Sentences with phrase «view of modernity»

But his analysis is the same, and he shares a similar dire, global view of modernity as the epitome of godless sin.

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The Canadian George Grant had that view of Locke (see his great essay on America and ROE v. WADE) largely because he had already bought the view (from Strauss, Heidegger, and Kojeve) that modernity = technology and America = modernity.

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

On historical grounds, it is inadequate because it takes what is essentially a late medieval view and catapults it into contemporary discussion, in effect ignoring the intervening critique of modernity.

Nothing in the rejection of modernity tells us how we ought to view the ecumenical movement or the ordination of women.

Modernity perhaps encourages most of us to lead compartmentalized lives in which our religious beliefs do not affect our work, our view of money or our attitude toward the environment.

Our concern in this study is with the spiritual vision behind modernity and the nature of the critique which primal vision brings to it and to evaluate the same from a Christian theological view - point and to see how the spiritual vision of post-modern society may incorporate what is valid in it.

Understanding the character of intermediate modernity is in my view key, and that is what the next post will seek to more fulsomely sketch.

As you say you have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity ---------- I just have an associates degree in Church leadership ------ so you misunderstand my lack of education and my ablities to present my views clearly, compared to your abilities, as patronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATRONIZING you.

Instead of advancing storytelling toward greater self - awareness (and self - examination), a 3 - D spectacular like Avatar relies on the same naivete of once neo-genre movies like The Time Machine, Dances with Wolves, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and Rapa Nui, which took a nostalgic, unsophisticated view of industry and colonial expansion; this time Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audience.

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.

This focus on building Christian community will seem outrageous to some in view of the world's needs, but it is a strength for those who see the weakening of communal commitments and loyalties as modernity's fundamental disease.

Such a view of the church suggests that modernity still has a foothold in this self - proclaimed «postmodern» conversation.

Although modernity from its origins was often anti-clerical and extremely critical of Christian institutions and practices, the modern view was not, in its origins, anti-religious.

We will not pursue the methodological issues determined by the commitment to rationality, but the next section will discuss how Whitehead himself views the relation of rationality to modernity.

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

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.

The anti-rationalism that appears from one point of view to be postmodern appears in this perspective as carrying modernity to its logical conclusion.

Accordingly symbols have been understood in modernity primarily from the point of view of the isolated epistemological subject.

It was G. K. Chesterton, as I recall, who observed that modernity has given ultimate authority to the world view of a slightly sleepy businessman right after lunch.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

This is the intellectual history that leads to modernity's view of a clash between faith and reason.

Although he thinks that The Unintended Reformation belongs to a «Balmesian tradition» that comprises a «distinctively modern and distinctively Catholic genealogy of modernity,» its historical analysis presupposes no substantive religious views whatsoever, Catholic or otherwise.

It affected most modern political thinkers and movements, and, in his view, became the very essence of modernity.

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Rolando López's work aspires to be a device that, from the point of view of the oppressed, generates relevant questions about the meaning of modernity and capitalism.