Sentences with phrase «contemporary language by»

In particular, I believe that secular studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquiry.

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In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

The acclaimed book is written by Eugene Peterson, and puts the original text of scripture into contemporary language and has sold more than 16 million copies.

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

By making language use its central object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.

Here the language of the Fourth Gospel approximates to that of contemporary Hellenistic mysticism, which taught that by gnosis man might enter into union with God, and so become divine and immortal.

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.

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

In our contemporary setting, we find Derrida and other deconstructionists asserting that we are «selves» trapped by» the buildup of past structures, above all by our language.

John Updike has faced our contemporary spiritual malaise neither by fleeing to the East for spiritual sustenance nor by retreating artfully into the language game.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

In contemporary British politics, this idealist language is present in various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the State.

This will draw on unrivalled knowledge and resources to provide an open, independent and sharpened focus on contemporary China, informed by a deep engagement with China's history, culture, language and society.

By inventing a bogus country and a language to go with it, they avoid having to comment on contemporary politics.

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016), a French - language debut by one of the world's greatest living directors that should have happened years ago, stands in for the contemporary world cinema I still haven't been able to sample.

Besides giving students a doorway to contemporary culture in the target language, many sites offer something that used to be even harder to come by in the classroom: videos and audio clips, including podcasts, that range from real news items to fictional entertainment and multimedia language lessons.

English as an additional language (EAL) is a contemporary term (particularly in the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union) for English as a second language (ESL): the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in an English - speaking environment.

Compared to the current RDX, the new one looks more aggressive and contemporary, and that may have something to do with the fact that it's the first Acura production model to fully embody the new design language previewed by the Precision Concept.

Le French Book is a digital - first publisher whose function is to take the French - language bestsellers being written by some of the greatest contemporary writers in France and translate those books for international audiences.

At the same time, I love language and am inspired by contemporary writers who are genius wordsmiths at the sentence - by - sentence level: Chabon, Franzen, Eugenides.

His work shocked contemporaries and often sparked outrage — the flagrant Blue Nude, a provocative, perverse portrait of Amélie reclining in the garden sunlight was misunderstood and received by critics like a physical assault on the senses, language Matisse used himself to explain his almost violent process.

The author's latest novel, about the abrasions on the soul inflicted by today's cell - phone society, is a brilliant paradigm of contemporary commercial crassness and sexual exhaustion, written in vibrant, metaphorically soaring language.

Wisdom is leading English language publisher specializing in Buddhist literature including translation of reference texts, and commentaries, meditation manuals and teachings by past and contemporary teachers from all Buddhist traditions.

I realize contemporary writers like Karen Russell and Haruki Murakami have put their own spin on the magical realism form, but I'm still concerned that because my writing has a more cultural, historical - flashback, language - oriented feel to it, it might not be well received by readers looking for something more current to read.

Referencing past precedents of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for contemporary female expression.

I've been struck by the fact that contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about contemporary painting.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

Sharon Hayes, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendelton and Carey Young Curated by Jess Wilcox How to do things with Words explores the social and political consequences of language in contemporary society.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

The Sound of Silence has been exhibited 25 times world - wide to date, in 18 countries and 10 languages; it was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

McGinness creates paintings, sculptures and environments by using the visual language of public signs, corporate logos and contemporary iconography.

These lead to twelve contemporary projects — like objects as Found Fonts by Paul Elliman, language set into landscape by Shannon Ebner, or language as the human mark itself, carved into marble by Trisha Donnelly.

Sightings, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak Sculpture, photographs, and a video by Tom Burr, D - L Alvarez, Dean Sameshima, and Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset that reveals the specialized languages of the different locations where anonymous sex occurs and contemporary art is exhibited.

It shows that the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical, revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last fifty years, and that they continue to provoke contemporary practitioners into dialogue.

Through a precise examination of this distinct form of artistic practice in works by artists ranging from John Cage to Sanford Biggers, this exhibition provides a unique perspective on the ways in which modern and contemporary artists have used language, objects, and images to forge social contracts with their publics.

The impact between a primordial language and forms of representation of the unknown is well - stated in the exhibition I am the body of a human, a solo show by Andrew Birk currently at MCA — Malta Contemporary...

It includes a critical essay by Brooke Holmes investigating the concept of «liquid antiquity»; a series of 27 lexemes that critically rethink the traditional language of classicism, written by prominent critics and scholars; and ten interviews with contemporary artists (Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Haris Epaminonda, Urs Fischer, Jeff Koons, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Charles Ray, Asad Raza, Kaari Upson and Adrián Villar Rojas).

The exhibition, focusing on a selection of over 80 works by 62 contemporary artists belonging to Portugal's principal contemporary art collection, surveys a period of shifts in artistic language — the 60's and 70's — that ushered in the new contemporary.

The museum's unique collection of international contemporary art is a selective collection of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive visual language, objects and images with great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects of cultural production.

Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.

Organized by CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art director Anthony Huberman, the exhibition, spanning three floors at the gallery's uptown location, offers a breakdown of the artist's broad artistic language alongside a publication edited by Wouter Davidts.

The language it is using to describe its curatorial approach is striking and should serve as a model for peer institutions dedicated to collecting insightful work by politically and culturally astute contemporary artists addressing substantive social issues.

With his contemporary art - inspired video programmes, Cornelis, who has worked for 30 years with the Duch - language Belgian public channel VRT, has subverted the traditional dogmas and rules adopted by the mass media.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

We worked with him in a group show approximately a year ago, and were profoundly impressed by his rigor, use of space, and the way his work is pushing the boundaries of contemporary language and abstraction.»

He turned the structure of pictorial space on its ear and expanded the language of gesture by trading in the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism for decorative switchbacks drawn from the needle of an industrial sewing machine... The Shields avatar continues to influence the work of contemporary artists ranging from Jessica Stockholder to Jim Lambie to Lauren Luloff, and his aesthetic reach is one that crosses platforms, mediums and milieus.»