Sentences with phrase «minds of the nineteenth century»

But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

The Goncourt Journals are read today for the duo's continual sniping about their own lack of literary success and for their vivid depictions of the great minds of nineteenth century art and literature — for their gossiping and drinking, talking as much of whores and venereal disease as literary matters.

Not exact matches

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

Although Darwin did not see any evidence for design in nature, we should keep in mind that any doubts Darwin may have had about religion were due to his reactions to the prevailing theology of providential design that dominated the culture of nineteenth - century Victorian England.

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

Barth, because he makes an attempt»... to answer the methodological and historical problems raised by the nineteenth century by foreclosing all discussion of epistemological questions and insisting that the subjectivity of Jesus Christ, the God - man, is the only important reality confronting the mind of man.»

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

If the nineteenth century presupposed the detailed historicity of the Synoptic Gospels except where «doctrinal tampering» was so obvious as to be inescapable (they had in mind such things as «Paulinisms» and the miraculous), the twentieth century presupposes the kerygmatic nature of the Gospels, and feels really confident in asserting the historicity of its details only where their origin can not be explained in terms of the life of the Church.»

In the nineteenth century, LaPlace announced that God was a hypothesis of which the rational mind had no further need; God took the great astronomer at his word.

Western Christendom was an expanding, curious, inventive society - which is perhaps the chief reason historians generally believe that the «terrors of the year 1000» existed largely in the minds of nineteenth - century Romantics like Michelet.

Late nineteenth century revivalism tended to ignore the mind of man and its deepest insights into the Christian faith.

(«Cautionary Verses for Children»: this title of a much used work, published early in the nineteenth century, shows how far the muse of evangelical protestantism in England, with her mind fixed on the idea of danger, had at last drifted away from the original gospel freedom.

Here, Crane is a modern - minded man on the brink of a new century, the nineteenth century.

The behavior of the industry and its suppliers brings to mind that of the nineteenth - century trusts, which controlled the American economy with an iron fist, setting prices, breaking unions, and ruthlessly eliminating independent businesses.

Chevalier takes us directly inside Mary Anning's mind, using intimate first - person confessions to construct a vision of how the junior scientist grew up, and to illustrate just how fraught her relationship with nineteenth - century science really was.

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 - 1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices from the late nineteenth century through the present.

The movement coalesced during the second half of the nineteenth century as writers in France and Belgium sought a new form of art — one that referenced the visible world as symbols that correlate to ideas and states of mind.

Yet Sarmento's protagonists and their performative gestures are also restrained by a kind of stylistic formalism that recalls late Nineteenth - century impressionist figuration — Edgar Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen c. 1880 comes to mind — which is present in his three - dimensional works, in particular, his sculptures of female body parts.

Like masterful colorists of the nineteenth century — Monet and van Gogh come to mind in particular — Hayes represents the reassuring hues of everyday life in discordant terms, shocking and, at times, disturbing the senses.

Ann Percy, The Mainwaring Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, delivers her lecture An Acquiring Mind: John S. Phillips, a Nineteenth - Century Philadelphia Print Collector's Taste for Drawings on Saturday, March 5, 2016.