Sentences with phrase «of modern concerns»

Gemini G.E.L.: Recent Prints and Sculpture focuses on the workshop's sensitivity to the pulse of contemporary art and its uncanny ability to reflect the spectrum of modern concerns.

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«A modern NHS is itself part of the practical answer to the deep social concerns that gave rise to Brexit.

That flows from the underlying «retributivist» (great term) nature of modern environmental ideology, reflected in the polluter pay principal, which results in a lack of empathy or concern for the welfare of people who benefit from pollution.

I fear that too often, we on the left retreat when we should attack, surrender when we should vanquish. What do I speak of? Well, I am concerned that too many of us are willing to play in the frame, the box, the straighjacket of modern discourse about fiscal and monetary policy. -LSB-...]

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

Technology, concern about work - life balance, and initiatives to help the environment by reducing traffic have made a variety of flexible structures available to modern workers.

They ignore entirely the more interesting question, raised again by recent events in Eastern Europe, concerning the very viability of the boundaries of modern nation - states.

«His ethos of going without modern technology is a cause for concern.

What a stupid poll — and Latin American or not — put up by a broadcasting concern whose record of lies and manipulation of data to support regressive agendas amounts to modern day yellow journalism.

What could be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin» are essential and unavoidable characteristics of the human condition?

This is almost exactly a year before his death, and both the interview and his lecture, «The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind,» reflect not only his journey up to that point, but a continuing concern for the meaning of the journey and to a degree a continuing ambiguity in his understanding of intellectual experience.

The task of philosophical hermeneutics was simple: to clear the mind of intellectual barriers to that light, constituted by habitual modern concerns like historical difference, aestheticism, the perfectibility of procedures.

In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic philosophical view.

Philosophically and theologically, Aristotle and Aquinas do not deal with addiction, but they do write extensively concerning the power of vice, which is intimately related to the more modern understanding of addiction.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

The creation texts represent a very different type of literature and concern from modern scientific discourse.

It also seems unthinkable that divine revelation would not be concerned with the kinds of issues that preoccupy modern minds.

The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.

All three do well concerning that other oft forgotten foundation of catechesis and apologetics: showing evidence for existence of God, with an openness to modern observations.

In our current editorial we attempt to show how recognising the centrality of the Incarnation to all of creation helps us solve some key modern confusions concerning the womb of woman.

The first two, which show great sophistication in handling modern exegetical tools, concern the New Testament portrait of Peter — both the basic facts («the Peter of history») and the theological presentation of those facts by the inspired writers.

It also gives rise to her insistence that we must respect the «historical integrity and moral autonomy» of Jesus, Paul, and the evangelists as people of their own time and place, concerned with issues (such as purity regulations) that do not concern us, and unaware of our concerns as modern Christians or Jews.

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.)

In The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our modern age.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

The real reason for concern is the fact that White's brand of Christianity is a manifestation of the psyche of modern America in a religious idiom, and thoroughly continuous with the last eight years.

Its concerns — war, racism and economic strife — have proved enduring, and many of its declarations were surprisingly modern.

As we near perhaps the most important election in modern times I am very concerned that many Christians have lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest».

A last assumption in The Tablet's editorial concerns the character of modern non-acceptance of the Church's teaching.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

Another aspect of the modern world that concerns all fundamentalists is the loss of belief in a fundamental authority undergirding the value system.

His concern was shared by many other progressive denominational leaders, who saw the usual education in confessional theology as too narrow for the demands of modern ministry.

The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the ultimate import of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.

A major part of those calls concerned the felt imperative of making use of modern media like radio and television for the advance of the gospel.

Now this variety of usage in the biblical talk of God (and modern scholarship has shown that the biblical statements can not all be neatly fitted together into a systematic whole, in the way some earlier Christian thinkers assumed that to be possible) makes it clear that the Bible is not wedded to any particular form of words concerning God.

As far as modern biology is concerned «origin of specie» is an ant study; devoid of other scientific content.

The point that brings Whitehead directly to the concerns of the phenomenological method is his affirmation of the «subjectivist principle»: «The philosophy of organism entirely accepts the subjectivist bias of modern philosophy.

Modern theories of rhetoric have also been used to place new emphasis on argumentation, since much classical criticism has been overly concerned with arrangement and style.

My concern, Rainer, is that the affection and defense of this literary deity is beginning to look a great deal like what modern psychologist refer to as the Stockholm Syndrome.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

Modern politics was thus founded on the principle that religion is a private concern, useful insofar as it inculcates socially approved virtues of toleration and honesty, dangerous if vigorously pressed into the political arena.

As we near perhaps our most important election in modern times I am very concerned at seeing that so many Christians have apparently lost their way and are imperiling themselves, and this country as a whole, by supporting the presidential candidacy of a Mormon «high priest».

Or perhaps modern shepherd kneeling beside sheep with leg caught, Chevrolet in background, first - aid kit spread behind him, and binoculars temporarily laid beside first - aid kit, While there may be humorous elements about this image, it is an important reminder that the means of shepherding may change, and hopefully may improve, but that the tender and solicitous concern and the relevance of the shepherd's actions to the needs of the sheep remain constant.

Following each affirmation is a brief discussion of what, in the current mood or plight of modern man, makes this affirmation of special concern.

Second, it's because most of the modern physics is only concerned with one kind of causation, that's called horizontal causation.

But we need to note that the images and metaphors that were used in the modern revival of concern for pastoral care, with which I am in deep sympathy, have only recently become concerned about shepherding, and for a time were quite different in character.

To say that God undergoes change while not relinquishing the perfection of enduring concern for and preservation of the world is to conceive God in a manner that does not deny the modern experience of temporality and yet retains the biblical insight that God is actively involved.

The vogue of psychiatry and of various «peace of mind» cults — whether overtly religious or not — give evidence that modern man is gravely concerned about himself.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.