Sentences with phrase «modern cultures have»

Lastly, the potential for discussion about various cultures is unmatched: from Incan human sacrifice to José Guadalupe Posada's satirical calavera cartoons to differing beliefs about the afterlife, both ancient and modern cultures have approached death in ways that range from grim to playful.

Isn't it strange when you think about it that of all the mammals some modern cultures have created such a strange, unnatural way of thinking.

There are other sins described that are not God's best that in modern culture have been accepted, divorce, adultery gossiping etc. it doesn't change what God says about these things either.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

(4) Modern culture has tried to explain away the problem of evil, flying in the face of the known facts of history.

Yet, as in the case of capitalism and nationalism, the faith which grew out of modern culture has modified that culture.

If we had stayed with a god as the cause of all events, our modern culture would have been impossible.

In his evolutionary perspective, the growing differentiation of modern culture has placed religion in competition with reason, the natural sciences, and most recently the social sciences, all of which have taken over many of the topics on which religion traditionally spoke with authority.

Sadly, our modern culture has created a world where some people often feel the need to create a fake persona just to get a taste of what a real relationship could feel like, because they don't see themselves as worthy of getting a real girlfriend or boyfriend.

Highlighting artists from across the globe and generations, Self Proliferation explores female identity politics and the construct of «self» as modern culture has defined women, but with a common backdrop of varied landscapes.

By Ruslana Lichtzier download printable PDF A Missed Call Since the 1910 Thomas Edison movie «A Trip To Mars,» Orson Wells» radio - drama «The War of the Worlds,» in 1938, to Ridley Scott's 2015 film «The Martian,» modern culture has manifested a preoccupation with the planet Mars.

So thanks to the fragilista, modern culture has been increasingly building blindness to the mysterious, the impenetrable, what Nietzsche called the Dionysian, in life.

S: Modern culture has a world view that human beings are very separate from nature.

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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.»

«It is how culture and religious practice have been preserved through times, whilst blended perfectly with the touch of modern world.»

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

For the rest of us, it's a reminder that Christians are in a unique place in modern society, with a message of redemption through Christ in an era when mainstream culture has little to say about hope for the future.

In refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracy.

Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

The connection between modern fundamentalism and popular culture becomes evident in the language of those who boast that they have met the Lord, that they have a personal relationship with Jesus.

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

CAMERON: Hillsong United, Bethel, Jesus Culture, Gateway and countless others: What do you think has led to the explosion of modern worship we've seen over the last 15 years?

I see humans read the Bible as if it were written originally by modern day americans using modern day English... one has to remember that the Bible was written from a Jewish culture of 2000 plus years ago..

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.

Culture in this second sense has many manifestations, but all converge to constitute the secularism of the modern world.

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

When modern people assume that we have made so much progress over ancient or nonindustrialized cultures, they forget this point.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.

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.

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.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

On the other hand, Eastern Europe, although for a thousand years it had had a higher culture than the West, might never have developed modern science.

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 iModern 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 imodern 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 imodern 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.

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

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 culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

And, as a result, we have now entered the age of the Last Men, whom Nietzsche depicts in terms too close for comfort to the banality, conformity, and self - indulgence of modern mass culture.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

Unfortunately, most of the traditional ones come from another era, another culture, a time a place and a context which seem only distantly related to us in these modern days whether we have been brought up in the West or the East.

This, I presume, is what William Schmidt had in mind when he called for a theology which would relate faith to the «modern world of culture,» and one which would theologize «consciously and with a measure of clarity» («Theology: Servant or Queen?»

Great architecture has always been «modern,» both responding to and challenging the cultures that produce it.

In the modern age an interest has been awakened in the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and published.

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.

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.

When I write about sexual innuendos in the Bible, I get nasty emails from people about how I have succumbed to the sexualized culture of modern America.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

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.

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

«For the educated person can not play his full part in modern life unless he has a clear sense of the nature and achievements of Christian culture: how Western civilisation became Christian and how far it is Christian today and in what ways it has ceased to be Christian»