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Her first solo exhibition in the US debuted in October 2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she used video and installations to project her ideas
about contemporary life in the Gulf Arab nations.
The other artists» presentations oscillate between abstraction and representation, adapting art historical canons to forge new narratives
about contemporary life, communication, and current events.
But it's her objects... that offer a through - line in their crooked anthropomorphic qualities, suggesting serious jokes
about contemporary life.»
Once I faced, I felt such anxiety
about contemporary life and culture, through the similarity and identity of the human gaze to that monkey, because I realized the lies and vanity that pervades life, or at least possessed it in previous years, since art is the mirror of life.
Swedish photographer Mårten Lange has released a The Mechanism, a despondent sequence that forms a sci - fi story
about contemporary life.
Swedish photographer Mårten Lange (b. 1984) has released a new series; The Mechanism is a despondent sequence of monochrome photographs that form a sci - fi story
about contemporary life.
What might this relationship reveal
about contemporary life?
In the case of Arcadia, her beautifully chiaroscuro second novel, her movement from momentary despair
about contemporary life to a more transcendent view, she says, was a slow process.
These rousing words by Tony Rayns in the June issue of Sight and Sound were just what I needed to read after returning last month from Cannes, where wonderful films by Yang and Kieslowski
about contemporary life were showing in competition.
Christchurch, NZ About Blog We're open to share stimulating art experiences and engage with you in conversations
about contemporary life and culture in Christchurch, NZ and beyond.
ABODO said: «Like many new technologies, dating apps provoke quite a bit of hand - wringing
about contemporary life.
Not exact matches
This guest post written by Melanie Biehle, creator of Inward Facing Girl, where she blogs
about contemporary art, design, photography, and
life in Seattle.
His romantic
life has followed a familiar
contemporary model: a series of emotionally intense but probationary relationships lasting
about a year, interlarded with casual sex — including, in François's case, commercial sex.
There is something literally death - defying
about the
contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy»
life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to
live, and not only when they lit up.
Analyses of Jesus»
life by many
contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, --RRB- via the NT and related doc - uments have concluded that only
about 30 % of Jesus» sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic.
In studying those topics they learn
about many a congregation's
life, and they learn too that there are alternatives to the merely
contemporary and local stories of a church.
With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth
about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says
about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a
living, vitalizing, and
contemporary message.
In fact, Powell suggests, most
contemporary thinkers have dethroned Luther's distinction between the Deus absconditus and the Deus revelatus (God hidden and revealed) by stressing how God's redemptive acts in history reveal nothing new
about God's intra-divine
life, but act to confirm what is eternally true.
Along with this effort to provide a broader social understanding of religious institutions and a more sophisticated framework in which to explain the dynamics of religious
life, practical theologians raise specific questions
about education for
contemporary religious leaders.
A quick
about Abba Pambo — a
contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or
life, I will not speak.»»
A former youth minister, she's passionate
about monasticism and ancient Christian spiritual practices and how they inform the
contemporary life of faith.
None of the
contemporary jewish or roman historians,
living during the time in which jesus said to have
lived, wrote one word
about him.
We ought to be very careful in our judgment
about the «secularization» of
contemporary life.
What interests me
about the family is not the obvious social problems associated with it in
contemporary life; nor am I particularly interested in the ethics of sexuality.
An - alyses of Jesus»
life by many
contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Ludemann, Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen,) via the NT and related doc - uments have concluded that only
about 30 % or less of Jesus» sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic.
Although those
contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency
about the redeemed
life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.
Knowledge
about the Bible, the history of Christianity, and
contemporary expressions of the faith serve as both raw materials and tools with which the individual can develop his personal faith - for -
living.
There are four affirmations
about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh,
living a human
life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many
contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of
life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only
lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk
about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the
life of God and effective among humankind.
Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and
Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and
contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks
about cities.
A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63
contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking
about the church's
life and mission today.»
If the church did not maintain a voice in the
contemporary debate
about the nature of reality and the purpose of human
life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.
An - alyses of Jesus»
life by many
contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen,) via the NT and related doc - uments have concluded that only
about 30 % of Jesus» sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic.
second, and third truth
about the Christian
life, at least so
contemporary theology agrees.27 The dam to any complete possession of Christian love reveals a superficial knowledge of how deep sin is and how frail we are.
Many of his
contemporaries view faith as a private matter, but Sir Ranulph is comfortable in talking
about the «standard Protestant beliefs» that have seen him through
life.
The Liberation of
Life is a creative synthesis of
contemporary developments in the natural sciences and process thought that is mutually transformative, the very model of what the process - relational vision is all
about.
At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions
about man's nature and destiny,
about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to
contemporary world and
life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.
When viewed as a general guide to faith rather than as a collection of specific teachings, the Bible can provide a basis for theological reflection and dialogue
about every aspect of
life for
contemporary Christians.
Perhaps more than any other
contemporary philosopher, Charles Taylor has helped us understand the way people think
about how to
live.
[1][2] It is a
contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory
about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».
The earliest history in the Bible recorded by a
contemporary is that which tells the stories of Samuel, Saul, and David, who
lived about l000 B.C. King David had both a secretary and a recorder, (II Sam.
Instead of being worried
about religion and its fate in
life, clergymen may be helped to a more adventuresome and dynamic understanding of religion's role in
contemporary life through participation in the dialogue between questions and answers, between the meanings of the
contemporary and those of tradition, and between religion and the other fields of thought.
Analyses of Jesus»
life by many
contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen) via the NT and related doc - uments have concluded that only
about 30 % of Jesus» sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic.
Theology begins and ends in the collective practice of
living communities of faith — communities which seek clarity
about their mission in the context of the
contemporary world.
We must use what is familiar to talk
about the unfamiliar; so we turn to events, objects, relationships from ordinary,
contemporary life in order to say something
about what we do not know how to talk
about — the love of God.
The preacher's sermon in our illustration gave no evidence that he knew anything
about or understood
contemporary human
life.
On the whole, however, the realism
about our own Christian identity and vocation that informs
contemporary Christian scholarship has not, it seems to me, penetrated the
life and thought of the churches on this continent.
... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in
contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs -
about the relationship between faith, the
life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.
Indeed, many of the
contemporary activists and academics most concerned
about the marginalization of religion in American public
life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.
How could a
contemporary Christian believer understand all existence, so that the
living God remained central to his or her
life, even though the conventional kind of talk
about «
life after death» had little if any meaning?