Sentences with phrase «century contributions to world»

One possibility, of course, is that the United Kingdom will, at long last, emulate its errant child, the United States, one of whose major 18th century contributions to world constitutionalism was precisely the notion of a formal «constitutional convention» that ostensibly possessed a constituent power to propose radically transformations of the existing political order (even if ratification was in the hands of some other body).

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The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

But we would aim to make as great a contribution to the salvation of the world in this new century as Wesley made in England in the eighteenth century and Methodism made in the United States in the nineteenth century as it spread scriptural holiness across the land.

One may reasonably hope that at the end of this new century — «if the Lord tarries,» as evangelicals are given to saying — a comparable list would demonstrate that evangelicals moved from a still nervous engagement to making substantive contributions that put the whole world in their debt.

This paper asks what contribution the Protestant experience in the United States can make to the envisioning and shaping of a world order in the coming century.

It could be argued that Martin King's contribution to the identity of Christianity in America and the world was as far - reaching as Augustine's in the fifth century and Luther's in the sixteenth.3 Before King no Christian theologian showed so conclusively in his actions and words the great contradiction between racial segregation and the gospel of Jesus.

The Soviet Union was the world's first experiment in totalitarianism, the twentieth century's contribution to the political experience of humankind.

Not one scientific discovery of note, innovative firm of international importance, or contribution to universal culture has come from the Muslim world in the past century.

I hope our theological experiment in Asia in the coming century will be a modest contribution to the human search for the meaning of life and eternity in the world of transition and temporality.

About Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center: The world's oldest and largest private cancer center, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of cancer.

«The advent of the Waldorf Schools was in my opinion the greatest contribution to world peace and understanding of the century.»

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Alhazen is just one of a multitude of scientists working in the Muslim world in centuries past who made significant contributions to the advancement of science.

As we move on from and reflect upon the 20th century, this staggering collection represents the foundations of what would influence some of the fastest changing creative fields, and a long - overdue recognition of the enormous contribution graphic design has made to economics, politics, social causes, arts, media, and the way we see the world.

The new works to enter the Israel Museum's collection in 2017 deepen the Museum's representation of pivotal artists who have made meaningful contributions to the canon of 20th and 21st - century art, as well as antiquities that extend the narrative of world culture reflected across the Museum's holdings.

For half a century now, Lynn Hershman Leeson has made pioneering contributions to performance, conceptual art, new media, and film with works whose formal and technical experimentation is matched by her fearlessness in the deconstruction of gendered identity in a misogynist and technologically mediated world.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States made its first major contribution to the international art world with a painting style that would fundamentally change twentieth - century art.

The recipient of numerous awards, Klein was honored with a Commander of Arts and Letters in France in 1989, the Medal of the Century by the Royal Photographic Society in London in 1999, the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.

The exhibition explores all facets of Callahan's rich contribution to 20th - century American art from his earliest work made in Detroit during World War II, to photographs made in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s, to works made in Providence in the 1960s and 1970s, to his final pieces made during travels around the world in the later 1970s, 1980s, and 1World War II, to photographs made in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s, to works made in Providence in the 1960s and 1970s, to his final pieces made during travels around the world in the later 1970s, 1980s, and 1world in the later 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

In short, he was very much attuned to the mid-19th century world, to its economic and technological development, to its concerns with the lessons of history and the nation's future prospects, to its debates about the contribution of art to civil society and to reflections on the nature of painting.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.