Sentences with phrase «humanism which»

Haus der Kunst's ongoing exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945 — 1965 takes as its premise the ruptured discourses of nationalism and humanism which were sharply brought to light during and following the Second World War.

Over a thirty year career, Kudo, who worked in France and Japan, developed an extremely complex body of sculpture, installation, and performance - based work in reaction both to World War II and Japan's subsequent transformation into an industrial society and to European Humanism which, he believed, abetted environmental degradation and social malaise.

We must reject the western conception of humanism which developed during the renaissance when human endeavors were devoted to material gains and adapt to African humanism which sees man primarily as a spiritual being endowed with dignity, integrity, respect and value.

The particular brand of scientific humanism which affects so much of our thinking is either agnostic, in the less narrow sense of that term, or rigidly atheistic.

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.

One of the expressions was a humanism which found its goal not in life beyond the grave but in an exuberant appreciation of life in the present world.

The Christian contribution in this context should be in relation to the struggle of India to develop, through dialogue among the many religions, cultures and philosophies, a body of common insights about being and becoming human, that is, a common framework of humanism which will humanize the spirit of modernity and the process of modernization.

In fact, all religions and secularist ideologies have a common task which unites them, namely the humanization of the modern technological culture through the development of a common post-modern humanism which incorporates the valid insights of all religions, ideologies and the sciences.

A lengthy article by Whitehead and former congressman John Conlan in the Texas Tech Law Review in 1978 provided a working definition of secular humanism which has been recycled in various forms and now is widely accepted among conservative evangelicals.

Hence, in the pursuit of development, there is a need for «the deep thought and reflection of wise men in search of a new humanism which will enable modern man to find himself anew.»

• «How is the autonomy which culture claims for itself to be recognised as legitimate without generating a notion of humanism which is merely terrestrial, and even contrary to religion itself?»

Implicit within them is the attitude, expressed by Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate, that a «humanism which excludes Christ» is inhuman.

In general, the contributors are preoccupied with a humanism which they see as dead, with the economic depression and war, and with Barthianism in theology.

Both sides accept that beastly humanism which regards our species as anthropoids.

His real satirical spleen is reserved for the scientific humanism which, in his view, has permeated every pore of our national life, Our schools and churches, our social and governmental agencies — even the armed forces!

But with Lawrence she pleads for a new Humanism which will supersede Christianity, not by annihilating it, but by incorporating and transforming it; a messianic Humanism.32

The Christian West polarised even further into a moderate form of fundamentalism at one end and, at the other, into a Christian humanism which showed decreasing interest in supporting the ecclesiastical institution.

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

Third, it was the tradition of Christian humanism which led the White Rose to see the essence of the anti-humanism of the Nazis in their disregard for the sanctity of individual human life.

Not exact matches

This cultural humanism is a poison, which is destroying our nation.

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

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.

Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

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

In the second place, this love certainly has in Christianity a strength which is not found elsewhere: otherwise, despite all the virtues and all the attraction of the tenderness which characterizes the gospel, the doctrine of the beatitudes and of the Cross would long since have given place to some other, more winning, creed — and more particularly to some form of humanism or belief in purely earthly values.

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.

Thus the motivation which is the (attempted) attitude of pure atheistic humanism was the only one philosophers could approve in religion.

Krook believes with Lawrence that only a new Humanism can give to man's sexual life the meaning which rightfully belongs to it.

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).

The absence of this metaphor corresponds with the broader movement of ecumenical social thought which, after a mid-century period of neo-orthodoxy, has headed, Paul Bock writes, «back in the direction of humanism» and taken a more hopeful view of the secular prospect.

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

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

Only when Binx himself obliquely receives this gift can he take up the morally responsible life which, in Aunt Emily's ethical humanism, remains without transcendent sanction or support.

Finally, however, Boiling can not sustain his antic avoidance of the religious question which Aunt Emily's ethical humanism forces upon him.

In Phenomenology and Humanism William A. Luijpen states: To be subject means to be both an affirmation and a nihilation of the world in which we are involved.

While theists can learn by listening to atheists more, atheists themselves can foster greater understanding by not just emphasizing the «no» of atheism — our disagreement over the existence of any gods — but also the «yes» of atheism and secular humanism, which recognizes the amazing potential within human beings.

But before many years he moved away from a position which he believed led to humanism, though he never ceased to apply the empirical test to any system of thought.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

Rather, our argument is that atheism simply saws off the intellectual branch on which humanism sits.

When you subscribe to Humanism, Naturalism, Materialism, Realism, Activism, what have you, which all are doctrines, you are already an «active» believer of some sort, which defies the very concept of Atheism, which is «passive.»

I answered, as best I could, in the spirit of post-Vatican II Catholicism, which assumes and relies upon secular humanism to be its dialogue partner.

The only «ism» that is we should all focus on is «HUMANism» Which deals with what is best for the entire human race.

Chateaubriant, Oradour, the Rue des Saussaies, Tulle, Dachau, and Auschwitz have all demonstrated to us that Evil is not an appearance, that knowing its causes does not dispel it, that it is not opposed to Good as a confused idea is to a clear one, that it is not the effect of passions which might be cured, of a fear which might be overcome, of a passing aberration which might be excused, of an ignorance which might be enlightened, that it can in no way be turned, brought back, reduced, and incorporated into idealistic humanism....

Humanism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation — these may stand for the forceful uprush of new ideas, which, with some unfortunate accompaniments, shaped a new world and inspired a new culture of which we became the heirs.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Fundamentalism rejects the human freedoms which have opened up in the aftermath of the western Enlightenment, and is committed to combat secular humanism and all other aspects of the modern world which it regards as injurious to the spiritual condition of humankind.

In his essay «A New Humanism for Europe: The Role of the Universities», to which Franchi and Davis refer, Benedict XVI puts it like this: «How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!»

LaHaye has written more than 60 non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects such as: family life, temperaments, sexual adjustment, Bible prophecy, the will of God, Jesus Christ, and secular humanism with over 14 million in print, some of which have been translated into 32 foreign languages.