Sentences with phrase «radical rejection of»

Barring a radical rejection of the Western diet, skyrocketing demand for food will have to be met by increasing production on pre-existing acreage.

It's a radical rejection of current paradigms of economy and politics in order to create a sustainable way of life — one that is need - based, not desire - based.

In turn, early twentieth - century artists such as Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee and the German Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative power and radical rejection of traditional European ideals of beauty.

Benedict did not claim to think this - only cited it in relation to what the Vatican claims was a «clear and radical rejection of the religious motivation for violence, from whatever side it may come».

They exhibit, on the one hand, a radical openness to key aspects of the modern experience, and, on the other, a radical rejection of basic tendencies of modernity.

And the liberators misunderstood their own needs and those of their movement's members: «The culture of emancipation was apparently too thin to sustain these people and enable them to reproduce themselves; the radical rejection of the past left, as it were, too little material for cultural construction.»

Over four decades in this space we have argued that the radical rejection of the intrinsically procreative purpose of the marriage act will tend to the «sex is for fun» philosophy, the destruction of the family and the abuseof children.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

Of course, our transition was in no way a radical rejection of protecting nature; instead, it was a reminder to governments and businesses that communities could not thrive without nature.

But since then there have been more radical rejections of metaphysics in theology.

Although these formats favor either apolitical entertainment or moral uplift, they nonetheless offer instances of both the most extreme state propaganda and the most radical rejections of the establishment, especially through the unique form of black protest theater.

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Moreover, some of the more powerful «moderate» voices, i.e., voices which counsel a rejection of both parties, began presenting genuinely radical criticisms of the entire American regime, often from a religious angle.

Radical or countercultural feminist religion offers a rejection of biblical faith and the creation of a new faith to respond to a vision of the equality of men and women; Christianity could offer an even more comprehensive and profound vision.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

«Science deified» is scientism, radical empiricism, materialism, or naturalism, an implicit or explicit rejection of all nonquantifiable realities or truths, including the truths of reason.

Therefore I wish to raise again the question in this final section as to whether Altizer, despite his rejection of Buddhism as definitely different from and lesser than Christianity, has not in the final analysis come full circle and embraced a Buddhist type of radical immanentalism.

The death - of - God theologians are not at all radical in this sense, since their starting point would seem to be the rejection of biblical belief in the living, eternal God.

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

Hobbes» radical materialism, which accompanies his rejection of the priority of natural law to human rights, invites Rousseau's idealism, or his craving for a comprehensive moral order not grounded in nature but created by human beings.

Among theological issues most deeply engaging me in the past year are sin in believers, the virginal conception of the Lord, providence in history, prevenient grace, the holiness, catholicity and apostolicity of the one church, radical judgment at the end of history and the rejection of sin by atoning grace.

The social upheaval of May 1968, its rejection of morality and authority, its radical exaltation of individual freedom and the fast secularisation process that followed precipitated the transition of Western societies to the non-repressive civilization advocated by Herbert Marcuse, the postmodern father of the Western cultural revolution.

This rejection of the radical question as to why there is anything at all is also characteristic of Whitehead.

My break with American values, when it came, was quite radical, and I went through a period of almost total rejection of my own society.2 That experience too must influence my present views.

In addition to these concrete demands are general demands, of which the most important are: emancipation of women; radical agricultural reform; general reduction in working hours; disarmament; the rejection of all forms or racism; the creation of a planned transfer of wealth from the countries of the North to the countries of the South to compensate for the pillage which these peoples have been and still are subjected to.

The new women's movement of the 1960s also arose out of an alliance with and, then, a traumatic experience of rejection by the black civil rights and white male radical movements.

This was near the start of his post-May 1968 rejection of the filmmaking establishment; a period in which his determination to respond to the increasing radicalisation of the world with increasingly radical cinematic experiments also coincided with his relationship with the late Anne Wiazemsky (played by Stacy Martin), his wife and muse whom he first cast in 1967's La Chinoise, when she was 17 and he was pushing 40.

The absence of a number on the final product can be put down to a hundred things: simple rejection of a «main» entry being a portable title; the PSP itself entering its final years; perhaps a concern that series fans would revolt at the radical departure from Metal Gear Solid 4.

New ideas and radical concepts would die beneath the weight of a rejection email.

The movement, whose name was coined by American poet Ezra Pound, was a rejection of the propriety that defined Edwardian England and embraced the radical changes of the modern world.

In science, denialism has been defined as the rejection of basic concepts that are undisputed and well - supported parts of the scientific consensus on a topic in favor of ideas that are both radical and controversial.