Sentences with phrase «which modern civilization»

Earth's average temperature has been very stable over the past 10,000 years, the era during which modern civilization developed, but this stability is being seriously disrupted.

This enterprise has been comparatively slow to recognize the tremendous changes which modern civilization and the Christian religion have had to undergo.

Not exact matches

Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Commenting on Robert Maynard Hutchins» call for a Civilization of the Dialogue which can be attained when we induce the other party to talk through «exhibiting an interest in and a comprehension of what he might say if he were willing to speak,» (Robert Maynard Hutchins, «Goethe and the Unity of Mankind,» Goethe and the Modern Age, ed.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

Capitalism and nationalism are variant forms of a faith which is more widespread in modern civilization than either.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Rayder «is in tune with modern civilization, which is why he's so good with the wildlings.

It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and remote Far East, which early - modern Europeans saw as the East.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

Yet in recent years, some researchers have hypothesized that the osteoporosis seen among the elderly in modern civilizations, which manifests itself as reduced bone density and increased risk of fracture, 2 is attributable to an excess of vitamin A.

We learn of massive sun flares that have the potential to create mass outages on Earth — «the undoing of modern civilization» is a phrase to which Herzog was born to give fiendishly seductive intonation.

The origins of the Chihuahua breed can be traced all the way back to ancient Mexico and it is commonly believed that the modern Chihuahua descended from an ancient companion breed, the Techichi, which was developed by the Toltec civilization before the 9th century.

Together these institutions create, maintain and guard a noetic milieu (a globalized intuitive, non-rational consciousness) in which any values that challenge the two fundamental preconditions to modern civilization are seen as incomprehensible, self - evidently absurd, dangerous or even insane.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

You've made some damning accusations, not just of several scientists, but of the entire manner in which modern western civilization pursues scientific knowledge.

Many environmentalists, for example, believe that modern civilization can not survive unless we abandon fossil fuels, which have made possible the huge improvements in standards of living since the Industrial Revolution.

If «climate change» alarmists were serious about catastrophies, then the focus would be on preparing for a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) which would destroy most electrical / electronic systems in its path, wiping out modern civilization in that hemisphere.

But the idea that peak oil would end human civilization which endured for ten thousand years and laid the foundations of all modern science before humans ever burned a drop of oil is absurd.

There are also some interesting sociological studies which suggest that the high points of human civilization appear to coincide with periods of global warmth (Roman Empire, Rapid european growth in middle ages, modern era of growth) while periods of cooler climate have coincided with the low points in human civilization (collapse of Rome, Dark ages, black death, european population collapse, famine)