Sentences with phrase «within modernity»

Religious and ideological fundamentalism, then, appears within modernity (perhaps paradoxically) as a defense against these questions.

The fear inherent within modernity, the anxiety that the ideological Other calls my worldview into question, is one explanation for rise of fundamentalism in the modern era.

The second option within modernity was, it's a human product, and thus, nothing special.

Christianity and Judaism must both fully embrace the new possibilities within modernity for human liberation and dignity, but they must also chasten modernity so that it remains a means, not an end.

Not exact matches

Taylor finds the solution not in the rules of modernity or the rules of Christian orthodoxy but in practical reasoning that seeks to evaluate «forms of life» from within broadly shared «conceptions of the good.»

It ended the church's self - destructive revolt against modernity and declared a truce not simply with the world, but also within itself.

The issue for me is whether, within the moral grammar of modernity, any of these good souls could give an account of his or her virtue.

But if you remain within the framework of critical thinking decade after decade after decade, and you can stay in it your whole life, it becomes a very arid place in which to live when it's wedded to the framework of modernity, and it becomes a desolate place, T.S. Eliot's wasteland.

«Contextualization» is here used of the process whereby biblical doctrine is asserted within the context of modernity.

Within the denomination a conflict was brewing between the forces of law and gospel, modernity and tradition, liberalism and fundamentalism.

Here's one sentence: «It seems to me that MacIntyre's image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that....

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

Thus the horizon of modernity can be strictly defined as the horizon within which the goodness of being is no longer intelligible.

In particular, within the three monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, modernity appears to be threatening the very foundation of all truth and meaning, namely the being and authority of God.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

The Faith Suggestion In our May 2008 editorial (as in our current editorial) we acknowledged the need to take account, within philosophy of religion, of modernity's «turn to the subject» whilst maintaining confidence in the human subject's ability to know reality (i.e. «realism»).

The ecclesiology on which I am working concerns Chinese, Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants within the horizon of a crumbling of modernity that brings Christians closer to premodernity than they've been in perhaps 300 years, and closer to the situation of the first centuries than they've been in more than a millennium and a half.

That MacIntyre is intent on a division between philosophy and theology, a division I think unknown to Thomas Aquinas, confirms his claim that he works within the conditions of modernity.

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

One hopes that this is possible within the framework of the movements of peoples like that of the dalits, the tribals, the fisherfolk and women who are today victims of modernity turned destructive.

The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market - oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law as the means to the common good.

This book situates Borgman's analysis within the postmodern critique of modernity and argues for what he calls a postmodern realism» which both appreciates postmodernism and moves beyond it by way of recovering «the world of eloquent things.»

And in each case, when the tidal wave of modernity hit, it swept all before it within a generation.

Dialogue between Faith and Modernity has been taking place within the church between the Christian theologians and the scientists and politicians committed to work out the implication of their Christian faith in their profession, and later through some formal dialogues with secularists open to dialogue with Christian tradition.

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.

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

Here's one sentence: «It seems to me that MacIntyre's image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that he has clearly abandoned.»

Rather, it sees modernity as but one developing moment within a larger struggle of love, the central drama of Christ's redemptive work made real among his people and in the world.

The ineluctable connections between Christian violence, its global magnification through the West's colonial reach, and the hard quandaries of religious conviction thereby slowly unleashed were in fact sustaining forces within the evolution of modernity.

These new extremes were brought about mostly by the modernity of sports science, the commercial desire for winning football and of course, the pursuit for intellectual and sporting development within the footballing profession.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Within an intimate and warm design, the hotel is a perfect blend of comfort, refinement and modernity.

As Hyatt's boutique luxury brand, this purpose - built property seamlessly blends tradition and modernity standing as a flagship within its own Park Hyatt category — full story»

About the Artists Jonathan Allen (London, England) is an artist and writer whose work addresses the figuring of agency, the facticity of the image, and most recently the various magics at play within late modernity.

Using certain emblematic buildings or monuments of modernity as referents, Domènec analyses the proposals of the modern movement and its legacy within contemporary practice.

According to the High Line, the mural image «is an extension of [Marshall's] Dailies series, specifically the cartoon strip «Rhythm Mastr,» an epic narrative of the struggle between tradition and modernity within the Afro - diasporic worldview.»

Within Oiticica's environment, the central Penetrável contains a staticky television set to a local station, a mediated emblem of modernity within the bare - bones constructions of sand and gWithin Oiticica's environment, the central Penetrável contains a staticky television set to a local station, a mediated emblem of modernity within the bare - bones constructions of sand and gwithin the bare - bones constructions of sand and gravel.

«We're talking 13th - century Kashan (Persia), and for me, Islamic art has within it that timeless modernity that is there.

This project positions and gives value to the heritage of Arab modernities within an international context.

Leonor Antunes said: «I am interested in the dialogue that a specific craftsmanship establishes within a certain perspective of modernity — particularly how architects / designers engaged with the vernacular — revealing not a nostalgia for a world before modernism, but rather a legacy regarding a belief in the artwork as representing an ongoing engagement in a process.»

Within the work of contemporary Brazilian artists, one can find the history of the country, spanning from 20th century modernity back to the colonial period.

If Arte Povera emerged as a critique of modernity's push for postwar, the work of these contemporary artists similarly bristles against the smooth, seemingly immaterial dissemination of capital, information, and images within our present global order.

Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle between modernity and tradition.

Using the language of contemporary art firmly positions them within the culture of modernity, with its emphasis on self - reflection, criticism, and skepticism.

Here however such historicism is held captive within the constraints of modernity — a tensile crash barrier.

While producing within the «Western canon», they question the very mechanisms that construct this canon and ask for alternative realities and modernities.

These works also speak to the artist's perception of automotive and locomotive industry products as gestural markers and carriers of poetic, political resonances — as figurations emblematic of the Black modernity and futurism inscribed within the epic practices of the road tripping troubadours who created and propagated the soundtrack to Delta's mobile blues culture.

The art historical references allow Burtynsky to frame the terrible effects of modernity within received notions of beauty.

These unique images reflect both his client's subjectivity within the community and their enthusiastic embrace of modernity.