Sentences with phrase «collapse of modernity»

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

Not exact matches

Historical studies may point us towards the source of modernity's collapse, but they do not prove it.

I choose the phrase «to hold knowledge» deliberately, for the massive scientific advance of modernity reveals how easy it is to discover facts, and modernity's collapse reveals how hard it is to hold knowledge.

«One of the hardest things about trying to follow Karl Barth is his apparent lack of interest in the liberal question of how theology can meet the challenges of modernity: historical criticism, the collapse of the «house of authority,» the apparent disjunction between scientific and theological thinking, etc.,» Green reflects.

As in her recent solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, the works in this show continue her engagement with the fractured tropes and narratives of utopian modernity, in particular what she sees as the «melancholic traces of the collapse and disintegration of progressivist projects to reinvent the world.»