Sentences with phrase «of twentieth century»

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, recently said: We are witnessing the sudden eruption of a new civilization on the planet».10 This is certainly not the Christian civilization which Christians expected and hoped for at the beginning of the twentieth century.

It was fully expected that during the course of the twentieth century the whole race of humankind would be incorporated into Christendom.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, from Kähler and Schweitzer onwards, attention switched from the Jesus of history to the Christ being preached.

However, I do not believe that the view represented by the neurosciences has absorbed the implications of the revolutionary developments of the twentieth century in physics, in particular the physical theory of quantum mechanics, developed originally to account for atomic phenomena, where the Newtonian theory breaks down.

At the beginning of the twentieth century there were still only a few who dared to call themselves atheists.

It will become clear later in this section that process thought is one of the twentieth century's most sophisticated expressions of this assumption.

By the third decade of the twentieth century an anti-metaphysical Comteanism was combined with statistical technique to shape a specifically American positivism which, activated as social technocracy, promised to deliver America from the problems that bad been addressed by the old Social Gospel...

C.H. Dodd is recognized as one of the great New Testament scholars of the twentieth century.

Not only does Siemon - Netto think these charges are false, but he believes that interpretations and actions based on stereotypical thinking about» The Fabricated Luther» have contributed to the real catastrophes of the twentieth century.

In drawing up the «schemata» that would be discussed by the council fathers, they aimed at raising to the level of permanently binding Catholic doctrine the broad rejection of modern developments in biblical scholarship and theology that had been the norm in Rome since the modernist crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Finally, in the first half of the twentieth century, extreme nationalism plunged the world into the immensely destructive conflict that was World War II.

Having suffered hundreds of years of conquest and oppression, Ireland then spent the first half of the twentieth century establishing itself as a fully autonomous republic.

The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense assessment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century.

Those who are concerned about alcoholism and who also believe that the church has a significant role in the second half of the twentieth century long to see it take a more dynamic role in the solution of this gigantic problem.

The question posed by the title of this book is a simple one, which, on the face of it, fits squarely within the debate over the relation of religion to politics and to conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century.

At least in the earlier decades of the twentieth century the split between theology and philosophy, the problem of hermeneutics and the problem of language, emerging from christological historical thinking, seemed a fair price to pay for protecting the uniqueness of the theological subject.

Thirty odd years after this overview of twentieth century Catholic intellectual culture, the points of James Hitchcock seem even more relevant.

Congar had been on the blunt end of the potent anti-modernist discipline by which, in the first half of the twentieth century, the Church sought to regulate her interaction with modernity.

After her autobiography was published, noted Dreher, «St. Thérèse went on to become one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century, and in fact Pope John Paul named her a Doctor of the Church.

On the contrary, the accusation is that Luther's beliefs and actions led to disastrous historical consequences, not only in the Germany of his time (with the Christian submission to the princes and the slaughter of the peasants), but in the Germany of the twentieth century, when Lutheran Christians failed to resist the rise of Adolf Hitler.

George W. Norris was a well - known and staunch liberal senator from Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century.

Designating his book, The Meaning of the Twentieth Century, as a tract for the times, he sees himself as an unashamed propagandist in behalf of the unseen but real community of those who appreciate the perils and promises of the future, and who align themselves with those creative forces which can save the world.

From «Legends of the Jews», which is a compilation of a vast amount of aggadah, i.e., exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash compiled by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1873 — 1953), who was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City for half a century until his death in 1953:

(The Meaning of the Twentieth Century, pp. 75 - 155.)

In the last decade of the twentieth century, the world is haunted by the dark side of interrelatedness.

(The Meaning of the Twentieth Century, p. 191) A social strategy for avoiding the great traps — war, population, entropy — is the great need of the day.

The neo-humanism of the twentieth century stands at the point where the paths of all nations, races, and continents cross, «where the four winds of the spirit blow».21

By the turn of the twentieth century, social Catholicism was well rooted in both the Catholic laity and those in religious life in Germany.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

The history of the twentieth century confirms Plato's judgment and suggests a possible source of information for making Hartshorne's philosophy more realistic about the human condition.

Neo-orthodox theologians of the twentieth century challenged some of these dualisms — though not uniformly — without much apparent effect.

The Religious Education Association was founded during the early decades of the twentieth century.

The Vietnams of the twentieth century not only tear nations asunder but also wrench the heart of God.

Entering into the disputes over all the necessary distinctions and qualifications lands us right back in the sixteenth century, which, one is inclined to believe, is not where the Holy Spirit intends to lead the Church at the end of the twentieth century.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

At first, globalization seemed perilously close to being Europeanization, but in the latter half of the twentieth century European supremacy has been modified, partly by the spread of Indian, Chinese and Japanese people, and partly because some of the colonized peoples took the opportunity of their imperial citizenship to settle in Europe.

Harry Emerson Fosdick was one of the most eminent and often controversial of the preachers of the first half of the twentieth century.

Many of the events of the twentieth century have eroded human self - confidence and belief in progress.

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

One of the twentieth century inventions with an impact reaching far into the future is the electronic computer, which has the capacity to speed up many forms of written communication.

In the waning years of the twentieth century the time has come for Christians to bear witness to the worship of the one true God.

Amidst the horrors of the twentieth century, she was a scientific contradiction, but blessed with stigmatisation.

The Latin Mass Society presented a thorough analysis of twentieth century Catholic Church statistics (pp. 27 - 30).

Modern chauvinism has assumed that all recent modes of knowing the truth are vastly superior to all older ways, a view that has recently presided over the precipitous deterioration of social structures and processes in the third quarter of the twentieth century.

For the first half of the twentieth century, Pentecostal belief and practice remained separate from mainstream denominational religion forming its own denominations like the Assemblies of God (the largest Pentecostal denomination), The Church of God in Christ, and many others.

Many who have come to accept history in this sense trace their conversion, first, to a breakdown of natural structure that began with Charles Darwin, was magnified by quantum physics, and is still unfolding in the philosophies of the sciences; and, second, to a breakdown of cultural structure that began with Friederich Nietzsche in Europe and William James in America, was magnified by the chaos and brutality of twentieth century politics and warfare, and is still unfolding in postmodern studies.

There were intense discussions in the early part of the twentieth century about this new situation.

Charles Clayton Morrison was editor of the Christian Century for much of the first half of the twentieth century.

Solovyev was the father of the Russian religious renaissance of the beginning of the twentieth century with its interest in the problems of culture.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.