Sentences with phrase «aspects of modern existence»

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Entry into the modern world can not be simply the acceptance of technology but must also involve acceptance of aspects of that structure of existence which has nurtured it.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Our older brain structures that evolved to serve us well in the era of early human existence are essentially designed for fight or flight functions, which served us very well for thousands of years, and still do for some aspects of modern day life.

And yet the participatory, immersive aspect of Person of the Crowd signals a new way of presenting art that contemporary audiences expect — and it's one that deeply validates the attitude and practice of the flâneur as central to our modern, connected, urban existence.