Sentences with phrase «of discourse for»

The collection supports the museum's programmatic objective of being a centre of discourse for Canadian perspectives on global art movements.
That same year she also curated the exhibition Architectures of Discourse for the Fundació Antoni Tapiès in Barcelona.
Or people can invent an apparently common universe of discourse for the 80 percent or so who find themselves at home in «the Judeo - Christian tradition.»

Not exact matches

Research suggests the best solutions for improving discourse may come from getting to know each other as whole people instead of just opinions — something Facebook may be uniquely suited to do.
And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.
Those hoping for calm, political discourse on these issues should cheer the election of Alison Redford, who has been supportive of Alberta's participation in the national economy.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asked for user suggestions to improve the quality of discourse on the social network that has become known as the source of too much misinformation and abuse.
The specter of technology automating all our jobs has loomed over American discourse for so long it feels as if it must be exaggerated.
Our new deal is a platform, and it resembles, finally, a change in global climate discourse and a possible beginning of the collective green mindset for the future we have been waiting for.
This nationalist discourse — Bob White declaring that he would «wrap the fucking flag» around himself to fight for union jobs — contrasted with an American localism that was ineffective in marshalling political support to stem the tide of rust.
«I think a lot of the discourse that I see around fake news, for example, is grounded in anecdotes, right?
For the purpose of opinion and discourse, I often have something to say, but for the purpose of investment management, market forecasts are irrelevaFor the purpose of opinion and discourse, I often have something to say, but for the purpose of investment management, market forecasts are irrelevafor the purpose of investment management, market forecasts are irrelevant.
Respectful discourse is encouraged for the intellectual growth of all.
Most of the «rules for blogging» I have come across — like Alan Jacobs's «Rules for Deportment for Online Discourse» — focus on very basic things like avoiding ad hominem attacks and not arguing in bad faith.
There's room for intelligent discourse around some of the most critical questions about humanity — how we relate to the world we share, how our beliefs inform our lifestyles, how we fit into this vast, cosmic scheme of being.
(CNN)-- A group of more than 100 prominent Christians ranging from evangelical minister Jim Wallis on the political left to Nixon White House aide Chuck Colson on the right released a document Thursday calling for an end to the fight club tone of the national political discourse
Emptying moral discourse of teleological concepts because of the perceived impact of Newton and Darwin has been for MacIntyre the catastrophe of our times.
In the name of being politically responsible in, to, and for liberal social orders, the politics of Christian discourse was relegated to the private realm.
For Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politFor Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politfor both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.
But for Christians, the erosion of political discourse isn't the most important thing going on here.
Have we become so lost as a nation that someone with Limbaugh «s limited, perverse and hateful view of the world is even, for one tiny moment, considered as intelligent discourse?
As Tocqueville saw, without that upward thrust, belief in the inviolable dignity of every single person will not survive, nor will respect for truth in public discourse.
Noting that two generations of Catholic leaders, including popes, have regarded human rights as important for the building of humane societies and have employed rights discourse themselves as a «bridge language» supporting the protection of human dignity, Reno declares that it is time for the Catholic Church «to rethink its enthusiasm for human rights.»
Because First Things is well - known for the highest level of discourse on the subjects it considers, I'm a little surprised to find myself here.
Quite the contrary, as Northcott's discourse about discourse asserts, it's all for the sake of a global imperialism that wants to, well, rape, pillage, destroy, and dominate.
Kierkegaard's purpose in these discourses was to make it clear that for him as a writer the religious did not follow the «esthetic» but was present from the very beginning, that he was a writer for whom in the very midst of his «esthetic productivity,» the religious was the telos of his work.
Having come to the conclusion several years ago (after a lot of abuse from the first church I was part of) that doubt is far from being a threat to our faith — if we enter it with questions for God — I realised it is actually the yeast in our faith, and in the discourse with God we grow (much like your cartoon).
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
As Toner has ably demonstrated, the practice and discourse of leisure became a vehicle for the propagation of imperial ideology.
Nat died recently at the ripe age of ninety - one, receiving the laudatory obituaries he so richly deserves for his decades of contributions to civil - liberties discourse and the popular understanding of jazz (his personal passion).
Another major vehicle for imperial ideology was the moral discourse of the empire, which, from the time of Augustus onwards, became dominated by an intense conservatism, bordering on archaism, particularly evident in its concern with the Roman family.
They say at the end: «More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that the secularization of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness — in fact, it will do just the opposite.»
Likewise, the positive public and private reception of imperial moral discourse is also confirmed by, for example, the distinctive changes in group portraiture and the style of epitaphs that are a distinguishing feature of the early empire.
Following Aquinas, Dudd - ington argues that certain acts are considered intrinsically evil, as they contravene Christian natural law, which for Duddington, is articulated through a discourse of common good and individual dignity.
For Buber, the human person was reducible neither to the discrete features of individualism nor the collective ones of social aggregates, let alone the vagaries of language and discourse.
Then I invite them to look at the social setting of the university and talk about the rules for discourse in the setting of the.
There was no other place for his material than here, unless the whole discourse was to be made postresurrection — as in some of the later apocrypha.
Moreover, in our time the language of universal human rights is the most available discourse for cross-cultural deliberation about the dignity of the human person.
Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.
Many writers insist on the need for every discipline and discourse to have an explicitly theological framework; many make broad claims, confident generalizations covering long periods of history and whole disciplines, and fairly summary dismissals of periods and categories of thinkers with whom they differ.
It is an attempt to identify in modes of discourse accessible to the public those first principles of truth and justice that are sufficiently clear as to be adopted as bases for public policy and the ordering of international life.
«4 So there is a well - established precedent for use of the term «field» in scientific discourse.
Williams wants a mode of discourse that is better suited to healing a contingent world in which «contestation is inevitable,» in which the church is not in fact so «dramatically apart» from other ways of realizing the good, and in which there is a need for patience in tracing how the Christian contribution to history is «learned, negotiated, betrayed, inched forward, discerned and risked.»
Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»
First, no one can hold «this kind of discourse» unless (as we have seen) he is also and simultaneously acting as spokesman for the oppressed and attacking the unjust order with every nonviolent weapon.
So there's not a lot of room for redemption in the current discourse, because our emphasis is entirely on telling people that they can never screw up, not even once, and when they do the whole game is lost.
There is no other explanation for it being played so earnestly on the editorial page of the New York Times — hardly a forum for measured theological discourse.
For the later Joseph Smith and the resulting Mormon tradition, the three divine «personages» are three different gods amid a «plurality of gods,» as he put it in the King Follett Discourse.
«Whenever... preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science.»
So in the spirit of shining a light rather than just cursing the darkness, here are a few guideposts for Christian engagement in an era of deep division and poisonous discourse:
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