Sentences with phrase «in modern civilization»

Climate Claim: «The climate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,»

Live Science: «Climate Records Shattered in 2013» — By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer LiveScience.com — July 18, 2014 — «The climate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,» said Thomas Karl, director of NOAA.

he climate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,» said Thomas Karl, director of NOAA.

Moreover, their differentiation into breed groups has only occurred relatively recently in modern civilization.

Capitalism and nationalism are variant forms of a faith which is more widespread in modern civilization than either.

Yet in recent years, some researchers have hypothesized that the osteoporosis seen among the elderly in modern civilizations, which manifests itself as reduced bone density and increased risk of fracture, 2 is attributable to an excess of vitamin A.

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Such opinions were little changed from those expressed in an entry from 1932: «Nothing good can come out of modern civilization, in the broad sense.

For most of oil's history, someone has tried to regulate supply to stabilize the price because neither industry nor governments enjoy volatility in a commodity that is the lifeblood of modern civilization.

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

If other things are against it, other things must go down... With the red hair of one she - urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.

Here in the modern, western civilization, we often pick names based on how a name sounds, or what the name reminds us of, or whether it is a common name or not.

The answer to these questions involves an examination of the whole problem of the relation of the Gospels to modern civilization, and I beg leave to refer the reader to an article on this subject recently published in Religion in Life («The Gospels and Civilization,» 1civilization, and I beg leave to refer the reader to an article on this subject recently published in Religion in Life («The Gospels and Civilization,» 1Civilization,» 12:231 - 37).

Nor can the wish to replace orthodoxy with a more modern theology be a compelling motivation, simply because the hold of orthodoxy upon Western civilization has been so clearly broken that only a Don Quixote would choose to tilt in such a tournament.

In modern struggles, this confronts both the Western powers and the terrorists in the tendency to use the greatness of their civilization to claim God in their corner of the fight rinIn modern struggles, this confronts both the Western powers and the terrorists in the tendency to use the greatness of their civilization to claim God in their corner of the fight rinin the tendency to use the greatness of their civilization to claim God in their corner of the fight rinin their corner of the fight ring.

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.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by condemning the proposition that «The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.»

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Modern man takes the products of civilization for granted, as if they were dropped from trees in a tropical paradise.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

Commenting on Robert Maynard Hutchins» call for a Civilization of the Dialogue which can be attained when we induce the other party to talk through «exhibiting an interest in and a comprehension of what he might say if he were willing to speak,» (Robert Maynard Hutchins, «Goethe and the Unity of Mankind,» Goethe and the Modern Age, ed.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

«There are some Christians,» he wrote, «who feel a certain satisfaction» a kind of Schadenfreude» at the sudden collapse of the liberal idealism of the nineteenth century and the loss of hope in the future of modern civilization.

The fact is that more men in our modern era are irreligious because religion has failed to make civilization ethical than because it has failed to maintain its intellectual respectability.

He said that the church is responsible for relating God's love in a realistic way to the moral problems of an industrial civilization, but, unfortunately, modern Christianity is characterized by a lack of ethical relevancy.

The experimental method and attitude of the sciences have been pervasive in modern industrial civilization.

The practical impact of modern science can be discerned in the emergence of constantly changing technologies that have given rise to what is commonly called «modern scientific civilization.»

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturIn The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturin modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturin America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

All traditional theological thinking has become wholly meaningless, now that civilization has ended in our deep and modern times.»

They are no longer satisfied with the mere observance of the outward form of their religion but are looking for spiritual and moral guidance in Islam compatible with modern civilization.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

They came to life in the medieval towns, flourished first in the period of the Renaissance, and finally reached their highest expression in our modern scientific, technical, economic, imperialistic civilization.

It thereby blinds us to that great promise of modern civilization: the mutual emergence of individuality and solidarity in a plurality of activities fostered in a genuine public sphere.

The growth of modern scientific civilization has brought both opportunities and perils for democracy: opportunities in the vast new resources made available to mankind, and perils in the increased power men can use against and over one another.

The development of modern machine civilization is in part a consequence of the growth of population.

Since all or nearly all members of society share in these responsibilities, universal education to a high level is essential for the security and progress of modern industrial civilization.

Its place in the universities was justified by its contribution to helping define the moral mission of the university to modern civilization.

Since the heart of liberalism was its endorsement of the best in modern culture, scientifically based free inquiry, together with its technological benefits, would automatically advance Christian civilization.

In the Greek dawn of western civilization, the word «theos» (god) had two primary meanings, surprising for modern men for whom the word is so heavily freighted with sophisticated meanings of utter transcendence acquired through centuries of Hebrew - Christian tradition.

The first recorded human civilization started in Mesopotamia... modern day Iraq.

But he also records the fact that his teaching career at the University of London changed his mind about the function of Universities in a modern, industrial civilization.

Thus we shall reasonably say that the seismic shift in civilization to a distinctly modern framework can not be removed from its technological milieu.

Finally, the organized church can respond to modern civilization in several possible ways.