Sentences with phrase «modern civilization as»

And that, as the scientific literature makes clear, would be the end of modern civilization as we know it.

We have begun to understand what Gandhi really meant when he described modern civilization as a «disease».

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Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

It's an all - stops - pulled celebration of the Middle Ages as the summit of Christian civilization — a sentiment I find at least somewhat attractive, until I remind myself that it would require later centuries for us to acquire the blessings of anesthesia, modern dentistry, and single - barrel bourbon.

Modern man takes the products of civilization for granted, as if they were dropped from trees in a tropical paradise.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

Modern Western civilization arose as men sought to throw off the restrictions of the feudal order and to expand their activities into the wider arenas opened up by commerce and exploration.

His Twi Dictionary has been acclaimed as an «encyclopaedia of Akan civilization» by the modern generation of Ghanaian scholars.

Even at the time, Pius IX was derided for being so retrograde as to say that the pope ought not, indeed could not, «reconcile himself to progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

It may be as much of a sociological law of history as we can presently establish that it is the middle classes who determine the destiny of modern civilizations.

But, as the modern study of Christian origins has made clear, the idea of establishing a Christian civilization was entirely foreign both to Jesus of Nazareth and to the early Christian movement.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how ConstantinianAs he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinianas a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

In Centesimus Annus, he designates solidarity as «one of the fundamental principles of the Christian view of social and political organization,» tracing it back to Leo XIII's notion of civic friendship as the enduring bond that unites the often antagonistic relations of labor and capital in modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.»

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

Modern science stands as one of the great achievements of Western civilization — not of Islam, China, or even ancient Greece.

Harmony is «as important for us now, as [it was] then at the dawn of the modern world, when civilizations of the old type were dying» (Adventures 147).

It has sometimes been told in modern times as an episode in the struggle between Roman imperialism and Jewish nationalism; or between the cosmopolitan, secular «ideology» of Graeco - Roman civilization and the religious isolationism of the Jews.

In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead expounds the central idea of Western civilization as faith in an order of things and in an order of nature.

To think that some people mistakingly consider wheat gluten a modern creation is bizarre, seeing as it has fed mankind's dietary needs since the dawn of civilization.

Ancient and worldly, almonds have appeared throughout civilization from antiquity to modern times, celebrated as a symbol of good luck, fertility and love.

The city has been described by tourism pundits as «The city of flavor ««The city of health ««A peaceful modern city» «A multi faith city» The 8500 year history of Izmir has witnessed many civilization.

Then in Lawrence Keeley's 1996 book War Before Civilization I read that modern states at their worst, such as Germany in the 20th century or France in the 19th century, had rates of death in warfare that were dwarfed by those of hunter - gatherer and hunter - horticultural societies.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Suppose we set up a radio broadcast for aliens to hear, and suppose we could keep the transmitter going for 100,000 years — far longer than civilizations have existed, nearly as long as modern humans have.

It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and remote Far East, which early - modern Europeans saw as the East.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

Ancient civilizations also struggled with climate change just as the modern world is struggling today.

Known as «superflares,» the space weather events were thought to be roughly 10 times more powerful than any solar storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.

Bee pollen: Touted as «nature's fountain of youth», bee pollen has been used for thousands of years, in early Egyptian and Chinese civilizations and also by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, 2500 years ago.

The main concept of the paleo diet is to eat as people used to eat before modern civilization when they were hunters.

To stay a step ahead of modern civilization we need to avoid free radicals as much as possible, eat an antioxidant - rich diet, and make sure our body is sufficient in glutathione.

Do you think the symptoms of menopause as experienced by the average American female eating the standard American diet and being treated by the medical establishment as it now stands are actually symptoms of a disease of modern civilization?

The recipes on this website qualify as a big step in the right direction, especially if you want to prevent diseases of modern civilization including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Yet in recent years, some researchers have hypothesized that the osteoporosis seen among the elderly in modern civilizations, which manifests itself as reduced bone density and increased risk of fracture, 2 is attributable to an excess of vitamin A.

It is regarded by many as an important factor in the genesis of the diseases of civilization, the degradation of the health of modern humans.

Shanghai is a modern city just as much as it is an ancient civilization, and there are many things to do.

9 MILE POINT, La. — Director Steve McQueen was just a few yards from modern civilization — in this case, an air - conditioned sports utility vehicle that had brought him some 45 minutes from New Orleans — but as he looked around a sprawling plantation...

WHAT: In a dystopian future where the collapse of modern civilization has given way to a feudal society, seven rival barons — each with their own army of trained assassins — have divided control of an area known as the Badlands.

That presentation sounds like a chore to most modern moviegoers, for we as a civilization have moved on from silents as anything but historical curiosities and are never turning back from synchronized sound.

In a hundred years, historians will probably divide modern civilization into pre-HTML and post-HTML eras in the same way we called the time before we invented writing pre-history, and history as the time after writing; the gift that civilized us.

It introduces them to: - The term «globalisation» - The spread of artwork from ancient civilizations such as the Romans - The impact of trade along the Silk Road - The impact of colonialism on the spread of artwork and art techniques - A comparison of very local artists such as John Constable with modern global artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

As modern civilization advanced, the practice was accepted to varying degrees, with the development of understanding the actions of hormones on the body, known as endocrinologAs modern civilization advanced, the practice was accepted to varying degrees, with the development of understanding the actions of hormones on the body, known as endocrinologas endocrinology.

Famous sculptors such as Jose Luis Cuevas used modern shapes and bright hues to interpret the legendary spirit of the Mayan civilization.

Learn about the ancient Mayan civilization and how in the modern day Mayas view their culture as well as come to this sacred place to do their mayan ceremonies.

Famous sculptors such as Jose Luis Cuevas used modern shapes and bright colors to interpret the spirit of Isla Mujeres and the Mayan civilization.

Lead a civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age, and go head - to - head with history's most intrepid leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known in a race for ultimate supremacy.