Sentences with phrase «contemporary experiences of»

Robert Pruitt (b. 1975) is Houston - based artist well known for drawings, videos and installations dedicated to examination of the historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans.

The exhibition opens a dialogue about contemporary experiences of space, and the meaning of the map today.

Despite Prager's self - conscious imitation of classic films from the 1940s and 1950s, Face in the Crowd speaks to very contemporary experiences of social alienation and isolation within the modern city.

This push - pull relationship between audio and raw materials references contemporary experiences of displacement in connection to the instability of current global political, social, economic, and cultural climates.

Kulesh, a London - based graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, experiments with digital aesthetics and interactions, complicating and re-humanizing contemporary experiences of communication and participation.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

These sources include the Bible, the tradition of Christian thought (especially from the early church and the Reformation), culture (including philosophy, science and the arts), and the contemporary experience of God's community, including popular religion.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

But it seems to me that the contemporary experience of God as Good is just a projection of human altruism.

With the growing prison population in many western countries, fathering from prison is emerging as a further significant context in which to understand the contemporary experience of fathers in families.

The gallery emphasizes new artists of all media who articulate the dynamic contemporary experience of living in East Asia.

Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject is summarised in the press release, acting as a foundation from which the works depart and expand on a contemporary experience of the vulnerable body.

A very contemporary experience of physical immediacy!

Having spent her childhood traversing the Mexican / American border, works by Tanya Aguiñiga are rooted in conversations of heritage and tradition in relation to our contemporary experience of place.

Using different color systems and ways of organizing space, his paintings and sculptures negotiate the contemporary experience of time, labor and the body.

While indebted to the appropriation strategies of an earlier generation of artists, these works also anticipated the contemporary experience of images in which context is the only content.

Samara Scott (b. 1984, London) revels in the emotional resonance of contemporary consumerism, the glut of imagery on the internet and ephemeral urban materials; addressing head - on our complex and conflicted contemporary experience of the body.

Samara Scott lifts textures and sensations directly from the daily flow of images that surround us, addressing our complex contemporary experience of the body.

Scott lifts textures and sensations directly from the daily flow of images that surround us, addressing head - on our complex contemporary experience of the body.

This Chapter has been focused on explaining the problem of lateral violence, its deep historical roots and related concepts that explain the contemporary experience of lateral violence.

Not exact matches

There are words of wisdom from contemporary moguls like Warren Buffett and Richard Branson, as well as former presidents, athletes, inventors and others who have experienced the hard work that comes before being a household name.

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Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

Progressives disagree and put their trust in personal experience, even if that requires them to «resymbolize historic faiths according to the prevailing assumptions of contemporary life.»

What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of human experience.»

Given the convictions of many contemporary theologians, churches, like some Indian tribes in America that threw out anthropologists because they felt that the scholars» interpretative frameworks distorted their experience, might also have reason to throw theologians out.

The point here is basically that each way of conceiving of evangelicalism produces a different population when each net is used to pull out of both church history and contemporary experience a coherently related and defined subset.

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

Touching a raw nerve in contemporary evangelical experience, Sarah Bessey reflects on the inevitable reality of walking the path of faith without having it all worked out — and at times having none of it worked out.

His formulations are important when they stimulate people's formulations of the meaning of their contemporary experience with man and God.

The dualistic model of classical understanding — spirit / matter, mind / body — is not adequate to interpret our contemporary experience.

It may be argued that if human occasions of experience prehend God, and they do, they must prehend him as a contemporary, since God as actual entity is contemporary with all other occasions.

Contemporary man lives in a perpetual present that experiences little or no fascination for or energizing pull from great positive expectations for the future — an unprecedented state of affairs in our history that constitutes a breach from our past.

The experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.

Both broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those who say our troubles are an extension of liberal principles and those who say they are a betrayal of those principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of philosophical premises.

Perhaps Francis, who had a singular (and singularly intense) personality, experienced the temptation to think of reform, as some of our contemporaries do, in essentially Pelagian terms: as something we effect by our own efforts and our own lights.

the loss of the fully personal to the imperialism of a single - visioned mindscape, we are led to entertain the possibilities that human life is larger than currently conceived, and that the experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.

This excerpt from a recent article provides an example of applying an OT legal prohibition to contemporary experience that would not occur to most Christians employed in our tragically corrupt business sector where greed influences so many management policies:

by showing where it is in the story of Jesus and how it relates to our experiences in contemporary life.

Our goal was thus to continue to provide our visitors with all the same compelling content, but to put in place the necessary mechanisms for growth in a contemporary context — that is, to expand the functionality of the server, to increase the types of content we can provide, and to provide an experience that is consistent across all devices and platforms.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

A contemporary faith that opens itself to the actuality of the death of God in our history as the historical realization of the dawning of the Kingdom of God can know the spiritual emptiness of our time as the consequence in human experience of God's self - annihilation in Christ, even while recovering in a new and universal form the apocalyptic faith of the primitive Christian.

The contemporary Jew can experience the contradiction of our existence as a theophany.

We do not yet possess a mystagogy in the experience of God and his grace which would be practicable for the ordinary pastor and which would appeal to our sceptical, scientifically trained contemporaries.

Our contemporaries demand instinctively that faith should prove its value in the world of our experience, it should produce a better world, foster peace, mitigate or abolish social tensions and generally make life more bearable.

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

Various chapters in this book, as well as other reading and my own experience in churches, persuade me that all these kinds of knowledge and more really would be helpful for contemporary ministers.

From another perspective, Christine E. Gudorf, in a chapter on «Regrounding Spirituality in Embodiment», (35) observes that contemporary Christians are creating new forms of spirituality based in reflection on embodied human experience.

It underscores the contention of the Reformers, however, that reformation should not be seen merely as a past event but should always be a contemporary experience.

Several of these reform movements — such as the 19th - century urban parks movement, without which contemporary big - city life would be almost unlivable — have made permanent contributions to our experience and understanding of good city life.