Sentences with phrase «humanism as»

Rail: It's grappling with the emergence of a new enlightenment, or a new international contemporary humanism as a city.

I wasn't raised religiously (unless you count liberal humanism as a religion), but for me the Tedeschi Trucks Band is my church experience — communal, egalitarian, uplifting, and inspiring.

Hard to believe, because they include an artist as popular as Sandro Botticelli — or as central to the new humanism as Piero della Francesca.

As the title of a book it is a little cumbersome, a little intimidating, except that it's absolutely essential to the discussion of Secular Humanism as America's Established religion and how we can disestablish it.

A collection of resources and scheme of work o introducing Humanism as an secular perspective to Year 9.

Her embrace of what she called De Palma's trashiness was central to her celebration of youthfulness in both movie art and movie audiences — especially the kind that regarded leftist humanism as square and choked with noble intentions.

For over 30 years GALHA, the LGBT Section of the BHA has promoted humanism as a rational, naturalistic worldview that trusts the scientific method as the most reliable route to truth and encourages a moral and ethical life based on logic, reason and compassion.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

Yet Percy's implied case for Christian humanism as the answer to our deadly ills remains itself disappointingly abstract.

Some have identified Communism and scientific humanism as two such ways that compete with Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.

Convinced that they must remain loyal to the fundamentals of the past, they condemn secular humanism as the work of the devil.

It is my conviction that Christianity brought into being a structure of existence different from those of Judaism and of Greek humanism as well as from that of such Eastern religions as Buddhism.

Another characteristic aspect that process theology derives from Hartshorne is its decisive rejection of humanism as a satisfactory option for modern man.

Therefore dialogue between Religion and Secular Humanism as well as between Religions began to take place within the national context on the meaning, values and goals of modern Indian nationhood.

That all should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood (sic) is another moral norm that is acceptable to persons and peoples is a demand of secular humanism as well as of all the major world religions.

(There are some people who really do practice secular humanism as a religion which does complicate definitions.)

Louis Bouyer, himself one of the great Christian humanists of our own age, wrote in 1959 a book about Erasmus and his times that remains as good an introduction to later Christian humanism as any I know; another good introduction is the book by Henri de Lubac about the times of Pico della Mirandola.

Sherburne's non-theistic stance is in keeping with the heart of Jones» own position as a humanist theologian and his ongoing campaign «to justify humanism as an authentic expression of black religion» (CBH 217/8).

As such, it seems to me that it would take about as much faith to believe in Humanism as it does to believe in a spirit world.

No, what poisons everything is atheism / secular humanism as evidenced by the fact that 93 % of all of humanity's wars were started for non-religious purposes.

The all out denying of ID puts humans in line with the animal herds giving humanisms as being but animalisms without a cause to be any different in the habitualized essences.

Not exact matches

While the 20th century will be remembered as the era of failed social humanism, with the fall of communism and a move away from socialistic values, liberal humanism seems to be taking hold in our society.

Liberal humanism sees the individual's feelings, rights and values as society's most important watermark.

Unfortunately most of mankind will willing resist ever embracing the escape of selfish humanism and will not be offered access into God's full presence when they leave their bodies as we all do.

«Secular humanism,» as Fr.

«The report is dominated by the old fashioned view that traditional religion is declining in importance and that non-adherence to a religion is the same as humanism or secularism.

Secular humanism by your definition would be classified as a religion, but that isn't what you originally set out to show.

On one hand God is a behemoth of dirty done deeds against much of humanism's dispositions while on the other hand God shows little to practically no love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.

i challenge you to compare Humanism and Christianity as ethical guides.

Truth, I actually provided you all with one quote from the person who is widely thought of as the «father» of Humanism.

But whether atheism, humanism, evolution, deism, new age, Islam, Christianity, or Judaism — you believe these things as facts, and you most likely have plenty of writing to «back it up.».

Humanism, as you may know, also relies primarily on the material world and human beings, believing that a God is not necessary.

Unless you are led by the spirt of God (The Holy Spirt by taking Jesus Christ into your heart as Lord and Saviour) you are left to Humanism thinking.

The disciples of Foucault dismiss that hope as naive «humanism.»

Humanism retains some personal explanations as ultimate (at the level of finite human agency) while leaving some inanimate explanations as ultimate also.

When historians use the term in a narrow sense, «Christian humanism» refers exclusively to the Renaissance — often presented as a departure from Christianity, or even anti-Christian.

This appropriation of Neoplatonism, culminating with the Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor, allowed Christian thinkers to incorporate into their thought such Neoplatonic features as the primacy of beauty and the metaphysics of descent and ascent, and thereby to lay the philosophical foundations of nearly all future Christian humanism.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

The tale he relates about Saint Dimitri could serve as the paradigm for Camus» own humanism:

In such books as Beyond Humanism, Man's Vision of God, A Natural Theology for Our Time, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, and The Logic of Perfection, Hartshorne has been indefatigable in the presentation of this «di - polar» position.

This leads to the negation of the earlier concepts of education as laid down in the Constitution of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people» and to the development of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform» in every citizen.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

Jesus is far from seeing man in the light of humanism, as if by a natural endowment or by his destiny to realize an ideal, he possessed in himself divinity or kinship to God.

It is such considerations as these that have weighed with those who have insisted that the atoning work of Christ must be construed in objective terms, who have indeed sometimes found themselves driven by recollection of the Cross to give this temper to their humanism.

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

As Lila sits copying, Robinson graces us with a vision of the moment when humanism opens our selves to us, and makes us more human.

This shift largely came as a result of increased access to information (printing press), a new, more scientific view of the world, and the rise of humanism (which is to basically say that human beings had been given the faculties to «figure it all out» for themselves).

On Christmas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released a statement praising Jesus as «the messenger of humanism and grace» and noted, «I believe that the sole way to save the man from severe moral, social and cultural crises is returning to the exalted teachings of the great messengers of God.»

With God's eternity shown as the Fullness of Time, Christian humanism becomes a true acceptance of the temporal.