Sentences with phrase «ancient knowledge in»

Mendieta is currently featured in Crossing at Paço de Artes in São Paulo, Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art at the Kunstmuseum in Luzern, and The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, NY Infinite Mirror, Syracuse University Art Galleries (and traveling), Syracuse, NY Sweetcake Enso, Village Zendo, New York, NY 2010 Grains of Emptiness, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Reflection, Nathan A. Bernstein Gallery, New York, NY Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Progress Reports — Art in an Age of Diversity, Iniva, London, UK Spirit Up!

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«It is like being first on the ground in Canada years ago,» Jones says, adding, «There is no local technical knowledge in Egypt because no one has been exploring for what seems like forever, back to ancient times.»

Knowledge progresses, and it's quite likely that in a few years today's frameworks will be viewed as an ancient system on the way to the then - current version of truth.

One goes to what you know (gnosticism means «to know» — or as it was used in ancient times, «to have knowledge of god») and one goes to what you believe (theist means to «believe in god» or «a god»).

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

So I studied Mormonism for two months and came away with enough knowledge to realize what I discovered was amazing fallacy, fables and ancient tales that had been woven and rewoven in an effort to produce consistency where none exists.

When however to the legacy of criticisms ancient and near - modern there is added the firm acceptance of evolutionary philosophies of materialism or idealism contradictory in trend to Christian teaching, then every new difficulty, every fresh confusion of unabsorbed knowledge, every apparent retreat of conscious mind before reflex conditioned action, is taken as a new refutation of traditional Christian belief.

«Born again» was understood in the ancient Aramaic and later Hebrew culture to become like a baby again — no traditions or previous knowledge to hinder you.

In fact some churches do a good job of enhancing their understanding of ancient wisdom with modern knowledge.

Some of them rival The Da Vinci Code in their passion for conspiracy and the shallowness of their historical knowledge, not just of the New Testament and early Christianity, but of ancient religions generally and, even more broadly, the ancient world.

Alexanders followers created the Egyptian city of Alexandria where the greatest repository of ancient knowledge was stored in its libraries, from books from all over the world.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

Of all the views of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient world, that of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human condition.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

If Christianity is seen as a paideia, as it has been in its most ancient traditions, then it is simply a theological education whose goal is knowledge of God and, correlatively, forming persons» souls to be holy.

The apparent moral weakness and inefficiency of the creedal churches, together with the wider knowledge of the religions of foreign and ancient peoples, produced in many minds a critical attitude toward the church, comparable in many ways to the situation which had threatened the medieval establishment centuries before.

But whereas ancient man drew no clear dividing line between objective knowledge and the insights to be expressed in poetry, this is something we are forced to do.

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

The choice of will as subject matter has been providential for Ricoeur's dialogue with theologians and biblical scholars, for this question opens up that with which the ancient Hebrews were concerned, in contradistinction to the Greek preoccupation with knowledge.

(28) In ancient Israel the new situation is characteristically the new concentration of power and knowledge in the monarchy or the loss of monarchial power and knowledge in the ExilIn ancient Israel the new situation is characteristically the new concentration of power and knowledge in the monarchy or the loss of monarchial power and knowledge in the Exilin the monarchy or the loss of monarchial power and knowledge in the Exilin the Exile.

It was know not to be flat in ancient times, and then that knowledge was lost and man believed the world to be flat.

There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient worlIn Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient worlin Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....

Yet, missionary activity has been at least a factor in the renewal of the ancient religions of Asia and some missionary scholars helped to make knowledge of these faiths available in European languages.

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteeIn ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteein high esteem.

This knowledge wasn't available in ancient and historic times and it wasn't uncommon for babies to be born with low birth weight or undiagnosed (for that time period) problems that made the infant too feeble to survive.

In ancient times, before reproductive consciousness, or scientific knowledge of the human reproductive system, women alone were believed to possess the power of creating and sustaining life.

The prevailing narrative of the rise of West, which focuses on the importance of the revival of Ancient Greek knowledge following the Dark Ages in paving the way for the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, has a tendency to portray Europe's rise in self - contained euro - centric terms, often failing to acknowledge debts from further afield.

Of course, Ken Morgan has history in his bone - marrow: if science permitted it, I'm certain that there would be proof that he is directly descended from the cyfarddwyddiaid, the Bardic storytellers of ancient Wales with Y Tri Chof — the three memories — knowledge of languages, genealogies, and (crucially) history that were the tools of their trade.

9 This is a legacy of the medieval era, when ancient Greek and Roman knowledge was largely lost in Europe but preserved and advanced among scholars in the Islamic world.

He reached latitudes in some parts of his circuit which have even at the present time been scarcely surpassed, and, disproving the ancient beilef in a great Terra Australis Incognita extending northward of the sixtieth degree parallel of south latitude, the state of geographical knowledge such that the maps after his time mark «Antarctic Ocean» across the regions of the South Pole.

Although researchers have studied scores of Roman ships, finding a much older Minoan wreck «would add 100 % new knowledge», says Shelley Wachsmann, an expert in ancient seafaring at Texas A&M University in College Station.

The researchers were able to get their data thanks to a knowledge of ancient African practices — in this case, the ritualistic cleansing of villages in agricultural communities.

They then used this knowledge to reconstruct the ancient migrations of women by comparing variation in mtDNA among populations throughout the world.

Moreover, the observatory bears a striking resemblance to similar Andean structures still in use nearly 1,800 years later, suggesting that by the time the Incas inhabited this region of Peru, solar astronomy — and its political ramifications — were already ancient knowledge.

«In this very small volume of messed - up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient WorlIn this very small volume of messed - up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient Worlin there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancientancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the AncientAncient World.

With rising interest in wellness comes responsibility to preserve the traditions and knowledge our teachers and our teachers» teachers shared with us — many of them come from ancient lineages that deserve reverence and proper acknowledgment, even if they are mysterious or unknown to you.

In traditional Chinese herbal medicine, rooted in ancient knowledge that's thousands of years old, aloe has historically been used to address constipation and even parasitic infectionIn traditional Chinese herbal medicine, rooted in ancient knowledge that's thousands of years old, aloe has historically been used to address constipation and even parasitic infectionin ancient knowledge that's thousands of years old, aloe has historically been used to address constipation and even parasitic infections.

Usually, local growers of crops and herbs have all the ancient knowledge and traditional wisdom at hand, but in this rare instance, it seems that the corporations are more efficient, with machinery that breaches the plant's branches with the optimal frequency.

The first record of the goji berries can be traced back to 200 BCE, in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, an ancient book that includes 365 traditional herbs, detailing medicinal and agricultural knowledge.

We have overlooked and discounted ancient knowledge due to living in a capitalist society.

The eyes have long been considered the windows to the soul — and in the ancient Indian world of silken veils and secret glances, they were beacons of depth, knowledge, and strength.

On the much - desired expedition to the learning and practice of the most ancient forms of science ever explored, it becomes equally painstaking to get in touch with the right place which can deliver the knowledge of this science with veracity.