Sentences with phrase «inevitable progress»

The twentieth century, however, was exceptionally hard on prophets of inevitable progress in human relations.

As to history, small comfort can be elicited from withered theories about inevitable progress or from revolutionary promises of brave new worlds.

There was the fear both of opening a Pandora's box of inevitable progress uncontrolled by man - and by extension the Church - and of the worship of any form of ineluctable progress.

The parable is distorted if we try to read out of it a doctrine of inevitable progress; yet it is quite in keeping with the process theology of today which sees a forward movement through the tender and loving concern of a transcendent yet immanent God.

A non-theological version of this idea is the belief in automatic or inevitable progress, resulting in the final establishment of some sort of utopian order.

This was a part of the optimistic idea of natural and inevitable progress, an expectation that was rudely shattered by the world wars of the twentieth century.

The optimism of the eighteenth - century Enlightenment and its belief in inevitable progress can be traced in part to an exaggerated faith in man's intellect.

No longer did one hear so much about the inevitable progress in goodness and the gradual building of God's Kingdom.

Dispensationalism emerged in a late «nineteenth «century cultural climate where liberal Protestants and many Roman Catholics were enamored of the myth of inevitable progress.

Scientists and philosophers preached «inevitable progress»; an historian could write, «Human history is a record of progress — a record of accumulating knowledge and increasing wisdom, of continual advancement from a lower to a higher platform of intelligence and well - being»; and the poets sang,

; (ii) their partial assimilation of Teilhard de Chardin's view of the inevitable progress of history; (iii) the historical tension between Catholicism and the traditionally Protestant and economically exploitative Republican party which, under Reagan, became the pro-life party; and (iv) the fairly sudden capitulation of Archbishop, then Cardinal, Bernadin supported by most Bishops.

The answer to this question lies not in any notion of inevitable progress but in the study itself.

Some authors speak of modem «covert myths» of inevitable progress, human rationality, and utopia through technology.22 We will be mainly concerned, however, with traditional religious myths.

There is only one group stopping this inevitable progress, a bit like those who often prevented the progress of the industrial revolution.

Meanwhile, the slow but inevitable progress that we can expect from the Brexit negotiations over the coming 12 months will likely provide greater clarity regarding the long - term outlook for the country.