Sentences with phrase «classical ideas as»

Classical ideas as well as the great desire to continue what Mervyn Peake had begun but not finished led him to delineate his own world.

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The idea of Jesus arose like so many other religious and mythical figures, particularly Classical Greece, and just as the Greek gods were revered and accepted as real, so too is this Jesus Christ figure.

Ideas, thoughts, as well as deeper emotional or «affective» states, are included in this category where the classical writers would place meditation, contemplation, and the various stages of «union with God» about which the mystics have given us reports.

Indeed, the classical Aristotelian nature and the Christian idea of the human being as body and soul united as an indivisible and integrated whole are excluded from the outset.

In one popular study of the problem of God today, John A. T. Robinson questions the relevance of a theism that would think of God as a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind.4 The same issue is raised by Harvey Cox, who writes: The willingness of the classical philosophers to allow the God of the Bible to be blurred into Plato's Idea of the Good or Aristotle's Prime Mover was fatal.

But if it were accepted, would there be anything left of the classical idea of God as omnipotent besides the term?

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

One would be to insist — as Plantinga does in his reply to the Basingers» article (PS 11:25 - 29)-- that they are concerned only with showing that admitting the existence of evil is not inconsistent with adherence to a «C» - omnipotent classical idea of God.

But in Beyond Humanism and elsewhere he expresses the idea that the new conception of God is not only philosophically superior to that of classical philosophies and theologies, it is also theologically and religiously more adequate in that it is much more compatible with the Biblical idea of God as love.

Instead of rejecting every idea of an active and acting God when she rejects classical theism, Sölle might profit from approaching empirically the working of grace as Wieman did.

In this scheme the quantifiers «all,» «some,» and «none» are combined with the ideas of «absolute perfection,» «relative perfection,» and «imperfection'to produce seven different conceptions of deity which are conveniently grouped into three broad types of theism: classical theism, within which God is conceived as absolutely perfect in all respects and in no way surpassable; atheistic views, in which there is no being which is in any respect perfect or unsurpassable; and the «new theism,» in which God is in some respects perfect and unsurpassable by others but is surpassable by himself.

The idea of a change in God was anathema to classical theists because it was viewed as a kind of metaphysical virus that infects the whole of the divine reality; if God is in any sense contingent, then the very existence of God is contingent.

The Biblical gospel has burst the bonds even of classical mythology, as may be seen from what happened to the idea of the Logos; but it has done so only by first taking that mythology up and using it.

And yet the same idea has been defended by traditionalists, appealing to Aristotle, Aquinas and classical theology, as a metaphysical necessity.

To summarize this lengthy discussion - as best as I can see it, Dubose rooted his missional ideas in the idea of a sending, «missionary» church, while Van Engen based his ideas on the classical understanding of «mission.»

I have shown that the strong assertion of individual equality in America took place against the background of religious hierarchical ideas — the Christian conception of divine / human relations — and classical philosophy, as in the idea of natural law, also ultimately hierarchical.

Anytime you are considering moving from one mode of thinking to another, especially one as radically different from the problem - solving mode as this classical one is, it helps to have a few ideas that will get you thinking in this new way.

As part of the program, we studied classical teachings from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, as well commentaries and ideas from other sourceAs part of the program, we studied classical teachings from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, as well commentaries and ideas from other sourceas well commentaries and ideas from other sources.

Her past albums, The ArchAndroid and The Electric Lady, were extravagant genre - mash - ups that pulled ideas from rock and classical music as effectively as they did from soul and hip - hop.

Rock must change his spots to act educated and cultured, but the role proves difficult as his idea of classical music is «Run - DMC».

Umberto Boccioni was also one of the most passionate Futurists, defending and developing the Futurist ideas in very vivid art debates with the Parish Cubist artists, and attacking them as old static and classical cubist artists.

