Sentences with phrase «historical position as»

The [Koons] exhibition's historical position as the last to fill the Breuer building is a travesty, an abdication of the museum's responsibility to balance aesthetic discernment with the forces of the marketplace.

This challenges the Commission's historical position as an «honest broker» — a position that has already come under some considerable strain as the institution has come under increasing pressure from the European Council, and from the more activist EP.

For we shall neither defend her former social position as far as at all possible, nor shall we want to make her give up whatever is still left of this historical position as fast as possible and of her own free will.

Not exact matches

The notion that positioning extremes harbor potential once they reach certain levels rings true in the historical context, but one has to keep in mind that this context may no longer be as relevant as it once was — at least in terms of the specific boundaries that were established in the past.

It is about as clear as any historical chain can get that this implosion is a direct consequence of the famous Lambeth Conference in 1930, at which the Anglicans abandoned the longstanding Christian position on contraception.

(This is the inverse of the old position, which saw historical events as acts of God: gesta Dei per Francorum!)

This is not to say that Bornkamm has moved to the position of «realized eschatology» (91); rather he sees (with Bultmann) the tension between future and present as inherent in the involvement of the imperative in the indicative, i.e. inherent in the historical understanding of the self.

But to return to Whitehead's explicit position, we should observe that he believed that the great virtue of Christianity has been that it is not so much a metaphysic seeking some historical grounding as it is an historical fact and focus (found in Jesus) seeking for metaphysical explanation.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

Whereas Childs is a Presbyterian committed to reformulating the classical Calvinist doctrine of sola scriptura in response to the challenge of historical criticism, Barr's more modernistic position, as we have seen, awards a much smaller role to the Bible in the ascertainment of truth and a large role to post-biblical tradition, which he often sees as a corrective and an improvement over the Bible.

The first conclusion largely identifies natural processes with historical processes, although Collingwood here tentatively adumbrates his criticism on Whitehead's lack of historical insight.30 The second conclusion, as already indicated, dearly moves away from this position (B 3).

I am in no position to enter into the historical debate as to the relative importance of the several sources of Gnosticism, but I must attempt to place it in reference to the schematism of this book.

The heavy reliance on its own internal historical memory may seem to imply that Christianity is just another esoteric religion, accessible only to a group of insiders There is, of course, a certain insider's perspective in any faith tradition, but it would be contrary to the inclusive character of Christianity to interpret our belonging to a Church community as though it were a position of privilege that separates us from those not so gifted.

We are in no position to assert as an historical fact that Jesus did «this» or said «that» just because we read it in the Gospels.

«He [Joseph of Aramathea] is certainly historical; we know his position and his birthplace; he makes himself felt, in the gospel narratives, as a man of flesh and blood.»

2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to draw this sort of conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask: by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?

As a matter of fact, however, this position is a high and beautiful nest, for while it is not dependent on historical verification, neither is it threatened by any new discovery.

Critics have sometimes said that the third book discloses a different position on the importance of what is known as the historical Jesus than is revealed in the first.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

It is for this reason that the kerygma has become a whole unified theological position which has just as nearly swept the field in twentieth - century theology as did the theology of the historical Jesus in the nineteenth century.

Consequently it would be erroneous to see Bultmann's theological position with regard to Jesus as a belated appendix to his historical position; if one were unwilling to concede that the theological and historical factors are inextricably intertwined, then one could equally well argue the priority of the theological.

But as we saw in the preceding chapter, recent science itself has taught us, in a way that earlier generations of theologians were not in a position to see, that nature itself is historical.

But we need to fill the void and tell of the real Christ, free from all the baggage of dead religion and historical corruption, in his pure, loving and powerful position as God.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

To summarize our own position as to the significance of knowledge of the historical Jesus for Christian faith, we are prepared to maintain (1) that the New Testament as a whole implies that Christian faith is necessarily faith in the Christ of the Church's proclamation, in which proclamation today historical knowledge may play a part, but as proclamation, not historical knowledge.

His later position, however, seems to restore this distinction and to claim, rather, that historic knowledge of Jesus (and, by implication, historical knowledge also) may be used «to improve» the faith - knowledge, i.e. to serve as corrective, where necessary, and as supplement to that knowledge.

