Sentences with phrase «contemporary culture has»

Over the past four years the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture has almost singlehandedly put Moscow on the international art map.

Essenhigh's awareness of contemporary culture has earned her international recognition — in the past 10 years, the 1991 alumna has had solo shows in cities including New York City, London, Brussels and Kyoto, Japan.

Ashley Bickerton's vibrant and often dystopic vision of contemporary culture has been at the center of his four - decade - long practice, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, and every possible combination therein.

Contemporary culture has done a number on both the balance and bounty of our good guys.

Contemporary culture has made this already impossible job description all the more difficult by providing an overwhelming number of baby products, ever - changing safety guidelines, complex parenting philosophies, and endless opportunities to feel like we're doing it wrong and everyone knows it.

It is also a sign of how thoroughly contemporary culture has misunderstood the essence of human flourishing.

Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

Fishon... with respect to the examples (goals) that you give, I have little disagreement... but biblical religion and contemporary culture haves provided some believers with goals that often demonize the outsider and ultimately dehumanize the believer... what shld be the goal... Truth or biblical religion?

She obscures the actually greater claims that a cosmopolitan contemporary culture had upon him.

In Jaipur, the traditional and the contemporary culture have intermingled in such a way that it has become one of the best tourist destinations to the global nomads.

His studio, Allied Cultural Prosthetics, took its name from the previous tenant — Allied Machine Exchange — implying that contemporary culture had become nothing but a prosthetic for real culture.

He also theorized that children in contemporary culture had lower EQ, because they had more opportunities for less social interaction.

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However, the contemporary offices are not restricted to the traditional definition of workspaces, rather they have become an extension of brand ethos, work culture and the principle for which a company, an establishment or a unit stands for.

This exposure to contemporary Asia has created a new bottom - up understanding of that region's cultures and societies, a stark difference from the more distant and top - down view our parents may have had when they were in their 20s and 30s.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

Our own historic errors have much responsibility for the errors of contemporary academic disciplines and humanistic culture generally.

It is true that Jesus said little about «the world» except to warn against letting its claims usurp the place of first loyalty to God, and had almost nothing to say about particular features of contemporary Jewish or Roman culture.

The effort of these programs is to present theological terminology and formulations that will have «cash value» in terms of contemporary culture.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

This is not to question their merit, although several are debatable, but to emphasise that contemporary culture, as influenced by successive governments and the mainstream media, has its own set of moral absolutes, usually underpinned by legislation.

Thisnow prevailing world view has of course crushed the better spiritual aspirations of many in our culture and thereby given rise to a real sadness of soul in many of our contemporaries.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and wesContemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and wescontemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

The spiritual dimension to life has also to be seen as it is being shaped within contemporary culture.

The particular resources of contemporary liberal theology that have especial relevance for a Christian approach to our culture's current difficulties are these: (1) the contemporary historical consciousness, (2) the conclusions of biblical scholars regarding Jesus and the Kingdom of God, and (3) the current «process» understanding of God, Which allows a positive relation (but not a surrender!)

Instead of such perspectives, the major problems in contemporary culture and civilization have been elected as the basis for the choice of topics.

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

He has a very strong sense of the distinctiveness of Christianity as well as a deeply pessimistic view of contemporary Western culture.

For the most part, I think Mark has correctly analyzed some of the dangers and pitfalls of our contemporary culture.

His answer was to propose his theory of anomie, which is the sense of being personally unconnected to others, not being in a web of what the contemporary anthropologist Clifford Geertz has called «thick» culture.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

But since the 1960s a quite different project, focusing attention again on the classical quest for ultimate truth in the midst of contemporary, post-Enlightenment culture, has been developing as...

In service to that mission — and, increasingly, in opposition to contemporary North American culture — we have jointly affirmed that all are called to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, particularly the elderly, the handicapped and the unborn.

But it may also have been seriously meant, a revelation of his considered judgment; in which case he offers us a window into the blindness of our contemporary culture.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

I suspect we will see its splintering in five different directions, only one of which genuinely responds to the human drive for ultimacy and thus has much potential for influencing contemporary culture.

I have concluded that a «Sunday School and Church» approach to Christian education is an inadequate mode of spiritual formation for persons in contemporary culture.

We have continually to remember that the spring festivals celebrating the return of the vegetation god on the third day were still being celebrated in the contemporary non-Jewish cultures of the Ancient Near East.

According to McKnight, contemporary evangelicals have built a «salvation culture,» rather than a «gospel culture» in which the good news is reduced to a message of personal salvation.

But it has now become clear to an ever increasing number of our contemporaries all over the world that this «profit system» of a «rugged individualism» must be replaced by an order which, without sacrificing the values and attainments of bourgeois culture, is impelled by a new cultural temper.

Taylor points out that this preference for personal religion obscures something that has existed not only in almost all pre-modern cultures but, to varying degrees, still survives among contemporary Americans the conviction that «the locus of the relation with God is (also) through the community, and not simply in the individual.

Contemporary writers often reflect this sad reality, and it is helpful to point to (and to publish) the writers who grapple courageously with this dilemma, writers whose imaginations collide with the grim implications of life in a culture which has forgotten the future.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Nagel further suggests that it would be good «if the secular theoretical establishment, and the contemporary enlightened culture which it dominates, could wean itself of... [its] Darwinism of the gaps... the approach is incapable of providing an adequate account, either constitutive or historical, of our universe.»

Although Shepard has taught me a profound admiration for the personal maturity and social wholeness of primal cultures, I would not happily give up elements of contemporary consciousness that have developed through a long and tortuous history.

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These are part of a world culture that continues to have profound effects on contemporary religious organizations.

I've heard it repeated again and again that contemporary Western culture suffers from Gnosticism.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.