A new show on California artist Wallace Berman (1926 - 1976) makes the case for
his enduring significance as a seminal cultural figure and numinous conduit of his times.
The designation recognizes Muir Woods»
enduring significance as «the birthplace of the modern conservation movement.»
Not exact matches
A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them
as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of
enduring meanings and human
significance.
In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only
as a man: • adultery has lost its moral
significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its
enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.
Despite the success of a few popular figures, such
as Joyce Kilmer, there had been almost no literature of
enduring significance.
Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (
as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its
significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God
as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an
enduring quality which nothing can take away.
In view of this longstanding tradition, referring to the Church
as the «new Israel» is legitimate, so long
as this is not understood
as denying the
enduring significance of ethnic Israel.
God's immediate feelings have realized the past self's ultimate worth and
significance as an
enduring individual which essentially contributes to the divine experiential cosmos (PR 349 / 530).
The purely literal reading deprives the paradigmatic events of our faith of their
enduring redemptive
significance today and reduces an historical religion, such
as ours is, to a mere memory.
Everything of
enduring significance that ancient Israel became, believed, and proclaimed is ultimately influenced not only by what actually occurred in the time of the exodus, but by the story of the exodus — the story
as it was first remembered and repeated; the story
as it assumed relatively fixed classical forms in different areas, in the North or South; the story
as its multiple versions, written and oral, were compared, mutually «corrected,» and finally composed into the single, unified narrative that is before us now.
The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences —
as well
as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less
enduring significance than they were at home.
Here the ceilings overflow with a modern mythology of the War in Vietnam and opposing peace movements of the 1960s and»70s, subjects that —
as in much of the artist's best - known work — speak to the
enduring significance of the Vietnam era
as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.
Having spent her formative years active within anti-war initiatives in Philadelphia, much of the artist's work speaks to the
enduring significance of the Vietnam era
as a nexus of imperialism and resistance.