Sentences with phrase «modern humanism»

His work has been published in over 40 countries and in 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Booker International Prize and the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca (a French literary prize that recognizes an author whose work conveys a message of modern humanism).

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).

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i challenge any christian to show that Humanism, a modern, atheistic ethical system, doesn't hold better values than the bible, a book written when people thought the earth was flat.

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

More strikingly, it represents an appeal for the modern world to recognize that its achievements can not be sustained apart from the authentic humanism of Christian faith.

This Christian humanism has important political and economic ramifications, establishing for Röpke the true foundation of political and economic liberty that modern appeals to mere utility do not provide.

This whole article reeks of a modern day inquisition, except this time around, the church is the scientific and academic community and the religion is humanism.

Fundamentalism rejects the human freedoms which have opened up in the aftermath of the western Enlightenment, and is committed to combat secular humanism and all other aspects of the modern world which it regards as injurious to the spiritual condition of humankind.

Therefore dialogue between Religion and Secular Humanism as well as between Religions began to take place within the national context on the meaning, values and goals of modern Indian nationhood.

Another characteristic aspect that process theology derives from Hartshorne is its decisive rejection of humanism as a satisfactory option for modern man.

In addition to its classic and philosophical expressions, the idea of freedom through understanding runs as a leitmotif through the whole history of modern science and humanism.

The humanism of the modern age takes that the human being is the measure of all things.

The major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

Among the major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

Hence, in the pursuit of development, there is a need for «the deep thought and reflection of wise men in search of a new humanism which will enable modern man to find himself anew.»

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.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

Democratic secular humanism has creatively flowered in modern times with the growth of freedom and democracy....

The threat at the margin of modern nontheistic humanism is: So what?»

(The Jewish state of Israel and the Muslim states have not solved this problem either, nor have the forces of secular humanism proven any more adept at addressing the moral and cultural crisis of modern societies.)

The third paradigm is more modern, that of Enlightenment humanism.

But the ground and the framework of what the Church has to say in the world are the same and the cultural alternatives to Christianity in the modern world - humanism and syncretism.

Having arisen out of a profound aversion to the modern spirit, fundamentalism finds «humanism.»

Dr. Thomas proposes a new ideology of struggle for both social and ecological justice — a spiritual framework for a post modern holistic humanism based on an understanding of Christ as the Suffering Servant.

In fact, all religions and secularist ideologies have a common task which unites them, namely the humanization of the modern technological culture through the development of a common post-modern humanism which incorporates the valid insights of all religions, ideologies and the sciences.

The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.

Actually, it was the leaders of the 19th century Indian Renaissance and the political thinkers in the ideological leadership of the 20th centary Indian Nationalism who grappled with the person and teachings of Jesus Christ and assimilated the essence of Christian humanism into the religious and secular thought of modern India.

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

The universal moral imperatives of scholastic thought, which were inferred from the uniquely spiritual nature of man, were attacked as unreasonable by materialistic humanism, and modern Catholic thought was no longer sure of its own philosophical ground.

Frustratingly, tantalizingly close to a modern satirical masterpiece, WALL · E's humanism is corrupted by slapstick that verges on nihilistic and a final moment that tries to have it both ways when it's done too good a job of painting a bleaker picture.

Readers new to Coetzee may find this to be somewhat more accessible than some of his other novels, but with its curious tapestry of biblical themes, modern social commentary and ambivalent humanism, TheChildhoodofJesus may actually be one of his most enigmatic.

Mellors juxtaposes this notion with a Neanderthal capable of organizing himself socially and producing art as a lesson in humanism to highlight the loss of meaning and ideals symptomatic of modern society.

1985 Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910 - 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Severe & the Romantic: Geometric Humanism in American Painting, 50s & 80s, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY

A small - town artist brought an otherworldly calm to early Renaissance humanism and, ultimately, to modern art.

Through a fusion of humanism and artistry, unburdened by sentimentality and bolstered by tangible realism, these photographs offer a candid portrait of a country determined to throw off an era of fascism in order to rebuild its society and establish a uniquely modern Italian identity.

Aalto's work has been the subject of numerous major international exhibitions, such as «Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban,» Barbican Art Gallery, London (2007), «Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism,» Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998) and «Alvar Aalto,» Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (1988).

Opie spoke with Juliet Helmke of Modern Painters about the humanism in each.