Sentences with phrase «form of humanist»

Catholocism is a bit wee of ritualized seances and adores the forms of humanists!

Not exact matches

The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

Only after we have recognized the Christian hope in this form, are we in a position to ask the humanist or the Marxist if his work for the renewal of society and for the future generations of mankind actually exhausts the meaning of hope for the man of the new world.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

At the same time, he was unsparing of any form of self - satisfaction in the church, an attitude which explained in part his acceptance by many humanists, socialists, and men of other faiths.

In fact, the religious humanist is obliged to establish that the principle is implicit in those forms of theism in which it is not explicitly acknowledged.

Zwingli, a former humanist whose abandonment of medieval Catholic orthodoxy predated Luther's, gets extended treatment, as does Calvin, who built on Zwingli's initiatives to create the disciplined structures and alliances with civic society which would become the normative form of Protestantism.

The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble other forms of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment with Christians to enlarge and enhance the human and humane, does not mean that these individuals» differing sources of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence of the radical freedom and the unpredictable activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.

Percy gives our spiritual disease terrifying expression by having a team of well - meaning humanists enact their own deceptively decent form of demonry.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

In Scotland, the net number of marriages increased following the introduction of humanist marriage in 2005, where it is now the third most popular form of marriage.

The Information Tribunal has today ordered the Department for Education (DfE) to release two documents from 2010 that helped form the policy that led to the state funding of Steiner Free Schools to the British Humanist Association (BHA).

Or, if this isn't possible, please email us at [email protected], along with the name of the Humanists UK celebrant who took the funeral, a copy of the consent form (PDF / Word), the tribute or eulogy (taken from the funeral ceremony), and any photos you wish to provide.

In response to this intransigence, later in 2010 we formed the broad - based Equal Love coalition, with support from cross-party MPs, MEPs, trade unions, the National Union of Students and secular, humanist and LGBT religious organisations.

Church of England representatives claimed some amendments tabled to the gay marriage bill risked opening the door to pagan, humanist and other forms of marriage.

«More and more atheist, humanist and secular student societies are forming on campuses across the UK and we deserve the same levels of respect as any other community.

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they can not argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as «anti-God» and a «secular humanist» or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant «scripture» at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it.

For Sottsass, creating a lexicon of design that incorporated emotive, sensorial and humanist concerns was a rebellion against post-war rationalist architecture that valued function over form, and left human nature largely out of the architectural equation.

From about 1520, as the Northern Renaissance felt the impact of Luther's revolt against the corrupt practices of the Roman Church, a new set of aesthetics took hold, in the form of Protestant Reformation Art, which reflected the Christian agenda of the Protestant movement, which rejected the humanist art and ideology of the High Renaissance, and celebrated a more austere religious experience, with minimal decoration.