Sentences with phrase «by a contemporary living»

An intimate display of Jiro Osuga oil paintings inspired by contemporary life in London and Japan is now open at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street until Saturday 8 August, 2015.

Evoking «the underground» as a site of cultural resistance, he considers how these constructs have been transformed by contemporary life and social media.

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.

Those numbers were far diminished from what the show drew in its heyday, but they remain respectable by contemporary standards, with delayed viewing and increased competition applying downward pressure on live ratings across television.

A handsome new $ 5 million office / apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

In the wake of Obama's re-election, conservatives are deeply depressed and increasingly feel estranged from contemporary America, even though vote-wise, it remains a «50 - 50 nation,» and even though many of them live in areas in which conservatism is the dominant political creed by far.

I was one of those cutting edge ministers who was hired by a mainline church to start a «contemporary» service (read: a church service with a live band and worship team instead of an organ and choir) in the late 90's when it was the trendy thing to do.

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.

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 5 - 30 % of Jesus» sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic.

His was not the carping of the exile who despises what he has left; it was the sharp, penetrating, and ultimately compassionate (because true) critique of one who mourned the catastrophic condition of contemporary Arab civilization, the hijacking of Arab politics by self - serving dictators, virulent anti-Semites, and Islamist fanatics, and the untold lives warped or lost in consequence.

It is necessary to collect the questions posed by contemporary human knowledge, especially scientific, and respond to them, showing the reasons for the faith and the plausibility of believing and living as aChristian.

Today, human beings are increasingly ranked by a «quality of life» index, and some lives are deemed not worth living (the contemporary equivalent of the Nazi lebensunwertes Leben - life unworthy of life).

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational / inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common - ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary....

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.

A lay Catholic theologian, Johnson offers an exegesis of the Nicene Creed (or more precisely, the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed), phrase by phrase, demonstrating its intellectual depth and its potential to be a life - giving, freedom - enhancing mechanism in the contemporary Church.

Liberating Life: Contemporary Approaches in Ecological Theology, published 1990 by Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 10545.

by showing where it is in the story of Jesus and how it relates to our experiences in contemporary life.

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.

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.

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

For the first contemporary, the life of the Teacher was merely an historical event; for the second, the Teacher served as an occasion by which he came to an understanding of himself, and he will be able to forget the Teacher (Chapter I).

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university press, 433 pages, $ 34.95 Many of Mordecai M. Kaplan's contemporaries and students — he had plenty of both over the 102 years of his life — considered him a brilliant religious....

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

I shall be discussing primarily the contemporary attempts to reduce life and mind to «matter» as it is understood by a physics and chemistry that may themselves be out of date.

Benedict was convinced that it is community life that forms us, and the contemporary Camaldolese still insist that the strongest impetus for change is to be found in the friction generated by living in close proximity.

Brilliant minds of the order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the systems approach.2 Incredible advances in computers, in league with sophisticated instruments of systems analysis, play an ever increasing role in shaping the life style and the world view of contemporary society along the lines suggested by systems theory.

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.

The cynicism that pervades contemporary cultural life must be replaced by a deep confidence in the human purposes and importance of art.

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.

We look in vain in the gospels for any such elaborate scheme of rules for living as were offered by contemporary moralists, Jewish and Greek.

We can prove Caesar lived as he is mentioned numerous times by contemporaries as well as a huge amount of archaeological evidence.

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.

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

This article was commissioned for Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in their Lives,, edited by David Rosenberg, published in l996 by Anchor Books.

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

By way of contrast, Volf presents the manufacture and sale of the iPhone as a living example of contemporary globalisation.

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.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

They give expression to a very contemporary and vibrant faith that is both simpler and much more complex than the complexifications cherished by those who know only that we live in a secular society.

We prefer contemporary worship played by a live worship band...

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

We prefer contemporary worship played by a live worship band over an invitation to «turn to page 316 in your hymnals,» with worship piped in via an ancient organ.

By definition, revival starts within the Church, when we recognise more clearly our true identity and calling, turn away from the contemporary idols that compromise our lives and give ourselves unreservedly to God.

First of all, while I have here focused on the global dimensions of contemporary life by way of spelling out the biopolitical task, it would be my contention that the fundamental categories I have employed could be used to deal with the whole range of social - ethical problems.

Others were restored by Rabbi Akiba.35 Besides the manifest intent of providing a rationalization for the exegetical program of the rabbinic scholars, this tradition also reflects awareness of the problem of forgetfulness of those very questions and their answers on which full human life depends, and the continual need, by means of exegesis, to seek their recovery for contemporary life.

It may mark a change in his whole outlook, a change which is suggested by his declared intention of applying the Christian insight of the Reformers to contemporary forms of life.

Or perhaps we don't want to offend people, and we think that most of our contemporaries would be offended by the idea that some people really do lead more admirable lives than others.

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).