Sentences with phrase «for contemporary experience»

The works build through a stream of images and ideas with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...» In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

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Ms. Stewart has been thinking about how to reach China's growing middle class for some time; she told The Guardian last year that Alibaba founder Jack Ma had encouraged her, arguing that her past experiences at Kmart in the U.S. could have a parallel in contemporary China.

Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

Contemporary man lives in a perpetual present that experiences little or no fascination for or energizing pull from great positive expectations for the future — an unprecedented state of affairs in our history that constitutes a breach from our past.

Our goal was thus to continue to provide our visitors with all the same compelling content, but to put in place the necessary mechanisms for growth in a contemporary context — that is, to expand the functionality of the server, to increase the types of content we can provide, and to provide an experience that is consistent across all devices and platforms.

We do not yet possess a mystagogy in the experience of God and his grace which would be practicable for the ordinary pastor and which would appeal to our sceptical, scientifically trained contemporaries.

There can be no appeal to woman's experience or to contemporary psychological knowledge for norms by which to evaluate the Christian revelation.

Various chapters in this book, as well as other reading and my own experience in churches, persuade me that all these kinds of knowledge and more really would be helpful for contemporary ministers.

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

And this conclusion can not be avoided by claiming that the experiencing subject would not include other subjects contemporary with it; for Whitehead explicitly asserts that any two mutually contemporary occasions are also (in a sense not involving causal objectification) mutually immanent (AI 278, 254; PR 91; SMW 106f).

The problem of Santa Claus theology is that it emphasizes belief for belief's sake, or affirms a belief which no longer accords with contemporary experience.

Well, foolish or not, theology tries to answer it, speculatively but consistently with what is known from tradition as well as what is seen, maybe for the first time, in contemporary experience.

He states that he advanced beyond his contemporaries and was zealous for his father's traditions (1.14), thus describing his experience of Judaism in human, not divine terms.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grFor he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grfor our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

This conviction also allows for the conscious use of social science and contemporary experience to increase our understanding of the faith.

What would it mean to go to the scriptures — for example, to the Pauline metaphor of the body and its members — with such contemporary experiences and questions fully present and articulated?

For evidence we may cite the contemporary existentialist philosophy in which nothing matters but the moment of experience.

Jonathan Edwards is interesting for contemporary theologians because he developed a balance of brilliant intellectual honesty, fidelity to the biblical traditions, and an openness to new insight brought by personal experience.

This dialectic provides categories, within our contemporary context, for discerning how communal expressions, when they are cut off from transformative communal experiences, become «objective» and «institutionalized» in ways which dichotomize subjects and objects, experiences and expressions.

Therefore the hermeneutical task calls for the translation of Israel's experience into a contemporary systematic and conceptual framework, one that can do justice to its historical concerns.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

So questions that impinge upon our contemporary personal experience of selfhood, community, racism, sexuality, good and evil, and meaning may form the structure for films of great religious power.

In fact, with Proudfoot's two - term option his own book begs for a more sophisticated approach — for while it denies realism in the name of a contemporary hermeneutics of suspicion, it claims to offer a realistic account of past scholarship on religious experience.

A comparable situation has occurred in Ireland since the 1990's, and the Church in Poland generally for reasons particular to contemporary Polish history has experienced much of the same over the past few years.

In an age when our experience of change and process is more fundamental than our experience of a static or stable matter and form, some theory other than that of the Greeks may prove to be more helpful for developing a contemporary understanding of man.

They pleaded with their contemporaries to pursue such experiences for themselves.

This same Spirit renders each of us a contemporary, as it were, of this Jesus — astonishing as it is to comprehend — in a faith encounter in which God's Spirit effects living contact for each believer with the foundational experience of belief: the encounter with the Lord.

For, without a knowledge of the worship experience of the church throughout history, we are left without adequate tools for either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian traditiFor, without a knowledge of the worship experience of the church throughout history, we are left without adequate tools for either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian traditifor either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian tradition.

For example, Pinnock says that evangelicals seek to maintain doctrinal continuity with the apostles and the early church while liberals work inductively from contemporary experience (13).

Though relativity physics establishes that temporal ordering of causally independent events (contemporaries) depends on one's perspective within the universe, special relativity theory can not rule out universally inclusive experiences of simultaneity (the very meaning of «uni-verse «21) because the necessity of such a cosmic ordering also implies the necessity for relative orderings within the universe.

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.

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Fully transformed for a completely new experience, Eddy's offers 64 guest rooms, 1 Parlor suite and 4 private cabins, each uniquely designed and enhanced with contemporary décor.

VanHeulen will continue to build on the diverse menu of contemporary twists on Latin favorites, while creating new experiences for Grand Rapids diners.

Award - winning Executive Chef, Steve Pickell, combines «Contemporary Fusion Cuisine» with premium wines in a stylish setting, creating a well - rounded flair for the total foodie experience.

With the guidance of our seasoned culinary team and an expansive selection of Italian, Greek, French - Mediterranean, Mexican, Japanese and contemporary American cuisine, Catering by Mike Isabella works closely with you to develop one - of - a-kind experiences for groups both large and intimate.

From small plates to contemporary to prix fixe menus, Ninety Acres offers a dining experience for every palate.

Hotel Matilda is a dynamic contemporary hotel celebrated for its chic lifestyle - focused guest experience and one - of - a-kind art and culinary events.

On January 20th, PRG Hospitality, the restaurant group known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate America's former leaders, invites you to join them at LINCOLN, Teddy & The Bully Bar or Declaration.

Known for offering guests an unparalleled culinary experience, this internationally recognized contemporary Latin restaurant group successfully owns and operates more than 37 restaurant concepts around the globe.

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About Presidential Restaurant Group (PRG Hospitality): Founded in 2011 by restaurateur Alan Popovsky and local businessman Melvyn J. Estrin, PRG is known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate American presidents in a multifaceted style.

About Presidential Restaurant Group (PRG Hospitality): Founded in 2011 by restaurateur Alan Popovsky and late local businessman Melvyn J. Estrin, PRG is known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate American presidents in a multifaceted style.

Contemporary Super Loges will feature for the first time in a UK stadium and are therefore expected to be extremely popular as they provide the intimacy of a private dining experience with access to a Members» lounge bar for networking.

The result of a near death experience, Semple's passion for producing quirky, pop art - infused contemporary works led to his seminal exhibition HappyCloud at the Tate Modern in 2009.

Here's a great opportunity for the ones - and - zeroes crowd to contribute their skillz and experience to what's shaping up to be a pivotal development in our contemporary political culture.

Although a renowned political dissident, the contemporary artist's eccentric, Tate - friendly image may be shared by many in this country who are unaware of the horrors he experienced at the hands of the Chinese government, when detained in 2011 for the 81 excruciating days starkly dissected in this production.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.

Every detail from the rich leather stools to the brides organic tropical bouquet celebrated the experience that Sandals can offer for contemporary wedding ceremonies on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean.

The team behind Gameday Goddess has experience from interning at Conde Nast (VOGUE) to buying contemporary clothing for Dillard's.