Sentences with phrase «cultural matrix»

The Christian cultural matrix was conducive to the impartial, empirical observation of the material realm for the dogmas of creation and Incarnation offered the intellectual stimulus to perceiving order and finality in the universe without thereby confusing matter with Divine Being.

Whereas in the past it was possible to recognise a unitary cultural matrix, broadly accepted in its appeal to the content of the faith and the values inspired by it, today this no longer seems to be the case in large swathes of society, because of a profound crisis of faith that has affected many people.

The social and cultural matrix out of which oldline Protestant institutions arose was different from what we experience today.

QUEERY explores individual stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.

2:40 - 4:30 pm Session 2 Crossings: Film, Narrative and the «Black Atlantic» Cultural Matrix Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker, London Steve McQueen, artist and filmmaker, Amsterdam Moderated by Okwui Enwezor

It is notorious that the ineradicable ideas left in Descartes's mind after he had doubted everything were products of the philosophical and theological work, or more broadly of the cultural matrix, that had formed his mind.

For example, Bernard Lonergan points out, «A theology mediates between a cultural matrix and the significance and role of a religion in that matrix.

«4 Does this not overlook the fact that all thought occurs within a cultural matrix.

But there can be little doubt that it is emerging today as a major religious force that Christian faith will encounter directly as a rival and indirectly as a prominent ingredient in the cultural matrix in which the gospel must be proclaimed.

The issue, as addressed by Mosse, involves on the one hand «the existence of structural continuities between Hindu and Christian social and supernatural worlds, and on the other the relationship of the distinctive Christian institutions and the universal ideals and values of Christianity to this cultural matrix in which the religion is embedded.»

Mission for a congregation means the crossing over of the boundaries of its cultural matrix into a world where the congregation's household webs of significance no longer obtain and the household is threatened by different discourses, stories, and social forces.

Rejecting the possibility of isolating Christian experience from a cultural matrix, Niebuhr cites four different motifs by which the relation between Christ and culture has been perceived:

In a closely related manner, some of the most visible members of the contemporary LA art scene resume all the gothic fixations of the prior Helter Skelter generation (after Paul Schimmel's 1992 exhibition at MoCA, «Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s»), only now these are strained through a cultural matrix that cleanses away every last trace of self - conscious suffering.

«The Beat Goes On» creates an environment that draws visitors into a cultural matrix in which the personal experiences expressed by one artist cross over into the next room, emphasizing along the way how artists of color negotiate the mostly white art world.

Glenn Kaino's often kinetic, always dynamic sculptures play off language, history, and theoretical constructions to question the cultural matrix in which he is entangled.