(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out
an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.
He comes from the background of a religious home; he is seriously trying to work out
an intelligent philosophy of life; he is sensitive to spiritual values; and he seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.
Not exact matches
Several
of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for
intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range
of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects
of contemporary
life (
philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.
Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's
intelligent ordering
of his
life, the serious employment
of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way
of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building
of temples, in the constant improvement
of justice by changing laws, in
philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom
of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom
of God and which may be an expression
of this wisdom, the first
of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations
of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).
Frequent Discover contributor Merali blends physics with
philosophy on a journey to learn whether humans will soon be able to make entirely new universes (spoiler alert: quite possibly, yes) and, if so, whether our universe could be the science project
of other
intelligent life.
The Japanese Metabolists, for instance, envisioned large scale, flexible, and expandable structures that echoed the processes
of organic growth; in the U.S. Nicholas Negroponte coined the idea
of a responsive architecture that was mechanically and dynamically integrated with its surroundings, an idea that
lives on in projects like Columbia's
Living Architecture Lab, in design
philosophies like biomimicry, and in concepts like the digitally - networked
intelligent city.