Sentences with phrase «western world»

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

A highly scientific Western world creates so much that is new and effective in medicine and technology that, on the one hand, more and more persons are injured and crippled by the use of that technology; on the other hand, more and more persons severely injured or born with physical abnormalities are saved to life through technology.

Although significant criticisms can be raised against this interpretation, especially because Spengler has overlooked the fact of historical continuity, it can not be denied that the mood of heroic despair which he expresses is widespread in the Western world.

With the ideal, Christianity can not but have profound sympathy, for Christianity taught it first of all to the Western world.

No ancient texts reflect the attitudes characteristic of the modern western world, and some of the difficulties we see in texts about Jesus could be matched by difficulties to be seen in texts about Pythagoras or Socrates.

Hartshorne's translation of this Anselmian formula for God is «the Unsurpassable One,» which he acknowledges was partly derived from the demands of worship.4 But whence has the Western world obtained its idea that God is worthy of adoring love and ultimate devotion?

Now hang on to your had: For 666 years the Pope was the Super-Emperor of the whole Western World up to 1742 a. D., when Germany got an secular emperor again (Emperor Karl VII.)

No other institution or society in the Western world seems to be so shot through with the spirit of rebellion against the secular system with its abuses, as is the church.

The first of these is that we must strenuously avoid the assumption that the ancient world thought as the modern western world thinks.

Christianity has defined the history of the Western world.

His letters and papers from prison had a great influence on theological thinking in the western world.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html And they all share the ideas from the same bad modern philosopher, who is directly responsible for there even being religion in this country or anywhere in the western world... Immanuel Kant!

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

It is an exaggeration to say that every advancement in the Western world has stemmed from him, but so much has that this in itself is a miracle.

So stopping... «Any, any religion from being part of our western world»... Did you even think before you posted that...?

In large sections of the Western world a new attitude toward theology and religion has become manifest.

The very fact of the dominance of abstract art in the hedonistic Western world reveals the profound estrangement — indeed, contradiction — of Western post-Christian civilization.

This will drive most of the western world who follow Christ to meet as most of the Chinese believers do in small cell churches, thus the decentralized church you speak of in # 6.

September 11 raised the profile of Islam in the U.S. and, according to Rauf, it caused the Western world to pay attention in a way that made Muslims the subject of intense suspicion.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

The Catholic faith finds its most compelling proclamation in the lives of faithful Catholics, but within the prevailingcultural context of the western world we would suggest there is one reality that most effectively «radiate [s] the word of truth»: the family.

The whole of the Western world at that time did not make any distinction between Christian and civic loyalty.

After a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, I would head over to the library for thirty minutes before class to pore over the school library's set of Great Books of the Western World.

It is difficult for us to grasp this fact, especially in the Western world.

Our editorial suggests that the lack of such openness was a flaw of pre-Vatican II Catholicism that contributed to its decline in the western world in the second half of the last century.

He made some modifications and added to the book of Ether, in which is told the story of the Jaredites, who at the time of the building of the Tower of Babel migrated to the Western world.

I remember the first week of the synod when voices of bishops from around the Western world were raised: «Europe needs to be evangelized!»

It is this general metaphysical outlook, bequeathed to the Western world by Greek antiquity, which provided the first fundamental concepts for the full theological explication of the Christian witness.

But «the danger of falling into inhumanity can never be completely eliminated,» in particular «the danger facing the Western world... is that man today, precisely because of the immensity of his knowledge and power, surrenders before the question of truth.

It is very much alive, and as our world grows smaller, the Western world will find its ways of thought and life influenced by Buddhism.

The scriptures of the Sikhs are almost wholly unknown to the western world.

This biblical tradition went deep into the collective consciousness of the western world, causing people to believe that the earth was expressly made for the use of humankind, with the male gender in authority.

Here is the revolution that can free us to criticize and resist the deepening darkness of secularism, atheism, nihilism, and materialism currently on the march throughout the western world.

A synod brings a sampling of the world's bishops together to discuss a particular theme, in this case evangelizing those who have drifted away from the Catholic faith, especially in the Western world.

Is there anyone in the Western world who thinks that Middle Eastern values are better?

It has also become the most widely diffused of the Indian sacred writings in the western world.

(18) This is but one example of how the marginalized of the world have much to teach the Western world about social compassion.

This is the effect that it has had upon the moral and spiritual ideas of the Western world.

One of these, about which there is not time to speak in detail, is the «commune,» a mode of grouping that in some parts of the Western world has become increasingly popular.

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.

Obviously, all this is not very frequent today, and in many parts of our Western world it has disappeared altogether.

The most priceless political heritage of the Western world, for which now both blood and treasure are being poured out lavishly, is democracy.

Refined through the sifting process commonly called canonization but now realized to have been merely a growing recognition of what was of worth, cherished in crisis after crisis when individual and even national life was at stake, accepted by the nascent church, which presently added its own documents and formed the Christian Bible, then carried by both Jews and Christians in their far dispersion, the Bible became the supreme book of the Western world.

The Western world as we have it today did not come out of a vacuum.

I think it started in the Western world when the Romans conquered ancient Judea (part of Israel) and granted the Jews an exemption to worshiping the cult of the Roman emperor.

Recognizing fully the complex nature of society, it can yet with little exaggeration be claimed that the culture of the Western world is a Bible culture.

Within the past half - century, men in the Western world have plunged from the highest expectations that they have ever held concerning their future in this world to the darkest fears that they have ever known concerning that future.

With a suddenness which is unprecedented in Christian history the whole body of Christian believers in every part of the Western world has awakened to the consciousness that the entire secular order of the modern world, instead of moving steadily toward the acceptance of Christianity, has been for centuries moving steadily away from it.

Sigmund Freud, while numbering the man Dostoevsky among the criminals, has called The Brothers Karamazov the greatest novel ever written, and the Grand Inquisitor legend one of the artistic pinnacles of the Western world.

After a precipitous decline in hat - wearing during the 1960s, turbans are now rather rarely seen on women in the Western World.»