Sentences with phrase «liberal culture»

I realize now that this attitude is deep - rooted in Western liberal culture.

Calling them right wing hysterics (according to the mythology of what McCarthyite means in liberal culture code) is about as sure fire a way to wake up editors at the NYTimes and rest of the MSM etc..

This trajectory suggests that the Balmesian tradition is largely correct to see the development of modern liberal culture as an integral set of often anti-religious social structures, and to see this culture as closely linked to the dynamics of Christian division.

It is quite obvious that the biblical (Jewish - Christian) tradition is opposed to the post-modern liberal culture as described above.

Unless religious leaders understand the hungers of the heart expressed by Americans who inhabit and enjoy but are not finally satisfied by liberal culture, there will be no followers with which to work.

However, I credit this to his postmodern education, as well as his insular existence as a favored son of an elite liberal culture that rewards irony and critique rather than conviction.

While there are theologically and evangelistically vibrant congregations here and there, the leadership of these declining bodies seems to be irrevocably set upon replicating a Kulturprotestantismus for a spiritually moribund liberal culture.

In a powerful 1940 article Niebuhr protested that America's dominant liberal culture was too appeasing and moralistic to fathom «what it means to meet a resolute foe who is intent upon either your annihilation or enslavement.»

An analysis of how American Christians have both interacted with and transcended liberal culture.

Churches can provide community in a way liberal culture never can.

Because of the more liberal culture it is probably more worth it to be a sugar baby or a mistress in the West.

Arantes» topical project aims to explore issues of national identity through the lives of these first - generation Afro - French women as they navigate the conflict between European liberal culture and the traditional education of their parents.

In discussing the resurgence of populist politics associated with Jackson and Robertson, Hertzke, a University of Oklahoma political scientist, maintains that to focus on the ideological discord between these two preachers is to miss their common crusade against «the moral hollowness and atomizing tendencies of liberal culture and politics.»

In an unexpected way, the metaphysical materialism that characterized Marxism has re-emerged after its collapse in a new form, as the ideology of the leadership class in liberal culture.

The philosopher Charles Taylor has observed that a «politics of recognition» plays a significant role in the political psychology of modern liberal culture.

By liberal culture I mean not only these values of modern American liberalism but also its practices in our political order, our schools, our media, and the major institutions (except, to some extent, or course, religious institutions) of our society.

Beyond the fact that Chinese adore the Thai lifestyle, Thailand is also raking in Chinese property investments thanks to its proximity to China, affordability, freehold ownership options, vibrant rental markets, and liberal culture.

This frustrating dynamic rests, for MacIntyre, on the same hidden catastrophe that led to our current moral cave - dwelling: although logical positivism as a philosophical movement has collapsed, the liberal culture still takes morality to assert feelings and opinions.

But while this «postliberal» sense of discontinuity with the liberal cultures of the United States and Canada is a necessary stage on the way to church renewal, it is only a stage.

Book Review: Unconventional Partners: Religion and Liberal Culture in the United States, by Robert Booth Fowler.

He is, after all, a product of a liberal culture with no moral compass with which to guide this debate.

These institutions could have been landmarks for Catholics as we try to navigate the slow - motion degradation of liberal culture.

The problem is that our liberal culture encourages us to respond to these experiences of unhappiness by blaming the ever - so - slight remnants of the traditional «NO!»

The attacks on broadly Christian and liberal culture from Nazism and fascism on the right and Marxism on the left presented the civilization with a major moral crisis.

In contrast to the deep pessimism of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Buber always insisted that biblical morality, or «biblical humanism,» would survive the throwing off of the externalizing shackles of liberal culture.

Where Herzl saw Zionism as necessary because of a decay in the world in which Jews lived (anti «Semitism), Buber believed Zionism to be necessary because of a decay in Jews themselves (assimilation to modern liberal culture).

At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.

Nicholas Kristof's columns suggest that our liberal culture is perverted.

If Kristof denounces me with such abandon, how can the liberal culture he represents function peacefully in a world that includes conservative Muslims who, though by no means proponents of Jihadist radicalism, also get categorized with me as bigots, fundamentalists, and «on the wrong side history»?

One could say, as Fowler does in somewhat different terms, that effective churches seek the sacred and the transcendent; they want their liberal culture's confinements thrown up against and opened by the scope of eternity.

Religion in America is integrated into liberal culture «only in the sense that it has supported the culture, albeit unintentionally, by providing a temporary refuge from that liberal culture.»

Fowler may seem too content with words like «escape,» «evade,» «fill gaps» and «refuge» to describe religion's role in a liberal culture.

This reflects the incoherence of modern liberal culture, which is also finding its way into the Synod.

But, conversely, to believe that one can draw people from and feed into the liberal culture without offering a retreat from it, without filling the gaps it necessarily leaves, is an assured way to lose the congregation.

So church religion «fills in some of the gaps people perceive in liberal culture.»

Lukasz Pawlowski is contributing editor to Kultura Liberalna (Liberal Culture) magazine.

The children grow up in a far more permissive and liberal culture and often resent the restrictions imposed upon them by parents over conduct commonplace among their student peers.