Sentences with phrase «what modern liberalism»

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What defines this line is the way in which all positions on it, from one end to the other, are committed to a form of modern liberalism which, as we noted above, prioritizes the individual and the present.

Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and foe alike the essential expression of what it means to he a political animal in the modern West.

They have to speak the gospel in ways that secularized modern people can hear: «That's what led me to imagination in the first place, and I still believe that one can be true to the task of theology without compromising the essentials as did theological liberalism.»

As it happens, Hauerwas is much more diligent in being fair to individual liberals and moderns than he is to «liberalism» and «modernity,» which become handy labels for what he most reviles.

Fosdick sensed this weakness in liberalism when he declared in the 1930s: «What Christ does to modern culture is to challenge it.»

Neo-orthodoxy, rejecting what it considered the facile optimism of 19th century liberalism, accepted the finds of modern science, but drew a distinction between the realms appropriate for scientific and theological study.

How we are to evaluate and challenge creatively the heirs of modern liberalism depends on what we take freedom to be, and not to be.

He was the father of what became known as Protestant Liberalism, which can be seen as the expression of Christian thought m a form more appropriate to the modern world.

For one thing, what we call «libertarianism» in USA today was originally called «classical liberalism» - and AFAIK is still called that in Europe (don't tell any of the modern liberals in America who get allergic reaction from a mention of Mises or Ayn Rand:) If you mean «modern...

Lamb says the party needs to present a clear vision of what liberalism means in the modern age, arguing that during the election campaign it talked too much about what it was not as opposed to what it was.