Sentences with phrase «intellectual tradition of»

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

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

For all the talk of radicalism and «rupture», Thatcherism was an ideology of restoration: consonant with the ideology and ideas of the Conservative Party and the intellectual tradition of the Establishment Centre - Right and strand of thought within the British Political Tradition.

The intellectual tradition of the Sophists (alike criticized by the loyal Erasmus and the exiled Luther), along with other elements of church tradition, had drifted so far that it no longer convincingly centered on that which was revealed.

The study of NT, however, still remains as a branch within the intellectual tradition of the Western Enlightenment era.

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

Joffe is a great artist because she mobilizes the resources of visual modernism and the intellectual traditions of feminism in the service of her portraits.

Not exact matches

According to Nazi intellectuals, cherished holiday traditions drew on winter solstice rituals practiced by «Germanic» tribes before the arrival of Christianity.

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).

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

Although they are aware that the intellectual landmarks are changing, they find it difficult to believe that the basic commitment to civility, relevant evidence, and respect for the tradition of the church across the ages might be overtaken by a very different vision of the church.

As a scholar, I can not help but lament the loss of this portion of the Christian Intellectual Tradition, which seems to be vanishing in our generation.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

They speak instead of things like «the Catholic intellectual tradition.»

Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

According to tradition, the relics of the Magi, those humble intellectuals, rest in Germany's Cologne Cathedral.

Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.

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.

Especially encouraging is the renewed Christian urgency in reappropriating the Jewish shape of Christianity and the emergence of a new generation of Jewish intellectual leadership prepared to argue for a culture firmly secured by the Judeo - Christian tradition.

The Christian intellectual tradition has the sweep and grandeur of the Cathedral of Notre Dame; it is a space of cavernous beauty and monumental profundity.

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

Also, Indian theists therefore have lacked the conceptual tools to express adequately their faith in terms of their intellectual and cultural tradition.

These essays succeed admirably in both objectives, in the process showing us how rediscovering the riches of its own tradition can enable Catholic philosophy to engage the contemporary intellectual world and address the critical issues of our day.

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.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

At a later time, within a different intellectual tradition, the author of Job poses in a dramatic fashion the difficulty of believing in a god like the Yahweh of the exodus.

The problem is that, for intellectual rigor, this tradition requires a critique of the dominant formulation of evolutionary theory.

Assert the superiority of your own intellectual tradition.

Once more St. Augustine's Press of South Bend, Indiana, is to be commended for giving new currency to treasures of the Christian 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.

Jolanta Babiuch explains part of the intellectual tradition from which Pope John Paul II emerged, the pre-War dialogue between Marxists and personalist philosophy.

«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

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

In a combative interview with the BBC, Patten described Benedict as «the greatest intellectual to be pope since Innocent III,» a «world class theologian,» who had a «really important message about the Christian roots of civilization in this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.»

For Hart, the ancients in every religious tradition got philosophy so right that there is little left to be said about the intellectual foundation of theism.

James» intellectual search was answered by Catholicism's rich tradition of thought, history and doctrine.

An intellectual base: i.e., a theological stance, articulate and consciously connected to Scripture and tradition, that informs the practice of ministry.

The oriental traditions too have their intellectual tradition but in America today there is much less emphasis on studying the sutras, say, than on the practice of meditation.

Born in 1837, Abraham Kuyper was a major intellectual figure in the Dutch Calvinist tradition for many years before his death in 1929: a theologian, pastor, newspaper editor, and statesman who founded the Free University of Amsterdam and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1901 - 1905.

On his account, the Gilsonian paradigm blossomed as a fruit of the Magisterium's solicitude for preserving and promoting the philosophical realism of the Christian intellectual tradition.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

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

McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).

But the bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

I sought to familiarize myself with these intellectual traditions, to ascertain what were the recurrent issues in the study of ethics and to identify categories and methods which could be helpful in conducting a study of biblical ethics.

By the late 1790s the medieval tradition of ultramontanism was being revived by Joseph de Maistre and other French Catholic intellectuals.

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.

The intellectual and practical challenge, however, is clear: to retain the core moral elements of the just war tradition, even as we acknowledge that they must be rethought, adapted and extended to cover our genuinely novel strategic situation.