We find that the rise
of modern culture in the Christian west, followed by its rapid spread around the world, has been both a blessing and a curse.
Since the
whole of modern culture has been intimately related to the same worldview, the changes required are pervasive.
During the past millennium, many of humanity's compelling challenges had to do with the
building of modern cultures, economies and nations.
There is certainly a tremendous dissatisfaction with the destructive
forces of modern culture: war, pollution, and the generally widespread ignorance of nature.
Mashup: The
Birth of Modern Culture incorporates painters, ceramicists, illustrators, animators, filmmakers, architects, graphic designers, musicians, and choreographers; artists from all over the world, working in just about every medium you can imagine.
The Second Vatican Council, through its Pastoral Constitution, called for an intellectual development that synthesises science, personalism and other aspects
of modern culture with Church teaching, in a spirit of respectful but evangelical openness towards those outside the Church.
«Processed foods are
part of our modern culture so companies can help consumers by reducing the energy density of products (fewer calories per 100 g), including vegetables, fruits or wholegrains where possible, and boosting the fibre content,» she told FoodNavigator.
This exhibition offers an in - depth examination of industrial landscapes by Donald Sultan that convey the vulnerability of the most progressive manufactured
elements of modern culture.
Her first solo exhibitions, «Binocular» (2011) and «Luna» (2013), were held at Winkleman Gallery, New York.Thornton lives and works in New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where she is
Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Rhode Island.
That's why Grand Theft Auto is one of the most important, successful, permanent
touchstones of modern culture: Through an original American story, it takes the player through the same pressures and temptations as the protagonist.
What You Need To Know: Based on a true story about teenagers that robbed the likes of Paris Hilton and more to the total tune of about $ 3 million in cash and belongings, what starts out as youthful fun spins out of control, and if the script is anything to go by, reveals a sobering view
of our modern culture of celebrity, luxury - brand obsession and entitlement.
In all of Brambilla's work there is a fascination with spectacle, recycled images, and the psychological
state of a modern culture.
@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper
seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.
Matthew Sims is a 21 - year old graduate from Melbourne in Australia with a passion in the
development of modern culture, technology and the arts.
Yet to the Enlightenment we owe many features
of modern culture which most of us now take for granted and would not dream of surrendering — the freedom to think for ourselves, the freedom to ask questions and to hold up cherished beliefs to critical examination, the freedom to express our opinions and doubts, the assertion of human rights, the acknowledgement of human equality, to name but some.
A Society Gripped by Despair Surely the frenetic busyness and
dynamism of our modern culture is diametrically opposed to the sullen inertia that usually characterises depression and despair.
I am not very unlike you, very
cynical of the modern culture of the «church», but I have found, for me, that to fixate on the problems of the church does not seem to build the Lingdom of God.
Partly as a result of the
emergence of modern culture generally, especially science and technology, but also in part because of developments in philosophy associated, above all, with the work of Immanuel Kant, most of us have long since come to think of the several fields of human experience or reflection as much more clearly differentiated than earlier generations supposed them to be.
I hold that the positive affirmations here are entirely of a piece with the legitimate
secularity of modern culture, and that no theology can fail to take them into account.
The whole
direction of modern culture, from the Renaissance onwards, has been away from this kind of metaphysical other - worldiness and from a Christianity which Nietzsche could plausibly dismiss as «Platonism for «the people.»
Most striking is the Barthian thesis, that the world of history and science, the whole
world of modern culture, recognition of which forced theology into a new course, is not of positive theological significance.