Sentences with phrase «narrative history of»

Bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal speaks in conjunction with his new book, The White Road, an intimate narrative history of porcelain structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted.

It is at once a forthright autobiography and a raucous narrative history of the art world of the past 40 years.

In particular, Shadows unravels the narrative history of a stirring photograph taken by Koen Wessing near Estelí, Nicaragua, at the height of the revolution in September 1978.

Each reflects the ways in which the artist imbued form with the narrative history of human subjects, usually influential African - American figures.

The Romanov Sisters was an outstanding narrative history of Imperial Russia and the Revolution.

What makes Rob Dunn's narrative history of advances in heart research so fascinating is on vivid display in the...

Taylor has penned a compelling, thrilling, narrative history of the rise and fall of The Berlin Wall from a hastily constructed barbed - wire fence to the 30 miles of concrete and 300 watchtowers that followed shortly after.

Outta the parkThe baseball books lead off with Harvey Frommer's timely Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built.

What makes Rob Dunn's narrative history of advances in heart research so fascinating is on vivid display in the opening chapter of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart.

For more history of Rowan County, read The Rowan Story, 1753 - 1953: A narrative history of Rowan County, North Carolina, by James S. Brawley (out of print but available in all good Rowan County libraries!).

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

A narrative history of the alternative - foods movement of the past half century explores the diverse fringe trends, charismatic personalities and counterculture elements that have rendered quotidian wholefoods, from whole grain bread and tofu to yogurt and brown rice, part of the mainstream American diet.

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

Mallaby, a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins in 1900 with the birth of hedge fund inventor Alfred Winslow Jones, and presses forward through a narrative history of this most inscrutable of financial vehicles, and the men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who have driven them.

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I loved learning about history as a kid, and the first - person narratives of princesses was one way to get me deeply involved.

Also in the post is a pretty concise narrative of each mind - boggling event that led up to this sell - off as well as a graph showing where it ranks percentage-wise against other Dow Jones nosedives throughout history.

Yet somehow, despite policy failures that are made obvious by the lowest interest rates ever recorded in human history, a persistent narrative still dominates financial markets: all - knowing, omnipotent central bankers are still in full control of the situation and will do «whatever it takes» to maintain order.

Jason wrote: July 24, 2015 at 8:31 am «David has a history of using the guise of privacy to control the narrative.

Obama's Second Inaugural wrapped all of American history from the founders onward into the unfolding Progressive narrative.

Either the Bible is the inspired and inerrant word of the Christian god; or it is simply another ancient text, whose ultimate traceability is unknown, and which shares a lot of the same narratives and stories of countless other religions throughout history.

Thus, in a compelling sense, the Christian narrative» indeed all of history» is a story appreciated most fully when read «backward,» in the exegetical light of that resurrection.

It would appear that Mr. Mills et al and the Archbishop adhere to historical narratives at odds with each other regarding the history of the Zionist movement.

Thus the whole to which his thought is dedicated is a temporal whole: reality is now unified only because it will be a coherent narrative when history is brought to its conclusion in the Kingdom of God.

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

If you take into accaount all the elements of US history, it is impossible to present one clear, obvious narrative of who we are.

many of the OT narrative examples demonstrate that principle in redemptive history (such as Jdgs.1) long before Christ became the fulfillment of it.

Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, the gods of the ancient Greeks, Hinduism, and thousands of other religions man has created over the course of human history all have their own narratives.

In a previous article (HT 14:297 - 313) I suggested the possibility of adapting the doctrines of Alfred North Whitehead for analysis of explanatory narrative in history.

Even though there is no reason to believe any of the god narratives, billions of people throughout history have chosen to embrace any of thousands of such narratives because a comforting fairytale is preferable to a harsh true.

It's refreshing to read through Bessey's spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's purposes in the world.

This month's synchroblog challenges us to ask the question: «What if some or all of the biblical narrative is not necessarily true history, but is myth of one sort or another?»

Diaspora and pilgrimages were not just part of the corporate memory of his people; they belonged to his own personal history, as Matthew's narratives of Jesus» exile in Egypt show (Matt.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

«Narrative and practical Christianity can, in its encounter with... other religions, keep hold of its eschatological and universal history of meaning without at the same time having to accept the histories of the other religions in a totality of meaning.»

The intricate world views and belief systems of congregations constitute the setting of their corporate narrative, while their traditional histories, the sequences of past events selected for retelling, correspond to plot.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Morals, on such a view of history, can easily be drawn from historical narratives.

The narrative drive to Venkatesh's story lies in the protracted effort of the tenants to come to terms with the gang that loomed increasingly large in the project's history.

One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form of master narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful experience of these narratives and the exercise of such reason — experiencing them from the «reverse side of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.

Finally, if we are to take seriously an organic approach to narrative teaching, we will tell stories from different eras of history and different parts of the world, but we will also tell stories that are happening in our midst.

The Whig narrative is the popular version of Whig history.

To counteract that perspective, Hahn teaches that the gospel is a narrative that connects all of history together, and that people's lives have a place in that story.

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

This tripartite organization makes the overall narrative disjointed, with Beecher fading to the background as ever more characters crowd onstage and the work becomes a survey of 19th - century history.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

Yes, Burnett's production team actually split a video in two to further the narrative that Beck has long and «ugly history» of obsessing over President Obama and Satan.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»