Sentences with phrase «irreconcilable tension»
Stanley Lewis's work is the obverse of what one might think of as a downtown aesthetic... The fascination he arouses comes partially from an almost irreconcilable tension between working directly from observation, with exacting attention to small forms, and a very contemporary, almost sculptural painting process that builds a work with obsessively dense materiality.
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In this way faith and knowledge, Kerygma and the philosophy of existence, are correlated, and the seemingly irreconcilable tension between them is resolved.
As Maunz states, these downward - descending suspended elements reflect a deep ambivalence characterized by «irreconcilable tensions of internal voids and conflicts.»
Not exact matches
That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.
I am contending that religious qualities of experience are acquired, if at all, only by an individual who has borne within solitariness the relational matrix of existence, achieving a creative tension between the contrasts of life without permitting fixation on either pole to turn the contrast into an irreconcilable opposite.
For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart from inner consciousness.
Revitalizing it could constitute a first step towards easing and limiting tensions and conflicts based upon assumptions of fundamental and irreconcilable difference by transcending a portrayal of the Arab - Islamic world as being peripheral or subordinate, or indeed antagonistic to the West, and instead providing a basis upon which the West and the Muslim world can more positively engage with one another.