Sentences with phrase «as most contemporary»

Cultural performances from other Indonesian provinces including Central Kalimantan, North Sumatra, East Java, Riau, Jakarta, Solo and many others will also be presented, bringing their own traditional as well as most contemporary choreographies.

as his most contemporary film, even though Rogers began his career more than half a century ago.

Doctor Strange's first cinematic debut, however, gives viewers a quickly paced origin story that feels as familiar as most contemporary superhero stories, where the viewer tags along to see how a man adapts to become something extraordinary, but in every other aspect the film provides relentless spectacle and levity.

While this unique presentation isn't as obviously dazzling as most contemporaries, it's a treat in its own way and one the Blu - ray presents as well as it can.

Not exact matches

It has most of the latest features of other contemporary phones, including narrow top and bottom borders around its screen, as well as a metallic back.

But most contemporary scholars say it's more likely a general craftsman; some even translate it as «day laborer.»

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

Christian bookselling giant Mardel publishes the poetry of Amy Carmichael, whose life and work may inspire but whose verse is flat and sugary, but nothing from contemporary poetry's most prominent Christian poets, such as Richard Wilbur and Mark Jarman.

The most progressive of these churches target Gen X adults, many of them single, who seek contemporary worship and music as key elements of their spirituality.

Most Wiccans identify as witches, and they form the largest branch of the burgeoning neo-pagan movement, said Helen A. Berger, a sociologist who specializes in the study of contemporary Paganism and witchcraft at Brandeis University.

Even as the former has, for now, ceased, the latter is embodied in a contemporary Jewry most of whose members disobey Jewish law.

Shocked as we have been by well attested stories of unspeakable tortures and degradation's, by the mass exterminations of the gas chamber, and by the living death of such places as Belsen and Buchenwald, many people find it difficult to react with proper indignation to contemporary cruelties such as the Communist slave camps in Siberia, or the callous indifference of most people to the plight of millions of refugees.

Igor Evlampiev, a contemporary secular historian of Russian thought, identified the search for the hidden meaning stemming from Christian ideas as the most important motif of Russian thought.

This reduction of the nature of modern scientific methodology is hard to maintain in the light of most contemporary philosophy of science, as Stephen Barr for instance has shown in this magazine.

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

In short, in regard to formation as well as curricular content, the authors of these essays have good ideas but seem too often unconnected to the realities of most contemporary seminaries.

Of these contemporary heresies, civil religion, or what Douthat terms «political theology,» emerges as perhaps the most heretical betrayal of Christianity because it encourages Americans to believe that patriotism is, in its essence, a Christian enterprise.

My opinion as far as the lack of contemporary evidence of Jesus is that at the time Jesus was not looked at by most of the religious people as a spiritual leader, but more as a threat to Judaism.

It is ironic that Christianity, with its roots in the Middle East, has come to be considered by most contemporary Asians as a foreign religion, a product of Western colonial expansion (there are some important exceptions — the Orthodox churches, for example).

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

Most impressive of all on the contemporary world scene is the growth of the communist movement as a system of meaning and value.

Indeed, I still believe that the question of an adequate paradigm for theology as a public form of discourse remains the most important item on the contemporary theological agenda.

Many point to Fred B. Craddock as the most influential contemporary homiletical theoretician.

Leading contemporary paleontologists such as David Raup and Niles Eldredge say that the fossil problem is as serious now as it was then, despite the most determined efforts of scientists to find the missing links.

The Hebrews, along with most of their contemporaries, saw the world as constantly poised between the possibilities of order and chaos.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

Has one of contemporary Christianity's most popular writers really come out as a universalist?

Indeed, one may speculate on the absurdity of Amos» position, as it must have seemed to his contemporaries, and most of all to the foreign lands here so boldly castigated by this peasant spokesman of a petty deity.

Many years ago, Malcolm Muggeridge referred to the cover of Time as «the most coveted stained glass window of contemporary culture.»

However, these special positions as against other groups were not so persistently and strictly enforced as in most of contemporary Europe.

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

Preamble to Black Theology [Doubleday, 1973] I contend that the theodicy question as revised by liberation theologies will force Christian theism to the position of humanocentric theism, the form of contemporary theism in which the principle of functional ultimacy is most explicit.)

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

Again, Gellman does not see Jews, as a people apart, having this kind of impact on the modern world, mainly because most contemporary Jews are indifferent to their religious vocation.

And by the way Matthew's gospel was not written by the Apostle Matthew as per the studies of most contemporary NT exegetes.

In various contemporary ways of presenting Christianity there are marked divergences upon this point, as indeed there have been at most periods of its history.

Thoughtful contemporary symphonic alternatives to most of the left - wing pablum that is programmed in our concert halls will come as a relief to those of us who day after day sit on stage and play the music, often gritting our teeth, as an unsuspecting public heaps praise on the latest piece of leftist socio - musical drivel.

Perhaps most of all, Short praises Mayhew as «a truth - teller,» who, «when so many of his contemporaries were celebrating the Great Exhibition... was content to study the direst poverty imaginable in rookeries and alleyways where respectable Londoners seldom, if ever, ventured.»

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).

Colossians 3:18, as per most contemporary NT scholars, was not written by «St».

There are many factors that can, on their face, be identified as causes for the blight in our communities, but at their root for the most part is the contemporary crisis of the family.

For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.

Matt 19: 24 «Warren Buffett passing through the eye of a needle», is one of the few NT passages that was said by the historic Jesus as per most contemporary NT scholars.

I mean, it's not as if there aren't plenty of examples of atheists who don't give all their money away... why would you choose to pick on the one who is possibly the most philanthropically oriented executive on the contemporary landscape?

On the other hand, if we can find a way to understand and affirm absolute immanence as a contemporary and kenotic realization of the Kingdom of God, an expression in our experience of an original movement of Christ from transcendence to immanence, then we can give ourselves to the darkest and most chaotic moments of our world as contemporary ways to the Christ who even now is becoming all in all.

Most traditional thinking about objects has made the mistake of thinking of them as contemporary with subjects and as given in sense experience.

Moreover, most contemporary Westerners would include minds, bodies, atoms, bacteria, airplanes, and mountains in the class of things which they know to be real; but they may be uncertain about the status in reality of God, mathematical entities, and logical concepts such as «possibility.»

But the most glaring discrepancy between Newman's vision and contemporary reality — and this includes the reality of the typical Catholic university — concerns the place of theology, which he sees as the central focus of any Catholic university worthy of the name.

As has been most aptly remarked, Jeremiah's action here «smacks of the same paradox as if a contemporary should forecast nuclear warfare and then proceed to buy a choice piece of real estate on Manhattan»; 2 yet even more — as if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attacAs has been most aptly remarked, Jeremiah's action here «smacks of the same paradox as if a contemporary should forecast nuclear warfare and then proceed to buy a choice piece of real estate on Manhattan»; 2 yet even more — as if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attacas if a contemporary should forecast nuclear warfare and then proceed to buy a choice piece of real estate on Manhattan»; 2 yet even more — as if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attacas if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attack!