Sentences with phrase «humanism without»

-- to the sacred and to the sacredness of life: In the West, rationalism, deism and naturalism have led to a humanism without God and to a form of atheism which does not exist in non-Western cultures.

When Christian theologians expose the full implications of theological postures recently assumed, and when they critically examine humanism without the prism of gross misinterpretations, it will be recognized that the formidable chasm is between the right (theocentric) and left (humanocentric) wings of theism, not between the latter and religious humanism.

The bankruptcy of humanism without God should be ruthlessly exposed and its disquieting similarity to godless Communism deliberately pointed out.

From this perspective, we need today a humanism without metaphysics, without revelation, and without a morality that is hostile to life.

Not exact matches

He is guided by Max Stackhouse's definition of religious humanism: «Humanity can not be understood without reference to God; and neither God nor God's revelation can be understood except through the lens of thought and experience.»

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.

The high humanism of contemporary theology and preaching not only hid the class interest intrinsic to such preaching, but also reinforced the presumption that Christians could be Christians without enemies.

When one reads the many critics who discuss Camus» «atheism,» or his «new humanism,» or his Lack of «eternal values,» or even Camus» own attacks upon the Christian God, it is astonishing to read what he states to be his «rebel's» true intention: «He is seeking, without knowing it, morality or the sacred.

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.

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.

Humanism becomes inhuman without that correction.

• «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?»

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Similarly, Camus made a curious transition - without telling us exactly why — from the absurdism of his early writings, The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, to the moving humanism of The Plague and the rather traditionalist preoccupation with moral guilt in The Fall.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

The Love from God is not without His Wrath but the Love of Christ Jesus for all of Humanism is our redemptions» branches!

Furthermore, dualism gives legitimacy to what we call «inner» experience.17 It provides a basis for the sense of freedom and dignity without which a genuine humanism would collapse.

It should go without saying that Buchler's metaphysics leaves room for religious humanism.

I accept these criticisms; but I do not believe the way out is through the kind of humanism proposed by such thinkers as Erich Fromm, or the completely eroticized civilization envisioned by Herbert Marcuse, or through man's assertion of his autonomy without God as in the «Death of God» theologies.

Humanism denies men any religion, any suprahuman standard, any timeless point of reference; and without any of these things I do not believe humanists have a leg to stand on, and it is high time the absurdity of their position were realized.

More emphasized that the church was established before the Gospels were written and it was the church that fixed the Canon of the scripture without denying humanism and the rights of critical reason.

That Coogler manages to work genuine racial issues into the film's narrative without turning it into a didactic ideological crusade is a mark of his dexterity as a storyteller and his commitment to a sense of humanism that is all too often lacking in the world of big action filmmaking.