Sentences with phrase «western culture»

One of the most distinctive features of post-Enlightenment Western culture is its desacralization of the cosmos, the flip side of secularism.

The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.

Whitehead looked beyond Western culture in his metaphysics and in his philosophy of religion, Therefore, if we adopt a meaning of «Christian» that is limited to Western culture, Whitehead will necessarily fail to satisfy.

He hadn't mentioned this group but had said that the complementarity of male and female is important and is being undermined and obscured today in western culture.

I share it, nonetheless, because I think the sight of a giant advertisement for a Smartphone on an iconic church in Rome captures something important about the state of Western culture at the start of the twenty - first century, and because it reminds me of a famous essay a more talented American traveler in Europe wrote at the start of the twentieth.

Jaki went on to tease out the effect that a more specifically christological monotheism had upon Western culture and the birth of science, namely, an even greater emphasis upon the doctrine of creation, the contingency of matter and its ordered nature in the providential plan of God.

(23) Since this ethos still pervades much of our Western culture, it is not surprising that pulpit discussion of the public or social sphere should be felt to be inappropriate.

Unfortunately, while covenants permeated the lives of people in biblical times, western culture is entirely contractual.

The extraordinary phenomenon of the sustained birth of modern science in Western culture, however, is linked with meticulous investigation to the cultural influence of monotheism and the Christian doctrine of creation exnihilo - a doctrine which both upheld the contingent, linear development of creation and its rationality through the existence of the physical laws of nature, or «secondary causes», without thereby undermining God's omnipotence.

I try to keep my hand in and since the bible and christianity have shaped western culture for the better part of 2k years, I'd say you would be a fool not be interested in such things.

I've had the benefit of exposure to the richness of Western culture: to great literature, and poetry, and sacred music.

For most of the post-Christian world, the Bible will no longer be regarded as the Word of God, but it will continue to be of value as an historical testimony to Judeo - Christian origins and as an essential resource for the understanding of past western culture.

The second group of courses in humanities include such courses as «Classics of the Christian Tradition,» «Classics of the Far East,» «Introduction to the New Testament,» «New Testament Thought and the Mind of Today,» «Religion and Culture,» and «Roots of Western Culture.»

In Western culture today, most of our «thinking» goes on below the belt.

It is not entirely clear, I should note, whether Heidegger actually believed that the history of Western philosophy had created the history of Western culture, or whether he held some more vaguely dialectical notion of the relation between the two.

The year we call 2000 is a human convention created by western culture, projected upon the planet as a convenient way of measuring historical time.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

The conceptual mistakes in Western culture that have contributed to anthropocentrism, mechanism, patriarchy, individualism, materialism, and parochialism — all of these have been subjects of extensive analyses written from this methodological standpoint by Cobb and those who follow him.

Some «pictures» seem a bit weird to us in our western culture, but in Solomon's time and culture they made perfect sense.

Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.

Fortin influenced the formation of Boston College's Great Books curriculum, «Perspectives in Western Culture.»

IMO what the imagine illustrates is an entirely different hugely ugly truth about western culture.

If Western culture and technology are to be introduced, their synthesis with existing patterns is a matter of present importance.

In the light of repeated efforts in Western culture to deny this, the biblical assertion is really an ally of scientific work.

My experience can be seen as typical of a whole generation in our Western culture, not least in America.

In Europe itself, the forces of secularization, allied with economic affluence, have made dramatic progress in alienating the popular mind from the Christian origins of Western culture.

It's not limited to western culture.

He sees them as stemming from a Western culture that has chosen to «live as though God did not exist,» exporting its ideas even as it has turned from Christianity to decadence and «intellectual cynicism.»

According to the coalition's statement, their manifesto comes as «Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian... it has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being».

But with this monumental event came a backlash from conservative Muslims who were aghast at the sinful Western culture flooding into their country via TV and music.

She commends cultures in which «abortion is viewed as one way of completing the sacred cycle that begins with sexuality,» condemning the squeamish «white Western culture» in which we «don't want to accept responsibility for our destructive acts or our negative side, so we deny their existence.»

In Western culture, at least since its Christian formation, there has been a perduring tendency to give too much importance to the morality of sex.

In Western culture, accumulating wealth, finding career success and obtaining financial prosperity have become the focus of much of our lives.

The people of the Ancient Near East have always been much more expressive in their grief than we are in Western culture.

First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

At our last lunch, on Lexington near 60th, not long before his final illness, he noted with disapproval the anorexic waitresses and expatiated engagingly on why the fashions of androgyny are part and parcel of the propensity for abstraction that is the fatal flaw of Western culture.

Seasoned by an additional half century of research and thought, Henry became convinced that speculative theories in general and empiricism and existentialism in particular had not only permeated western culture but had also penetrated our churches.

Christ, not Christianity or Western culture, has been the slogan of many leaders of the Neo-Hindu movements in the 19th century, even as Christian Missions insisted on the three as one package.

This problem is acute in Western culture where one must reconcile death and immortality with lineal time.

In the second lecture I looked at what happens when people simply drift away from Jesus into the wider Western culture, the option of Gautama, the Buddha, and the alternatives offered by the other Abrahamic traditions.

Even if the Bible is bunk you must admit it is the foundation of our Western culture, foundation of our laws civil and tort, foundation of morals, foundation of Good and evil.

Society has recognized this by setting up a pattern of relationship which in our Western culture is predominantly monogamous and finds its chief manifestation in matrimony, although there have been and are other cultures that have taken a different line in their attitude toward heterosexuality.

I see an anthropomorphic concept of God... that God / Universe / Nature acts in human ways... as either a conceited sin of pride or a poetic metaphoric description, that is in objective reality, almost impossible to ignore in any Western culture.

Its foil, however, is not some false religion or heresy, but the die - hard materialism that suffuses Western culture, and the reductionism that it leads to concerning religion.

If our mistaken notion leads us to an impassive, self - sufficient God in heaven, then the model for humanity, for Western culture, for ourselves, is that we should also be self - sufficient, impassive, beyond need, not to be imposed on.

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and their followers do not themselves recognize the degree to which their own courage of suspicion rides the tide of symbolic - mythic undercurrents in Western culture.

interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so as a follower of messiah i tend to stay as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.

It is the keystone of many Eastern religions, as Northrop points out, but is not as evident in a practical and activist Western culture.

But I believe we can and must engage Western culture without vitiating our autonomous vantage point.

The allusion, of course, is to Niebuhr's Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (New York: Harper & Row, 196O), which provides the larger framework within which The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry is best understood.