Sentences with phrase «history of the twentieth century»

As the history of the twentieth century strikingly attests, each pope responds to the contingent situations of his day and puts the stamp of his own personality on the office.

A review of Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century.

The history of the twentieth century confirms Plato's judgment and suggests a possible source of information for making Hartshorne's philosophy more realistic about the human condition.

The history of the twentieth century is a bitter one for us to acknowledge.

In Royal's landmark book, a crucially important part of the history of the twentieth century is finally being told.

It is no exaggeration to say that we will not know the full history of the twentieth century until we know the stories of its martyrs.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

Written with the help of a friend and Yale historian Timothy Snyder, the book is a dialogue between the two men on the story Judt hoped to tell in his planned book — the intellectual and cultural history of the Twentieth Century.

Drawing on the rich history of the twentieth century - from the late twenties to the mid-sixties - and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviator's Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage - revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows.

In Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century Ourednik circles through facts from Europe and America in the twentieth century, creating a spiral of information, horrors from war, and everyday life.

Josiah McElheny's artwork has often investigated the history of twentieth century modernism in architecture and design, in the hope of expanding on the dominant historical narrative and the criticality of our relationship to it.

The complexities of pictorial representation which characterize the Still Life 1976 paintings mark a definitive step in Warhol's acknowledgment of the history of twentieth century painting and of his role in that history.

Of the latter two, which are included in the exhibition, Smoke is a study for a much larger version that was shown in the atrium of the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and eventually became part of a triology of large - scale public sculptures that included Smog (1969 - 70), and Smug (1973)-- three of the most profound and alluring works of public sculpture made in the history of twentieth century art.

Curated by María Millan, this showing synthesises a special moment in the history of the twentieth century: the inter-war period that she lived intensely.

History of the Twentieth Century, Installation View, 2010, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.

De Stijl is without doubt the most important Dutch contribution to the international history of twentieth century...

Homer concluded that Arthur Pinajian represented one of the most compelling discoveries in the history of twentieth century American art:

The painter Carroll Dunham — who exhibits his widely praised and darkly comic canvases at Barbara Gladstone and also writes from time to time for Artforum — recently observed that «there are all kinds of parallel or shadow histories of the twentieth century that are constantly being reshuffled and rediscovered.»

Similarly, the 1960s was an equally important and influential decade in the history of twentieth century art, with the rise of Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, Performance art, Conceptual art, and a host of other movements and styles that would ultimately lead to the emergence of post-modern art in the mid-1970s and beyond.

In the history of twentieth century art, large scale abstract painting is often thought to be organic and psychological, presenting both the marks of active painting and giving some suggested access into an artist's mental state.

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This is an incredibly important work for anyone interested in the history of American capitalism and the rise of conservative politics in the second half of the twentieth century.»

If one follows the history of the emergence of the national Orthodox Churches in the nineteenth and twentieth century, one realizes that the eventual autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a matter of time.

I have a hunch that, as history looks back on the twentieth century, the most chaotic of all centuries, certain Christian artists will be remembered simply because they hammered in a few firmly embedded nails.

Father Copleston's nine - volume History of Philosophy seems destined to be one of the enduring intellectual achievements of the twentieth century by reason of its comprehensiveness, if not its scintillating readability.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

To promote this interpretation of twentieth - century Russian history — and, by implication, Russia's future — the Church has undertaken a series of canonizations.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

«The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is — in its origins and aims — a type of moralism: a protest against the injustices of the world and of world history.

The Twentieth Century, was the most godless and the bloodiest hundred years in the history of humanity.

Christians in Science website AND BEYOND • A book published by Noah J. Efron last year, entitled Judaism and Science, traces the history of the relationship between Judaism and science or «natural knowledge» from the time of the Israelites to the twentieth century.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

Sigurd Daecke finds anthropocentrism to be deeply embedded in Protestant theologies of creation reaching back to Luther («I believe that God has created me») and Calvin (nature is the stage for salvation history) and finding a twentieth - century home in the humanistic individualism of Bultmann as well as the Christocentrism of Barth («the reality of creation is known in Jesus Christ»)(see Daecke).

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus by Brevard S. Childs Eerdmans, 288 pages, $ 28 paper When the history of biblical scholarship for the twentieth century is written, a prominent spot will be given to Brevard Childs.

A dictionary of «historical» theology should not suggest that so much of the history of theology was made in the twentieth century, or that so much of it was made by Anglicans in England.

Members of the LCMS were overwhelmingly German - American, and the history of the United States in the twentieth century — particularly that of the First and Second World Wars — has made German - Americans culturally uneasy.

While McGrath's treatment is more detailed, his understanding more intuitive, and his prose more mellifluous, Ryken writes as a representative of the community that ultimately guaranteed Packer's place in the history of twentieth - and twenty - first - century Protestantism.

Divinings: Religion at Harvard From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636 — 1992 tells the story of religious life at Harvard from its founding in 1636 through almost all of the twentieth century.

Paul Schubert, «The Twentieth Century West and the Ancient Near - East», The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East, ed.

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

Concerns in this vein have of course appeared many times in our own nation's history, from Jefferson's idealized republic of yeoman farmers to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries» southern agrarian tradition.

For twentieth - century thought the problems of history are the central problems: those of Nature, however interesting they may be, are only peripheral.

This was the most severe influenza outbreak of the twentieth century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, possibly the most devastating epidemic in human history.

The history of modern theology that they taught was basically the history of German nineteenth - and twentieth - century theology.

Someday we may be able to write a history of twentieth - century theology in the United States in which the many creative strands of Christian thinking during the period are displayed as shared sources for the emerging synthesis.

Palgrave Macmillan, 260 pages, $ 58.46 Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell Belknap, 508 pages, $ 35 In the early twentieth century, Booker T. Washington was the most famous black....

Our study of the path followed by the idiom, however, has made it abundantly clear that while the Lucan tradition has been dominant throughout most of Christian history, it is by no means the only view that has been held by Christians, particularly in the first and twentieth centuries.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Many who have come to accept history in this sense trace their conversion, first, to a breakdown of natural structure that began with Charles Darwin, was magnified by quantum physics, and is still unfolding in the philosophies of the sciences; and, second, to a breakdown of cultural structure that began with Friederich Nietzsche in Europe and William James in America, was magnified by the chaos and brutality of twentieth century politics and warfare, and is still unfolding in postmodern studies.

For the first time in human history we have, in the twentieth century, been able to construct a fairly clear picture of the whole globe in our mind.