Sentences with phrase «revival of»

Reforming fundamentalism was a means to an end, and the end they had in mind was nothing less than the «rescue of western civilization by a... revival of evangelical Christianity.»

Leo XIII advocated the revival of Thomism in the first place because Thomas» thought provides a way of articulating faithfully the content of the Catholic faith, but also because, contrary to Enlightenment rationalism, it maintains the importance of divine revelation within human history, and avoids exaggerating human reason's capacity to know the divine without the help of grace.

The Ming rule was a revival of Chinese rule, the animating spirit had been to return to the pre-Mongol institutions of the Tang and Sung.

«If, as expected,» comments Piers Read, «Pope Benedict is to allow the saying of the Mass in the Tridentine rite, one can envisage a revival of a liturgy not seen since Vatican II».

Read goes on to comment that «This revival of Latin and the return of the Tridentine rite, together with unambiguous restatement of traditional Catholic teaching on contentious issues, will no doubt dismay not just liberal Catholics but many of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales: certainly the muted response by the Bishops» Conference to Sacramentum Caritatis hascaused indignation in some Catholic circles.»

Boyle Lecture 2005 2004 saw the revival of the Boyle Lecture series, which originated in 1691 by a legacy from the celebrated scientist and Christian, Robert Boyle.

There was a revival of interest in the things of the Spirit and a searching for renewed ways of loving Christ and one's fellow man.

Anti-anti-Communism has further been sustained, the authors argue, by a revival of the thirties» tactic of «popular frontism.»

Though in recent years there has been a revival of theological interest in St Thomas, [8] a certain coyness often remains when contemporary writers discuss his doctrine of the sacrifice of the Mass..

It was a revival of Confucianism.

They identify among its characteristics the rise of political extremism, a revival of a no - enemies - on - the - left mentality, and an outburst of uncritical admiration for and identification with left - wing totalitarian systems such as Cuba, China, and Vietnam, whose repressive regimes were invariably depicted as victims of western (especially American) capitalism.

That is a prognosis which holds true also for Marxist countries, as the revival of religion in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria presently demonstrates.

There has been much talk about a revival of religious dedication in our country and abroad.

Such a read of the history of slavery obscures its long, slow death in medieval Western Christendom and the dramatic revival of the institution in the service of the signature economic achievement of liberal modernity, the capitalist world market.

When the civil rights movement erupted in the 1960s, social observers suggested that the nation was experiencing a revival of the religious zeal that had inspired abolition, the Social Gospel, and the progressive movement.

Furthermore, the Kyivan Church re-established full communion with Rome in 1596 through the Union of Brest, an explicit revival of Florentine models of unity, only to be beaten back by rivals who did not accept this Union.

My most sincere hope is that with the revival of the Kyivan Church Study Group that functioned so well in the 1990's, we might continue to search out how it would be possible for the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church to re-establish full and visible communion with her Mother Church in Constantinople and Orthodoxy worldwide, without losing the full and visible communion she now enjoys with Rome and the worldwide Catholic Church.

Rauschenbusch might have raised Troeltsch's estimate of the dun prospects for a revival of social Christianity.

In one sense, today's revival of religious fundamentalism and aggressive religious communalism as well as the call to a return to the worship of nature are inevitable reactions to such self - sufficient secularism.

Offering five essays from Times food critics — each replete with personal anecdotes and advice from years of hosting banquets and parties — the series argued for a revival of communal eating.

The great surge of patriotic spirit and church - going after World War II was accompanied by a revival of a Victorian family ideal.

The revival of interest in the metaphysics of substance has occurred in recent years by philosophers in the analytic camp who are known as «essentialists».

To him may be attributed at least part of a revival of the Christian faith which was seen on the eve of World War I.

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1802 - 1869) was a staunch advocate of a revival of strict Lutheran orthodoxy.

Typical of the revival of which they were the spear - head, the third General of the Society was Francis Borgia, a great - grandson of the notorious Pope Alexander VI.

The electing God of Barth can not save Protestant theology, but it can lead to the revival of Duns Scotus and his grand teaching of the Primacy of Christ.

Others were a revival of Lutheran orthodoxy with emphasis upon the historic confessions — statements of Lutheran beliefs.

Another arose from intellectuals who were leaders in the revival of the Catholic faith of which Chateaubriand had been a symptom and an agent.

First, opera has experienced a tremendous revival of late, and not only among the senior generations.

If, then, the church in the third millennium is to be the church for the world that her Lord calls her to be, we desperately need a revival of confidence in the distinctive Christian message of the kingdom of God.

At a moment when civil religious symbols are more and more co-opted by ultraconservatives and the philosophy of liberalism seems less and less adequate as a guide to our public or private lives, a revival of public philosophy seems urgently needed.8 One of the tasks of such a revival would be to make the religious aspect of our central tradition understandable in a nonreactionary way.

They project salvific universalism with new passion, emphasize ethical preaching more than theological consensus, reach for hermeneutical methods that confer biblical legitimacy on culture - oriented options; they consider doctrinal pluralism an enrichment that might foster a revival of COCU and perchance some link with Roman Catholicism.

However, the upheaval of the «20s has received renewed public concern in recent years because of the revival of fundamentalism in the US and the sponsorship of creationism in schools as opposed to the teaching of evolution.

The report deals with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to be.

Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.

Nevertheless, signs of hope for a revival of Catholic culture in the school curriculum have emerged in recent times from some unexpected quarters.

Given the distinct religious traditions of Christianity and Judaism, it is no wonder that the revival of religion takes different forms in the two religious communities, exemplified by «born - again Christians» and the ba «alei teshuvah, «penitents» or «returnees,» in Judaism.

The revival of Biblical theology brought to the forefront the centrality of the church in the divine economy.

It is therefore a striking paradox in our day that «the revival of religion» in Christianity and in Judaism has been accompanied by a sharp decline in genuine ethical concern.

Along with national independence, there was also the revival of ancient religions of these people, such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.

Writing in Commentary, critic Terry Teachout sees something like a revival of the musical wisdom that several generations of the avant garde tried so hard to stifle.

Eg: Return to Christendom and the Moral Majority movements, the Iranian Islamic revolution and its export, India's Hindutva politics of Communalism and Hindu Rashtra, the revival of primal vision and other expressions of religious fundamentalism and neo-theocracy.

One can not emphasize too strongly that Opus Dei understands its mission to be the revival of the lay apostolate.

Thus there emerges the paradoxical result that the revival of religion has been accompanied by a decay in ethical consciousness.

The resurgence of Islam and the revival of Hinduism and Buddhism have restricted church growth in areas where those religions are dominant, but the churches are growing in South Korea and the Philippines.

The popular revival of interest in these so - called «Gnostic» writings was led by Dan Brown, whose 2003 religious thriller The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday) mixed fact and fiction together (and lo, «faction» was born).

The Middle Ages, particularly the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, had witnessed the revival of intellectual activity in Europe and the founding of the first universities.

But I suggest that we are merely seeing a revival of the philosophical diversity that has always characterized biology.

To put it in terms of the present discussion, the collapse of subjective reason, which is what technical reason ultimately is, would bring in its wake a revival of objective reason in a particularly closed and reified form.