Sentences with phrase «contemporary relevance»

Because of its historical relevance (not to say contemporary relevance) to theology.

Looking at the growth in awareness and appreciation of live performance that has taken place over the last few years, the exhibition compellingly illuminates the unerring contemporary relevance of this art form in the here and now.

For all of mainstream theology's vaunted concern for contemporary relevance, when it speaks of sin and reflects on God's responsibility for sin it refuses to face the implications of the collapse of the historicity of the fall.

Frank Hobbs finds contemporary relevance in the 18th century Discourses of painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.

«dangerous liaisons» is one of my all - time favorite movies — a period piece with contemporary relevance.

Given Europe's own summer of terror, with the wave of attacks in France and Germany — not to mention devastating attacks in Iraq, Turkey, Orlando and elsewhere — the picture is likely to have strong contemporary relevance even with its historical setting.

This large - scale retrospective of Calder's oeuvre is the first to be held in Korea, allowing the Korean public to experience works which have been continuously exhibited around the world to resounding response and with astounding contemporary relevance even forty years after the artist's death.

The film makes some vague stabs at contemporary relevance by bringing in a Julian - Assange - type figure (Vinzenz Kiefer) and a young tech billionaire (Riz Ahmed) in uneasy affiliation with the CIA.

Doyle's last solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery in 2012 brought 19th century paintings by Thomas Cole, 15th century panoramic landscapes by Hans Memling, and Last Judgment altarpieces from the Renaissance to contemporary relevance by reinterpreting original narrative and using new technologies to address timeless subjects.

With a career extended across more than half a century, Stella both holds an important place in the history of American art and maintains contemporary relevance as his work continues to influence younger generations of artists.

With the success of the AFL in the early half of the 20th century being based solely on a single issue it could be argued that there can be little contemporary relevance to these productions.

At three hours long, Waste requires patience from its audience, but given the plethora of witticisms and seemingly boundless contemporary relevance it is well worth the investment.

In fact, Chappaquiddick carries some nonpartisan contemporary relevance when looking at the ways in which power and influence facilitate a high - profile cover - up.

A crackling entertainment made with precision and political purpose, «The Post» examines a crucial moment in American journalism, although the film clearly invites viewers to see the material's gripping contemporary relevance.

Mark calls it a work gloriously unmoored from contemporary relevance, and it's true that you don't think about a thing outside that lush 35 mm frame for the length of the movie's unfolding.

It's also worth pointing out that if Welles's screenplay had been filmed, it would almost certainly have had a much more pointed contemporary relevance than Coppola's version of the story.

Steven Spielberg's latest couldn't be more obviously a grasp at contemporary relevance if it was titled The Post #TheResistance.

The Museum's STEM programs use tactile experiments to demonstrate real wartime challenges and technological solutions, teach contemporary relevance, and improve 21st century skills.

Taking lyrics from Robert Burns» 1792 poem of the same title, the work is a collaborative blend of music traditions — Scottish folk song, classical music and Reggae — whose soothing lyrics empathise with the displaced and enslaved, and have real contemporary relevance given the current tragedies unfolding on our borders.

Given the media revolution brought about by internet - connected mobile devices in the past 10 years, it might be surprising to find so much contemporary relevance in the collective works of a group of artists who first garnered recognition more than thirty years ago.

Guided by this principle, she uses these same techniques to infuse antiquarian, domestic objects with a mildly eccentric sensibility that affords them their own contemporary relevance.

Ringgold will address the making, history, and contemporary relevance of her monumental painting American People Series # 20: Die (1967), a recent MoMA acquisition that is currently on view in From the Collection: 1960 — 1969.

Their use of Wesleyan sources (meaning material from John and Charles Wesley or the «Wesleyan» traditions after them) typically blends historical investigation with concern for contemporary relevance.

This last point has contemporary relevance in relation to China's rise as a great power, and its frustration at what it feels is the unfair denial of a status commensurate with its growing power and influence by the US and the West.

Brett Ratner: It is an epic story, and it raises issues with strong contemporary relevance.

I agree with this evaluation of her contemporary relevance: «Her ideas and understanding of the human person are as alive and fresh today as they were when she first shared them through her writings.»

The Dutch theologians who are now exploring the contemporary relevance of the thought of Kuyper and Bavinck are working closely with theologians with similar interests at the University of Edinburgh, Princeton Seminary, Fuller Seminary, and theological schools in Asia and Africa.

To clarify its meaning and show its contemporary relevance has a greater chance of influencing Christians than other forms of theological writing.

When we deal with the question of the contemporary relevance of this particular text, we are reminded that the church continues its warfare against the principalities and powers.

But whatever constricting influence this view may have had on the Jewish religion can have no contemporary relevance in the light of Jewish influence on the rise of Christianity and Islam.

The quest for the historical Jesus eludes our attempts to force the gospel into any box of contemporary relevance.

The Christian proclamation is based upon it; it is, indeed, a way in which that proclamation is given both historical grounding and contemporary relevance.

Such an exercise is also important not because it involves some kind of antiquarian interest devoid of contemporary relevance but because it is something which ought to be undertaken in coming to terms with attitudes and responses to the «role» of women in the church today.

Haight reviews the contemporary relevance of the fifth - century christological controversies without ever mentioning the quiet revolution in official Catholic Christology that has taken place in recent years.

When the biblical scholar arrived at an historical understanding of the eschatological foundation of Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God, he brought to an end the contemporary relevance of the biblical form of Jesus» message.

According to Hochschild, two of these emphasize the contemporary relevance of ancient Jesus group behavior, while two deny such relevance.

Writing a book about an aspect of war that has contemporary relevance is challenging, but historian and independent writer Lizzie Collingham has been here before.

Moreover, this debate is not new, with the nascent labour and socialist movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contesting both the legacy and the contemporary relevance of this historic charter.

So in the closing stages of 2014, with the upcoming general election outcome still hanging in the balance, the contemporary relevance of a near century old play was too seductive a choice for the theatre's hierarchy to overlook.

When Harley Granville - Barker put pen to paper at the first iteration of Waste in 1906, he could scarcely have comprehended the contemporary relevance his play would carry more than a century later.

Bone up on the areas of policy you're interested in, and home in on a few key questions of contemporary relevance.