Sentences with phrase «in modern culture»

One of the most common forms of suffering that arises from living in a modern culture is back pain.

It's one of the many traditional foods that we've largely forgotten in modern culture, but I'm glad to see it making a come back.

This is invaluable, because it's a lost art in modern culture, and it's critically important.

In our modern culture cars are a necessity and in order to keep this society flowing and universal, safe driving practices are a must.

The myth here is celebrated in modern culture: it's someone who is capable, driven and wants to win and be popular.

His hypothesis is that since celebrity has taken the place of religion in modern culture, he is the natural successor to those figures.

I think the big failure in modern culture is that nobody takes responsibility for their own actions.

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.

The «self» occupies a role in modern culture that is not only prominent but problematic.

It is at this point, I believe, that the traditional Christian doctrine of love is in the deepest trouble with sensitive and critical minds in modern culture.

Key words used religiously, if the meaning is not immediately clear in our modern culture, can be placed in their ordinary secular setting in order to clarify the meaning.

A huge problem in our modern culture is that people just don't know how to cook any more.

Each of our instructors arrives with a different background and perspective on Yoga and how it can help in our modern culture and lifestyles.

«They can see a lot of connections in modern culture, and it helps them understand that literature is universal,» she says.

New year resolutions have become embedded as a tradition in modern culture.

In modern cultures everywhere the concept of luxury always seems to be associated with the idea of pristine and clean.

Is this what makes him one of the most iconic villains in modern culture?

Her research interests include contemporary craft and design and the role of the handmade in modern culture.

It isn't always easy to maintain a healthy body weight in our modern culture.

Living parallel lives is an epidemic in modern culture.

In our modern culture cars are a necessity, and in order to keep this society flowing, universal, safe driving practices are a must.

The following essay appeared in Hidden Treasures: Searching for God in Modern Culture, by James M. Wall (The Christian Century Press, Chicago: 1997), pp. 128 - 130.

Holloway is well aware that the attempt to synthesise what is authentically of value in modern culture with the perennial truths of the faith is as equally replete with dangers as it is with promise.

extensionist positions tend... to perpetuate the atomistic metaphysics that is so deeply embedded in modern culture, locating intrinsic value only or primarily in individual persons, animals, plants, etc., rather than in communities or ecosystems, since individuals are our paradigmatic entities for thinking, being conscious, and feeling pain.

Spider - Man won't suffer the same fate because the character is already popular in modern culture and the PlayStation 4 has garnered the most attention as the top - selling console so far this generation.

I hope this method of time - travelling will be appealing not only for Hemingway or Picasso fans but also for everyone interested in modern culture,» explains Beata Misiewicz, the founder of TravelbyArt.

Every one of 2015's 10 top grossing films worldwide was released somewhere in IMAX form, indelibly attaching its brand to what is arguably the last, greatest communal experience in modern culture.

The idea that mythology and fantasy and the «giant being in the sky» that cares so much about how we praise him even exists in a modern culture is a sign that education is severely lacking.

As a longtime student of and occasional contributor to First Things, I am of course sympathetic to the general persuasion of R. R. Reno's reflections: the desire to defend virtue against vice in modern culture, and to promote the good and hopeful society against narcissism, secular....

Roof and McKinney are surely right, however, that the critique of authority that pervaded the «60s served, often inadvertently, to exacerbate secularizing tendencies inherent in modern culture, particularly the inclination to regard religion as a private affair.

Titled Messiah Complex, the show is concerned with how celebrities have to some extent replaced religious figures in modern culture.

To put Genesis on the level of a physical discussion of the natural order is to secularize it — while complaining loudly about secularism in modern culture!

Fundamentalists are quite selective in what they oppose and what they accept in modern culture.

The desire for fame and praise is rife in modern culture, not just inside the Church.

It symbolizes a unity which is not simply a formal bond that circumscribes the unfolding of individual powers in an always equal manner, but rather a process of unified development which all individuals go through together [«On the Concept and the Tragedy of Culture,» by Georg Simmel, in The Conflict in Modern Culture, translated by Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), p. 28].

If both pistis and fides mean «trust,» how did «faith» come to be defined in our modern culture as «firm belief in something for which there is no proof» (Merriam - Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition)?

Mannheim himself traces the «spiritualization» of politics in modern culture to its origin in the chiliastic utopias of exploited and oppressed Christian groups which began to try to make radical changes in the political order.7 Faith that God's power was producing the new order became a call to revolutionary human response.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

Altizer means that God died in Jesus and that death is now being realized and universalized in modern culture.

Perhaps, very few scientists today make such a claim so unambiguously, yet this confidence in science and technology and the instrumental, manipulative use of nature, is very much present in modern culture.