Sentences with phrase «modern men»

I believe that the understanding of prayer presented here can make sense to modern men and women.

God no longer manifests a rule that claims the holy fear of modern men and women.

Modern men and women can pray with just as much sincerity, honesty, and devotion as could their ancestors in the Christian tradition.

Nor is he satisfied to set the arts, as an inspirational resource, over against daily life, and to say that religion must use the sources of the Spirit — meaning Beauty, Poetry and Imagination — over against the prosaic and utilitarian world in which modern men live.

First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the «boundary situations,» that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2.

EDITOR: How should one help modern men and women explicitly to recognise this dimension?

For the fact is, as modern men, we stand between two scientific visions of man and his world.

This is scarcely an easy statement for any of us to make, for we are all modern men.

Socratic reason, in its modern scientific form, has rendered the Buddhist doctrines of no - self and no - God more plausible to many modern men than opposed Christian convictions.

We must, of course, take seriously the rules of probability that we inherit as modern men and women.

We can not escape the kind of question that we as modern men and women put to material like this; and «did it happen?»

When we think of his exile from Northampton and his more inclusive exile from the company of all right - thinking modern men, we must apply to ourselves on this occasion the indictment that Jesus made of «hypocrites» who «build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, «If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets»» (Matt.

Often the ministry seemed to be divided between those who sought to make the gospel relevant by allegorizing it so as to meet the needs of modern men and those who regarded its earlier translations as so literal that any new translation was betrayal.

Everywhere modern men are insecure.

In such case it seems that our illiterates were more literates than today's modern men literates?!

Wisely, it knows that many secular modern men like their theological foes to be as orthodox as possible so they can be rejected as irrelevant.

As modern men and women — to the degree that we are modern — we believe in nothing.

Solidarity with the agonies and problems of modern men and women become the sacrament of God's serving presence in the midst of the world.

We need much thought and practice before we can preach the mystery of the incarnation of the eternal Logos in Jesus of Nazareth in such a way that this message does not sound almost like a myth in which modern men can no longer believe.

We shall certainly have to take great pains to announce this ancient message in new forms so that it may enter the hearts and minds of modern men.

South Pole, Antarctica (CNN)- Modern men and women often live under the illusion that they are in control of their lives.

For modern men and women, nothing else remains of the high moral project of modernity: these attacks are the only good thing left to do.

This freedom allows for new expressions of faith and modes of Christian practice to emerge, ones that better accord with the sensibilities of modern men and women, or so we're told.

Billing itself as the subscription service for the «modern man,» each subscription box goes for $ 25.

Ultimately, today's modern man is not one thing or the other.

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

modern man is not bound by bronze age «scripture»

Modern man no longer has use of fairy tales and unicorns, we prefer proof.

Or, rather, for the modern man and modern woman there is no explanation (though perhaps environmental pollution now replaces the atom bomb in the fully modern eschatology).

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

Evolutionists line up the most promising choices to present a gradual progression from monkey to modern man.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

What's the difference??? Modern Man — This genius thinks we came from apes...

There was no FIRST man, but there were creatures that looked very much like modern man.

That means its a missing link, because it is outside of their time tables of modern man.

What then is our diagnosis of modern man, of how he thinks, of what he desires, of what he believes in?

We can ask three questions that will help us diagnose modern man: what motivates man, what is our goal, and how can we get there?

Second, modern man has grown better at deceiving himself, that he is finally becoming more secure on his own efforts.

«7 What is real for modern man is the profane, not the sacred.

While employing the Hegelian categories of the «universal» and the «objective» as a means of understanding the new reality created by modern man, Kierkegaard came to understand the modern consciousness as the product of a Faustian choice.

But, theologically, the world which modern man knows as «chaos» or «nothingness» is homologous with the world that eschatological faith knows as «old aeon» or «old creation» — both worlds are stripped of every fragment of positive meaning and value.

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

11 Altizer contends that the modern man of faith must say Yes to the most illogical of all views of the world: Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence.

But to modern man, for whom the historical and the secular are of greater value than the metaphysical and religious, such a formulation becomes insignificant and irrelevant.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

The dis - ease of modern man's psyche is more of a vacuum than a thorn in the flesh.

«5 Modern man, however, is faced with a much greater problem than archaic man with respect to apprehending the sacred reality.

Modern man can no longer go along with the idea that to have faith, one has to abandon the historical, secular and earthly, that, in effect, he has to surrender his very humanity.

Partly because of a real need for what technology supplies, more because of artificial wants aroused through a constant, competitive barrage of advertising, modern man's attention is inevitably focused on the things science produces and money can buy.

The movement toward this - worldliness finds a responsive chord in modern man.