Sentences with phrase «in a scientific age»

It is part of our heritage in a scientific age that we would at least consider such an option as one possibility.

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

With the Enlightenment, the sacramental vision of the continuity between the afterlife and everyday life became more deeply ruptured, as William Blake subjectivized heaven and hell, and Tennyson struggled to believe in the soul in a scientific age.

Chief among these is the question whether revelation itself can be said to be a coherent notion in a scientific age.

«Faith is unbelievably good at giving you the bigger picture — starting with why belief in God is reasonable in a scientific age — so that both your mind and then your heart ends up falling in love with Jesus Christ,» said one young seminarian who attributes the discernment of his priestly vocation to the movement.

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

What do we mean by the Holy Spirit in this scientific age?

It should be evident by now that our question about purpose in nature is one way of raising the problem of the intelligibility and validity of religious discourse in a scientific age.

The New Birth of Christianity: Why Religion Persists in a Scientific Age by Richard A. Nenneman HarperCollins, 198 pages, $ 19 As the institutions of Christian Science reel under a succession of crises, one of its top officials calmly explains why Mary Baker Eddy got it right the first time.

What is very clear from this debate is that the likes of Dawkins can be answered, but for the most part he is not being answered in a way that shows the credibility of Catholic belief in a scientific age.

Miracles are heresy in a scientific age, and prominent thinkers have railed against them — but what if their arguments don't stack up, asks Hugh McLachlan

You would think in this scientific age we would have governments that had gotten beyond him, and used a rationalist's policy: seek the best scientific information and take actions that, after careful analysis, would have the best chance of success.

It offers a comprehensive account of the notion of «form», and the problems posed to it in the scientific age, and could also act as a useful introduction to the idea of emergence (it includes enough complex «relationality» graphs to make the editor of a certain magazine weak at the knees...).

In this scientific age, we think it's silly to believe that an actual devil, demons, and hell exist.