Sentences with phrase «contemplation over action»

Little did he know that, a century or so later, his work would be prised from the hands of the proletariat, placed on the theoretical top shelf and lifted into that rarified world of contemplation over action: academia.

Avoiding the latter would require a profound rehabilitation of a contemplative order of thought and life and a certain primacy of contemplation over action, which are all but unintelligible within our pragmatic culture.

Not exact matches

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

One of the most time - honored clichés about art making is that the artist's studio is a place of emotional ritual: where the solitary genius engages in contemplation, then takes action, spilling his innermost guts all over a canvas.