Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.

Modern gay Christian leader Justin R. Cannon promotes what he calls " Inclusive Orthodoxy " ( not to be confused with the Eastern Orthodox Church ).

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

Modern Lebanon's constitution, drawn up in 1926, specified a balance of power between the various religious groups, but France designed it to guarantee the political dominance of its Christian allies.

“ Mary versus Eve: Paternal Uncertainty and the Christian View of Women .” Neophilologus: International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 95 ( 4 ) 2011: 507-521.

* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

The Book of Psalms ( Tiberian: Təhillîm ; Modern: Tehillim, ת ְ ה ִ ל ִּ ים, or " praises "), commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Islamic Zabur.

Modern Christian ideas on intra-religious pluralism ( between different denominations of Christianity ) are discussed in the article on Ecumenism.

Modern Christian descriptions of the New Testament teaching in this area focus on Gentile inclusion in God's plans, without much if any consideration of Jewish exclusion.

Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

Modern Ramallah was founded in the mid-16th century by the Haddadins, a Jordanian tribe of brothers descended from Ghassanid Christian Arabs.

* Steiner, Rudolf ( 1965 ) Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation: Mystery Centres of the Middle Ages: Six lectures given in Dornach, 4 – 13 January 1924 ( translation of Steiner, Rudolf ( 1950 ) Mepterienstätte des Mittelalters: Rosenkreuzertum und Modernes Einweihungsprinzip, printed as volume two of The Mission of Christian Rozenkreuz ) R. Steiner, London, OCLC 7209265 ; see full text from the Rudolf Steiner Archive

* Manas, John H., Divination Ancient and Modern: An Historical Archaeological and Philosophical Approach to Seership and Christian Religion, Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

* Emil Christian Hansen, the father of Modern Brewing: At the Carlsberg Laboratories in Copenhagen, he was the first to discover that yeast was composed of different kinds of fungi and that the yeast culture could be cultivated.

* Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems ( Open Court, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8126-9070-2

Agape ( or ; Classical Greek:, agápē ; Modern Greek: ) is one of the Koine Greek words translated into English as love, one which became particularly appropriated in Christian theology as the love of God or Christ for humankind.

* Christian Fuchs ( 2004 ) The Antagonistic Self-Organization of Modern Society.

In contrast, some Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Eugene Korn and David Hartman hold that in some cases, the primary issue in Confrontation is no longer valid ; some Christian groups no longer attempt to use interfaith dialogue to convert Jews to Christianity.

The term " modern " ( Latin modernus from modo, " just now ") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era, yet the word entered general usage only in the 17th-century quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns — debating: " Is Modern culture superior to Classical ( Græco – Roman ) culture?

Modern Christian formulations of this tension include Supersessionism, Covenant Theology, New Covenant Theology, Dispensationalism and Dual-covenant theology.

* Barrett, David B., George T. Kurian, and Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, 2 vols.

Modern deists hold a wide range of views on the nature of God and God's relationship to the world.

Modern history has rejected these views, instead characterising Domitian as a ruthless but efficient autocrat, whose cultural, economic and political program provided the foundation of the peaceful 2nd century.

Modern acceptance of Haeckel's Biogenetic Law, despite current rejection of Haeckelian views, finds support in the certain degree of parallelism between ontogeny and phylogeny.

* Modern day Orthodox Jewish views on evolution

Within Modern Orthodox Judaism, there is no one committee or leader, but Modern Orthodox rabbis generally agree with the views set by consensus by the leaders of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Modern views of Stalin in the Russian Federation and the world remain mixed, with some viewing him as a tyrant and mass murderer, others as a capable and necessary leader for the time.

Modern scholarship overwhelmingly views the entire passage, including its reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ ", as authentic and has rejected its being the result of later interpolation.

The neo-Orthodox movement holds that Hirsch's views are not accurately followed by Modern Orthodoxy.

#* Modern Unitarians consider Jefferson's views to be very close to theirs.

Whitehead's metaphysical views, which he called process philosophy emerged in The Concept of Nature ( 1920 ) and were expanded in Science and the Modern World ( 1925 ), also an important study in the history of ideas and the role of science and mathematics in the rise of Western civilization.

Modern perspectives on the theory of magic broadly follow two major views, which also correspond closely to ancient views.

Haredi Judaism has seen a great resurgence in its popularity, and many formerly Modern Orthodox rabbis have been swayed to some degree by their views.

In the foreword of the 2005 edition of Alas, Babylon, David Brin notes that the book was instrumental in shaping his views on nuclear war and had an effect on his own book, The Postman ( pp. xi-xii, ISBN 0-06-074187-2, Harper Perennial Modern Classics ).

In order to understand their views in context, it is helpful to see the breadth and scope of traditional Jewish theodicies of evil, as well as to describe the roots of Modern and Post-Modern revisionist Jewish philosophical views.

Modern historians views tend to see him as either a wily politician and indifferent bishop, or to see him purely in terms of his ecclesiastical failings.

Modern theorists of local civic economies, including Robert J. Oakerson and Jane Jacobs, argue that cities reflect a clash of values, especially of tolerances versus preferences, with views of the city varying from a pure community to that of a pure marketplace.

In addition to the views of the two sides, various non-Buddhist and non-committed to any of the two side-academics in the field of religion and history, presented their perspectives in several books, such as Daniel A. Metraux's 2001 book The International Expansion of a Modern Buddhist Movement: and: How the Soka Gakkai became a Global Buddhist Movement, the 1998 Oxford University Press book A Time to Chant by B. Wilson and K. Dobberlaere and :" Encountering the Dharma " by prof. Richard Seager, as well as various other publications.

Chulalongkorn also abolished the traditional Nakorn Bala methods of tortures in judiciary process, which was seen as inhumane and barbaric by Western and Modern views, and introduced the Western code.

In Bo Yang's Modern Chinese Edition of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, for example, Bo cited seven different and discordant views of Jiang's career — ranging from ringing endorsements of his recklessness and loyalty for the sake of Shu ( Pei Songzhi ( 裴松之 ), commentator to the Records of Three Kingdoms ) to criticism of his constant draining campaigns ( Chen Shou, author of Records of Three Kingdoms ) to outright condemnation ( Sun Sheng ( 孫盛 ), author of the Spring and Autumn Annals of Jin ), each of which could be considered a potentially valid view of his complicated character.

Modern views of the rise of Rome have tended to be economic, often focused on Roman control of the sea lanes, which was achieved at great cost after many sea-borne encounters with Carthage, the pirates of Macedon, and so on, all of which led ultimately to control of the Mediterranean and its important ports and bottlenecks ( such as Gibraltar, later to be critical also to the British Empire ).

Other Modern Christian views, including some conservative Protestants, reject the idea of the New Testament as an extended covenant, and retain the classical Christian view as described above.