Sentences with phrase «of humanist life»

Chris Stedman is the Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, Coordinator of Humanist Life for the Yale Humanist Community, and author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.»

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

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A former serial entrepreneur who founded Aardvark and Perspecta among others, Horowitz gave up the Silicon Valley dream for a new life as a philosophy Ph.D., flipping the current wisdom on the relative value of technical and humanist knowledge on its head.

Most I know are humanists; people who care about the rest of humanity regardless of their faith and who adhere to a moral code just as noble as anyone, just without a deity as the center of their life.

The humanist witness of his fiction is to testify, negatively, that neither art nor life can be made from nothingness.

Why not establish a humanist set of rules we can all live by and call it a day?

For such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this truth.

As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular goodness as a way of life.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

In the stormy sea of modern life, the Humanist (he used to be called the Rationalist) and the generalised agnostic is as much tossed on the waves as we are.

Now apart from the nonsense of the supposed «competition in goodness» both Christians and humanists believe that it is important to lead a good life.

The real target, it turns out, was not a humanist conspiracy of the late twentieth century, but one of the fundamental principles of modern political life.

Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.

I accept Rorty's defense of the value of literature as a means of sensitizing us to the predicaments of life, but would expand upon it by reiterating my original call for a truly interdisciplinary conversation, one that includes humanists and scientists, theoreticians and practitioners, students and educators.

There are plenty of atheists who are also humanists and live lives commited to charity and liberty.

But there was nothing great about our lives — nothing that took us outside of our secular humanist worldview that told us that science and logical reasoning would teach us the meaning of life.

Humanist though he was, Muretus had learned from the death of Jesus the intrinsic value of all human life.

Religions and the religious must always be ever mindful of those social perversions that tend towards sidelining the heavenly built hosts of Humanists from ever undulating calamatousness thru unseen forces in the workings of the allness whole and holes in and of Life!

I think spiritual or religious have no real differentiation when it comes to comparing to secular humanist way of living.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

As the strapline of the British Humanist Association (BHA) puts it, humanism is «for the one life we have».

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

Man's intelligence raises the question of the long - range destiny of human life and values, and the honest humanist can only answer that all alike are destined for oblivion.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

The so - called «death of God» theologians have made much of this shift from stoicism to optimism.27 But the essential point of this humanist doctrine of authenticity is that we can «be ourselves» using our individuality for shaping our lives, and that is authentic existence.

Erasmus (c. 1466 — 1536) spent the first 30 years of his life in the schools of the Brethren of the Common Life before becoming the greatest of the humanist schollife in the schools of the Brethren of the Common Life before becoming the greatest of the humanist scholLife before becoming the greatest of the humanist scholars.

Though the world and its» humanists and their humanisms may one day be gone from the Clestial Cosmos, we will not be gone within the framed worings of Fractal Cosmologies every and any where that cosmological Life does ever abound!

Would any of us humanists truly give up your Life in order for all of mankind to be spared death's beds of sorrows and forlornments?

April 14, 2012 at 11:18 am Many of you atheists seem to forget that God's Son Christ Jesus was sent to us in order to redeem all us humanists and give to us an abundancy of everlasting Life!

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Most atheists / agnostics / humanists try to define God's moral code in their terms, in essence, to re-write the book of life to suit their agenda, when in fact, only one agenda counts - GOD»S.

Any humanist remedy which relies upon calling man to reform himself, and to live up to the ideal of love, may not be wholly without success, but it still leaves man struggling in the chains of his own inadequacy and sheer willful cussedness.

The indigenous elements were the waning aftermath of Lollardy, earnestly religious humanists, resentment against interference in Church life by the Popes, the decisive action of monarchs, and native leadership.

A few leading humanists wished a deeper religious life but had no thought of breaking with the Roman Catholic Church.

In the absence of a «life with dignity,» reasons one of Percy's humanist technicians, those who make no «contribution» to society should all be accorded their right to a «death with dignity.»

They see more clearly than the liberal humanists that human devotion is shaped in communities of faith and life.

Now I am well aware that one of our modern humanists might interrupt at this stage and say, «Now your religion, your belief in God and immortality are put up by your mind, simply because it will not face the true facts — the utter loneliness and futility of human living.»

On one side you have Tolstoi saying, «Where love is, there God is also»; and on the other side is Joseph Wood Krutch, one of the finest nontheistic humanists of our time, who, seeing in goodness no revelation of the Eternal, says about man, «There is no reason to suppose that his own life has any more meaning than the life of the humblest insect that crawls from one annihilation to another.»

Since in the humanist view a man's life is entirely restricted to his consciousness of living on this planet, and since God is totally denied, a conscientious humanist renders himself impotent in many crucial situations.

Collective worship: https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/collective-worship/ «Faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ PSHE and Sex and Relationships Education: https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/school-curriculum/pshe-and-sex-and-relationships-education/ Abortion: https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/public-ethical-issues/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/ The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Today the British Humanist Association (BHA) is sending every state - funded secondary school library in Northern Ireland a copy of The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life without God.

The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethically and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The ASA recently ruled in favour of the British Humanist Society over complaints against its campaign slogan: «There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.»

Notes For further comment, contact Naomi Phillips or 020 7079 3585 The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

For over 100 years, the British Humanist Association has worked on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.