Sentences with phrase «new significance for»

Based on seven years of research, the Pacific Standard Time exhibition «Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985» forges a new significance for previously excluded artists.
Opie got the idea for the film in the nineties, but, as often happens with her projects, it took on a new significance for her as she made it, with the election of a President who'd promised to return America to the halcyon days before feminism, globalism, and multiculturalism.
Tradition has assumed a new significance for Protestants in a period dominated by the historical understanding of human life.

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As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»
Expanding your product's application or usage to become a pivotal part of a desired lifestyle opens up many new channels for discussion while simultaneously granting your brand broader cultural significance
As the Mergers & Acquisitions IT leader at Dell, I knew the significance of Zuora's value proposition and championed the purchase, implementation, and adoption of Dell on Demand, the new Quote to Cash architecture for Dell's recurring revenue offerings.
Without a doubt, the significance of historical study for a traditional Christian reading of the New Testament differs significantly from its influence on traditional Jewish reading of the Torah.
There had always been female models — Sarah, Naomi, Judith, Rahab, Mary, Felicity, Perpetua — but as Christian hagiography matured, more and more women became the subjects of lives and their exploits took on new visibility and significance for Christian piety.
It will no longer do for New Testament scholars to place the Roman emperor amongst the ranks of divine men, gnostic redeemers, divinized heroes and other assorted and «Hellenistic» characters and then dismiss his significance by reason of the disreputable company that he keeps.
Afterwards, I will review the broader significance of this new understanding of actual occasions and societies for the mind - body problem, paying particular attention to articles published over the years by Whiteheadians on this very topic.
If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.
For this new theism, the significance of Jesus is found first in his providing the classical instance of what is always and everywhere operative, although it is working against serious obstacles that yet can not defeat the cosmic thrust toward loving and sharing.
Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.
This book clearly sheds new light and new significance on what Jesus accomplished for us, and also includes some helpful insights on how to hear the Holy Spirit as heirs of the New Covenanew light and new significance on what Jesus accomplished for us, and also includes some helpful insights on how to hear the Holy Spirit as heirs of the New Covenanew significance on what Jesus accomplished for us, and also includes some helpful insights on how to hear the Holy Spirit as heirs of the New CovenaNew Covenant.
Those whose marriages have broken down can experience forgiveness and new beginnings, but only if they first recognize the reality of what has been done and its continuing significance for their situation.
Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.
We have taken two important steps in understanding the New Testament when we see the significance of the Christological theme for the meaning of love.
A number of recent studies have been published that offer help to readers and communicators who wish to hear the stories of Genesis as they were intended to be heard and to discover their significance for life at the threshold of a new century.
Jesus is the imago Dei uncorrupted, so that John's Gospel can insist that, for Jesus, «Whoever has seen me has seen the Father» (14:9).4 In light of this realization, three provocatively new foci will occupy our immediate attention: the proclamation of the impending arrival of the basileia tou theou; the significance of the crucifixion (and resurrection) of Jesus for understanding the nature of divine power; and the Johannine conviction that love characterizes the very essence of God.
Even Jesus» words in John 6, following the miraculous feeding that foreshadows the Eucharist, resonated for me with a new and unexpected significance: «Gather up the fragments so that nothing may be lost.»
Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the communes, Buber feels that the Jewish communes are of central significance in the struggle for a structurally new society in which individual groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship with each other.
At the same time, I am convinced that nothing of abiding value will be lost; and for myself I can say that I find, even in such concepts as purgatory — which to some might appear incredible in the new concept — something that is not without significance.
The biological instinct, which is real enough, is in men and women taken up into the yearning for relationship with other human beings; it is given a new significance and a new direction.
It is questionable whether the prominence of communal authority in the new idea of the ministry has special significance for the development of spiritual authority.
Jesus» going away, the writer of John reminds us, is for our advantage, for it frees him to come to us in ever new forms, ones not so restricted by the particularity of Jesus» spatio - temporal existence.34 In short, the positive significance of God's responsiveness to the contingencies of the world and his appropriation of the world into his own being requires that he be sufficiently free of the world to be a creative and constructive factor in it regardless of the actual contingencies that may arise.
Before considering the significance of these new sources and methods for the future of Christian communities, allow me to provide a thumbnail sketch of Jesus as he typically appears in the reconstructions offered by the Jesus Seminar.
