«Einstein's ideas,» his friend the physicist Max Born wrote over half a century ago, «have given the physical sciences the impetus which has liberated them from outdated philosophical doctrine, and made them one of the decisive factors in
the modern world of man.»
Not exact matches
According to the mystery
man, «the basic institutions
of the
modern world — the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund — were all a front,» writes Lawson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
As they see it, their attitude represents an innovation in Christianity, an acknowledgment
of the duty, imposed by faith, to be in the midst
of men, and a response to the opening given Christianity for witness in the
modern world.
The question before anyone who cares about the fate
of men and women in the
modern world is the question how a really saving faith can be encouraged and promoted.
How can
modern man, whose
world seems to topple about him, regain a living faith in the Living God, so that he can feel once more both the dignity
of his own life and the dignity
of the lives
of his fellow
men — everywhere?
When so many syntheses
of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing
world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field
of knowledge, the
modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence
of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration
of such an Absolute.
Intellectual Roots
of Acedia The roots
of this spiritual sadness that has now thoroughly invaded the soul
of modern man are to be found in a misunderstanding
of what science has revealed to us about the
modern world.
If
modern Christianity has patterned itself after Jesus, then the Jesus we present to the
world is not the Jesus who rejected the offers
of self - reliance, control over others, and glory before
men, but is the «Jesus» who has accepted such values and now holds them up as virtues.
If a new meaning
of nature has pervaded
modern history, an autonomous
world existing in - itself, then so likewise
man himself no longer appears as the image
of a transcendent Creator.
The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance
of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption
of «one -
world order
of meaning» has rendered the
modern consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes
of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond
man's own human powers and resources.
The absence
of directness in the relations between
men in the
modern world can only be overcome by
men who respond to the concrete situations which confront them with openness and with all
of their power, by
men who mean community in their innermost heart and establish it in their natural sphere
of relations.
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.
But in the
modern world several sciences have converged to press home to us the rational conclusion that each individual
man is a psychosomatic unity, a living physical organism whose various organs, both physical and psychical, can only function as part
of the total organism.
For «
modern man» the
world had been «demythologized,» and Bultmann set out to demythologize the Christian gospel as well, stripping it
of its miraculous and supernatural elements and making it once again believable to a
world of educated grownups.
In contrast to people in biblical times «
modern man acknowledges as reality only such phenomena or events as are comprehensible within the framework
of the rational order
of the universe... the thinking
of modem
men is really shaped by the scientific
world - view, and.
I am a
modern day deist and
of all the
man made gods I find the Christian one the most disgusting and has caused so much suffering in the
world.
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy
world in the clouds created the earth, placed a
modern day
man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit
of despair for all eternity.
Not the «historical Jesus» but the Spirit that goes forth from Him and in the spirits
of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the [terrible
modern]
world [p. 401].
The historian may still question the soundness
of southern leadership, but he will remember that
men whose opportunity in the
Modern World was one
of producing its raw cotton did not deliberately choose to do so on plantations with Negro slavery.
Even the
modern concepts
of teleological development and organic growth are at base possession by process — «the abdication
of man before the exuberant
world of It.»
For the opposing position, Buchanan quotes George C. Ball: «The urgent need
of modern man [is] to use the
world's resources in the most efficient manner.
The price which the
modern world has paid for the liberation
of the French Revolution has been the decay
of those organic forms
of life which enabled
men to live in direct relation with one another and which gave
men security, connection, and a feeling
of being at home in the -
world.
They are not unbelievers, these
men; but for them the dominions, principalities, powers and rulers
of the darkness
of this
world have a reality that makes the difference between ancient and
modern mythologies
of little importance.
There are many mysterious things about the
modern world, but the biggest mystery
of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort
of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing
men of a century ago had outlined their....
BOOKS ABOUT WHITEHEAD»S THOUGHT Emmet, D. M., Whitehead's Philosophy
of Organism, Macmillan, 1932 Johnson, A. M., Whitehead's Theory
of Reality, Dover, 1952 Whitehead's Philosophy
of Civilization, Dover, 1958 Lowe, Victor, Understanding Whitehead, Johns Hopkins, 1962 Peters, F. H., The Creative Advance, Bethany, 1966 BOOKS ABOUT PROCESS - THEOLOGY Hamilton, P. N., The Living God and the
Modern World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967 Hartshorne, Charles,
Man's Vision
of God, Harper, 1941 James, Ralph F., The Concrete God, Bobbs - Merrill, 1968 Ogden, Schubert, The Reality
of God, S.C.M. Press, 1967 Pittenger, Norman, Process - Thought and Christian Faith, S.C.M. Press, 1968
Now let us have a cloose look at
modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other
modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny
of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other f
World and New
Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and
Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other
Modern Prophets
of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn
of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other f
World Food and Waters about Famine in the
world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other f
world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.
He offered a forceful «Christian» view
of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts
of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient
world, and naturalism in the
modern world.
While this veneration
of the past and suspicion
of the new is by no means absent in our
world today, it is no longer the dominant attitude
of modern man concerning the source
of true knowledge.
you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems,
modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these
men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the
modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons
of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great
Within two centuries,
men of the caliber
of Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Galileo, Gilbert, Newton and Boyle all arose to cut a path which enabled the
modern world to emerge from the ancient one.
Whereas in the primitive society it was the power
of nature which controlled
man, in the
modern world it is the forces
of the social system which exercise this external dominance:
We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the
world - picture formed by
modern natural science» and within «the understanding
man has
of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion
of supernatural powers.
The daring assertions about the nature
of God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit,
man, and the
world strain the credulity
of the
modern man.
For the fact is, as
modern men, we stand between two scientific visions
of man and his
world.
«119 Here he pictures
man as having either to accept the
modern world and «live the death
of God» it implies, or to refuse modernity and isolate his faith to preserve it.
According to Bultmann, any attempt at the present time to understand and express the Christian message must realize that the theological propositions
of the New Testament are not understood by
modern man because they reflect a mythological picture
of the
world that we today can not share.1
For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed images
of violence, religious fanaticism, rejection
of the
modern world, mistreated women, and praying
men bowing in the direction
of Mecca.
As both St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have said,
modern man has lost his sense
of sin, or rather restricts it to offences against his own species and the physical
world.
Of all the views of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient world, that of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human conditio
Of all the views
of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient world, that of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human conditio
of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient
world, that
of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human conditio
of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the
modern knowledge
of the human conditio
of the human condition.
Here is the sheer miracle
of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope
of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere
of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout
of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total
of man's writing, translated into the
world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.
When
modern man tries to have his own way and finds that the
world does not respond readily to his wishes, he pities himself, gets nervous, and looks for a way
of escape.
Can Christian preaching expect
modern man to accept the mythical view
of the
world as true?
To this extent the kerygma is incredible to
modern man, for he is convinced that the mythical view
of the
world is obsolete.
«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens
of thousands
of years after
modern man arrived on this planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top
of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle
of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant goatherding people thought the
world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations
of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).
So far as I understand the matter, the conditions
of reasonableness in our situation are secular, even if not secularistic, conditions, i.e., they demand the unqualified acceptance both
of the method and
world - picture
of modern science and critical history and
of the reality and significance
of this
world of time and change, which is the context
of our lives as secular
men.