If facial expressions are just cultural traits, passed down through
the generations by imitation, their meanings would have diverged by now, he argued.
Not exact matches
Culture is passed along
by communication and
imitation from one
generation to the next.
What Pius XII was ring - fencing in Humanae Generis was the Tridentine definition of Original Sin being passed on
by generation not
by imitation, not the existence of an individual named Adam as such.
Not having such a theology of inspiration and interpretation, when Enns is wrestling with the concept of a historical Adam he strays from the doctrine of original sin, which teaches that original sin is passed on
by generation, and allowsfor an interpretation that «all have sinned» through
imitation or accident or, worse still, because we were created that way.
It convinced him that the challenge faced
by his
generation of artists was to try to paint truths about the world without depicting things; to discover whether it was possible to make paintings about reality without resorting to
imitation.