And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.
The community of «new creations in Christ» must become meaningful to those for whom concepts like «being born again» and «living by the power of the Holy Spirit» have no internal, experiential significance or reference point.
For the discussion between physics and process thought, see the essays in Griffin, David Ray, ed., Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986).
«In the New Testament these terms refer normatively to «serving God,» «doing the will of God,» in a great variety of ways most of which are without cultic significance or form, and which refer principally to that which is done for and among men — not to something done to or for God in a sanctuary.
For ecumenical missionary thinking, Uppsala's significance lay in the fact that it consolidated the emphasis on mission with the secular world and the focus on the world as the arena for mission, a focus that began shortly after New DelhFor ecumenical missionary thinking, Uppsala's significance lay in the fact that it consolidated the emphasis on mission with the secular world and the focus on the world as the arena for mission, a focus that began shortly after New Delhfor mission, a focus that began shortly after New Delhi.2
This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.
The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.
Perhaps what we should look for is not so much a perfect pattern of living for every human age - group, but a revelation of truth which will illuminate the heart and center of human life and give it a new significance and purpose.
Before the New Testament was put together, from the oral traditions about Jesus and the letters and other material known in the primitive Christian community, appeal was made to the Old Testament, that is the Jewish Scriptures, for predictions of and a way for interpreting the significance of Jesus.
The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.
The similes of the new patch on the old garment and of new wine in the old wineskins (Mark 2:21 - 22) are susceptible of several interpretations (for example, in the joy of the Messianic age the ancient mourning customs no longer have meaning); but the original significance of the words can no longer be ascertained.
The notion of Americans as an elect people with exemplary significance for the world was not abandoned but enhanced during the revolution and period of constructing the new nation.
(At a meeting in Mavelikara on the 13th Feb 96, where EMS, gave the Bishop M. M. John Lecture on The Significance of Dialogue between Religion, and Secular ideologies for building a New Humanism, as chairman I raised the question whether a future Socialism would not require the following changes in the Marxist ideology so as not to fall into Stalinism.
For details on the facts, please read Bruce Metzger's «The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance»
Of great significance was the fact that two black Democratic candidates, David Dinkins in New York City and Douglas Wilder in Virginia, used their support for legalized abortion to persuade white voters that their politics were «moderate» and «mainstream.»
The real significance of the old morality language and the new is that they stand as opportunities for judgment and trial.
Editor James Taylor of the United Church of Canada suggests that today the church is in a new Reformation, the significance of which for the life of the church may be as dramatic as the Reformation in the sixteenth century, which derived much of its monentum from the development of print.
It could not express the ontological significance of the new, and for this prehension was introduced.
To summarize our own position as to the significance of knowledge of the historical Jesus for Christian faith, we are prepared to maintain (1) that the New Testament as a whole implies that Christian faith is necessarily faith in the Christ of the Church's proclamation, in which proclamation today historical knowledge may play a part, but as proclamation, not historical knowledge.
Efforts toward a new understanding of the life of the parish have significance for the priest as well.52 Some individualistic forms of traditional priestly piety such as the private Mass are being questioned, and simpler yet more demanding forms of prayer than the formal meditation are being urged.
With the launch of the new Best of Bridge Sunday Suppers book a couple weeks ago, I've been talking a lot on TV, radio and various interviews about the idea (and significance) of Sunday supper — of getting as many people as I can around the table for dinner to regroup and reconnect and get ready for the week.
The significance of The Watergate's 50th anniversary and impact of Jean - Louis extends far beyond Washington, D.C. New York based chefs Paul Liebrandt, who in 2000 at the age of 24 earned the distinction of youngest chef ever awarded three stars by the New York Times while at Atlas restaurant, and Michael Laiskonis, the James Beard Award - Winning pastry chef most recognized for a critically acclaimed tenure at Le Bernardin, echoed sentiments that they're privileged to commemorate the D.C. landmark and legendary chef Jean - Louis Palladin.
The Swiss international star was very keen on securing his former Monchengladbach number, 34, which has always been of high significance for the new Arsenal star.
I am talking about the new Power Rankings on the Sky Sports website which gives every player in the Premier League a score for their performance, and adds it to the previous four weeks, with the scores from longer ago decreasing in significance to give an overall form guide.
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