Sentences with phrase «in image culture»

«These days, beauty is not in fashion,» says Richter, who has explored painting and its role in image culture for decades on his quest for a form of painting that corresponds to contemporary challenges.

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When people think of strong company cultures, many immediately jump to images of slick offices in Silicon Valley, Ping - Pong tables and yoga hour.

You have to seek to remake culture in your own image.

The first hires you bring on board will play an integral part in shaping the company's culture, image and direction for years to come.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

Frequent public appearances, Xi - themed books and artwork, and frequent references to «Papa Xi» in Chinese media and popular culture show how closely the leader has tied Communist Party rule to his own individual image and power.

Richardson is also famed for normalizing «porno chic» in mainstream culture — his work features bukaki poses, and images of the photographer himself being fellated before the camera are now so common as to summon yawns.

But in 2013, the whole Randolph and Mortimer Duke image just isn't what's hot in modern mustard culture.

Still facing terrible press, a «bro culture» image, and a federal investigation, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told the World Economic Forum in...

The Muslim council opened its Hollywood bureau after 9/11 to counter negative images of Islam in popular culture.

Even then, Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created.

Four of the six chapters in Losing Our Virtue constitute the heart of the book and are devoted to themes liberally treated in Wells» first two volumes» materialistic consumption, image and style over substance, the therapeutic culture, the lack of civic virtue, and, not least, society's aversion to truth, truth - telling, guilt, and moral accountability.

Montpellier was seductive in its invitation to lie back and let the culture wash over its visiting students» an image, perhaps of modern day Vanity Fair.

Many worry about their own «sexual orientation» especially in a culture saturated with pornographic images and obsessed with discussions which assume a contraceptive mentality in which sex and procreation are wholly separated.

We were debating whether or not it's helpful to use language like «act like a man,» or «true womanhood,» or «real men» in our religious dialogs, and I was arguing that the goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the image of Christ, not idealized, culture - based gender stereotypes.

Hello, I'm Sam: hate - ist addicted to fear, sealed into my bubble - self for sure — box, cave, culture, custom, convention, closet — bad listener enthralled by my pond - image man in the mirror convinced it's all you & you & you & not me I see..

The symbols, concepts, images, stories and myths of Christian origin, which remain deeply embedded in the fabric of western culture, will continue to offer the raw material from which people form their understanding of life, develop their capacity for spirituality and experience satisfaction at the deepest levels.

That is the image our American ancestors saw when they thought about planting the germs of beauty and nobility in their new culture.

Jesus was a master at the use of images, as all teachers in oral cultures must be.

I think I decided to pursue it as a full book because I came to realize that the somewhat specific culture of «hipster Christianity» was actually indicative of much broader tensions and paradoxes in contemporary Christianity dealing with identity, image, and the question of cool.

Existing neither in a static nor an eternal form, the Christian Word can never wholly or finally be confined within a particular set of images, nor can it perpetually be bound to a particular culture or history.

Though people may describe themselves by using terms like «gay» or «queer» which are commonly used in today's culture, as Christians who believe in man created in the image of God, we should ask if these cultural terms are, in fact, true ontological categories of the human person, in accord with the blueprint of human existence.

One of the ways they do this is by recasting heaven in images appealing to a culture enamored with the therapeutic.

To the degree that traditional religious groups in American culture have emphasized the word and de-emphasized images, they have deprived themselves of an effective force for transmitting their own symbols.

The mediation of religion through apparently secular images is related to particular historical developments in Western culture.

But it is being replaced by «a highly differentiated and individuated urban culture,» which is not described in images at all and which completely drains the initial image of meaning.

An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.

By contrast, the perfection of the androgynous God of process thought consists in an ideal balance of these contrasting traits, not in the total exclusion of the traits this culture traditionally views as feminine, thus luring both human males and females to strive to create themselves in the divine image.

The efforts of MacKinnon and Dworkin have helped us recognize the inadequacy of the «sexual arousal» definitions of pornography; they have made us aware of the profound misogyny in pornography, and revealed how extensive pornographic images are in our culture.

In the final essay, «American Dionysus,» Patterson points out that the current image of African - American men, when decoded and examined, illuminates the entire landscape of modern American popular culture.

In its emphasis on the aspect of reversal with the arrival of the rule of God, the «nature parables» stand in the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard worIn its emphasis on the aspect of reversal with the arrival of the rule of God, the «nature parables» stand in the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard worin the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard work.

But there is one other facet that needs to be synthesised with this if we are to be able to refound Christian culture: the fact (and the Judaeo - Christian revelation) that my very power of intelligent observation is in the image of God's Mind.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars — the obligatory shots of middle - class worshipers, usually white, in corporate - looking auditoriums or sanctuaries, swaying to the electrified music of «praise bands,» their eyes closed, their enraptured faces tilted heavenward, a hand (or hands) raised to the sky.

The images and conventions of the art forms (e.g. the editing technique involving long shots, close - ups, panning and montage in cinema, TV and radio) have one meaning in some cultures and a different or no meaning in others.

The wider context of Luke 17:34 - 35 uses the imagery of an eagle and lightning which were prominent and well - known images in that culture for a male - male sexual relationship between Zeus and Ganymede.

The graced imagination is not about the ability to create images ex nihilo, but the graced imagination elevates, heals and perfects the imagination to be a better receptor and retainer of images and to in uence the intellect's contributions to culture.

He spoke on the value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.

To compare different cultures, past and present, in terms of how Christ, for instance, is imaged, functions, conceptualized and so on is to enter a kind of bicultural symbolic analysis.

But while the programs of the «Christ of culture» advocates are rich in the vocabulary of 19th century Christian evangelism, the images — and hence the real messages — resonate with The Technique, the gambits of modern television advertising.

And when we're inevitably less than perfect, less than victorious on my own terms, I feel as though we're failing in our call to be prophetic signs of contradiction for our culture and instead affirming less than flattering images people have of couples with small children and big families.

Because mankind is made in the image of God, every person, regardless of race, religion, color, culture, class, sex or age has an intrinsic dignity because of which he should be respected and served, not exploited.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

We tend to think of men as less nurturing than women, thanks in no small part to images in pop culture and the media as portraying men as lovable buffoons who mean well and try to do well but ultimately don't have the common sense to find their own behinds with both hands and a compass... unless, of course, we have an understanding and vastly more mature wife to help us along.

The language and images it uses to describe such beginnings have their roots in a particular time and culture.

A century ago, T. S. Eliot presented the image of a self - organizing literary culture in «Tradition and the Individual Talent,» one in which «[t] he existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them,» which alters «the whole existing order... if ever so slightly.»

Many examples are given — in images, icons, art, music, hymns and others — of how we confuse our culture with the gospel.

Inculturation should not be understood merely as intellectual research; it occurs when Christians express their faith in the symbols and images of their respective culture.

To see what happens when the United States is able to bring so much of the world's culture into conformity with its own image, let us take a look at two case histories: the effects of U.S. media in the Caribbean and the recent American media campaign to sell cigarettes to the world.