«We chose to give to the Greater Good fund because we have been so happy with the Great Hearts approach for our daughter, and the idea that the same high - level academic environment and classical education is offered in communities that are less fortunate than ours is very important... I see the Great Hearts schools as a larger community, and it's important to us that this community be diverse and support young people from all socio - economic backgrounds.»

- Kataoka believes the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the true protagonist of the game - at times, really beautiful and delicate, and other time's it's rough and ruthless - the natural beauty is one of the main appeals of the game - she wanted the music to not just reflect, but also enhance that appeal - she wanted the music to reflect the long History of Hyrule, but also the ordeals of the Link and Zelda of this particular entry - in order to express the idea of a world in ruin, yet so vibrant, she decided to use traditional instruments - these included the shinobue and the erhu, which are not commonly used in orchestras - these contrast the synthesizer sounds of the ancient civilization - the main theme includes chord progressions which are not really suited to classical music - Kataoka wanted reflect Link's 100 - year sleep in the main theme, which explains the rather strange break in the song - the break represents Link taking a «new breath», after 100 years in stasis - the break basically serves as the division between Zelda and the past, and Link and adventure in the present day - she usually does not pay much attention to such details, but had the opportunity to do so this time

Jiang envisions her sculptural maze not as a classical labyrinth built to ensnare, but rather as an architectural abbreviation of grand ideas.

Elaine K. Ng is a recovering classical pianist and arts management professional who now works out her ideas as an artist and writer.

Exploring the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods of Greek art, this important exhibit begs us to question our own ideas of what see as beautiful, with or without our beer goggles.

... By 1949, when urban, classical, tribal, and primordial imagery had been successively eliminated from his work and his shapes gradually enlarged, Rothko devised the concept of pictorial «clarity» as «the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer.

They emphasized the signature qualities of the etched line, encouraging the idea that each print bore the touch of the artist, and rediscovered an expressive medium suitable for gritty modern subjects as well as classical pastoral themes.

Suzanne's idea of including live entertainment as part of the evening was inspired by classical pianist Aldan Gatt's surprise sit - down at the piano early this year.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

On the other side of the exhibition, Sérgio Sister recontextualizes classical ideas about the canvas as a window in his exploration of the intricate relationship between colors when they interact with space and air.

The work not only celebrates the body, but it can also be understood as a challenge to the idea of the classical body.

The Starry Rubric Set was a group exhibition that considered ideas from classical astrology and pseudo-scientific structures of space and time as a device to bring together works made by artists who were in - residence at Wysing during 2011 as part of The Institute of Beyond.

Tate Galleries director Nicholas Serota has supported the decision of Emin's appointment, however: «there will be a lot of people who say, «What a lousy idea, she doesn't stand for classical drawing», but I think it's a great appointment»: «Drawing is the foundation for everything she does and I think it's the thing for which she is most recognised internationally as well», he told the Times.

[Response: Dropping outliers just because they don't agree with your preconceived ideas is a classical error in statistics — it's much better to use the spread as a measure of the uncertainty.

Gavin, You wrote: - «Dropping outliers just because they don't agree with your preconceived ideas is a classical error in statistics — it's much better to use the spread as a measure of the uncertainty.

Classical liberals refer to it as the marketplace of ideas.

We have several ideas but in order to work out which one explains the universe (it knows what it is, no matter that we have no flipping idea, and it doesn't have a problem with quantum / classical / relativistic gravity: it has gravity as what it is and our MODELS have problems with describing it).

Regarding land use run 1, Gavin at Real Climate says: «Dropping outliers just because they don't agree with your preconceived ideas is a classical error in statistics — it's much better to use the spread as a measure of the uncertainty»

When a claim is made that one of the great classical problems has been solved, the ideas of the solutions must be expressed in a more approachable way as every weakness of the exposition is certainly taken as an indication that an error is hiding in the badly presented details.

Classical gardens are filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful ideas, from cabbages used as bedding plants to infill the vast parterres at Château Villandry (pictured), to the fantastical creatures carved from stone that randomly populate the woodland glades and water features of the gardens at Bomarzo, Italy.