Sentences with phrase «cultural forms»

Too often church feels foreign to those outside it because of cultural forms of worship.
Each element of worship rather expresses a particular cultural form that will naturally be more welcoming to some and less to others.
It might be a good idea to recreate church around the current cultural forms of community.
If we have truly various cultural forms of faith, we need to also recognize that none of them is capable of expressing all the aspects and dimensions of faith.
While explicitly addressing loss, his installation speaks to the persistence and resistance of cultural forms through time, and the potential for internally coherent spaces to exist within other, seemingly dominant spaces.
So we've decided that no one cultural form will be dominant and everyone will be equally unhappy with the worship!
This dialogue and communion are truly the way for saving the faith from being reduced to any one particular self - enclosed cultural form.
They speak in their own languages, express their feelings in their own style, create their own cultural forms, and establish their own norms.
Video games are one of the most vibrant cultural forms of the 21st century — but they have an image problem.
Their work investigates cultural forms and their connection to the environment and nature often taking form of interactive installation, or DIY projects.
For our installations we use a combination of natural and artificially constructed elements placed in situations where cultural forms are being confronted.
Her long practice of self - portraiture, which she expands significantly in this new group of small paintings, is an active investigation of cultural forms related to the self.
In paintings of Asian Christian communities Christ took Asian cultural forms in a most vivid way.
Rather, what Crouch did was to continue the tradition of creating new cultural forms from within the folk culture he inhabited and taking such artifacts into a broader public space.
The Canadian trio mimicked and mutated mass - cultural forms from beauty pageants to boutiques to glossy magazines, always returning with vertiginous glee and cutting irony to the intricacies of creating an identity in a
I mention prominent because while many other cultural forms like music, movies and writing have a dearth of black voices, they at least have people who are out there making their culture better at all levels and are very visible.»
But the season of sewing is ending, and we need to separate that which is Christian from cultural forms taken over and reshaped for post-Christian purposes.
If that remains the dominant cultural form within which ministers are trained, then the foundations laid in theological education will be increasingly inadequate for understanding theologically a large part of the world in which ministry will actually be exercised.
Among cultural forms he clearly favored the visual arts, thus himself helping to foster another branch of the interdiscipline.
In the early twentieth century Protestants are mistaking dynamic cultural forms for the content of their faith.
Process artists tend to go experience something similar while creating their pieces, which is why cultural forms like sun dance and sandpainting, especially the making of the mandala were also highly influential.
Recently, urban vinyl figures have evolved from mere merchandising into a unique cultural form and a new highly inspirational movement with its own culture, rivalries, and heroes.
«Outside Insight» evinces his identification with vernacular African - American cultural forms, self - effacing relationship to authorship, and profound sense of the value of everyday objects and gestures.»
Cut to Swipe traces key works, produced since the early 1980s, which have pioneered innovative ways of rearticulating the moving image and appropriated cultural forms within the gallery.
In his third essay Patterson extends this badly needed de-idealization to such cultural forms as rap.
We know of Wifredo Lam and Lois Mailou Jones's and other black diasporic artists» vexed relationship to Surrealism and primitivism, artistic and literary movements that started in Europe and co-opted black bodies and black cultural forms.
Consequently when in the life of the church cultural forms triumph over religious content and faith disappears, and when in the course of time men begin to wonder what content these forms were originally intended to symbolize, the historic explanations which they will advance will be given in terms of national or racial destiny rather than in terms of a rediscovered religious truth.
And the triumph of cultural forms over religious content is even more deadly than the triumph of ecclesiastic forms.
But at the same time, this idea intersects with postmodern thought (from the 1980s and 1990s) that began to understand cultural forms through linguistic frameworks.
In this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praises.
Finally, the embodied reason of man's shared cultural forms bears the mark of the free creative determinations of the self - conscious human spirit.
Nevertheless, in an age when distinctive folk cultural forms like hip hop are going mainstream into popular culture, Pentecostalism has a certain kind of appeal.
They are appropriating contemporary cultural forms and creating a new genre of worship music.
How have parish communities avoided the temptation of leaving the work of instruction in the faith to other agents of religious education (for example, their passing the responsibility to schools, thus confusing instruction in the faith with possible cultural forms of religiously oriented education)?
The result is that the religious impulse is forced into a schizoid situation, wherein a way to go must be sought amid other cultural forms outside the orbit of our denominational boundaries.
The affinity between this mode of economic organization and certain modes of moral and cognitive culture that have roots deep in western culture undoubtedly helps explain why those modes, utilitarianism and science, have become such central cultural forms in modern America.
People have become disoriented as traditional cultural forms lose their authority over our lives.
We can seek out all the kinds of community life for their own sake, and wherein we might sustain older cultural forms or even come up with new ones.
The prophetic movement is a cultural movement to purify and transform the illicitly mixed and distorted cultural forms threatening the community of God's people.

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