Sentences with phrase «spirit of modernity»

Street scenes and studio shots, while formally distinct from each other, all capture a pervasive sense of freedom and identity amongst youth in postcolonial Mali and continue to speak to a shared spirit of modernity and diaspora.

The Christian contribution in this context should be in relation to the struggle of India to develop, through dialogue among the many religions, cultures and philosophies, a body of common insights about being and becoming human, that is, a common framework of humanism which will humanize the spirit of modernity and the process of modernization.

We should now, in the spirit of modernity, fully acknowledge and accept our own creative role in such projections.

Thus new ideologies of the Future and of being a chosen people and commitment to a mission in world history to bring about that future, taking sides and fighting to determine the world's future in one's own terms, have become essential expressions of the spirit of modernity.

But it is right to criticize the spirit of modernity for its exaggerated individualism which made the individual a law unto itself and deny any moral or spiritual responsibility to the social totality and destroying even the traditional egalitarian community - values to further the power and interests of the individual in isolation.

Not exact matches

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

The idols of modernity» race, nation, the state» tried to kill the people of God, Jewry in the flesh and Christianity in spirit.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Modernity is a spirit that seeks to break up this vision of an unbroken continuum to produce individuals and groups conscious of their individual selfhood and different from other individuals and groups.

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

This is the Paul who is so deeply renewed in the dawning of modernity, but also the Paul who was the creator of Christian theology, a theology which if only in Paul is a purely and consistently apocalyptic theology, and Paul's realization of the ultimate polarity or dichotomy of consciousness is an apocalyptic realization, one reflecting an apocalyptic dichotomy between old aeon and new aeon, or flesh (sarx) and Spirit (pneuma).

it gives me the strength to withstand the demanding and ever constant pressure of the label noise (what does it mean to be this and how can i be multiple things simultaneously) and other noise of modernity that can assault the searching spirit.

To an extent this apologetic tone still persists in many theologies of revelation, and even in this book we can not ignore those questions raised by the critical spirit of academic modernity.

Invoking Gaudium et Spes to suggest that binding Church teachings can be «transcended», modified out of all recognition or simply set aside in the name of modernity is an abuse of both the letter and the spirit of the Pastoral Constitution.

As I've written elsewhere, Francis seems to be channeling the spirit of Pius IX, the great nineteenth - century pope who could well have spoken of modernity reeking with «the stench of... «the dung of the devil,»» a vivid image from the Church Fathers that Francis recently used to describe the spiritual consequences of making an idol of capitalism.

Modernity itself may well provide tools of powerful caritas, politically and otherwise, whose capacity should be taken hold of by Christians, not simply because talking the modern talk gives us more traction in the secular public square, but because modernity really does provide vehicles for transformative love in the Spirit oModernity itself may well provide tools of powerful caritas, politically and otherwise, whose capacity should be taken hold of by Christians, not simply because talking the modern talk gives us more traction in the secular public square, but because modernity really does provide vehicles for transformative love in the Spirit omodernity really does provide vehicles for transformative love in the Spirit of Christ.

«It is,» says Steiner, «this break of the covenant between word and world which constitutes one of the very few genuine revolutions of spirit in Western history and which defines modernity itself.»

Extend your stay in Montevideo and let Uruguay's capital Montevideo welcome you with a perfect mix of modernity and the spirit of colonial times.

Inside, 44 rooms and suites are peppered with furniture by the likes of Charles & Ray Eames, B&B Italia and Vitra, brought together by owner Stavros Papagiannis, who has successfully injected the hotel with an underlying mood of simplicity and modernity mixed with a traditional Greek spirit.

Against a backdrop of traditional historicist styles, a new language of design emerged to define an era of innovation and modernity — the Jazz Age — capturing the pulse and rhythm of the American spirit.

As a resident of the suburban outskirts of Detroit, she has absorbed the city's spirit of Fordist innovation and technological promise and channels that influence as she applies the media of industry to the mantras of modernity.

2012 «Modern Spirit,» review essay, «Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,» Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Modernism / modernity 19:3 (September 2012): 601 - 605