Sentences with phrase «century modernity»

Within the work of contemporary Brazilian artists, one can find the history of the country, spanning from 20th century modernity back to the colonial period.

Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei, developed by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and the National Gallery of Victoria, with the participation of Ai Weiwei, explores the significant influence of these two artists on modern and contemporary life, focusing on the parallels, intersections, and points of difference between their practices — Warhol representing 20th - century modernity and the «American century,» and Ai representing life in the 21st century and what has been called the «Chinese century» to come...

Immediately impressive, the site - specific work occupies the vast 1640 square metre industrial space of the Turbine Hall and references the utopian visions of early 20th century modernity from a post-modern perspective.

Hilton Kuching is a four star hotel filled with character, set along the banks of the Sarawak River in the Kuching City Centre.On the outside it blends in beautifully with the high rise buildings surrounding it, but inside it is a luxurious oasis that blends 21st century modernity with traditional charm.On the recreational side of things, the hotel offers a comprehensive array of onsite facilities such as a beautifully landscaped outdoor swimming pool with poolside restobar, a fitness centre, tennis courts and sauna room.Alternatively, guests in the mood for further relaxation can line up a treatment at the hotel onsite massage centre.

Step into the city's most impressive design hotel suites, where 19th century French grandeur meets 21st century modernity.

Not exact matches

Reno's account of modernity's nineteenth - century spiritual path gives French Catholicism the paradigmatic place more conventional accounts give to German Protestantism.

What is modernity and (following the most powerful of Twentieth Century constructs) its — ism?

Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

From the nineteenth century on, some Muslims have sought to respond to modernity by developing liberal Islamic theologies.

Or Russell Hittinger's path - breaking «Two Thomisms, Two Modernities»: «The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

True liberalism is, according to nineteenth - century theology scholar Claude Welch, «maximal accommodation to the claims of modernity.»

Building on the emphasis on the individual in pietism, moving through Kant, and in this century appropriating existentialism, Lutheranism has too frequently tried to construct in the private experience of justification an area for faith that can not be touched by the challenges of modernity.

Jewish historians used to speak of Moses Mendelssohn, the late - eighteenth - century German Jewish thinker, as the man who single - handedly launched his previously ghettoized people into modernity.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

Indeed, in the eighteenth century Catholicism had comfortably — perhaps all too comfortably — adapted itself to many aspects of modernity.

The very best of nineteenth - and twentieth - century theology, both Protesant and Catholic, has been engaged in executing modernity's turn to the subject and, by now, its corrective in postmodern categories.

Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of help.

The ecclesiology on which I am working concerns Chinese, Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants within the horizon of a crumbling of modernity that brings Christians closer to premodernity than they've been in perhaps 300 years, and closer to the situation of the first centuries than they've been in more than a millennium and a half.

Although modernity flourishes among the intelligentsia, there now is a strong, equally secular postmodern — or even antimodern — counterforce that was not present in the previous «enlightened» centuries.

Return for a moment to modernity — that great sea - change of human consciousness of the past several centuries (characterized by pluralism and uncertainty) that is leading us to a new Axial period.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

The ground was now laid for the culmination of modernity in Europe - the 19th century German idealist, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

One can go back further still to T. S. Eliot, Richard Weaver, Allen Tate, and others, and behind them to nineteenth - century Catholic critics of liberalism, modernity, and modernism.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

1): The Irony of It All: 1893 - 1919 (University of Chicago Press, 385 pp., $ 24.95) In this first volume of a projected four - volume history of American religion in the 20th century (the legend has already arisen that the last volume will be completed on the day he retires), Marty looks at the impact of modernity on a breathtaking variety of American religious groups and individuals.

Congar had been on the blunt end of the potent anti-modernist discipline by which, in the first half of the twentieth century, the Church sought to regulate her interaction with modernity.

Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century By Philip Gleason Oxford University Press, 434 pages, $ 35 We Catholics are united in the faith, but infinitely disunited in almost everything else,» said John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, around the turn of....

There really ought to be little wonder that the Catholic Church would, for the better part of two centuries, see great caution where possible, and open resistance where necessary, as the rule for her engagement with modernity — political, cultural, intellectual, and otherwise.

Professor Lehner ends his volume with the hope that the movement he has described «can serve as a lesson and practical guide for twenty - first century theology in its continuing dialogue with modernity».

Although progressive Muslim scholars endorse the opening of the gate in order to adapt fiqh to modernity, Salafist groups wish to open the gate in order to discard centuries of what they see as un-Islamic traditions.

(16) The startling changes in human consciousness that came in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries which are associated with the Enlightenment and modernity have made us aware that the world in which we live is a social contrivance that carries with it important costs and gains.

The height of modernity in the eighteenth century is called the «age of reason.»

For it to cling to its chains in modernity and to refuse to lead into the twenty - first century would be a deep betrayal of its calling.

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.

It is reserved about metanarratives of massive discontinuity, whether in the first millennium, the late Middle Ages, early modernity, the Enlightenment or the 19th or 20th centuries (a reserve that should extend to the founding trauma suggested above!).

In the nineteenth century people in the East, under the strong impact of the West and modernity, reacted against the West in several ways.

It simply can not be denied that the horrors of the last century were both conceptually and historically inseparable from some of the deepest principles of modernity's founding ideologies.

As I've written elsewhere, Francis seems to be channeling the spirit of Pius IX, the great nineteenth - century pope who could well have spoken of modernity reeking with «the stench of... «the dung of the devil,»» a vivid image from the Church Fathers that Francis recently used to describe the spiritual consequences of making an idol of capitalism.

Just as implicit faith in science has been called scientism, so this trust and confidence which people put in modernity may be called modernism, a term found as early as the eighteenth century.

Perhaps the fall of modernity will be complete in our lifetimes; perhaps it will occupy another century.

All through the nineteenth - century leading Christian thinkers, while not condoning everything new, enthusiastically welcomed and embraced modernity.

There he defined a Modernist as «a churchman who believes in the possibility of a synthesis between the essential truth of his religion and the essential truth of modernity».7 Like Loisy, he was critical of the Protestant Liberals, making the much - quoted remark that the Christ that Harnack saw, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, was only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face seen at the bottom of a deep well.

The first three decades of the twentieth century, a time characterized by the arrival of the culture of modernity, was a period of great change not only for women but also in the realms of economics, politics, the arts, science, and social and religious thought.

There are no new archival discoveries, but Williams brings a critical but fair assessment to the last British Prime Minister born in the 19th century, whose premiership began with calls for change and modernity and ended in what appeared to be failure and ridicule.

But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine - trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.

The setting is the small village of Eichwald, a bucolic commune that, presided over by such stern patriarchs as the landowning baron (Ulrich Tukur) and the pastor (Burghart Klaussner), is presented as a 19th - century holdover inexorably giving way to the darkening modernity of new times.

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

But it is Recep's nephew Hasan, a high school dropout, lately fallen in with right - wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century - long struggle for modernity.

I've never done a historical novel set in North America before; I'm enjoying the crazy modernity of nineteenth - century San Francisco.