Sentences with phrase «intellectual tradition does»

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

Not exact matches

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

If I were advocating for unqualified blessing of same - sex unions in the church, I would hope that I'd have the humility and charity and intellectual honesty to grapple with Scripture and the church's tradition in a way that didn't dismiss it as simply «homophobic» or hopelessly benighted.

to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.

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.

We may begin, for example, with a certain tradition within the Church of England, in which the minister or priest performed his liturgical, homiletical, and pastoral duties, and perhaps even did spots of reading about them, but in which his serious continuing intellectual work along some particular line might have little or nothing to do with theology.

Christianity does indeed have its own culture, its own intellectual tradition, its own liturgy and songs, its own moral teachings and distinctive ways of life, both personal and communal.

«Reassertion» is a decisive term here, for fundamentalism seems to rise when the authoritative bearers of a religious tradition are perceived as falling into intellectual drift — when those responsible for cultivating and propagating the vision do not, can not or will not defend the fundamentals that give the vision articulate form, or when they begin to advocate changing the definition of what is fundamental.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

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

This assumes that we know what to do with our freedom, that we have the ability to see the limits of politics and of all worldly aspiration, and that we can enjoy the enormous riches of both the created world and of our own intellectual tradition.

We earlier asked if our «intellectual activity» in doing this is anything like the «intellectual activity» of the ancient authors as seen in von Rad's tradition - historical hypothesis.

In fact, it has done nothing of the kind, for it has failed to develop an intellectual tradition in America or to produce its own class of intellectuals capable either of exercising authority among Catholics or of mediating between the Catholic mind and the secular or Protestant mind.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»

Nor do they account for the fact that the Thomism they dismissively deprecate (while failing to recognize the variant schools within the Thomist family) was taken seriously as an intellectual tradition by such respected secular scholars as Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mark Van Doren.

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.

To base one's judgment of an entire political and philosophical tradition on a particular (contestable) reading of how one proto - liberal thinker (Kant) might or might not provide resources for someone like Nietzsche doesn't strike me as good intellectual practice.

Will: for someone not trained in political theory, Blond certainly doesn't seem averse to making sweeping generalisations about intellectual and political traditions in political theory.

And that they really don't know very much about the intellectual, ethical and socially minded tradition of which their party was once a part?

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

Our definitions of democratic freedom and how to achieve it derive from different intellectual and moral traditions, as do our beliefs about what's worth learning, what counts as achievement, and, most important, what kind of school is best for children and society.

Those who don't approach teaching as a political act seeped in the tradition of direct action in a pursuit of social justice, will undoubtedly leave much on the table — often the intellectual and personal development, and positive self - worth of their students.

To focus on what kids need to learn, for instance, you need to do the intellectual work of deciding what exactly that content is; collaborating requires certain organizational structures, which may conflict with long - standing school traditions.

Columbia University in New York has generally been considered the intellectual home of value investing given that Benjamin Graham was a professor there and because the school has done a good job maintaining its value tradition through The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing.

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this blog is my attempt to do philosophy cross-culturally not just to compare philosophies from different traditions, but to build a philosophical system myself that draws, with intellectual integrity, from wisdom from around the world.

Because the goal is for the candidate to live the faith (not merely have an intellectual understanding of it) and is more likely to achieve this praxis when the candidate becomes self motivated as a consequence of the relationship with the sponsor... i.e. «I can do this because my sponsor has made it clear to me that he / she is enough like me that I now know I can also live the (faith) tradition as effectively as he / she does.