Sentences with phrase «in much contemporary»

According to Robin, Gear's approach is quoted (though probably unconsciously) in much contemporary abstract painting today which is the poorer for it.

A throughline in much contemporary African art is the reworking of found materials, Ghanaian artist El Anatsui's bottle - cap reliefs being the most famous example.

Fidelity to appearance has re-emerged as a favoured means of capturing a subject in much contemporary painting.

Fun is a quality sadly lacking in much contemporary art, but Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander showers viewers with giant colored discs of confetti at the Linda Pace Foundation's SPACE.

Fun is a quality sadly lacking in much contemporary art, but Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander...

= I miss this kind of specific, concrete detail in much contemporary genre fiction.

The film was made as a provocative reflection on the too alluring depiction of violence in much contemporary cinema.

The doctrine of the Trinity keeps us from settling for a God who is too small or, as in much contemporary spirituality so big or vague that God becomes what a friend once dubbed «the Sacred Blur.»

Indeed, one of the failures in much contemporary explanation of human life — as, for example, by some of our modern secular sociologists — is precisely at this point.

Whatever answer one may give, we may at least acknowledge that Catholic theology can not afford to ignore the problems that have given rise to the disaffection with revelation theology in much contemporary secular and Christian thought.

Formally, these poems range from the free - verse compositions common in much contemporary poetry to «prose poems»: short, verbally dense, and compressed paragraphs.

In much contemporary discourse, freedom is seen as emancipation from God.

Not exact matches

Traditional gender roles no longer retain much currency in contemporary households.

The Audain family has donated in excess of $ 100 million through the Audain Foundation, including significant contributions to the University of Victoria, Presentation House Gallery's new building fund, Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts, various arts - related endeavours at the University of British Columbia, the National Gallery of Canada, the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design's new building fund, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and much more.

Posner is distressed that so much of contemporary legal scholarship elaborates or relies upon diverse moral theories that attempt, in highly abstract terms, to make normative claims about law.

Indeed, many of your comments alluded to the so - called «contemporary» (as opposed to «traditional») churches starting in much the same way every week and employing the same general service flow and song selections.

I'm not necessarily much good at it: RALPHISM, for example, has only caught on among our bloggers and threaders, despite it clearly BEING — both VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY on the transcendence - meter — a fundamental alternative in contemporary thought.

«Theory» holds sway in contemporary discussions of literature, poetry, and art these days as much by force of habit as by ardent conviction.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spiritualitIn Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spiritualitin our spirituality.

«In her person and life Our Lady challenges the imploded freedom of much of contemporary culture»

A healthy dose of Christian disbelief or «holy skepticism» would serve as a much - needed antidote to the soft - core spirituality that saps much of contemporary Christianity, especially in its evangelical expression.

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.&raquIn his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.&raquin need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.&raquin the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

Here is the key to understanding leisure (play) in much of contemporary American life.

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

«61 Unfortunately, such a transcendent awareness is absent from much of contemporary life in America.

But for the most part the actual content of those repeated lines are not bad theology — much of contemporary «praise music» is in fact a revival of psalmody.

In some contemporary writings inspired by Lewis, the reader may get the impression that the fact of Bethlehem and the myth of Narnia, the fact of Christ and the myth of Aslan, are, at the end of the day, pretty much the same thing.

As a sensitive participant in the contemporary situation she is convinced that Christians should be involved in righting the social wrongs that degrade so much of humankind.

And this is manifestly apparent in much of contemporary architecture.

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.

In accounts of contemporary Mormonism, the new polygamists are often highlighted too much just because they make such good copy, especially when they try to kill each other off.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

First, it is trying to articulate how contemporary rock seems to be in a pattern of Perpetual Repetition, but how that mode is different from the Retro Rock and Roll stance that arose in the late 70s / early 80s — this is very much a response to, or a working out of my own thinking in the light of, Simon Reynolds» fine book Retromania.

Much less can be claimed by way of consensus in this area, since not all contemporary theologians are convinced that it is necessary to reconceive the idea of God along process lines (i.e., as suggested by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as well as by thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin).

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

Although it has become part of the conventional wisdom in much of contemporary anti-colonialist literature, both Eastern and Western, it is an oversimplification to dismiss the missions as nothing more than a cloak for white imperialism.

Johnson's thesis is that much of American literature and thought about war in the 20th century is of limited relevance to the typical forms of contemporary armed conflict and the changing shape of the international order.

«Much of contemporary Protestantism (at least in the US) depends on feeling,» says Mindy Makant, assistant professor of religion at Lenoir - Rhyne University, USA.

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

Any children born in this day and age will grow up influenced not only by their parents, but to a much greater degree by the evils of contemporary society, which are now spread so quickly by our almost instantaneous communications.

The objection that much of pornography is demeaning to women surfaced early in the contemporary feminist movement, particularly in Kate Millett's 1970 book Sexual Politics, which analyzed some of Henry Miller's limited and negative portrayals of women.

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

Returning then to the question of how the perspective on religion set forth in The Sacred Canopy is to be evaluated, given more than two decades of hindsight, it would appear evident that this perspective still contains much of importance to the contemporary situation.

The third distortion is much more common in the contemporary Church: a selective acceptance of the Bible, whereby some parts are true and lovely, and other parts are false and difficult.

In this respect, contemporary «materialism» (if that is the right word here) is much more in accordance with the biblical presentation, in which God does not deny or negate the creation but affirms it, identifies himself with it, and acts within iIn this respect, contemporary «materialism» (if that is the right word here) is much more in accordance with the biblical presentation, in which God does not deny or negate the creation but affirms it, identifies himself with it, and acts within iin accordance with the biblical presentation, in which God does not deny or negate the creation but affirms it, identifies himself with it, and acts within iin which God does not deny or negate the creation but affirms it, identifies himself with it, and acts within it.

Though there is doubtless much truth in these claims, their validity is not the point of present interest, which is rather the further evidence they provide of the pervasiveness of vocational criteria and motives in contemporary education.

These are both influential in contemporary Israeli policy in justifying taking much of Palestine away from the Palestinians and maintaining political and military control over the land remaining to them.

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».