Sentences with phrase «in modern attempts»

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TCBY has attempted to rebrand itself since 2010 to keep up with the new image of froyo, trading in its full - service model and outdated décor for self - serve machines and brightly colored, modern decorations.

People in Monessen said Trump should try to help the modern industries that could be hurt by the tariffs rather than attempting to resuscitate dead - and - buried steel businesses.

There are a number of examples in Canadian case law where issuers were attempting to sell «utilities» or something similar to modern day tokens and coins, where the court simply didn't buy the argument.

It follows from this that the most obvious way in which a modern central bank can attempt to regulate an economy's total money stock is by adjusting the available quantity of bank reserves and circulating currency.

As the largest debt bubble in modern history unwinds, socionomists expect to see many and varied attempts to dial up the repression... and an intensification of the inevitable backlash.

Saturday's rallies, organizers said, were attempting to demonstrate a show of force in that debate: Many citizens do not automatically want their nation's economy to expand (it's an almost universally - accepted idea in modern economics that expanded trade will provide net economic expansion to both countries) but instead they care how those benefits are distributed.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

For instance, an attempt to root out modern elements in the church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have for any systematic program of destruction.

St. Anselm, for instance, puts in his Proslogion what a typically modern reading takes as the «ontological argument»: an attempt to prove, by examining the meaning of the word «God,» the existence of a useful transcendental guarantor of thought, whose existence is itself guaranteed by thought.

The creation of the modern Jewish state was in response to the attempted eradication of these people by Hitler and his allies including the many that assisted with this in the European and Middle Eastern areas.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioIn his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioin the early modern period.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

In our current editorial we attempt to show how recognising the centrality of the Incarnation to all of creation helps us solve some key modern confusions concerning the womb of woman.

34 It is this corpse — the spiritless remains of the Protestant work ethic — that largely explains the modern worker's attempt to overcome the lack of quality and meaning in his work by substituting increased quantities of work time.

As both a sociologist and a Christian (though he admits that he has not yet found the heresy into which his theological views comfortably fit), Berger attempts to deal with the alleged demise of the supernatural in our modern world.

Modern expositions of logic have attempted to take account of this circumstance by opposing, — in accordance with a well - known distinction of Hegel's — the abstract universality of the concept to the concrete universality of the mathematical formula.

Both Rahner and Holloway were attempting to synthesise the scholastic tradition with modern philosophical insights, these latter being much more established in Rahner's case - namely emerging from the Existentialist tradition.

It is fashionable at present, among some theologians, to attempt precise genealogies of modernity, which in general I would rather avoid doing; but it does seem clear to me that the special preoccupations and perversities of modern philosophy were incubated in the age of late Scholasticism, with the rise of nominalism and voluntarism.

In the spiritual sphere he attempted to rejuvenate Islam by a clarification of its fundamental principles and an elucidation of its doctrines in modern termIn the spiritual sphere he attempted to rejuvenate Islam by a clarification of its fundamental principles and an elucidation of its doctrines in modern termin modern terms.

Instead I am attempting to describe the dynamic meaning which is implied in the conception of «original sin» (a meaning which has been reaffirmed by the findings of modern depth psychology), the only sense in which the conception is intelligible.

It is within the context of an evolutionary view of time that I shall attempt to get a proper understanding of God's time, first because our general purpose is to make God's eternity relevant to our modern evolutionary world, and second because this seems to be the context in which the Scriptures thought of God's time.

As we pointed out in chapter I, above, it is here that the modern attempt to reconstruct his teaching has been most successful and, today, the best - known feature of that teaching is its incomparable use of simile and analogy.

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

Here was an attempt to hold honestly to the beliefs of the Christian Church and yet to be open to modern advances in science and in the rest of the world.

There is now a movement among young modern Zoroastrians to go back to the earlier purer form of their faith, not unlike movements that have occurred within Hinduism and Christianity under such names as «Back to the Vedas,» or «Back to Christ,» or «Back to the gospels,» in an attempt to throw off the accretions of the years which are felt to have obscured the original teachings of those fajths.

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needIn this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needin any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

In his recent and final book Catholicism and Democracy, the late Cambridge scholar Émile Perreau - Saussine attempts to defuse that anger by presenting a long view of modern Church history.

He strikes one as Victorian in some of his attitudes and needs, modern in his attempt and failure to imagine Sisyphus happy.

While the Protestant Churches were facing mounting battles in beliefs and while many were attempting to reinterpret the faith in the light of modern demands, one thing continued to mark the American scene.

It was not at all like the modern research interview in which an observer attempts to elicit information about subjectively held attitudes from individuals who have never reflected on their feelings until the moment when they are presented with preceded questions that are not part of their own subculture.

And I do not believe Strauss is simply wrong in his resistance to the Christian quest for synthesis, for the attempt to combine reason with love does indeed tend in the direction of modern rational universalism — of universal «recognition» and «satisfaction» in a homogenous state.

It fits in so deeply with the Faith of the Church, takes in the beautiful teaching of the Fathers from early Christianity, and also tries to makes sense of modern science, in much the same way as St Thomas Aquinas attempted to do in the thirteenth century.

But it is sadly absent in modern US attempts to foster democracy in Islamic States, which look more like secular wishful thinking and risk reaping more of the whirlwind of 9/11.

It is this combination of pluralism and uncertainty that does in the attempt to solve the modern problematic by fundamentalist retrenchment.

CNN: In video, White House shooting suspect calls himself «modern - day Jesus» Weeks before his arrest on a charge of attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama, an Idaho man taped a video pitch for Oprah Winfrey — expressing his contempt for government, offering secrets to solving global problems and proclaiming himself to be «the modern - day Jesus Christ.»

In Moscow, Father Georgi Kochetkov was removed from his parish for attempting to introduce a translation of the Slavonic liturgy into modern Russian.

Underwood pointed out that, in the modern world, to claim to be a believer who loves God and neighbor, and yet not to attempt to be an effective person in the formation of just social policies, is to talk nonsense.

We shall then in a quick survey attempt to consider some of the things which the churches have to say to the modern mind from the eternal truths of the Christian faith.

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

Modern man views himself in only one dimension (either nature or reason) and attempts to derive evil from some specific historical source such as religion (Holbach and Helvetius), autocratic government (Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith), or economic organization (Marx).

Fr Dylan James powerfully presents Edward Holloway's Christocentric attempt to challenge the «sex is for loving» philosophy which is so clearly at the heart of the incoherence of much Catholic catechesis in this area, and of the modern breakdown of the family.

Torrance goes on: «This is an attempt to think together the ancient and modern approaches to problems which, if they are not the same (and they are not), at least cross over in interesting ways.»

Say, for instance, a man in the 1279 had a dream about a modern day helicopter... He would attempt to explain what he «saw» to his friends in the terminology of the 1200's.

The result is that in modern times the Revelation has either been completely neglected, or it has become the playground of the religious eccentrics in their attempts to draw out time schedules of the last days.

In the Calvinist tradition this was first coupled with the attempt to create a form of theocratic society in Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationshipIn the Calvinist tradition this was first coupled with the attempt to create a form of theocratic society in Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationshipin Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationships.

The question modern readers have to answer is whether the Greco - Roman household codes reflected upon in Ephesians, Colossians, and 1 Peter are in and of themselves holy and divinely instituted, or if their appearance in Scripture represents the early church's attempt to blend Christianity and culture in such a way that it would preserve the dignity of adherents while honoring prevailing social and legal norms of the day.