materialism in English

noun
1
a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.
Perceptions now abound of the West being held in the grip of materialism and spiritual values being sidelined.
2
the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.
And, if we don't really know what matter is, then materialism is in trouble.

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1. avoid materialism?

2. What is materialism?

3. MATERIALISM AGELONG THREAT

4. MATERIALISM —THE TRAP THAT CHOKES

5. Why do Christians avoid materialism?

6. (Zephaniah 1:9) Materialism was rife.

7. 7 Satan’s system relentlessly promotes materialism.

8. Commercialism, MATERIALISM, AND ETHICS - SOME OBSERVATIONS

9. Materialism can make us forget Jehovah.

10. Materialism can choke a person spiritually.

11. Materialism represents the triumph of theory over experience.

12. It is sometimes a symbol of materialism.

13. 4 Idealism is opposite to / from materialism.

14. Crass materialism causes people to forget spiritual values.

15. We live in a time of crass materialism.

16. He continually criticized England for its crass materialism.

17. 12 The spirit of this world also stimulates materialism.

18. Hence, it is a sub-branch of emergent materialism.

19. Babylon definition is - a city devoted to materialism and sensual pleasure.

20. Materialism has until recently been virtually unknown in Confucian societies.

21. Commercialism and materialism are major flaws inherent within modern society

22. (Revelation 3:14-18) Materialism has a similar effect today.

23. Trans-Corporeality is a posthumanist mode of new materialism and material feminism

24. Yes, missionary life has been a real blessing and protection against materialism.

25. How might the anxieties of this system of things lead to materialism?

26. So have we become a self-centred society, preoccupied with materialism?

27. They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.

28. 8 To avoid being strangled by materialism, periodically reappraise your lifestyle.

29. 12 As such, it competes with other metaphysical theories like materialism.

30. For all the materialism, trees are still touchingly revered in Japan.

31. (2) Avoid dangerous spiritual terrain, such as the subtle trap of materialism.

32. Materialism is put in the background, since spiritual-mindedness is put to the fore.

33. Marx constructing historical materialism is the apotheosis of theory innovation in human anamnesis history.

34. But during the Eighties, when materialism and malfeasance predominated, the electorate suffered guilt pains.

35. Immorality and materialism were rampant, as wall paintings and other remains testify.

36. Television neatly packages materialism, explicit sex, graphic violence, and spiritism as entertainment.

37. The spirit has been reaffirmed... in the face of modern, scientific materialism.

38. 18 The spirit prevailing in the world today promotes materialism and competition.

39. The materialism in Clueless is almost as scary as the hopelessness in Kids

40. 9 In his homily the Pontiff focused on the ills of modern materialism .

41. Materialism says that the only things that exist are material things in space.

42. What a challenge to a life that is caught in the whirlpool of materialism!

43. The album is a concept album, with themes of the American Dream and materialism.

44. (1 Timothy 1:19) Perhaps they fell to materialism or an immoral life-style.

45. In all these respects, materialism functions just like theism, as one competing metaphysical scheme amongst others.

46. In this basic sense both historical materialism and Marxist political economy are undeniably structuralist.

47. It may be peer pressure, fleshly temptation, materialism, persecution, even the corrosive influence of doubts.

48. The same applies to ideology, idealism will be replaced by materialism and theism by atheism.

49. In the course of the discussion, we impinged on a theoretical problem of dialectical materialism.

50. The 1920s is a roaring period prevailed conspicuously by pragmatism, materialism, commercialism, mammonism , hedonism, etc.