Sentences with phrase «great cultural movement»

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

The story of the early church shows us the great cultural movement of Christian communities which transformed the culture of the Roman Empire.

Not exact matches

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

The unrest over that loss of cultural currency has spawned a great deal of important theological reflection — and it has led to movements, like the Vineyard, which value cultural relevancy.

And yet it would be difficult to exaggerate not only the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

And the Nazi movement represents a cultural development which utterly contradicts the cultural traditions of Great Britain and France.

Should there be greater movement toward such neoevangelicalism, conservative churches can continue to grow by serving those near the conservative end of a moving cultural spectrum.

But white North American Christian feminists have shown a great deal of sensitivity to the need for cultural pluralism within the broader movement of women, and even in this respect they are able to give encouragement, if not leadership, in other cultures.

Those who have read the book know that Tickle goes into much greater detail about the questions and challenges raised by cognitive science, literary deconstruction, higher criticism, Freud, Jung, Campbell, Einstein, Heisenbuerg, and many other philosophical / scientific / cultural movements.

The standards movement gained greater momentum in the mid-1980s with the creation of the Core Knowledge Foundation by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., a professor at the University of Virginia who in 1987 authored the bestseller Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know.

His oeuvre was of great importance to the breakthrough of Tropicália, the cultural movement that protested the repressions of the military regime.

For example, Scott Goodson is the founder of the world's first cultural movement agency and his blog gives great insight into the world of modern marketing.

Writing in Creative Time Reports, Robert Lovato describes some of the cultural interventions that artist / activists are staging to campaign for migrants» rights — particularly those adapting the monarch butterfly, that great migrator, as the movement's symbol.

For «Human Traffic», Rina Banerjee has specifically produced a series of artworks (sculptures, wooden panels, large format drawings) illustrating her reflections on the theme of movement, which she interprets in a positive (journeys that generate a great cultural diversity and richness) as well as a more abrupt way, with the forced physical circulation of bodies due to war, terrorism and poverty, thereby implicating migrations of every kind.

His cultural circle also included the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 - 2009) and the composer John Cage (1912 - 92)- later to become influential in the Neo-Dada and Fluxus movements - as well as the Belgian sculptor Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965), the great Romanian modernist Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957)(whose simplification of natural forms had a lasting influence on Kelly), and the American inventor of mobiles and stabiles Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976).

We've watched great cultural shifts and organizing successes in recent years, like the marriage - equality and immigration - reform movements.

From a purely marketing point of view, it's great to see local movements like this embracing mainstream cultural heroes, rather than remaining in the usual hippy ghetto that is so often the domain of such initiatives.