Sentences with phrase «contemporary human reality»

What emerges is a hybrid of the mechanical the organic — a metaphor for contemporary human reality.»

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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.

On the Crusades — «not the proudest moment in Christian history but nor were they the childish caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia» — he goes into some detail to describe not only the background and the geopolitical state of things, but also the realities of human behaviour, both good and bad.

Members of this fourth group believe that contemporary psychologists have learned some things about human reality that Christians would never have learned through closer attention to their specific revelation.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature of reality and the purpose of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

(Both Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann have attempted to understand revelation in a way that would allow it to be critical of human culture and thus prevent any easy synthesis of Christianity with contemporary socio - political realities.

In the same way that chattel slavery epitomized the period of colonization, so contemporary human trafficking epitomizes the political, economic and social realities of the world in which we find ourselves.

Contemporary research and studies of human relations, marriage, family, and demographics will assist in finding reliable models of communication that are proven to work in the realities of the second decade of the 21 century.

It identifies, recognises and supports contemporary visual artists who engage with the human condition, social reality and lived experience and is best known for its biennial international Exhibition and Prize which takes place in Cardiff.

Though united with her contemporaries through her candid engagement with human reality, Saville distinguished herself through her commitment to the medium of paint.

This year promises to be no exception with «Still Human», featuring 25 contemporary artists who are using media such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, surveillance and virtual reality to grapple with the complex consequences of recent technological advances and the digital revolution.

San Francisco Museum of Art, June 25 — September 19, 2010 (Catalogue) The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, June 8 — July 19, 2010 (Catalogue) Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, May 1, 2010 — March 27, 2011 Size DOES Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, February 19 — May 27, 2010 (Catalogue; curated by Shaquille O'Neal) Face to Face, Denver Art Museum, January 30 — June 30, 2010 Realism — The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany, January 23 — May 24, 2010.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain in London, All Too Human not only demonstrates how this spirit was passed down by artists of the previous generation, such as Walter Sickert and David Bomberg, but also explores how contemporary artists continue to express the complex intangible realities of life in paint today.

Featuring work by Hayden Dunham, Dominic Samsworth, Lila de Magalhaes, Marian Tubbs and more, the theme of the show follows contemporary anxieties over climate change and capitalist destruction in a short introductory text that follows the mutant realities of imminent human catastrophe:

Fast borrows from traditions of documentary, dramatization and fantasy, and use human emotions as stand - ins for the larger socio - political reality of contemporary warfare.

All three works use human emotions as stand - ins for the larger socio - political reality of contemporary warfare.

Artes Mundi, best known for its biennial award and exhibition, identifies, recognises and supports contemporary visual artists who engage with the human condition, social reality and lived experience, all of which have defined Akomfrah's practice for the past 30 years.

This artist regularly investigates grim themes such as birth and death, stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, using it to critique contemporary ideas of racial, sexual and social identity deeply rooted in the history of all of us.

This contribution is a reflection on the reality of tolerance and intolerance in contemporary British society and how recent events in the UK fit into the wider European legal and cultural landscape of human mobility across frontiers.