Sentences with phrase «twentieth century many»

During the latter decades of the twentieth century process theology has itself been in process, and it has become more than Whiteheadian theology.

Scripture must be demythologized since it is dear that Scripture can not be believed at face value in the twentieth century.

Well into the twentieth century, American liberalism was Christian, or at least many significant and powerful liberals were.

What this means in practice is that the Bible is unable to deliver to us its cargo because the twentieth century has made us incapable of receiving it.

But it succeeded in throwing a vaguely Christian sacred canopy over the progressive project that reshaped American society in the twentieth century, delaying the triumph of a secular mentality.

For example, at the beginning of the twentieth century about 40 - 45 per cent of the world's population remained below the poverty line.

The late French historian François Furet's magisterial 1995 book on communism and the drama of the twentieth century, The Passing of an Illusion, devoted a long footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte's controversial interpretation of European fascism.

During much of the twentieth century, Christians and much of Christian theologies was caught between the two sterile choices of literalism (in harder or softer forms) or reductionism — either defending the factual accuracy and uniqueness of the Bible, or reducing the Bible to what makes sense within the modern world - view.

As the history of the twentieth century strikingly attests, each pope responds to the contingent situations of his day and puts the stamp of his own personality on the office.

She notes that until the twentieth century, Christianity, indeed, much of the Western world, has demonstrated for nearly 2000 years an otherworldly, ascetic spirituality in which materiality, and especially sexuality, were suspect, if not actually sinful.

As we approach the end of the twentieth century, it becomes both possible and appropriate to identify pathfinding figures and schools of thought which have contributed significantly to the spirit and style of the times.

The intersection of the Whig narrative and American Christianity was merely tactical; the Whig narrative turned against its Protestant Christian counterpart in the twentieth century.

But like liberal Protestant theology more generally, it became so influential in the early twentieth century because it directed attention away from traditional doctrine.

«Anthropological and sociological insights of the late - twentieth century» have presumably demonstrated that it is not true» as Eugene de Mazenod and his colleagues undoubtedly thought it was true» that Christ is Lord and Christians are to be in the business of calling others to faith in Him.

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

It was not until the twentieth century that the equality the Declaration promised to all human beings — for that is what «men» meant in the fundamental phrase — began to be fully extended to females as well as males.

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

But the scientific and technological advances of the twentieth century, along with the growth of corporate medicine, have been accompanied by a gradual deterioration of the patient - physician relationship.

Paul Schubert, «The Twentieth Century West and the Ancient Near - East», The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East, ed.

Cultural differences block the communication between the traditional and the contemporary; or, the church is still emotionally related to the nineteenth - century conditions while the world is involved in the explorations and tensions of the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century, the Holocaust, skepticism about God's existence, global anti-Semitism, and the foundation of the State of Israel all contributed to Jews» seeing their attachment to a unique people as the starting point (and in most cases also the end point) for Jewish identification.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.

The reverberations of this confusion continue well into the twentieth century.

But if the twentieth century's experiments in a brave new world have taught us anything, it is that attempts to institutionalize a revolution in global human solidarity have a way of repeating and amplifying the permanent problems of humanity.

«The last quarter of the twentieth century is going to call for measured national initiatives which combine economic, psychological, and military ingredients.

Peoplehood functioned not only as a way of perpetuating Jewish children but as a placeholder and a worldview that upheld and solidified the core movements, institutions, and practices of twentieth century American Jewry.

If great missionary expansion took place in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century saw important developments in mission theology.

It was not until the twentieth century that the movement of religious education championed his ideals over against revivalism.

Divinings: Religion at Harvard From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636 — 1992 tells the story of religious life at Harvard from its founding in 1636 through almost all of the twentieth century.

Much of the nineteenth and twentieth century exploitation of the animal and natural world derives more from the Enlightenment and especially the teaching of the philosopher René Descartes (1596 - 1650) than from Christian teaching.

In addition to Gilson's discoveries, the latter half of the twentieth century has seen further development of a distinctive metaphysics of the person and of the relationality implicit in the metaphysics of St. Thomas.

In the twentieth century, and especially since the establishment of the state of Israel, there has been renewed Jewish interest in Jesus and a number of books have been written about him by Jews.

He called Muggeridge — one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century — an «old fraud and mountebank,» mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a «presumable virgin.»

A great many intellectuals of the twentieth century, and many of the most distinguished, were drawn to Marxism; the few fascist intellectuals were virtually all second «rate crackpots.

It was their inability to attain it in the twentieth century that drove them to the kind of irrationalism that now characterizes much of science.

He articulates a world view which combines the classic search for being with the radical historical and temporal consciousness of the twentieth century.

One could almost tell the story of American public theology during the latter half of the twentieth century through the prism of Williams's scholarship and activism.

And here, in the late twentieth century, Orthodox and Protestant leaders began to pray in common with the Bishop of Rome for an end to the fragmentation of the Christian world.

The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century by forrest g. wood alfred a. knopf 517 pages, $ 29.95 I remember one of those 2:00 A.M. college bull sessions that gave a much younger me the beginnings of an education.

Solomon Schechter, the great scholar and chief spokesperson for Conservative Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century, preceded Kaplan in emphasizing that «the collective conscience of catholic Israel... [was] the sole true guide for the present and future» of Judaism.

Numerous critics have pronounced The Divine Milieu to be the only original Christian treatise on the interior life of prayer to be produced in the twentieth century.

As Boodin has said, the new intellectual renaissance into which physics has led us in the twentieth century is marked, not only by the emancipation from mechanism, but «the discovery of form or structure as fundamental in reality.

When I first met her, Mary, who was to become my wife, was secretary of the Cambridge branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded as a Christian Pacifist Organization early in the twentieth century.

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

What is new in the twentieth century are the data of contemporary physics that call for explanation in terms of an event philosophy.

Black Narcissus (1947), one of the twentieth century's most visually stunning films, tells the story of nuns in northern India struggling with isolation and temptation.

Newly confronted with this issue in the second half of the twentieth century liberals have responded affirmatively.

Because he worked with non-fundamentalists, Graham was «the greatest divider of the Church of Christ in the twentieth century.»

Second, we will explore their application to the complexities of life in the twentieth century.