Sentences with phrase «intellectual tradition»

But they have little bearing on the actual intellectual tradition of liberalism.

But I do not see how it is consistent with the Catholic intellectual tradition.

And those traditions are not simply intellectual traditions but integral parts of complex practices of speech, thought, worship and morally responsible action.

Could the real story be found not in any «failure of nerve,» but in the rise of a largely consistent intellectual tradition?

Third, there was a dynamic and vital Catholic literary and intellectual tradition visibly at work in the culture.

Here the Catholic intellectual tradition, in particular, is able to offer special light.

The architecture of the Christian intellectual tradition admits of careful parsing.

Robert Royal is President of the Washington - based Faith and Reason Institute and the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History and the forthcoming study, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

This common sense interpretation, which I shall call the «substantialist» view of reality, has had fateful consequences in our inherited Western intellectual tradition.

To answer the question merely in terms of having a clergyman as president, a crucifix in every classroom, and a chapel in every residence hall is to abandon a rich intellectual tradition.

They seem quite different from the usual image of Christian schools, undoubtedly because of the stronger intellectual tradition of Calvinism.

There is a formidable Christian intellectual tradition addressing these questions; it includes, inter alia, figures so estimable as Origen, Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard, and, in our own day, thinkers such as Wolfhart Pannenberg.

In view of this impressive intellectual tradition, it seems odd that so many environmental thinkers (some of whom call themselves eco-philosophers or eco-theologians) seem to think that they are starting from scratch, sniffing about in the ruins of god and goddess myths, piecing together the venerated shards of primitive worldviews, or frankly inventing new world - stories such as sundry versions of the Gaia hypothesis.

Von Balthasar's aesthetics displays, perhaps, more intellectual virtuosity, but Maritain's has the advantage of being within the ongoing intellectual tradition of Thomism.

The critique of the Enlightenment is shared by process thought and the now dominant intellectual tradition.

There is a long and proud intellectual tradition to which the middle class, white, North Atlantic professor is heir.

But fair is fair, and just because Benedict starts with the Church doesn't make him any more fanatical than the atheist who starts with atheism and the atheist intellectual tradition.

The Christian intellectual tradition does not begin with the publication of Lewis» Mere Christianity or with the founding of L'Abri in 1954.

There is every reason to think that our knowledge of this one Word is deepened when the gospel is translated into non-European intellectual traditions.

The discussion stalls, at this point, for want of a painfully obvious question» an outsider's question really, but one that we evangelicals ought to consider if only for the purpose of dismissing it: Is there something in Protestant thought itself that, doing the work of a computer virus, finally renders impotent even the best of the Protestant intellectual tradition?

Pannenberg has worked this out systematically in relation to other religious traditions, but his view of the movement of history puts an emphasis on the continuity of great intellectual traditions in a way that tends to silence the voices of the oppressed.

The Ten Commandments, for example, long Jewish and Christian intellectual traditions hold, are discoverable by reason alone, but as a short cut also by revelation.

If there is any version of Christianity that has a deep and serious intellectual tradition, it is Catholicism.

Especially in universities, which of all institutions in a society should be open to the widest - ranging free inquiry, such a broader pluralism would involve allowing all sorts of Christian and other religiously based intellectual traditions back into the discussion.

The institution he will lead announces that its mission is to «contribute to American society by producing graduates who command the important intellectual traditions, who think lucidly about the social and political issues that confront them today... Continue Reading»

«In the United State at this time,» he wrote, «liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.

The complementarity between man and woman is a fundamental principle in Judaism, in other religions, in some nonreligious intellectual traditions, and in the organization of society, as well as in the opinion of a very large majority of the population.

The Labour politicians who lived in the area were not millionaires, but part of the left wing intellectual tradition centred around Hampstead that had been making political waves for at least a century by the time Hugh Gaitskell lived there.

A tradition of revolutions exists and can be identified very precisely, in any place, in any historical period, from where it constantly emerges in its popular form — for what is universal about this collective treasure is that it is owned by no particular region in the world, nor did any single intellectual tradition create it.

The search for a progressive capitalism has a long history drawing on venerable intellectual traditions.

As a political party, rather than a cult, Conservatism has always drawn on other intellectual traditions.

The Florentine is the most full - throated dissenter to this conservative intellectual tradition, the only writer before the 19th century to give voice in his writings to the aspirations of plebeians, lower guildsmen, and popolo minuto within republics, and to assert that they should hold preeminent authority over the elites of their polities.

As I have argued at length in a book on the subject of East - West cultural borrowings, Western civilization has been profoundly influenced by Arab - Islamic intellectual tradition, and a more accurate portrayal of so - called East / West historical relations brings a deeply reciprocal relationship to light.

What Bertolucci with Scarfiotti and Storaro did was combine the visually rich Italian tradition with the French intellectual tradition.

Both Kleeblatt and Bochner address the question of Jewishness in Bochner's work, particularly the ways in which Jewish intellectual tradition embraces language as a visual expressive form.

Prior thought: acknowledge the ideas and values that Indigenous people may already have developed about an issue and tell a story that is sourced in the prior thought that has shaped the Indigenous intellectual tradition.

Assert the superiority of your own intellectual tradition.

«This challenge exceeded the ones presented by the likes of those who had failed to tackle this nascent conservatism (George McGovern), represented the dying flame of liberalism's most successful days (Teddy Kennedy), or embodied its rich intellectual tradition (Patrick Moynihan),» Ambar writes.

When Girard's thought is coordinated with Kierkegaard's, the result is a very strong testimony to the power of the Christian intellectual tradition as a resource for understanding the psychology of violence.

Lacking a developed apologetic and a theologically sophisticated intellectual tradition, many Holiness leaders adopted the fundamentalist apologetic and doctrine of Scripture.

SOUTH AFRICA has world - class universities and a strong intellectual tradition.