Sentences with phrase «of modern attitude»

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What he's getting at with this division, however, is the difference between people with a cooperative attitude and those with a competitive attitude: between those who are happy to share the pleasures of the modern world and those who are stuck in an old mindset.

Buyer behaviors, processes, perceptions, and attitudes change rapidly in the digital age of the modern business world.

A doctrine challenged by science can be abandoned; a commandment that clashes with modern attitudes ignored; the problem of evil washed away in a New Age bath.»

``... those who saw the risen Christ remained persuaded that life was worth living and death a triviality — an attitude curiously unlike that of the modern defeatist, who is firmly persuaded that life is a disaster and death (rather inconsistently) a major catastrophe.»

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 case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.

Dear Father Editor, I would like to comment on the first paragraph of Fr.Crean's critique of attitudes to the Modern Mass as it sets the detached academic tone for his whole essay (September» 09).

This is a characteristically modern attitude; for in past centuries men had to take for granted the fact that a great many of their hows and whys would certainly remain unanswered in their lifetime.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Whether the phenomenon is called the death of God, the modern disenchantment of the world, the loss of a background of value or the failure of an ethical attitude toward nature, Western peoples» sense of a moral order to which they can, may or must conform has diminished.

It's that kind of attitude towards others that has me completely disillusioned with the state of modern Christianity.

He strikes one as Victorian in some of his attitudes and needs, modern in his attempt and failure to imagine Sisyphus happy.

This theoretical attitude, which comes so naturally to modern scientific humankind, is likely to be far more destructive to Christianity than any attack that the atheists might launch, because it can cut the very heart out of the Christian life — and in such a way that the individual does not at all think of himself or herself as having given up the faith.

Subjectivism dominates not only the attitude of our age toward values but modern thinking in general.

For an attitude similar to Cohen's see Will Herberg's treatment of the law in Judaism and Modern Man [New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951]-RRB-.

The psychological doctrine which deals with mysteries without knowing the attitude of faith toward mystery is the modern manifestation of Gnosis.

• Consequent to the notion of disaster, and fueled by MacIntyre's polemicism, there is a streak of victimhood running through MacIntyre's work, and especially through the attitudes of his adherents — «we poor moderns» and such.

It was not at all like the modern research interview in which an observer attempts to elicit information about subjectively held attitudes from individuals who have never reflected on their feelings until the moment when they are presented with preceded questions that are not part of their own subculture.

Such views, Simon argued, are the reverse of the truth and tend to give moderns an instinctively hostile attitude toward the very notion of authority and a superficiality in their grasp of the profoundly central place authority occupies in a healthy social life.

What new attitudes toward evil do these typically modern manifestations of evil evoke in the modern man?

He quotes another modern writer who says that «it is femininity rather than masculinity which symbolizes the right attitude of the whole person before God.»

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.

And unless the very availability of modern contraceptives by itself stimulates a revolution in attitudes toward family size — as over a quarter of a century of family planning efforts have failed to do in Nepal, and three decades of programs have not done in rural Pakistan — the demographic impact of family planning would be a discrete and self - extinguishing adjustment, as the previously «unmet demand» of motivated users is progressively satisfied.

Enns goes on to examine various passages from Second Temple literature to show how «biblical interpreters exhibit for us an attitude toward biblical interpretation that operates on very different standards from those of modern interpreters.

From the Middle Ages onwards, it was precisely in Christendom that the attitude to the natural world was the fertile ground in which the beginnings of modern science and technology would arise.

There is some beginning among them of a liberal attitude toward the Koran such as that represented by liberal modern scholarship toward the Bible.

The experimental method and attitude of the sciences have been pervasive in modern industrial civilization.

From MacIntyre's perspective, the presumption that one might be capable of standing somewhere to reject modernity is the kind of peculiarly modern attitude his work is meant to disabuse.

Vatican II's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, a document the Pope helped write, offers a description of the Catholic attitude towards the modern world as one of solidarity with the whole human fModern World, a document the Pope helped write, offers a description of the Catholic attitude towards the modern world as one of solidarity with the whole human fmodern world as one of solidarity with the whole human family.

It is static thinking that portrays God as a creator of fixed, static and immutable essences and which is the root cause of modern man's irreligious attitude.

In fact, I would argue that the single greatest enabler of the modern world's attitude to religion is not some sixteenth - century Reformer.

There is an ambivalence about sexuality in some modern psychology that makes it difficult to understand the Christian attitude that sexual self - discipline can be an expression of love.

No ancient texts reflect the attitudes characteristic of the modern western world, and some of the difficulties we see in texts about Jesus could be matched by difficulties to be seen in texts about Pythagoras or Socrates.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Hence, despite the wide - ranging agreement between Whiteheadians and deep ecologists, despite the generous inclusion of Whitehead by Naess and Shepard, and despite the importance of working together on our shared agenda, it seems better to think of two separate communities concerned to reshape the modern Western attitude and behavior toward the natural world.

He homes in on More's attitude to heresy, which from a modern stance seems the height of intolerance.

In no regard is the attitude of certain passages in the New Testament more troublesome to modern minds than in this insistence that eternal bliss for the good and eternal torment for the bad would be an ethically satisfying finale for the universe.

Whatever your attitude toward modern psychology or psychoanalysis, it has been proved beyond any doubt that many of our daily decisions are governed by motivations over which we have no control and of which we are often quite unaware.

Yet this attitude may merely indicate that modern conceptions of rational thought grow out of a pervasive fear of mysticism.

It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

In other essays Bellah elaborates these points, both descriptively and normatively, by suggesting that modern culture develops an attitude of «symbolic realism» toward religion that recognizes the humanly constructed nature of religious symbolism and affirms the importance of such symbolism as a source of ultimate meaning and personal integration.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being «anti-modern,» which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and capable of formulating a vision for modern political and economic life — the Church does all that — but instead means adopting liberal attitudes toward moral truth.

The sterile liturgies that often resulted from this attitude seem to support the opinion of most modern psychologists that man can not be so arbitrarily divided.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

To our ears such words sound very like the most blatant human imperialism toward the rest of nature, as does the divine commission to man in Genesis 1:28; and in modern times they may have fostered such an attitude and been used as a divine «exploiters» charter» to justify it.

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