Sentences with phrase «secular terms»

Much of the modern imagination comes close to such a vision, though in consciously secular terms and often without quite knowing it.

The Catholic writer must have the passion, talent, and ingenuity to master the craft in strictly secular terms while never forgetting the spiritual possibilities and responsibilities of art.

The state came to be understood in purely secular terms, based on rationalism and the will of citizens.

Yet even in areas where pragmatic and secular terms typically rule the debate, charity remains at the forefront of Novak's concerns.

Of course, similar judgments are constantly passed by theological reactionaries, and there are many who regard a theology even on secular terms (such as I should want to defend) as equally out of the question.

In more secular terms than their predecessors, postwar and contemporary artists such as Marina Abramović, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, John Bock, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, among many, have made the beautiful and the terrible their vessel of choice.

It is too bad that some zealous theologians have tried to argue that this self - realization has been made (by those who talk in fairly secular terms) a substitute for the fulfillment of the divine purpose.

Sometimes they spoke in purely secular terms and sometimes they expressed the view that Pakistan was created in order to enable the Muslims to live according to the Islamic principles of life.

What absorbs the Catholic intellectual media is politics, conducted mostly in secular terms — a dreary battle of right versus left for the soul of the American Church.

P.O.D. is able to speak to masculinity, religious warfare and spiritual aggression in secular terms that unravel the backgrounds of such biblically - charged ideas into West Coast street vernacular, disarming any perception of potential threat.

The churches» discussions are confused on these issues because they are framed in secular terms.

But even in secular terms, this position is myopic and self - defeating (not to mention undemocratic).

All that is progress not just in American or secular terms, but in Christian terms.

«Meditation is mental activity that could be understood in secular terms.»

Although openly confessing Christians could play supporting or even mildly dissenting roles in society (Reinhold Niebuhr comes to mind), the essential social ideals that higher education would promote would be defined in secular terms and largely by secularists.

This enabled Europeans to justify imperial expansion in both religious and secular terms: for Christians, European imperialism saved souls, and for modernists, it brought progress into a world of backwardness and tradition.2

As Gioia observed, «What absorbs the Catholic intellectual media is politics, conducted mostly in secular terms — a dreary battle of right versus left for the soul of the American Church.»

We are; to be sure, accustomed to the moral denunciation of social injustice, be it in religious or secular terms.

The change was proposed to ensure that students are familiar with the newer, secular terms, which many authors, academicians, and others prefer.

That you have the sum of these three terms, and if we wait until the secular term, the anthropogenic term, gets really, really big, until it drowns out the other two, is that really so hard to explain?

And there is also the secular term.