Sentences with phrase «made by modernity»

So before I turn to those criticisms, let me briefly honor the genuine contributions to human and religious understanding made by modernity, and I provide you with only a partial list.

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In regard to the first objection, I would wish to reply by making clear that I do not intend to suggest that, because modernity has lost the organic integrity of Christianity's moral grammar, every person living in modern society must therefore become heartless, violent, or unprincipled.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

And though he is certainly critical of some of the developments associated with modernity, Alasdair MacIntyre is also a constructive thinker who has sought to help us repair our lives by locating those forms of life that make possible moral excellence.

The biblical scholarship of modernity, insofar as it continues to be captive to the dualism of Kantian epistemology, is another kind of Babylonian captivity, which debars the signs of identification and recognition by which the risen Jesus made himself known.

Novak also sees the admission of natural law concepts as the first step in Judaism's long effort to make peace with modernity by abandoning the inner essence of its identity, a Faustian bargain culminating in the Holocaust.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

And, in their midst, it makes small jabs at modernity's consequences: the «Modern Churchman» who «draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief,» the enlightened prison warden — «I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression,» and avant - garde architecture — «india - rubber fungi in the recessed conservatory,» a floor that is «a large kaleidoscope, set in motion by an electric button.»

The Yale philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff provides a critical history of the nature and purpose of art in modernity and suggestions for a theory of art today that could admit both its fallenness and its potency to engender some kind of salvation, and a piece by Daniel Taylor describes the abandoned Irish monastery of Skellig Michael that might make some readers want to plan a pilgrimage to this holy and - to?

Theologically, they must accommodate to modernity by making Christian proclamation compatible with a scientific worldview so that faith can be acceptable to its «cultured despisers.»

These decisions are supposed to be made by that most fictitious entity of modernity, the individual.

Modernity has been obsessed with comfort and cosmetic stability, but by making ourselves too comfortable and eliminating all volatility from our lives, we make them fragile.

Surrounded by lush lawns and soothing water bodies, Taj Bangalore is a 154 - key luxury hotel designed to capture the essence of the city's modernity and make the most of its beautiful weather.

Facilitated by a well - connected rail network, over which 7,000 trains operate each day, a tailor made rail tour of the Czech Republic offers the best way for you to experience this remarkable country where East meets West and history meets modernity in such compelling fashion.

If Hussain succeeds in making it to the Lumen Prize shortlist on Friday, she will have done so by combining modernity with spirituality to create an artwork that takes its audience to a numinous place, a transcendent journey that's normally associated with the work of artists such as Mark Rothko and Bridget Riley in gallery spaces and with the detachment of Sufism in Islam.

Around the Apennine range, relentless tectonic forces are made more deadly by the populace's dogged resistance to modernity and love of history and place.

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