Sentences with phrase «intellectual culture»

(Not saying those communities are without judgment also) But of course, our affluent, intellectual culture knows best right?

Like the Marranos of early modern Spain, who publicly converted to Christianity and practiced Judaism only in private, too many Jews today engage in a policy of passive accommodation to the dominant intellectual culture of liberal secularism.

And while part of the evangelical dilemma can be ascribed to the «scandal» of our noninvolvement in intellectual culture, as one historian has argued, this is only part of the story.

Not only have «recent scientific and technological developments... given man a new power to intervene on his own identity» but the dominant intellectual culture of our times «refutes that anthropological dualism which conceives of man as constituted by body and soul» and portrays «the unity of existence in a radically reductionist manner».

The Performa Institute presents a range of in - depth programs for the presentation and exploration of ideas and the exchange of research and knowledge, with a focus on the study of history and on forging a new intellectual culture surrounding contemporary art.

He synthesizes different trends in contemporary intellectual culture, all of which contribute to what he calls the «destiny of weakening,» which is his way of speaking about disenchantment.

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

But the Church's ambitious hopes for in - churching will make little progress without a vibrant intellectual culture alongside its rich liturgical and monastic traditions.

By Athens he means intellectual culture, the life of the mind, the study of....

While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

All in all, and given the evils to which fallen humankind is prone, the indicators in the political and intellectual culture provide reason for carefully restrained hopefulness.

Influenced by thesurrounding intellectual culture, they readily dismissed concepts as productions of limited perspectives, which later experience can and should modify.

Modern intellectual culture assumes the «fact - value dichotomy» so easily, in fact, that the future relations of piety and intellect at Union will undoubtedly involve some mighty wrestling to keep the two intimate with each other, no matter how insulated some of our university colleagues prefer them to be.

Thirty odd years after this overview of twentieth century Catholic intellectual culture, the points of James Hitchcock seem even more relevant.

«As politicians take aim at tenure while attacking intellectual culture in higher education, faculty should mobilize for an academic bill of rights,» he said.

The Black Arts Movement was provoked by what art historian Kellie Jones describes here as «a militant intellectual culture» of black power and pride — a separatist, vernacular, confrontational, performative, and populist art made by blacks for blacks, to be understood not by the art world but by «the street.»

Jean - Noël Jeanneney, President of the Bibliothèque Nationale has a long record as a servant of the French state — chief executive of Radio - France, head of the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Revolution, and junior minister for foreign trade — but he also holds intellectual culture in high esteem, especially if it is French.

Such an outcome is only possible within a trusting, safe, intellectual culture of empowerment in which all students and teachers feel encouraged and supported to let their voices be heard, explore their passions and interests, develop deep knowledge, and become their fullest and truest selves.

Although he insists he was never persecuted and eschews the label of «victim,» Berger suggests that it was his rightward drift in political outlook» a drift away from the zeitgeist of the intellectual culture» that effectively exiled him from the elite institutions.

The intellectual culture of France was dominated in those days by....

Let me take the instance of India to illustrate Operation Recolonization Limited, not because of idolatory of geography but because, if India, itself a great country in its own right with a socialistic public sector and intellectual culture were to be dominated, other countries, including even the Asian Tigers and China, may face the same doom tomorrow or the day after.

My modest suggestion is that, in today's intellectual culture, there is near insurmountable resistance to proposing truth under the title of «myth.»

Like Uncle Will, she is a person of sterling moral probity and intellectual culture: she has taught Binx to reverence the Platonic dialogues, to love classical music and literature, and to cherish what Faulkner called «the old verities and eternal truths of the heart.»

Such an author, one may think, is probably a mugwump or, given the liberal tilt of our intellectual culture, probably peddling the doctrines of the left while pretending to be above it all.

In view of the author's standing in the intellectual culture that she criticizes, the book should precipitate a lively and better «informed discussion of the culture war in which, like it or not, we are all embroiled.

It reminds me of how weak Catholicism's intellectual culture has become, at least in some official circles.

Hollinger thinks our intellectual culture would be healthier if we had today people such as Robert Ingersoll, a brilliant atheist who in the early twentieth century toured the country lambasting religion.

This, of course, is today largely an expression of the intellectual culture.

At one time there were notable thinkers — Jacques Maritain comes immediately to mind — who were helping Catholics to be faithfully Catholic in negotiating their relationship with an intellectual culture that was largely hostile to Catholicism.

It was a very New York moment and a very Jewish moment, and is not of least significance because for the first time a New York Jewish moment played a large part in redefining America's intellectual culture.

The Orient had long concerned itself with the pursuit of «Wisdom,» an entity which, at first highly utilitarian, presently came to comprise the total of the intellectual culture of the age.

Niebuhr's philo - Semitism was embattled in his time, but it would find little place at all in today's intellectual culture.

But for the mainline Protestant tradition, intellectual culture is a huge part of it.

By the High Middle Ages (the twelfth and thirteenth centuries) western Christendom manifested an impressive depth of intellectual culture, and an internal unity.

It is even more depressing that her book perpetuates the dangerous one dimensional thinking of the Wisconsin Senator and his allies in the John Birch Society which have allowed anti anti-communism to have a field day in our intellectual culture.

When Western thought took a decisively subjectivist turn in the seventeenth century, and when that subjectivism eventually gave birth to a principled skepticism about the human capacity to know anything with confidence, the result, which is much with us today, was the emergence of an intellectual culture of radical moral relativism lacking any thick notion of the common good.

Contrary to David Hart's suggestion, many of us are climate science skeptics not because we're carrying water for Exxon stockholders, but because we don't trust an intellectual culture of scientists - as - activists.

Universally, teachers in the highest - achieving countries are given significant time to work together and develop an intellectual culture of inquiry, high expectations, and best practices.

Or perhaps the Authors Guild only wants «intellectual culture» to exist behind closed doors, at invitation - only events, far away from the prying eyes of the unwashed masses.

He works with figurative and abstract sculpture to push against frequently circulated — and often idealized — canonical representations in visual and intellectual culture.

Let us be honest about the intellectual culture of America in general: It has become almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion about anything.

And a University of Chicago Law School item about the new publication quotes a member of its faculty, Richard Epstein, offering this scholarly sounding endorsement: «The migration of knowledge from paper to cyberspace is an inescapable part of our intellectual culture.

«News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture... and a bit of poetry.»

That is a very great mistake, and indicates just how deeply Big Data's core premises are entrenched within our intellectual culture.