Sentences with phrase «rich intellectual tradition»

«This challenge exceeded the ones presented by the likes of those who had failed to tackle this nascent conservatism (George McGovern), represented the dying flame of liberalism's most successful days (Teddy Kennedy), or embodied its rich intellectual tradition (Patrick Moynihan),» Ambar writes.

To answer the question merely in terms of having a clergyman as president, a crucifix in every classroom, and a chapel in every residence hall is to abandon a rich intellectual tradition.

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But the Church's ambitious hopes for in - churching will make little progress without a vibrant intellectual culture alongside its rich liturgical and monastic traditions.

Calvinists, he notes, have a richer theological and intellectual tradition that equips them to be more effective ecumenical interlocutors.

These essays succeed admirably in both objectives, in the process showing us how rediscovering the riches of its own tradition can enable Catholic philosophy to engage the contemporary intellectual world and address the critical issues of our day.

James» intellectual search was answered by Catholicism's rich tradition of thought, history and doctrine.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

If my argument is correct then it is more important than ever for Christians to «batten down the hatches» and preserve the rich intellectual and spiritual tradition that they are heirs to.

This assumes that we know what to do with our freedom, that we have the ability to see the limits of politics and of all worldly aspiration, and that we can enjoy the enormous riches of both the created world and of our own intellectual tradition.

The dominant style of modern thought has been contestation of all traditions, and it was largely the Catholic intellectual community's belated reception of that mode of operation which led it to declare irrelevant its own richest flowering.

Our schools are part of that rich tradition of Catholic learning that gave the world its universities and colleges, its village schools and mission schools, its great centres of learning and its small everyday ones, and its sense that intellectual life is bound up with the life of the soul.

What Bertolucci with Scarfiotti and Storaro did was combine the visually rich Italian tradition with the French intellectual tradition.

Draw on the rich Catholic intellectual tradition and other faith traditions to inform our students» capacity for self - reflection and social justice;

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