Sentences with phrase «intellectual modes of thinking»

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The emerging struggles produced within American Protestantism two basic parties: the fundamentalists, who were committed to the defense of the shape of classic Protestantism and feared that any accommodation to these new currents of thought meant the demise of Christianity; and the modernists, who felt that intellectual integrity required some form of adaptation and rethinking of classical modes of articulating Christian faith.

But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead praised William James for the character of his intellectual life, which was «one protest against the dismissal of experience in the interest of system» (MT 4).

The dominant style of modern thought has been contestation of all traditions, and it was largely the Catholic intellectual community's belated reception of that mode of operation which led it to declare irrelevant its own richest flowering.

Again in Modes of Thought, Whitehead accords «importance» a central role in the intellectual search for worth and civilization.

One of the genuine alternatives in our time to the «dialectical» or «Continental» theology as a constructive advance upon liberalism is the mode of theological thinking which seeks to reinterpret the force and meaning of the Christian faith within the new intellectual framework that is being provided by modern metaphysics.

My art touches people who are in tune with my mode of thinking, but it is clear that people can not understand my art by intellectual processes alone because no art can be experienced in that way.