Oddly, as Louvish pointedly notes, "part of his religious creed was fiercely anti-Catholic, and his ideas were also part of a philosophical trend in Victorian England promoting a 'muscular Christianity' that combined godliness and manliness by going back to the 'Teutonic' roots of English history".
He told his first-day audience, which nearly filled Lowell Lecture Hall, that one philosophical trend "conceives of humanity as a task," and that task — that struggle to "self-constitution" — is linked to the idea that we are in search of an ideal.
John Paul II examines and rejects various philosophical trends that he says have abandoned the search for truth.
Significant philosophical trends that define the parallel development of modern art and thought.
The following brief account of philosophical trends is necessarily selective, leaning toward those philosophical theories that have a stronger content of, or relevance to, descriptive claims about religion.
Ideological groupings, psychological dogmas, and philosophical trends have generated polemics and analysis, and literary materials have been taken as primary data by sociologists and historians.
In the modern as in other periods, shifts in hermeneutical emphases reflected broader academic and philosophical trends; historical-critical, existential, and structural interpretation have figured prominently during the 20th century.
In the case of certain Jewish thinkers, this absence of reference to the Christian Scholastics served to disguise the fact that in many essentials they were representative of the philosophical trends, such as Latin Averroism, that were current among the Christian Scholastics of their time.
However, there are other philosophical trends in the contemporary period that are quite critical of Mulla Sadra's approach and metaphysics.
Did Anderson sustain traditional philosophical values and standards of inquiry in the face of fragmentary and unsound philosophical trends, or did he cut Sydney students off from the life blood of international philosophical and scientific exposure?
In the post-conciliar period, Catholics have adopted many contemporary philosophical trends with mixed results, as the speed with which such trends come and go has appeared to accelerate, without obvious lasting results.
