Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

The Shape of Theological Humanism 14 move. There is a loss of a sense of what transcends human meanings. The advancement of huma ...

Ideas and Challenges 15 when “God” is only rightly known and loved within the confines of special communitya Jewish God or a Hin ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 16 variously defined, that must be explored in order to understand the proper measure of human ...

Ideas and Challenges 17 The human is a “bridge” (to speak metaphorically) between realms of life, at which it by nature must be ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 18 social well-being, Todorov structures his account around longstanding humanistic themes, li ...

Ideas and Challenges 19 God.” The purpose of Christian humanism, as we explore in chapter 4, is to show how beliefs about God’s ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 20 religions. For example, Platonism or Hegelianism can be interpreted in humanistic terms to ...

Ideas and Challenges 21 universal structure of the human spirit, such that the inf luence of histo-rical life marked by diversit ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 22 something about the aim and orientation of religious and moral existence. One keeps a human ...

The Humanist Imagination^2 One common feature between much Western humanistic and theological thought has been the belief that w ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 24 of “man” than Nietzsche, if no less strident. These and other critiques of humanism center ...

The Humanist Imagination 25 countered the pope’s charges of the frailty and baseness of human life in order to celebrate the dig ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 26 every humanist aims to respect and enhance human existence within and not against other rea ...

The Humanist Imagination 27 matter how fleeting that might prove to be. If one’s life is to be anything more than fancy and sorr ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 28 the norm for attaining rational tranquility in doing one’s duties. The emperor Marcus Aurel ...

The Humanist Imagination 29 forms of anthropocentricism.are mystifications that impede the march of science and rational consist ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 30 forth and reveal himself distinctly in many things, is divine and Jupiter-like.”Indebted to ...

The Humanist Imagination 31 later.in one strand of current neohumanism. The idea of unencumbered freedom implies an effacement o ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 32 ‘You’re right,’ said Pangloss, ‘for when man was placed in the garden of Eden, he was place ...

The Humanist Imagination 33 anti-humanist form. This position challenges the idea that we have natural propensities that can be ...