Sentences with phrase «thinking of modernity»

As students of the living world around us, they found that the compartmentalized and linear thinking of modernity did not work well.

Hence I will offer a critique of the dominant economic thinking of modernity and also suggestions for a different way of thinking about economics and also practicing it.

Not exact matches

Schleiermacher was a liberal theologian because he thought modernity represents something fundamentally new and positive for humanity, something that stimulates Christian reform, enabling the true genius of our faith finally to achieve full expression.

What most of us think of today as modern medicine is heavily dependent on an understanding of genetics, but certainly the term «modern» is relative and those who still think a book of myths beats science might consider pasteurization and basic sanitation the height of modernity.

Christopher Lasch finds a secularized version of progress that he thinks continues to haunt late modernity.

If postmodernity is or is going to be something really and materially new, then the Systematic Theology, in its preoccupation with the great problems of modernity and its paradigmatic exemplification of one sort of modernist thinking, will probably be an historical artifact from the day of its publication.

That depends, I think, on whether Schleiermacher's and Hegel's day is over, on whether modernity is wrapped up - on whether, as it was put in one late - night discussion of Pannenberg's work in a gathering of friends and admirers, the Enlightenment was a blip.

Modernity was the effort to destroy the claims of the medieval church to authority in order to put its own conceptions of human rationality at the center of human thought.

There is thus a curious parallel of thought between premodern thinkers and postmodern prophets of modernity's destruction.

A better way into Ralph's thought on this is to note that he was the translator of a neglected classic of contemporary French political philosophy, Philippe Bénéton's Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement (2004, ISI; 1997 publication in France).

Throughout Catholic thought over the past hundred and fifty years, there have run two entirely distinct conceptions of modernity and two quite different uses of Thomism — a combination of four threads weaving in and out of the Catholic Church's response to the strangeness of modern times.»

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

Surveying the desert of modernity, we would be, I think, morally derelict not to acknowledge that Nietzsche was right in holding Christianity responsible for the catastrophe around us (even if he misunderstood why); we should confess that the failure of Christian culture to live up to its victory over the old gods has allowed the dark power that once hid behind them to step forward in propria persona.

If, however, we examine the condemnations with an eye to the pattern of two Modernisms and two Thomisms, much comes clear — for Pius X had gone back into the mode of making lists of errors, but he focused his attention not on social modernity but on the doctrinal and metaphysical aspects of modern thought.

But if you remain within the framework of critical thinking decade after decade after decade, and you can stay in it your whole life, it becomes a very arid place in which to live when it's wedded to the framework of modernity, and it becomes a desolate place, T.S. Eliot's wasteland.

Bultman's use of existential categories and Cobb's use of process thought can not be explained in terms of biblical reflection but must be explained in terms of the influence of secular modernity.

Although I agree with Michael Hanby's withering and eloquent critique of modernity, I think he is entirely mistaken in making the American founding complicit in it.

Lutheranism's one - sided emphasis on the doctrine and experience of justification (though it is not a uniquely Lutheran flaw) has led Lutherans to think they can evade the question ecumenism and modernity have forced to the fore.

I think that this needs to be read in the context of Stephen Toulmin's brilliant rereading of the narrative of the beginnings of modernity in his Cosmopolis.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

«One of the hardest things about trying to follow Karl Barth is his apparent lack of interest in the liberal question of how theology can meet the challenges of modernity: historical criticism, the collapse of the «house of authority,» the apparent disjunction between scientific and theological thinking, etc.,» Green reflects.

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

The author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

He thinks liberal Christians, pathetically eager to fit in to the mainstream of modernity, are asserting not the authentic gospel but a «disguised humanism.»

When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

Last June Pope Benedict suggested that, in response to modernity's «prolonged crisis» and posing of «an «anthropological question»» Catholic thought must take account of modernity's «more exact understanding of human nature».

Process thought has the potential of responding to these needs without turning its back on the best of modernity.

This is a subject or self - consciousness which becomes deeply reborn in early modernity, thence being renewed in a uniquely modern apocalyptic thinking, only to be absolutely negated in Nietzsche's apocalyptic dissolution of the «I,» an «I» which he could know as the creation of ressentiment.

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

For modernity can only know apocalypse in its most abysmal form, its absolute idealism is the idealism of the Nothing, and here and here alone God becomes the Nothing in an absolutely reverse and inverted thinking.

His criticisms of modernity are often thought to reflect a nostalgic and unjustified preference for the Middle Ages.

Oden tells how his fascination with modernity has been replaced with a fascination for the thought of the early church fathers.

Yet MacIntyre thinks we can gain some understanding of the moral character of modernity only from the standpoint of a different tradition — in particular, the tradition of the virtues represented by Aristotle.

The social and political events that are affecting my thinking are epic movements of despairing modernity, not discrete day - by - day scandal - sheet items like most of the supposed great media events of the past decade.

Yet modernity has changed, which is why so few readers of Laudato Si will think of Pius IX when they read Francis.

That MacIntyre is intent on a division between philosophy and theology, a division I think unknown to Thomas Aquinas, confirms his claim that he works within the conditions of modernity.

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

Not an easy read, but one that will school you mightily about Christian political thought, and about Ralph's grand Strauss - rivaling theory of modernity.

A key element in Kurzweil's thinking is the notion of «late return,» which occurs when an individual, caught in the web of modernity, seeks to escape his situation by turning back to a life of pristine faith.

The deeper point of the critics of process thought is that subsuming other creatures into the ethical system worked out in modernity to guide relations among people does not change us at the needed level.

Indeed, modernity thought in those terms until Hume showed that there is no basis in experience for positing causality of this sort.

He came to the view that the origin of modernity was, most fundamentally, a shift from rational to historical thinking.

This does not mean that it returns to the mode of thought that preceded modernity.

On the other hand, the so called Transcendentalist school of thought - in its broadest sense including Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan and Henri de Lubac - has attempted to develop a synthetic world view for modernity.

I discovered, however, that Kaplan's articulation of that process of modernity is more profound than I had thought.

On the one hand they thought of India as a nation - state in European terms — as a cradle of reason, progress and modernity.

This is an area in which there has been a good deal of wishful thinking, rooted in part in the broader aspiration of modern Jews to maintain some link with Jewish tradition, while not stinting in any way on their modernity.

In May of 1944, Bonhoeffer wrote some thoughts on the baptism of Dietrich Wilhelm Rudiger Bethge, his godson.25 Although participating in a rite that was outdated as far as modernity would have it, Bonhoeffer speaks of the future church that will have changed greatly.

In the compartmentalized thought world of modernity, this question belongs to political theory rather than to economics.