Sentences with phrase «of new humanism»

«Changes in the world call for the development of a new humanism that is not only theoretical but practical, that is not only focused on the search for values — which it must also be — but oriented towards the implementation of concrete programmes that have tangible results.»

This is also the essence of new humanism, the ethos of co-responsibility and active citizenship that lies at the heart of living together and building more tolerant and sustainable societies that leave no one behind.

I took office on a platform of new humanism, fostered through respect for diversity, human rights and dignity.

«We are witnesses of the birth of a new humanism.»

The need of a New Humanism.

Hence, in the pursuit of development, there is a need for «the deep thought and reflection of wise men in search of a new humanism which will enable modern man to find himself anew.»

Not exact matches

But whether atheism, humanism, evolution, deism, new age, Islam, Christianity, or Judaism — you believe these things as facts, and you most likely have plenty of writing to «back it up.».

In short, in order to correspond to the new curve of the time - flow, Christianity is led to the discovery, below God, of earthly values, while humanism is led to the discovery, above the world, of the place of a God.

Society, in a new synthesis of humanism, is a long way off.

When one reads the many critics who discuss Camus» «atheism,» or his «new humanism,» or his Lack of «eternal values,» or even Camus» own attacks upon the Christian God, it is astonishing to read what he states to be his «rebel's» true intention: «He is seeking, without knowing it, morality or the sacred.

The situation calls for the search for a new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and secular ideologies.

At the risk of being repetitious, I must say once more that I believe that only a new grasp of Christian humanism can save us from the subtle deteriorations of materialism.

This shift largely came as a result of increased access to information (printing press), a new, more scientific view of the world, and the rise of humanism (which is to basically say that human beings had been given the faculties to «figure it all out» for themselves).

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

There is reason to think that such a conceptuality can make more adequate sense of the possibility of new beginnings and new creations in history than a pure humanism can.

In his encyclical Populorum Progressio (1967), Paul VI proclaimed a «new humanism» prophetic of John Paul II's.

7) Eliade's Orientalism and New Humanism: Homologization of Western and Eastern Religious Thoughts

The unconscious sector of his humanity Eliade's humanism provides a new scenario for understanding human beings.

BH Beyond Humanism: Essays in the New Philosophy of Nature.

Humanism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation — these may stand for the forceful uprush of new ideas, which, with some unfortunate accompaniments, shaped a new world and inspired a new culture of which we became the heirs.

2The phrase «the ethics of words» is utilized by Sidney Hook in his essay «The Atheism of Paul Tillich» in Religious Experience and truth, edited by Sidney Hook (New York: New York University Press, 1961), p. 59, and also by Corliss Lamont in The Philosophy of Humanism (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1967), p. 143, to discredit redefinitions of God.

In his essay «A New Humanism for Europe: The Role of the Universities», to which Franchi and Davis refer, Benedict XVI puts it like this: «How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!»

But in Beyond Humanism and elsewhere he expresses the idea that the new conception of God is not only philosophically superior to that of classical philosophies and theologies, it is also theologically and religiously more adequate in that it is much more compatible with the Biblical idea of God as love.

The present Humanism, whether we call it scientific or existentialist, is only the natural and nal culmination of those principles of autonomy and nominalism in philosophy, which oversowed the New Learning.

Nevertheless, the face of the «new theology» as it appeared over the blurbs of the paperbacks which came out everywhere during the sittings of the Council, though mostly young, and always handsome in exquisite grey suiting and silver grey tie, was in most cases the face of Humanism applied to the doctrine of the Faith.

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

Perhaps we shall work for a kind of humanism with technology on the one hand and spirituality on the other, bringing these together so that we have a new tradition and also a new pattern of technological development.

In order to match the new curve of Time, Christianity is led to discover the values of this world below the level of God, while Humanism finds room for a God above the level of this world.

For this reason, Maritain did not hesitate in Integral Humanism (1936) to imagine possible futures or to suggest new courses of action that would alter the awful European present in the direction of a better — a more humane, more Christian — proximate future.

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

It is against this background of a wider examination of religious models, initiated by a heightened doctrinal uncertainty, that I would enter a new version of religious humanism in the theological flesh market.

In his article «Rescuing Gaudium et Spes: The New Humanism of John Paul II» (Nova et Vetera, 2010) George Weigel has tried to show some of the depth of theology in the Pastoral Constitution and its connection to the work of Blessed John Paul II, who was instrumental in its composition.

Above all, Christian fundamentalism fails to understand how and why the new secular humanism has evolved out of Christendom in much the same way as Christianity evolved out of Judaism.

In this respect the new atheism is very much like the old secular humanism that was rebuked by the hard - core atheists for its mousiness in facing up to what the absence of God should really mean.

Certainly those forces included the Crusades, the rise of nationalism, the broadening of opportunities for education, various political reform movements, the rise of democracy, the Reformation, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of humanism and the birth of a new interest in the natural sciences.

So one has to find a new pattern of ideologically pluralistic secular humanism and religiously pluralistic spiritual humanism entering into dialogue with each other on anthropology, the nature and meaning of being and becoming human.

The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.

Dr. Thomas proposes a new ideology of struggle for both social and ecological justice — a spiritual framework for a post modern holistic humanism based on an understanding of Christ as the Suffering Servant.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

It had tremendous appeal not only to the outcaste, the tribal and the woman, but also to the nationally awakened Indian intellectual who saw in Christ the source of a new universal humanism.

(At a meeting in Mavelikara on the 13th Feb 96, where EMS, gave the Bishop M. M. John Lecture on The Significance of Dialogue between Religion, and Secular ideologies for building a New Humanism, as chairman I raised the question whether a future Socialism would not require the following changes in the Marxist ideology so as not to fall into Stalinism.

Humanism leads to an arrogance that thinks it can impose itself on the average human being for its own benefit, and tends to lead to a new kind of secular dictatorship.

So a new holistic humanism integrating the mechanical - materialistic, the organic ecological and the spiritual personal dimensions of human being has to emerge through dialogue between religions and secular ideologies and between religions.

This point of view is relevant to the recent «Death of God» theologies.9 It is possible that the new humanism and the declaration of the absence of God reflects a deep dissatisfaction with the traditional conceptions of God.

Why Humanism, Feminism, and Attachment Parenting Are Compatible Last week a new study found that the principles of attachment parenting are more popular with feminists than with other women.

In the world that we are now entering there is a striking new source of false hope, in the «trans - humanism» of people like Ray Kurzweil, Max More and their followers.

Writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig is the face of a new introductory «massive open online course» (MOOC) on humanism from Humanists UK

Andrew Copson has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA), the national charity promoting Humanism and representing the interests of ethically concerned, non-religious people in the UK.

This followed the publication of a new curriculum framework for RE last year, endorsed by the Secretary of State for Education, which included non-religious worldviews on an equal footing to each of the principal religions, as well as the issuing of Departmental advice recommending that schools meet the new requirement to promote British values by teaching about «beliefs such as... humanism» as well as religions.