Sentences with phrase «classical tradition of»

The sculptor also oscillated between the classical tradition of the nude through his Pomone (Pomona) series and, during the years he spent in Switzerland in exile, to an almost caricature - like interpretation with the deformation of the shape of the body.

By invoking the classical tradition of same - sex love, artists could paint Sappho embracing Erinna and David strumming Jonathan's harp and speak surreptitiously to particular viewers.

Influenced by classical tradition of still - life, allegorical narratives and portraits, especially by De Kooning's art, his expression is processed with simplified and rough brushstrokes, bold contours and semi-abstraction.

Davis sees these newest pieces as being «rooted in the classical tradition of abstraction and the response to music in the art making process» just as the first ventures into abstraction in the early 20th century were reactions to the music of their day.

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

In the classical tradition of literary excellence, these poems are reminiscent of many faerie tales of long ago.

BMW's fresh interpretation of the BMW 2002 adopts the form of a compact sports coupe in the classical tradition of BMW Hommage cars.

Rousseau's ideas about the common good and citizenship place him in a classical tradition of republican thought that was mostly hostile to commerce and commercial society.

But I can offer how the series maps onto the classical tradition of the four cardinal virtues, as best exemplified by Josef Pieper's fine book on the subject.

In the classical tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas prime matter, the principle of individuality conjoined to form, is identified as non-being.

Rather they are in the classical tradition of the fundamental reformulations of the Christian faith, just like Augustine, Luther or Schleiermacher.»

There is no need to recall Haeckel's blasphemy about a gaseous vertebrate: suffice it to remind ourselves of the classical tradition of religious philosophy with its insistence that God can not be defined except in negatives — apoios, without quality, the ontos on, the thelon, (See Philo.

If the traits he picks out from American evangelicalism make it a manifestation of fascism, then the entire classical tradition of Christianity is fascist, too.

This shift from the old world of religious tradition and convention to the new world of technical control is a theme that has preoccupied the classical tradition of sociology.

Order is certainly a pervasive and important issue in the classical tradition of metaphysics, and Kuntz might seem to be on firmer ground in suggesting the centrality of this issue in Whitehead's thought (e.g., ANW, pp. 2, 92).

Third, Swain acknowledges that Christ should be at the center of evangelical preaching, as Barth and Jenson affirm, but argues that for this we need classical traditions of premodern thought that they reject.

As we consider the challenge of building teams it is necessary to examine the classical traditions of educational leadership, as it is these perspectives that have laid the foundation for our thinking today.

Recognized for restoring Carnival celebrations to the classical traditions of the nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries, Schindler has received numerous awards and his work has been included in exhibitions on the history of Mardi Gras.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

Not exact matches

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

In contrast to Frank Gehry, whose style of architecture can mostly be characterized as dissonant blobism, the designs highlighted by the NCAS are grounded in the classical tradition and feature familiar tropes like pedestals, arches, and vases.

They mis - underestimate the god in whom they disbelieve, thinking their imagined deity the God of classical religious and philosophical tradition.

Hart distinguishes between God as defined by the classical religious traditions and the gods who decorate the pantheons of most of the world's religions.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

To suggest that evangelical Protestantism points the way to «classical spirituality» is to blithely disregard fifteen centuries of authentic «classical Christian spirituality» and obscure the desperately needed benefits of this rich tradition from evangelical view.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

Santmire quite proudly calls himself a «revisionist,» distinguishing his course from those he calls «apologists»» that is, «defenders of the classical Christian tradition,» chief among them this reviewer (I take the term as one of honor, fidei defensor).

Moloney invokes the authority of the classical Christian tradition in opposing the cardinal's exaltation of mercy over justice as God's fundamental attribute.

One place to see easily the variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience of classical Wesleyanism and a source of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine of the Wesleyan tradition offensive.

As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most other classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more liberal wings of interpretation.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

They have also been influenced by the much - contested argument of Lynn White, Jr., and others that the classical Western theological tradition has proved ecologically problematic.

Röpke's neoliberalism was founded on a Christian humanism: «My picture of man is fashioned by the spiritual heritage of classical and Christian tradition.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

(I) The neo-evangelical tradition has its roots in the fundamentalist effort to preserve intact the structure of classical post Reformation Protestant orthodoxy (indeed, it is here that the doctrine of inerrancy received its classical expression).

Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and unchanging, is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»

In our struggle for a new global order we need to mobilize the superior resources of all religious traditions, not only the classical religions, but the primal religious traditions as well.

By the third century A.D. the practice of paideia treated all the classical philosophical traditions — Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, but most of all Platonic — with religious interests.

We are trying to grasp the meaning of love in the Christian faith in responsible relationship to the scripture, to the classical tradition, and to a contemporary scientific and rational understanding of our existence.46

From the standpoint of the classical metaphysical tradition, there was little difference between them.

To answer it, we must be willing to advocate even today for the perennial importance of the classical metaphysical tradition.

Here I introduce that exploration with a brief characterization of the metaphysical position especially as it is stated by Alfred North Whitehead; Whitehead's is the seminal mind which provided the main structure of thought which is process philosophy.47 Whitehead has a close affinity to the classical metaphysical tradition.

In contrast to the classical tradition, he declares that truth is not found in the unchanging essences lying behind the flow of time, but is essentially historical and ultimately eschatological.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

In Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation they recommend that the definition of rhetoric be broadened to its fullest range in the classical tradition, namely as «the means by which a text establishes and manages it relationship to its audience in order to achieve a particular effect.»

I believe that these indicators will support my general thesis, which is that the African - American conception of God as God of the oppressed is far more in accord with Hartshorne's vision of God than with those classical Western theologies which are affiliated with denominations and traditions from which African - American congregations have sought to liberate themselves.

Black theology's rootage in the tradition of that other great protest, schism, and reformation which produced the racially separate African - American congregations determines that it is not at all committed to that predominantly white - Western theological tradition which Hartshorne calls «classical theism.»

The state of metaphysical discussion would be healthier if Whiteheadians became equally as effective at raising internal criticisms of recent work in the classical tradition.

But they need to be understood if the recovery of the classical tradition now underway in sacred and secular art alike is to be fully realized.

During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church served as the most important institutional incubator of the classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts.