Sentences with phrase «great imaginative vision»

They are functionally identical with biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative vision of the New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.

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It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

Cubism reduced space and sensation not to planes or cubes, but to a greater variety of cues for the imagination, from textures to song titles — the deliberate incongruity, challenging the coherence of any imaginative vision, that Foucault called a heterotopia.