Sentences with phrase «modern discussions of»

Thus, for example, where modern discussions of friendship might emphasize the importance of «self - disclosure as the basis for intimacy and trust between friends,» ancient thinkers simply did not value self - disclosure.

All of these writers are found in modern discussions of the apocalyptic theme, and with good reason.

Constantly annoying, it becomes openly confusing when he leaps from eighteenth - century Bach to modern discussions of Bach to predecessors of Bach back to Bach.

Beyond the happy coincidence that these words rhyme, the two are complexly and biochemically intertwined in a way that is far - too - often minimized in our modern discussion of behavior, emotion and overall health.

Not exact matches

He describes Browder as a «modern - day prophet» and his death having gave way to a discussion on the American criminal justice system's destructive treatment of impoverished black juveniles.

When we get back, I want to talk a little bit about the modern workplace and how we change it, because I think there's a lot of discussion about how we create innovation, how we come up with innovation, and how we get to the new work environment, which I think everyone feels like there is one coming.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.

The modern shift of the discussion of God from cosmology to metaphysics, mystical experience, morality, and supra - rational grounds itself reflects developments in scientific cosmology.

In discussions of Maximus the Confessor, Luther, and many modern thinkers» including Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, David F. Strauss, and Rudolf Bultmann» Farrow details this otherworldly, spiritualizing trajectory.

As the discussion of the «Evangelicals and Catholics Together» document has made clear, the theological agenda of the Reformation remains of continuing importance to modern Christianity, particularly in the United States.

The terminology favored by the movement is itself indicative of the degree to which modern scientific questions and secular modes of thought dominate the discussion of creation: Bible science, creation science, scientific creationism, creation research, origins research.

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!

In this discussion we enter into the modern period of globalization.

At the Edinburgh conference in 1910, Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal Church had keenly felt the need for a full discussion of theological beliefs in order that the Churches might find the proper mutual support in the modern world.

The issues of justice between men and women are so complex that a full discussion of them would require a shelf of books, and indeed a shelf has been appearing with Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Helen Deutsch's Modern Woman, the Lost Sex; and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to mention some outstanding ones.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

Philosophers may reach quite different conclusions, some of which do not introduce these particular tensions into the relation between philosophy and Christian theology.3 The modern theological discussion of natural theology has been seriously clouded by the failure to distinguish the formal question from the substantive one.

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

A modern novel, based upon a true story of persons who defied Hitler's tyranny, so perfectly expresses the fulfilment of eros in the love of justice that it has been vividly un my mind throughout this discussion of family love.

For the apostle Paul, the connection of worship and politics was axiomatic, though the political import of his liturgical discussions can be obscure to modern readers.

I shall not delay the discussion here to defend Bergson against his critics, except to point out that what is frequently termed «irrationalism» in Bergson is precisely what he has in common with all modern disciplines that take the dimension of depth seriously.

For the sake of this discussion, I'll presume that there were 1,003 speciation events to develop the modern eye.

Following each affirmation is a brief discussion of what, in the current mood or plight of modern man, makes this affirmation of special concern.

Yet current discussions scarcely make note of Schweitzer's perceptive observations on precisely this problem, let alone his solution to this lacuna in modern theology.

McIntyre, John, «A Discussion of Some Problems Facing the Modern University,» Sydney University Gazette (Australia), Sept., 1956.

He was seeking to account for the modern phenomenon of theological consensus in various interdenominational discussions.

In Science and the Modern World, in the chapter «Abstraction,» Whitehead's allusion to propositions is ensconced in a discussion of «eternal objects.»

The theologian can not as a theologian enter upon detailed discussions of the interpretation of the modern scientific world view and its relevance for theological assertions, but he can and should show the need for such discussions and their significance for his own work.

Jews read this passage on Rosh Hashanah, Muslims on Eid Al Ahda — and some in both communities wonder whether it isn't time to become more modern and avoid this discussion of child sacrifice.

I have found in my discussion with my friends and neighbors, there are many things in the Book of Mormon that go against what the modern LDS Church teaches.

While the general position seems more reminiscent of the «organic mechanism» of Science and the Modern World, Russell's discussion of minds and the entities of physics bears an interesting resemblance to the more technical Whiteheadian discussion of personally ordered societies and corpuscular societies of actual occasions in Process and Reality.

In short, those who come to modern constitutional discussions hoping to encounter the discursive rigor that «reason» connotes will instead find themselves lost in a sort of labyrinthine emptiness.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

The reader is referred to the discussion in The Living God and the Modern World, pp. 108 - 41 where Peter Hamilton outlines the problem of the traditional doctrine of the after - life more fully than we have room for here.

For an excellent discussion of the topic, see Barbour, Ian G., «Teilhard Process Metaphysics,» in Cousins, Ewert H., ed., Process Theology: Basic Writings by the Key Thinkers of a Major Modern Movement (New York: Newman Press, 1971), pp. 323 - 350.

Limitation of space precludes an adequate discussion of the cultural role of these numerous modern sacred books.

This discussion of the «participant observer» gets at the crux of the difference between the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist presuppositions of much of modern science and the process - relational vision.

A discussion of the positive solutions that are offered must concern itself first of all with that movement which claims to take the modern situation most seriously, i.e., with the group which, under the banner of Humanism, was in the limelight a short time ago.

Though nothing new is here, the discussion of questions of context (liberal, modern, neo-orthodox; ecumenical, realist, biblical), texts and contexts (matters of biblical interpretation) and the way in which Christian affirmations are appropriately translated into particular settings is stimulating.

Some scholars argue that because the churches were caught up in eschatological expectation, very little of their discussion about social ethics is relevant to modern issues.

Again, Bruce, the issue is not Pascal and his intended audience, though I still fail to see how Pascal can be said to have given any good grounds for wagering on the Christian god in light of modern discussion.

The actual problem with Pascal, if I can mirror your discussion with John for a moment, is that people are applying the basic quote out of context of Pensees to modern society.

Living by Fiction is apparently a discussion of modern and postmodern fiction.

Hartshorne represents one path, largely influenced by the (now virtually lost) traditions of pluralistic, personal idealism, of extending and developing Whitehead's own modest, philosophically formal, neo-Aristotelian discussions of theism in Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

The tendency to establish on rational grounds the plausibility of revelation, or even to set it apart as a distinct subject of theological discussion, did not arise very explicitly until the birth of modern skepticism.

Further discussion of both capitalism and Communism is found in my The Modern Rival of Christian Faith, ch.

Some of the men thought there was more spirituality in the discussion of the ethical problems of modern industry in which we engaged in Rountree's than in the communion service we heard so atrociously read in the minister [p. 55].

If by this one means that we can know very little about Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian, so that a modern biography of him is hardly possible, such a viewpoint need not trouble the believer, although it could be a topic of legitimate discussion among historians.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.