Sentences with phrase «modern liberal thought»

It's certainly more in line with a lot of modern liberal thought than modern conservative thought.

The reasons are, first, that traditional religious thought has often assumed that sin is about all we need to be delivered from, and second, modern liberal thought whether religious or psychological has often made sin too marginal a concept.

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These essays make no concession to «the modern mind,» but being intelligent and literate they present liberal Jews with a bracing challenge» and Christians with a window on how classical Jewish thought is applied to contemporary problems.

In any case, an equation of private with preferential was historically effected by the alliance between liberal thought and modern economics.

The target is, rather, those forms of broader modern liberalism which have produced certain ways of thinking about faith and the church which can be found in both conservative and in so - called «liberal» churches.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

By the way I think the progressive liberal experiment in modern social values is going extremely well [sic]... what do you think?

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

Nevertheless, in spite of the interpretations offered by liberal thought, ancient or modern, the doctrine of divine choice did in actuality work out as a prolific source of national arrogance.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

Peter learned two things from the dissidents: the notion of «living in the truth»; and the disconcerting thought that Communism and Western liberal democracy had things in common, modern science to begin with, that challenged human freedom and dignity.

Writing on the website Spiked, Ann Furedi, the head of BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a euphemism similar to «Planned Parenthood»), notes that «most people who think of themselves as liberal and modern - thinking believe that rape, incest, youth, poverty or even general «unwantedness» are «good reasons» for doctors to approve abortion; and they think «sex selection» is a bad reason, which should be stopped.»

We leave to one side, for this review, extended reflections on the relationship of apocalyptic thinking to modern liberal theology generally, but it is an issue worthy of some attention.

It is a saying long since become trite but still true of the thought of modern liberal students of the Bible, that the Bible is not in its entirety the word of God, but that the Bible does contain the word of God.

A modern liberal education equates to a near total course of indoctrination into internationalist social - democratic thought.

[125] Burke was affiliated with the Whig Party which eventually became the Liberal Party, but the modern Conservative Party is generally thought to derive from the Tory party and the MPs of the modern conservative party are still frequently referred to as Tories.

According to a controversial new study, set to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, the bedrooms and offices of liberals, who are generally thought of as open, tend to be colorful and awash in books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia.

But, as he recognises, in modern liberal society this is an unwelcome thought: for us, love is a useless risk.

The young men in my class are fairly modern and socially liberal in their thinking.