Sentences with phrase «humanism affirms»

Not exact matches

Ayn Rand's fiction and philosophy is not Christian by any stretch, but it is an expression of life - affirming, anti-tyrannical humanism.

But Renaissance humanism strongly affirmed Christianity's capacity to be inclusive and to reclaim areas in which its universality could shine forth again.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

It is for this reason that biblical humanism, unlike philosophical humanism, can affirm human worth not merely independent of but in contradistinction to earthly status.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

Zinnemann's film would seem to be the perfect vehicle for such purposes, with its equal - opportunity combination of hard - nosed realism and life - affirming humanism.

I tend to bridle when the word «humanism» gets tossed around in film reviews, but the extent to which Two Days, One Night (which deserves a less prosaic title) embraces humanity, in all its alternately affirming and debilitating messiness, genuinely feels profound.

Don't let the inscrutable title put you off: Destin Daniel Cretton's film about a home for at - risk teens is, as I argued at the time, «a genuine stunner, a work of ardent, life - affirming humanism.»