Sentences with phrase «late modern world»

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

But economic globalization, a signature feature of the late modern world, and precondition for today's rapid growth in China and elsewhere, is excoriated again and again.

The irony of the novel is that the late modern world, in which we ask the self to be the sole source of meaning, value and purpose, is a world in which the survival of the self has become problematic.

More a poet and preacher than a bureaucrat, John Paul has, in Weigel's words, one central theme: in Christ, «you are greater than you imagine, and greater than the late modern world has let you imagine.»

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The latest figures are another indication of a key trend in modern IT, and one that's got traditional server makers — the Dells, the Lenovos (lnvgy), the HPEs (hpe) of the world — on the defense: More big web - scale companies are designing their own servers and having them made by contract manufacturers instead of buying name - brand servers.

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

He had drawn heavily upon Benedict's moral theology in his latest book and thought the former pope understood the modern world with rare insight and knew how to speak about it.

Taylor's goal is to explain how late - modern persons approach the world without even realizing it and thus how secularity is a feature of late modernity.

As late as the early «60s, Altizer believed Christianity to require of us a total rejection of all that the modern world understands as reality and creativity.

It is important to note that Taylor does not claim his story about the secularization of the late - modern world is the only game in town.

I owe my own enthusiasm for the church to the vitality and freedom I felt in the late sixties in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, when Pope John XXIII threw the windows of the church open to the best thought of the modern world.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

It is a project in unearthing the «background understandings» that inform late modern social life and shape the way humans conceptualize the world they inhabit.

The late Hans Frei of Yale persuasively contended that the modern world's typical way of understanding human life was through «realistic narrative.»

In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead offered a brief sketch of his project for revising American educational theory and practice, but he never completed the projected work and left its applications to later scholars.

It is interesting to contrast Whitehead's extreme objectifying and abstractive position reflected here and stated concisely in Science and the Modern World that «Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction» (SMW 21) with his later statement in Modes of Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (MT 98).

«Sooner or later, we in the modern world have to say to those who are living in a different way, «Look, we stand for freedom,»» he said.

In the past, this is the way I have myself read Whitehead's later writings in general and Science and the Modern World in particular.

Griffin brings together passages in Science and the Modern World which show that, from the later point of view, Whitehead should have drawn the conclusion of panexperientialism.

«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens of thousands of years after modern man arrived on this planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant goatherding people thought the world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).

His first metaphysical synthesis was presented in the Lowell Lectures of February 1925, later incorporated in Science and the Modern World.

Frustration with this problem is one of the reasons for the abandonment of the project of a realistic account of the world in the later modern development.

The late Hellenistic world out of which they come and to which they are addressed has a rather modern feel.

In a still later round, McHenry tries to show that the concept of prehension makes sense only in the context of panpsychism and that, consequently, the latter doctrine must be present already in Science and the Modern World (WPSP 1 - 11).

But it may be imperative for Indians, who, arriving late in the modern world, are confronted with the possibility that economic growth on the model of Western consumer capitalism is no longer environmentally sustainable.

Whitehead launched what to me is the most profound critique yet made of the Kantian split of noumena from phenomena37 and thus he launched a most extraordinary attack on the foundations of the late enlightenment, romantic, modern, and postmodern worlds.

There was general agreement that Whitehead's earlier books, up to and including Science and the Modern World of 1926, would be likely to be more fruitful for this purpose than the later Whitehead of Process and Reality.

Because when the Church entered the Hellenistic world, and later helped create the world of the modern West, it became indissolubly linked with a particular historical tradition.

But insofar as prehension, the mechanism of concretion developed in Science and the Modern World (and later in Process and Reality), can be interpreted in specifically human terms, this aesthetic principle is especially crucial to the increase of value in human existence, providing persons adjust themselves to it.

He uses Carl F. H. Henry's concerns about the direction of evangelicalism in the years just before the current era of conversations about mission, missions, missional, and missiology all began in our brave post-modern or late - modern world.

This is the line taken by what in North America today is frequently described as «process thought»; its greatest exponent was the late Professor Alfred North Whitehead in his works Process and Reality (his book has been re-arranged, and provided with excellent explanatory notes by D. W. Sherburne, under the title of Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality), Science and the Modern World, Modes of Thought, Adventures of Ideas, Religion in the Making, and Symbolism, all of them written after Whitehead had joined the faculty of Harvard University in the United States in the 1920's.

In any event, as I say, this is all only imagery — achingly nostalgic and suggestive imagery — meant only to depict a way of inhabiting the world that Heidegger believed was constitutive of our humanity but that late modern humanity has forgotten.

In order to understand how Whitehead developed the concept of God, one may begin by comparing his earlier works such as The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919) and The Concept of Nature (1920) with his later works such as Science and the Modern World (1925), Religion in the Making (1926) and Process and Reality (1929).

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Whilst Wenger did a huge amount to bring Arsenal in to the modern world of the late 20th Century he has not been able to keep up with modern football and we are slowly going backwards.

Often in our modern world, parents simply keep their babies up too late.

Instead the skull indicates that modern humans met and interbred with Neanderthals in Israel, only to later pass on their genes to the rest of the world.

Genetic material in the world's earliest organisms may have taken the form of free - floating DNA rings, which later combined to form chromosomes resembling those found in modern organisms.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

Steven Johnson makes this fact startlingly clear in his latest book, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Riverhead, October 2006).

Award - winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.

In terms of features from the late archaic / early modern humans found throughout the Old World, the researchers observed the fossils as having a large size that fitted a large brain, and cranial vaults that were lightly built and had modest brow ridges.

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