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Works were selected to highlight the depth and breadth of artistic practice in Iraq, but also to expose a shared
emphasis on the nature of everyday life there, exemplified by a determination «to make do and get by» and an inventiveness borne out of necessity in extraordinary historical circumstances.
Almost five decades later, Penone continues to explore the intersection between man and nature in his work, with particular
emphasis on nature's persistence over man's constant interferences.
Paterson's artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with
emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology.
Considered a bit of a modern day Brazilian Neo Concretist, Neto's
emphasis on nature, sensuality and playfulness invite viewers to set aside their traditional notions of sculpture and become a part of the art works he creates.
Katie Paterson's artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with
an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology.
A dream destination for a singles bootcamp holiday, following an initial assessment with professional fitness trainers, delve into a fitness programme of daily training sessions with a strong
emphasis on nature.
With a strong
emphasis on nature, Wildfitness excludes fitness myths and works on changing your body and teaching you how to be healthy.
With
its emphasis on nature, all kids will engage in «community investigations.»
Assessment has been the focus of considerable research over many years leading to greater recognition of the importance of formative assessment and
an emphasis on the nature of the evidence being assessed.
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With
its emphasis on nature as a vast web of interdependence that is alive through and through, it affirms with Schweitzer that individual creatures, human included, have intrinsic value.
Not exact matches
This is important because the self - absorbed
nature of narcissism is antithetical to caring for others, or an
emphasis on employee development that characterize high quality leadership; moreover, CEOs often escape this kind of research attention.
This
emphasis on being close to
nature is echoed with the use of natural building materials.
By
nature, and sometimes to their detriment, investors place more
emphasis on what happened recently instead of taking a broader view.
The
emphasis on actual entities and prehensions obscures the significance of time in Whitehead's later philosophy, although it was through the development of the study of time in
nature that his final position was reached.
The
emphasis has characteristically been
on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and
nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»
Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an
emphasis among early Christians
on the historical
nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed
on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»
When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger
emphasis on the fact of the true human
nature of Christ.
Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its
emphasis on realism in theology,
on the kerygma of the Bible,
on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life,
on the radical
nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive faith.
In my usage the
emphasis is
on the causal relation between the inner being of the person and the
nature of the outer act.
With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their
emphases on a sacramental understanding of
nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.
In gentler tones this is also the burden of the Sermon
on the Mount where, without any abrogating of the Ten Commandments, the
emphasis is shifted away from legalism to those inner attitudes that determine the
nature of a man, and hence his acts.
the gospel of Matthew — that will be carried out in two stages: first, the attestation of a genuinely «universalistic» undercurrent that overextends the christological witness but buttresses the theocentric
emphasis; second, an attempt to make use of a Whiteheadian understanding of the
nature of language in developing an adequate hermeneutical perspective
on the significance of this undercurrent.
, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based
on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal
emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in
nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of
nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)
Modernity's
emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of
nature which produced a
nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs
on the basis of rational discussion.
What we see in the Syrian tradition is a Christianity which in its understanding of human
nature was eager to preserve the freedom of the human being and a certain degree of self - reliance, thereby laying strong
emphasis on ethical power and the sense of responsibility.
Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb: Human
Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms race goes
on because people allow it» (p. 22, their
emphasis).
Though Wilder and Funk recognized the close relationship between humans and
nature, their emphasis was on Nature as human activity and relatio
nature, their
emphasis was
on Nature as human activity and relatio
Nature as human activity and relationship.
And Descartes is the central figure in the modem
emphasis on a free inner self, disengaged from
nature and able through reason to control the natural world.
The pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated
emphasis on the morbid manifestations and
on the lower aspects of human
nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings.
This tension is, essentially, that between the Enlightenment
emphasis on disengaged reason exercising control over
nature, and the Romantic
emphasis on self - expression and creative imagination.
In its
emphasis on the aspect of reversal with the arrival of the rule of God, the «
nature parables» stand in the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard work.
It was Luke's
emphasis on the historicity of the resurrection event, and
on the physical
nature of Christ's risen form, which, coupled with the traditions of ascension and Pentecost in Acts, were destined to set the pattern for the traditional view of Christ's resurrection.
«While Alpha's lectures
on the Holy Spirit don't conflict with our denominational theology» says Baumgartner, «some of our churches are more comfortable than others with the
emphasis on the Spirit's charismatic
nature.
The understanding that Christ fulfils all that is good in human
nature and in creation can be lacking in these theological circles (with notable exceptions, of course), so there is not always a strong
emphasis on the link between liturgy and the rest of life.
Darwin's theory of the natural selection of chance variations put an
emphasis on the role of chance in determining the order of
nature in the living world.
It is now almost twenty years since, among other things, an article by Christopher Duraisingh in Religion and Society, laying
emphasis on the hyphenated character of Indian - Christian identity, [3] sparked off a debate about the
nature of this identity of Indian - Christians in the contemporary context.
By the same token, temporality is radically linked to the becoming of
nature and no longer to the Jewish - Christian conception of history (in which the
emphasis is more
on the future than
on the past).
This Word - flesh typology was at the heart of the controversy at the Council of Ephesus, wherein the orthodox Cyril of Alexandria insisted that Jesus was the Word made flesh, not the Word united to a human man — a subtle distinction, but one that places the
emphasis on the complete assumption of human
nature by the Word rather than the particular choice of a man by God.
Starting from the same premises concerning social complexity and cultural differentiation, Luhmann nevertheless is led along a different route by his
emphasis on the paradoxical
nature of social relations.
Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from
nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its
emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.
This
emphasis on the instrumental value of
nature has four main arguments.
A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of
nature with its
emphasis on chance and struggle rather than
on beneficent design.
This ran counter to the Continental
emphasis on the eschatological
nature of the Kingdom and their understanding that the Kingdom is a gift of God and not a human achievement.
I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great
emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of
nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.