Sentences with phrase «many modern culture»

Every one of 2015's 10 top grossing films worldwide was released somewhere in IMAX form, indelibly attaching its brand to what is arguably the last, greatest communal experience in modern culture.

The myth here is celebrated in modern culture: it's someone who is capable, driven and wants to win and be popular.

App builders have taken a central role in building modern culture, said Ben Silverman, producer of Apple's new reality TV show «Planet of the Apps.»

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

To view it in light of modern culture makes the truths contained within change to fit the agenda of the day.

Why should ancient ignorance inform modern culture?

As conduits for «postmodern spirituality,» argues Wells, these churches «appear to be succeeding, not because they are offering an alternative to our modern culture, rather because they are speaking with its voice, mimicking its moves.»

Roof and McKinney are surely right, however, that the critique of authority that pervaded the «60s served, often inadvertently, to exacerbate secularizing tendencies inherent in modern culture, particularly the inclination to regard religion as a private affair.

Contemporary romantics are given to disdaining the etiquette tradition of their own modern culture, while waxing sentimental over similar practices in what they regard as more authentic cultures.

however in our modern culture it's actually easier to say, you are saved — why - because you can't see it.

Perhaps we just got too smart for him, or perhaps our modern culture is better than anything he can offer?

And because they themselves don't come from a cultural assumption of male authority, they see it as a correction to our modern culture: an eternal, divine mandate to which we need to return.

John Paul II's generosity toward modernism and the media needs great restraint to avoid the new golden calves that often go by the name «modern culture.»

I'd like to finish with a note to those who see my position as giving in to modern culture.

To put Genesis on the level of a physical discussion of the natural order is to secularize it — while complaining loudly about secularism in modern culture!

The contrary tendency in modern culture, despite its appearance, actually despises our biology and forms part of the new Gnosticism that pervades our times.

is one of the most important, successful, permanent touchstones of modern culture: Through an original American story, it takes the player through the same pressures and temptations as the protagonist.

If I remember correctly the Lindsay Commission noted the teaching of history as the point at which rational and moral evaluations of traditional and modern cultures could be made most effectively.

One of the unintentional cruelties sometimes practiced by the United States Government in dealing with American Indians has sprung from failure to understand this contrast between primitive and modern culture.

Informative, interesting and sometime amusing to study, but no longer relevant to modern culture.

A Society Gripped by Despair Surely the frenetic busyness and dynamism of our modern culture is diametrically opposed to the sullen inertia that usually characterises depression and despair.

«People of the postmodern mindset — particularly 20 - and 30 - somethings — question the hyperindividualism of modern culture.

This has been so accented in much of Christian history and modern culture that talk of God is often very alienating.

His prolific writing, manifestly based upon prolific reading, elucidated issues of faith and modern culture, especially in the many areas where the latter has been undermining the former.

These are the very energies that must be synthesised in a unity of wisdom if any absolute meaning and last goal is to be offered for human striving or affirmed of the human person in a modern culture.

Buddhism surely fares no better in offering a constructive response to the challenge of our modern culture.

I am not very unlike you, very cynical of the modern culture of the «church», but I have found, for me, that to fixate on the problems of the church does not seem to build the Lingdom of God.

So the Arabic nations today that «arrange» marriages... you are calling an entire modern culture rap ists?

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

One theologian mentioned to me recently that he reminds his students that the concept of «father» changes somewhat with modern culture.

The deep taboos and symbolic meanings surrounding birth and death linger even in our technically demythologized modern culture.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

And while we're at it, another of modern culture's formal determinations that would probably be worth discarding is its all - consuming obsession with all things sexual.

The great currents of modern culture will sooner or later engulf her puny eddy.

He noted the peril of specialization in modern culture, which tends to isolate religious thinkers from those in philosophy, art, politics and science.

He is a big enough God to withstand a modern culture.

What I see as sad are two competing but similar responses in our post modern culture - the absence of feeling and the bathing in feeling.

(15) Fortunately the inexhaustible richness of Scripture ensures that our loyalty to it does not leave us without a relevant word to say to modern culture but actually unfailingly provides a compelling word to speak into the culture whatever that is.

But maybe that set apartness is supposed to be more in the way we show grace for people we dislike, or the way we treat others, not in what aspects of modern culture we eschew.

@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.

I think the big failure in modern culture is that nobody takes responsibility for their own actions.

The distinctive feature of fundamentalism is its dialogue with modern culture.

It's a common error given the skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture.

Though many of them oppose modern culture, they do not oppose it in the same way or oppose the same aspects.

When we think about modern culture, we might naturally gravitate towards some of its «evils» (more on this in a moment), but there is so much good to point out.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

Given the importance of recreation in modern culture, the central imperative is to cultivate forms of recreation that are in accord with standards of qualitative excellence.

In his work, Girard speaks of «ontological» or «metaphysical» sickness, which suggests that modern culture is like a vast insane asylum which has been created by the minds of the inmates.

But my pedagogical error consisted in seeking to challenge modern optimism with the theological doctrine which was anathema to modern culture.89

It is true that modern culture both in its religious and nonreligious moods has tended either to ignore or to sentimentalize this faith in eternal life.