Sentences with phrase «in a postmodern world»

Griffin, David Ray (1989) God and Religion in the Postmodern World Albany N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

The author quotes apologist Lee Strobel as saying, «It wasn't too many years ago that scholars were writing off apologetics because we live in a postmodern world where young people are not supposed to be interested in things like the historical Jesus... The biggest shock is that among people who communicated to me that they had found faith in Christ through apologetics, the single biggest group was 16 - to -24-year-olds.»

It is only in a postmodern world where religion and morality have fallen into disfavor have we been forced to press the concepts of ethics into service.

If I understand him correctly, Professor Jenson is saying that Christianity is bound to revert to its pre-Constantinian status, as one option among many in a postmodern world of religious, cultural, and moral relativism.

The name of the session is «Of Monkeys and Music — Spiritual Journeys in a Postmodern World,» so expect dancing chimpanzees.

In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World.

Naturally in a postmodern world, a modest and undoubtedly temporary peace and security may obtain by everyone privatizing their stories, retreating into their enclaves.

Pluralism in the postmodern world is not only the way in which the world reconciles the schism created by the Enlightenment, but it is also a threat to the viability of the Enlightenment.

Our topic is the common good in a postmodern world.

To put it differently, what is holiness in a postmodern world filled with e-commerce and what Daniel Boorstin calls «consumption communities»?

It failed to provide them with the intellectual and spiritual resources needed in a postmodern world.

«This thing» to which he refers began in the 1990s when a group of young evangelical leaders initiated a conversation (they still prefer to call it a «conversation» rather than a movement») about renewing the church for mission in a postmodern world.

(See, for example, George Schlesinger's provocative book New Perspectives on Old - Time Religion [Oxford University Press, 1988], William Charlton's Philosophy and Christian Belief [Sheed & Ward, 1988], and Diogenes Allen's Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction [Westminster / John Knox, 1989].)

Two factors have made this more difficult in our postmodern world: the emergence of a new stage in the lifecycle, adolescence, which focuses on issues of identity formation; and the reality of massive cultural pluralism.

The subtitle is «Re-Evangelizing in the Postmodern World,» and the premise is that many, if not most, who today identify themselves as Christians are, in fact, post-Christians who need to be reintroduced to and reintegrated into the community of faith.

A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern World View.

But his deep concern for retaining ethical coherence in a postmodern world was also evident, as was his traditional allegiance to Jesus: «In his baptism, his teaching, his healings, his passion, death and resurrection — in all of it, there is a demand laid on us, or an offer tendered, and it is the task of the Christian to embody that offer in his world, being as candid as he can about the difference between Jesus» beliefs and his.»

Haight's goal is an ecumenical inculturation of Christian faith in a postmodern world saturated with historical consciousness and aware of cultural and religious pluralism.

Indeed, the disarray of literature and the arts in the postmodern world favors the conviction that if there is hope anywhere it is with the culture of science.

Those of us who believe in the postmodern world may have to create our own institutions, as feminists have already begun to do.

I find myself longing for that sort of passionate debate in this postmodern world.

This art of verbal jousting does not fit in the postmodern world, so concerned with providing safe spaces.

As for the problems the Church faces in the postmodern world, they are no doubt real.

If we would be instructed in the postmodern world, we should seek out a performance of Beckett — the postmodern world is the world according to Beckett.

«Footsteps» might be a nice thematic vessel in which to pour a travel book, but it tends to miss out on the vibrant, often contradictory (and decidedly non-thematic) experience of what it's like to travel in a postmodern world.

A retrospective of David Reed shows how to let one's guard down happily indeed in a postmodern world.

By exploring the position of mankind in postmodern world, François deals with quite contemporary issues, such as surveillance, police state... He explores these themes by using knowledge from psychology and the philosophy of language.

He is known as a pioneer of virtual concepts, creativity and communication - and the possibilities that all of the latter offer the individual in a postmodern world.

Vaclav Havel gave his own spin to this vision in «The Need for Transcendence in a Postmodern World,» a speech he gave in 1994 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

As we have already been living in the Postmodern world for years, abstract art can only further evolve.

In a postmodern world where «everything's cool,» nobody...

She is the author of Mornings with the Masters: Mystical Journeys in a Postmodern World, Exodus 2012: A Mission to Save the Earth and Aging Well ~ Be Your Best Self Forever!

In this postmodern world of infinite choice and incoherent structure, what practical steps should we take now — a personal trainer?

Despite living in a postmodern world, we remain children of the Enlightenment — especially when it comes to film.

Critical, historical self - awareness is not simply a matter of being «politically correct» in a postmodern world.

The church needs to provide Paula with theological and ethical concepts that stretch beyond the private sphere and provide her with real support in linking faith to life in a postmodern world.

I have three reasons, each of which is directly related to the context faced by Paula and other young people growing up in a postmodern world.

GRPW David Ray Griffin, God and Religion in The Postmodern World.

Religion in the postmodern world will become relevant only insofar as it can once again find dialogue with all the disciplines and help to transform their divided house into some sort of whole.

In the postmodern world we have the theory to support community and a great dearth of actual community.

In a postmodern world where «everything's cool,» nobody wants to admit they're freaking out because of uncertainty and lack of direction.

In the postmodern world, all else must at best be decoration and more likely distraction.