Simply put, the historical context of first - time postseason players — even among the NBA's legends — can charitably be described as a mixed bag, but Simmons is in position to buck that trend.

Appearances to the contrary, femininity was never about being some kind of delicate flower; it was tactical: a way of securing resources and positioning women as advantageously as possible on an uneven playing field, given the historical inequalities and anatomical disparities that make up the wonderful female condition.

Milwaukee's downtown post office removes historical Gay Pride exhibit after four hours: «Letter carrier Dale J. Schuster resigned last week from his position as chairman of the post office diversity team.

She held positions at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and the New Haven Historical Society before joining the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, where she served as assistant archivist for nine years.

I was reminded, too, of the historical lessons of occupation and the inevitable rise of insurgency — often in the form of terrorism and IEDs — appearing in a halfwit pastime like Red Dawn, giving lie (as if further debunking were necessary) to the sometimes - stated position of the Bush Administration that no one could've possibly predicted the deadliness of the backlash in occupied Baghdad.

It is almost as if she is reluctant to come to grips with an argument mounted on historical, intellectual, and imaginative grounds instead of one framed by political positions.

As a young female professional in the data world, I'm incredibly sensitive to gender gaps, especially in pay and leadership positions (pause for a round of applause for our new Superintendent Kyla Johnson - Trammell for smashing that historical glass ceiling!).

Designed to facilitate more authentic and deeper learning, teachers will brainstorm ways to integrate the Essential Skills in Economics to also develop students» mastery of other K - 12 English / language arts and social studies skills such as analyzing and synthesizing primary and secondary sources; using evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations; articulating and defending positions using content vocabulary; comparing and contrasting historical, cultural, and political perspectives; explaining cause - and - effect relationships; and practicing good citizenship skills while collaborating and compromising.

All else equal, teachers with more experience and higher degree levels are more likely to host student teachers, as are schools with lower levels of historical teacher turnover but with more open positions the following year.

Known as Australia's «little Europe», Melbourne has a very continental feel to it with its historical buildings, beautiful parks, riverside position, and multi-cultural influences.

In the end, they no longer share a relationship to still life in the historical sense as a presentation of wealth or position, but strive to cast light on new verisimilitudes.

Although as an artist I am not the best to contemplate the separation of the exhibition from the historical site, I believe that the contemporary positions and complexity of forms presented in the group show that is Armenity, constructs a compelling exhibition that could certainly travel internationally, especially to locations that receive less exposure than the Venice Biennale.

As markets, scholarship and historical perspective all advance in the field of Post War Italian art, it is becoming more and more apparent that Alighiero Boetti was one of the most forward thinking of this group, and his position among his contemporaies is being reevaluated.

The artist's positioning of these works as remakeable has not been fully addressed in any recent or historical interpretations or criticism.

In describing Rauschenberg and Johns as bridge figures whose work links Abstract Expressionism and Pop art, Rose offers one of the first articulations of what has become the prevailing art historical positioning of these two artists.

We can assume that appreciation of his work will increase as his historical position in the art of our time becomes more firmly established, and his work can be seen in proper perspective and in relationship to both his contemporaries and to his spiritual forebears.

For over thirty years Dawoud Bey's work has been concerned with the making of resonant photographs within marginalized communities that seek to position subjects within their own active social space as well as the larger historical conversation about issues of representation.

As the first significant presentation of his work outside the US, the Kunstverein exhibition naturally foregrounded the uncertainty surrounding his precise art - historical position.

Previously he held positions as Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where he organized major thematic survey exhibitions with a broad international and historical scope such as Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside - Out (2010), which addressed the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice.

This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation», where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; «Expressions of Anatomy», where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.

She has served as inaugural director and chief curator of other college exhibition and museum programs, including Columbus College of Art & Design and Denison University, in addition to numerous additional positions with seven other academic museums, commercial galleries, historical collection and house museums and contemporary arts centers.

Examining both Haring's street art and studio practice, as well as his distribution techniques, the show positions Haring on an art historical timeline that later includes Shepard Fairey, Rosson Crow, SWOON and others.

RICHARD BIRKETT, New York City, NY, USA Richard Birkett is currently the curator at Artists Space, where he has developed, with director Stefan Kalmár, a program of exhibitions that is committed to the commissioning of new work, as well as the sustained investigation and presentation of historical and critical positions.