Sentences with phrase «such as the civilization»

Not surprisingly, «Lord Business» later moved on to more advanced, empire - building strategy video games, such as Civilization, where he would «lose himself for hours on end.»

Games such as Civilization III (and now IV) and Rise of Nations have such a strong educational hold on players that they spend years playing these games, in school or out.

Some of the most successful games of all time, such as Civilization and Minecraft, allow open - ended building opportunities in which gamers set their own goals and freely express their creativity in the process of building something difficult and worthwhile.

There's also games that use politics, history and civics to create unique gameplay experiences such as Civilization, Tropico or SimCity.

I love games such as Civilization, Cities: Skylines, Democracy 3 and Crusader Kings (although I admit I've not played the latter one properly...

The event will feature musical tribute to more modern games such as Civilization IV, The Witcher 3, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch, as well as honoring the music of older games and franchises of the Gameboy, NES, SNES and Commodore 64 generation.

So far, it seems like Valve has a good handle on this controller for normal controller - stlye games (such as Super Meat Boy and Spelunky), but I'm more interested to see how it will work with more mouse - and - keyboard style games (such as Civilization V and Counter-Strike).

The game extends a nearly decade and a half's long campaign of real - time space war with an RTS system that serves as a cross between the resource acquisition of traditional 4x turn - based strategy games such as the Civilization series and the RTS battlefield play of the Total War series.

Of course, as you might expect some of the announced games have issues, such as Civilization IV.

Not exact matches

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

It was the Burkean conservatives, such as Daniel Webster, who retorted that slavery was far too deeply embedded in society's fabric to uproot» hadn't it existed since the beginning of civilization?

I believe there is such a thing as Christian culture as the bedrock of Western civilization.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

What would have become of Judaism in civilizations whose character was shaped by religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, which themselves had no original connection with Judaism at all?

Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the IncarnatSuch conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnatsuch as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.

But as David Bentley Hart has written so eloquently, such a society will participate, however imperfectly, in the heavenly civilization of love.

Evidence of the prehistoric practice of etiquette — such as communal eating and ceremonial burying of the dead — has served to define civilization in its earliest manifestations.

Some Iraqi church leaders and politicians such as Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki have been discouraging Iraqi Christians, one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world, from leaving.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

Archaeology has shown that from the beginnings of civilization man has evidently believed in the continuance of the soul after death, and has buried his dead in such a way as to provide for them the things thought necessary for the next life.

Instead of such perspectives, the major problems in contemporary culture and civilization have been elected as the basis for the choice of topics.

Such preaxial people as the Hopi appear to have achieved a general level of morality in their communities seldom equaled in Christian civilizations.

I guess we are supposed to forget the fact that Christianity and thr bible are just a bunch of stolen, rehashed versions of ancient civilizations such as Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc..

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

But, if the choice is between compromising Islamic truth or a war of civilizations, it is almost certain that the winner among Muslims will be the hard - core Islamism that Lewis rightly views as such a great threat.

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

No, for this future is simply the historical future, the region of transcendence for biological realities and cultural ones such as the growth of nations and civilizations, but not the region for spiritual transcendence.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

Writing at a time when the signs of globalization were not nearly as obvious as they are today, he foresaw a process he called «planetization», by which «peoples and civilizations reach such a degree either of frontier con - tact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they can no longer develop save by the interpenetration of one another».3 Teilhard de Chardin wholly identified with the traditions of the Christian west, yet his visionary mind was able to lift the Christian themes and symbols out of their traditional usage and re-interpret them.

Silk Road director Jamil Khoury says the church trusts his company to take on such sensitive subjects as homosexuality and the clash of civilizations.

In speaking of the church's emancipation from the world we do not imply, as the romantic perversion of Christianity implies, that civilization as such is worldly, in the apostolic meaning of that term.

Further, much as he admired the United States — a civilization, he felt, full of reverberations of the realities to which he was trying to point in Integral Humanism — Maritain never fully grappled with such classics of American political economy as The Federalist, his fellow Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, or the writings of Abraham Lincoln.

It is not always understood by the American section of the Christian revolt that a considerable section of the so - called German Christian movement, in which the confusion of gospel and nationalism prevails, had sources in just such a reaction as its own against an individualistic, profit - loving and capitalistic civilization, and against the church in alliance with that civilization.

It may be some new challenge to our civilization, such as that posed by Islam, that will serve as a catalyst for a new Christian solidarity with implications for ecclesial unity.

There are also universalistic political faiths such as Marxism and democracy which are rooted in the cultures of particular nations and civilizations, yet which hold the ideal of universal justice.

I would suggest that the service of love, then and now, is to effectively proclaim the gospel, as in, «God so loved the world...» The restoration of civilization may or may not be a consequence of such effective proclamation.

I find it hard to understand why something with such importance, such a good message and something that has driven and molded civilization as we know it today is frowned upon by people.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

Note that the origins of the Golden Rule pre-date Christianity by many centuries, and many of the behavior dictates of the bible such as casting out of various folk, as well as Christian god's apparent own extreme cruelty such as wiping out whole civilizations point against it.

As a result, in order to maintain a high civilization it may increasingly become necessary to pay women «such sums for the production of children as to make them feel it worth while as a money - making career» (p. 216As a result, in order to maintain a high civilization it may increasingly become necessary to pay women «such sums for the production of children as to make them feel it worth while as a money - making career» (p. 216as to make them feel it worth while as a money - making career» (p. 216as a money - making career» (p. 216).

Accordingly, he paid special attention to (1) the special place of Judaism and Christianity in Western civilization, which the first approach had stressed; (2) the relationship between the history of religions and philosophy of religion (or theology), which the second approach had emphasized; and (3) the concern North Americans had shown for specific religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.

There is also the opposite danger that failure to accept the reality of choice, a fatalistic acceptance of absolute determinism, may lead to such slackening of individual and social effort as to bring about the end of civilization.

It is a fact that cultures such as the Amalekites, Canaanites, and Assyrians (and other cultures that are not mentioned in the Bible such as the Mayan, Inca, and Aztec civilizations) engaged in horrific and nightmarish practices against both enemies and their own people.

No civilization, however, has set about devouring its own future with such enthusiasm as our own.

As time passed they conformed to such Roman civilization, badly garbled, as survived, and conformation included incorporation in the Roman Catholic ChurcAs time passed they conformed to such Roman civilization, badly garbled, as survived, and conformation included incorporation in the Roman Catholic Churcas survived, and conformation included incorporation in the Roman Catholic Church.

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

National Socialism especially, as the Hungarian Catholic philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote in 1950, sought to negate «Christian civilization as such,» scripting a dark epiphany in which man «wrenched himself free from Christianity and construed the automatic workings of his fallen nature into a mirage of self «made heaven.»