Sentences with phrase «modernity so»

No artist of modernity so happily represents marriage on his canvases (as in his life)-- marriage as a good and symbolic of a higher good.

Christianity and Judaism must both fully embrace the new possibilities within modernity for human liberation and dignity, but they must also chasten modernity so that it remains a means, not an end.

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Modernity had diminished shame's power to shame — or so I assumed.

Fortunately that myth has come crashing down — yet, the church that spent so much energy adapting to modernity, has a hard time giving it up.

Islamic civilization has borrowed so heavily from Christian civilization (and vice versa) that it should be much better situated than, say, Hinduism and Buddhism to enter modernity without breaking ties to its own past.

If, as I myself suspect, postmodernity is a purely negative phenomenon, so that such substance as our world may now have will continue to be that of the Enlightenment and later modernity's effort to «overcome» the Enlightenment, it may happen that Pannenberg's work is disregarded only long enough to be rediscovered.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

Modernity said that God is a projection of the ideals and wants of what it means to be human so let us serve and worship the only God that matters — that is, the human.

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

He is not one of those thinkers so enamored of modernity that they assume any novelty necessarily entails progress.

So the Muslims who joined us early on were deeply committed to their faith, but also very aware of the multiple challenges of Islam's relation to Western modernity.»

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

But that is rather the point at issue: for modernity is unnatural, is indeed anti-nature, or even anti-Christ (and so goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom it may devour).

One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form of master narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful experience of these narratives and the exercise of such reason — experiencing them from the «reverse side of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.

It was a vague and diminished Christianity, but it helped America avoid the ideological brutality of secular modernity, especially the perversions of fascism and communism that so damaged secular Europe.

To say the obvious (but it has so often been lost during the period of modernity) metaphors can be profoundly true, even if they aren't literally or factually true.

So before I turn to those criticisms, let me briefly honor the genuine contributions to human and religious understanding made by modernity, and I provide you with only a partial list.

And it helps explain, as well, why John Paul II used so much of his papacy in an effort to reunite the Church's understanding of both Thomas Aquinas and modernity.

The last great attempt to salvage modernity — indeed, so great an attempt that it bears all the marks of classical Greek tragedy — was Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences.

While the transition to modernity may be painful, perhaps especially so for practitioners of traditional faiths, the overall gains must be positive.

As you say you have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity ---------- I just have an associates degree in Church leadership ------ so you misunderstand my lack of education and my ablities to present my views clearly, compared to your abilities, as patronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATRONIZING you.

(So, as far as I can tell, here's the criticism of Lockean Michael Zuckert of Heidegger: Martin says modernity = technology and that's bad, but Michael says modernity = technology rightly understood and that's good.

The establishmentarians had been so used to retaining their children's loyalty and attracting their neighbors almost automatically that they never learned the mandate of modernity: you have to be aggressive to hold your own and win the new.

Are we so cowed by the last generation that we have surrendered «modernity» to be ever theirs?

Despite this fact, and following the inspiration of Bacon, modernity began to interpret the advance of science so as to foster an illusion of self - sufficiency, whereby «a totally new world (should) emerge, the kingdom of man...» (n. 17).

If the great subversive principle of modernity is historicism — a form of relativism that locates the meaning of ideas and events so....

My concern is more fundamental: to alter the imaginative horizon of American Catholics so that they resist, at times, the categories suggested by modernity and by the nation - state.

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

One can encapsulate the change with a single contrast: there is something surprising and cringe - inducing about the fact that Cary Grant, that masculine icon of intermediate modernity, did a lot of acid in the late 50s and early 60s towards the end of his career, but there is something expected and perhaps inspiring about the fact that Steve Jobs, that man of full modernity, did so also, just when he was starting out.

This is the Paul who is so deeply renewed in the dawning of modernity, but also the Paul who was the creator of Christian theology, a theology which if only in Paul is a purely and consistently apocalyptic theology, and Paul's realization of the ultimate polarity or dichotomy of consciousness is an apocalyptic realization, one reflecting an apocalyptic dichotomy between old aeon and new aeon, or flesh (sarx) and Spirit (pneuma).

So it is that modernity culminates in an historically inevitable and eschatologically ultimate nihilism, that nihilism which Nietzsche enacts most profoundly, but this very nihilism necessarily calls forth its reversal and transcendence in an absolute apocalypse.

The opium of modernity is the belief that there is no God, so that humans are free to do precisely as they please.»

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

Not surprisingly, one of the so - called «master narratives» characteristic of post modernity, originating with Enlightenment thinkers, is that the significance of religion declines as scientific knowledge advances.

By technology I mean not only machines or pills or techniques but the central praxis of modernity — the most consistent and self - consciously methodical way of using contemporary science to alter the natural order so that it will serve human desires and needs.

Yet modernity has changed, which is why so few readers of Laudato Si will think of Pius IX when they read Francis.

Modernity began by dividing reality into the two worlds of mind and matter, freeing the latter from religious concern so that it could be explored by objectifying scientific methods.

On the other hand, the so called Transcendentalist school of thought - in its broadest sense including Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan and Henri de Lubac - has attempted to develop a synthetic world view for modernity.

So now where do all the Protestant White Supremacist, Gay hating, Black Hating, Woman hating, and modernity hating degenerates migrate to?

I see signs of this being moderated; but my own tendency is not to be so hostile to modernity.

This is a part of the fragmentation that is so prevalent in late modernity.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

And so abortion came, despite opposition from those who wanted a modernity without it.

Does the apparently irreversible and forceful trend deconstructing modernity and some of its abuses (colonialism, rationalism, individualism, deism, naturalism, authoritarianism, the contractual mentality, a flawed approach to «sovereignty» and so on) mean that the hour of once colonised countries has come and that they will be given a real voice and be able to realise their aspiration to determine themselves freely?

For a thinker so driven by the concerns of «modern man», Rahner often appears to have been singularly blind to the true nature of modernity.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

The acids of modernity, represented strikingly in Communism, have so weakened Confucianism that only attenuated remnants survive.

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»