.

While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity.

The Second Vatican Council, through its Pastoral Constitution, called for an intellectual development that synthesises science, personalism and other aspects of modern culture with Church teaching, in a spirit of respectful but evangelical openness towards those outside the Church.