Sentences with phrase «from secular humanism»
And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.
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... If Catholicity at the university level is to remain, Notre Dame had better be prepared to save itself, whether from «secular humanism,» a distorted view of academic freedom, or a goal of becoming [well - regarded] at the cost of its Catholic uniqueness...
Over the course of his ministry career, Bart gradually transitioned from Christianity to secular humanism.
Peter Berger, in an aperçu that I admire very much, has predicted that secular humanism in America, having failed to achieve the sort of success many had expected or feared, will be forced to accept a kind of denominational status («From the Crisis of Religion to the Crisis of Secularity,» p. 22).
The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.
These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.
It may be an open secularism with insights form secular humanism and from religions.
Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.
«Acknowledging the common humanity given in Christ, can we not work with men of all religions and no religions for a secular human culture and community, and even for a secular humanism open to insights from all religions and ideologies, evaluated in the light of, Lad informed by, the true manhood of Jesus Chris?»
The Failure of Secular Humanism Secularism seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development.
All religions (Christianity, Islam, Secular Humanism, Evolution, etc.) are all based on faith in things that can not be proven by the scientific method (e.g., God created the universe / where did God come from, we are all the end result of a lightning strike in an ancient mud puddle / where did energy and mass come from, etc..)
What does family and nature have to do with Judaism or distinguish it from, say, secular humanism?
Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.
The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.
In a structure of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition of «human intelligence» to «divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....
Speech delivered by Justin Trottier at the World Religions Conference, featuring representatives from Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Native Spirituality and Atheism / Secular Humanism.