Sentences with phrase «liberal humanism»

I wasn't raised religiously (unless you count liberal humanism as a religion), but for me the Tedeschi Trucks Band is my church experience — communal, egalitarian, uplifting, and inspiring.

Then again, a liberal humanism may itself come as an inheritance of Modernism.

And Williams» Emily symbolizes some of the good scout liberal humanism this sort of tale might require, but even this is supplanted in the face of uncertainty and arrangement.

This is part of my liberal humanism.

The error of liberal humanism is its too great reliance upon the human capacity for transcendence over self - interest.

Advent comes to fill unexpected spaces and times of our lives with Spirit, challenging our forgetful materialisms and rationalist designs, scandalizing all disembodied religiosity and even the best - meant liberal humanism.

This is not merely a concession, a toleration of the inevitable, it is not merely Western liberal humanism; it belongs to Christianity as such.

Liberal humanism sees the individual's feelings, rights and values as society's most important watermark.

Within the general concepts of humanism there are three branches of thought: liberal humanism, social humanism and evolutionary humanism.

While the 20th century will be remembered as the era of failed social humanism, with the fall of communism and a move away from socialistic values, liberal humanism seems to be taking hold in our society.

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I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

He can support Wesleyan liberals and free them from their tendency to humanism, to relativism, and to half - heartedness.

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

Two generations back, Unitarians and Universalists spoke of «humanism vs. theism»; in the 19th century it was «free religion» and «liberal Christianity,» and before that it was «rational liberalism» vs. «transcendentalism.»

He can support Wesleyan liberals and free them from their tendency to humanism, to relativism,...

He thinks liberal Christians, pathetically eager to fit in to the mainstream of modernity, are asserting not the authentic gospel but a «disguised humanism.»

The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $ 34.95 Dominic F. Doyle offers a creative defense of the Christian humanism of Gaudium et Spes, which seeks to blend two ideas that critics such as the liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman haveHumanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $ 34.95 Dominic F. Doyle offers a creative defense of the Christian humanism of Gaudium et Spes, which seeks to blend two ideas that critics such as the liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman havehumanism of Gaudium et Spes, which seeks to blend two ideas that critics such as the liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman have not....

In spite of the teaching of secular humanism, Modernism, and liberal theology, Biblical Christianity (The Old Time Religion and the Faith of our Fathers) is based on racial principles.»

During downswings, fundamentalist commitment is likely to grow; during upswings, liberal religion and / or secular humanism is more likely to grow.

That same story assessed that the leading theology of the already liberal - leaning city was replaced by a reverence for humanism.

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.

What a choice of churches we have, Conservative Pharisaic sectarians or Liberal enablers with their «soft» secular humanism cloaked in God - words.

In the Introduction to his Declaration, Kurtz shows an understanding of the relationships among secular humanism and the Enlightenment, (liberal) democracy, and the Catholic Church:

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

In that sense, the vision of the cosmos whose future we must create and whose present we now admire and share surely applies to both conservative sectarian religion and the most liberal secular humanism.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

Liberal democracy, humanism, even (ironically) the separation of church and state — all emerged from the matrix of a self - consciously Christian civilization.