Sentences with phrase «modern world of culture»

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?»

Not exact matches

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

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

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

The challenge to «horizontal enchantment» from people like Taylor and MacIntyre, if I may audaciously attempt to boil it down to one paragraph, is this: At the root of horizontal culture (the modern world of democratic republics and entrepreneurial economies) is the claim that people can and should Reform the world.

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.

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.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

The modern world is well aware of the rapid borrowing of occidental culture by the Japanese after the opening of Japan to world commerce by Commodore Perry in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

He will include all that is known of ancient and medieval and modern Oriental cultures and societies (Near, Middle and Far East) and extend his examination of Western society and cultures back beyond the classical world finally to include the successive types developed in the various great periods of the Christian era down to this day.

Religion provides an essential mediation between the ethnic group and the larger culture of the modern world.

In this we can again distinguish the scientific and technological changes brought about in modern times, alongside a humanistic culture and the unification of the world under capitalistic globalization.

[2] This implies a hermeneutic of continuity and renewal, and thus a foundation of doctrinal orthodoxy, but also a genuine engagement with the modern world and culture (Gaudium et Spes).

How can they be assisted in exploring the tension between being in the world (relating compassionately to modern society) but not of the world (defending a «counter-cultural «supernatural stance in an increasingly materialist culture)?

Culture, for modern scholars (and also in colloquial use), has nothing to do with Matthew Arnold's deployment of universal standards of reason and taste to identify «the best which has been thought and said in the world.»

The most remarkable thing about the international embrace of technology is that modern humanity has agreed with Christianity that we have a right, indeed a duty, to change the world — a notion many cultures do not swallow easily.

We find that the rise of modern culture in the Christian west, followed by its rapid spread around the world, has been both a blessing and a curse.

Most striking is the Barthian thesis, that the world of history and science, the whole world of modern culture, recognition of which forced theology into a new course, is not of positive theological significance.

It seems true that disaster coverage on media are having an effect (perhaps a disquieting effect) on vast numbers of individuals around the world and, therefore, leaving some kind of imprint on our humanity and modern culture.

Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

Both solutions go beyond an affirmation of modern culture in and for itself to a new post-modern world.

This methodology regards all theological «truths» as molded by circumstance and culture; it takes more seriously the pluralism of the modern world and the importance of democratic consensus in church government.

Indeed, as one can gather from Cobb's article «From Crisis Theology to the Post-Modern World,» to live in modern culture is to live the death of God in a very real, i.e., existential, sense.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

Where Herzl saw Zionism as necessary because of a decay in the world in which Jews lived (anti «Semitism), Buber believed Zionism to be necessary because of a decay in Jews themselves (assimilation to modern liberal culture).

Part of the culture of the modern world is a plurality of religions.

When the Roman Empire collapsed, Christianity, although by that time closely associated with it, not only survived but won to its fold the barbarians who were the immediate cause of the overthrow, spread into regions in Northern and Western Europe which had not before known it, and became the chief vehicle for the transfer of the culture of the ancient world to the Europe of medieval and modern times.

The «new life» of the returnees expresses itself negatively in a rejection of the ideals and convictions as well as the culture and customs of the modern world, and positively in a meticulous observance of the manifold rituals in traditional Judaism.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern coModern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern comodern context.

The modern simplification of the world through standardizing culture and personality and through eliminating thousands of species of living things is an impoverishment of God.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about the health aspects of breast feeding after the age of ~ 12 months in a modern 1st world country from studies of 3rd world cultures.

In our modern world, and more so in Western cultures, babies tend to lack tactile stimulation, for example, by being long periods of times in the pram or car seat.

Ring Sling - A modern adaptation of the traditional one shoulder carriers found in cultures around the world.

`... the modern Western custom of an independent childhood sleeping pattern is unique and exceedingly rare among contemporary and past world cultures» [6].

«Austronesian cultures offer an ideal sample to test theories about the evolution of religions in pre-modern societies, because they were mostly isolated from modern world religions, and their indigenous supernatural beliefs and practices were well documented,» he says.

Myths persist in modern culture because of the brain's biological need to impose order on the world

I was interested in learning about the forest people now living here, who had preserved their dynamic culture and plant knowledge — in a secret, underground way — despite several centuries of contact with the modern world.

Few areas in the world have attracted so much speculation, yet so little serious investigation, as the region around the small town of Nazca, some 500 kilometres south of Lima (to avoid confusion, Silverman advocates the «s» spelling for the Pre-Columbian culture of Nasca, and the «z» for the modern town of Nazca, its river and region).

We often stand helpless against the swift changes in every aspect of the culture in our constantly value - challenging, progressively innovative modern world.

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As Dr. Weston A. Price (a dentist) found and detailed in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, there were cultures throughout the world who had perfect teeth despite no access to dentists or modern toothpaste, while similar cultures with different diets had very high rates of tooth decay.

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