Sentences with phrase «cultural forms triumph»

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.

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And the triumph of cultural forms over religious content is even more deadly than the triumph of ecclesiastic forms.

Unlike, let's say, the wider historical account, which includes the whole bohemian world that is inseparable from its political and social surroundings in Dore Ashton's essential volume New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, or Irving Sandler's landmark Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, your observation that the beginning of pluralist taste in art begins with Cahill and continues onward to the works of Allen Ruppersberg and more recently, deliberately formed art collectives like Bernadette Corporation and the Bruce High Quality Foundation.