Sentences with phrase «on contemporary experience»

15 November, 2011 - The Power Plant opens two major exhibitions: a new project by renowned Canadian artist Stan Douglas; and an international group exhibition of work by younger artists — both reflect on poignant moments in cultural history and their enduring effects on our contemporary experience.

Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject is summarised in the press release, acting as a foundation from which the works depart and expand on a contemporary experience of the vulnerable body.

Camille Henrot told us about the thinking behind her unique alchemy of the Internet and myth, Margaret Lee explained how the aesthetics of Chinatown helped her crack the code on contemporary experience, Jordan Wolfson spoke about using «anger as a frequency» in his hypnotically engrossing videos, Amy Sillman was both hilarious and incisive on the subject of what it means to be a painter today, and Paul Chan offered up a text interview that was totally unexpected, amazing, and an artwork in its own right.

When this happens, it may no longer be true that the Scriptures possess intrinsic authority based on contemporary experience.

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Credit instead founder Eric Brown's decision to extend the firm's message into the social media realm — a move that not only slashed spending on paid property listings, but also afforded Urbane the tools to more accurately communicate the contemporary lifestyle experience so integral to its business.

Building on the success of emerging brands and retailers in the category (Eloquii, Universal Standard, Dia & Co, 11Honore), as well as on the scale of legacy retailers (Lane Bryan, Torrid, FullBeauty) catering to this underserved audience, CoEdition is intent on providing an elevated shopping experience that provides the best selection of contemporary merchandise, while helping consumers find the right size and fit.

Touching a raw nerve in contemporary evangelical experience, Sarah Bessey reflects on the inevitable reality of walking the path of faith without having it all worked out — and at times having none of it worked out.

Contemporary theology tends to be either contextualist or confessionalist, focusing in either case on «our experience.»

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

From another perspective, Christine E. Gudorf, in a chapter on «Regrounding Spirituality in Embodiment», (35) observes that contemporary Christians are creating new forms of spirituality based in reflection on embodied human experience.

Religion News Service: On Grammy weekend, Christian music bounces back Many experts say thanks to artists like TobyMac and Lecrae, the contemporary Christian music industry is experiencing a revival, with strong sales, record - breaking tours, and new success in the mainstream charts.

The emphasis through the entire seminary experience should be on integrating traditional theological and contemporary psychosocial insights about man and society, and applying them to the needs of the present situation.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

Part of my initial response was, «It is how I see it based on the experiences of others (contemporary and historical) and my own experiences.

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

91 So Niebuhr retained his emphasis on man's freedom, sin, sacrificial love, and God's grace, vindicating their meaning by an analysis of contemporary history and experience.

On the contrary, it is eminently a liberal and liberalising study, since it shows us how to relate our own contemporary social experience to the wider perspectives of universal history.

According to the theory of special relativity, only the past can be experienced, contemporaries have no influence on each other.

Beginning with the experience of Paul, the Christian view of this world which came to theological expression in the Reformers and which has now been revived with great power in the contemporary Protestant theology, has always shown a certain distrust of identifying human efforts toward the good with the divine work of redemption on the ground that the good as man knows it and seeks it is really of a different order from the good revealed in Christ.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Even if the Servant figure is consistently or only at times conceived as an individual (on the pattern of a Jeremiah, or perhaps the prophet himself, or a contemporary, or someone yet to appear), the very individualization is obviously shaped in the prophet's mind, consciously or unconsciously, by his people's corporate experience in the days from Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus.

In fact, with Proudfoot's two - term option his own book begs for a more sophisticated approach — for while it denies realism in the name of a contemporary hermeneutics of suspicion, it claims to offer a realistic account of past scholarship on religious experience.

Moreover, he shares the liberal concern that interpreters of the Bible should be in dialogue with all that has gone on in «the great romance of culture «13 and all that is happening in contemporary experience, in Ricoeur's hands interpretation is always confronted with the perspective of «counter disciplines»: physiology, psychoanalysis sociology, anthropology, linguistics, the history of philosophy.

Now, in American Fascists, he offers a critique of contemporary Christianity ¯ drawing, he tells the reader many times, on his own experience as a Christian and the son of a Presbyterian minister.

On the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alonOn the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alonon issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alone.

On the other hand, if we can find a way to understand and affirm absolute immanence as a contemporary and kenotic realization of the Kingdom of God, an expression in our experience of an original movement of Christ from transcendence to immanence, then we can give ourselves to the darkest and most chaotic moments of our world as contemporary ways to the Christ who even now is becoming all in all.

The illustration suggests that he should study the theological resources of Scripture, history, and doctrine; and study also, with equal seriousness, what he knows of the related meanings from his own authority of both traditional and contemporary experience; and how to recognize the authenticity of the dialogue, both historical and contemporary, be - tween God and man and the dependence of each on the other.

Out of their respective experiences, both traditional and contemporary, and influenced by their education and their vocational commitments, they bring to their listening, consciously and unconsciously, meaning in the form of questions, hypotheses, affirmations, doubts, fears, and so on.

In the second place, Whitehead shows us that the true objects of experience are not the presented sensa or the contemporary entities in the regions on which we project the sensa.

Instead of grounding her thinking here simply in scripture and tradition, Farley draws as well on secular perspectives and contemporary experience.

Though relativity physics establishes that temporal ordering of causally independent events (contemporaries) depends on one's perspective within the universe, special relativity theory can not rule out universally inclusive experiences of simultaneity (the very meaning of «uni-verse «21) because the necessity of such a cosmic ordering also implies the necessity for relative orderings within the universe.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

I expected that some people would not understand or would disagree with my argument, but I did not expect the warm and genuinely excited reactions from those whose own experience has led them to see Christ on the other side of the long border between contemporary Catholic and evangelical religious experiences.

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.

STK distinguishes itself by focusing on the social experience with a sleek, contemporary design and an in - house DJ who creates an infectious, high - energy vibe.

VanHeulen will continue to build on the diverse menu of contemporary twists on Latin favorites, while creating new experiences for Grand Rapids diners.

He will focus on producing contemporary Mediterranean classics in harmony with the spices, flavors and rich tradition of the Indian Ocean to create dining experiences and lasting memories.

Windover Construction, an award - winning construction management firm building spaces that create positive and memorable experiences, announces the completion of Rail Stop Restaurant & Bar, an upscale contemporary restaurant located at Boston Landing, a new mixed - use development on the Allston / Brighton line.

Located on the 27th floor of the iconic hotel, this refined new destination offers visitors a sleek and contemporary setting in which to enjoy a creative beverage menu and truly personal experience.

On January 20th, PRG Hospitality, the restaurant group known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate America's former leaders, invites you to join them at LINCOLN, Teddy & The Bully Bar or Declaration.

There are unique considerations regarding the needs of infants during the first three years of life which are highlighted by contemporary knowledge, underscoring the impact of early experience on the development of human infant brain and mind»

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

One of the most stimulating books on the modern British experience comes not from the contemporary literary giants but from a thriller writer.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.

She has concentrated on expanding its offering of contemporary, mid-range and denim brands, bringing labels like Theory, Levis and Michael Kors into the fold and improving the site's front - end experience by opening creative studio spaces in Brooklyn and London.

[But] the soul is created [and] enhanced by the people working on it and experiencing it and these initiatives can come to life in magical ways resulting in repeat business,» says Ghizlan Guenez, CEO of The Modist, a Dubai - based e-commerce site that offers contemporary designer brands like Stella Jean and Maison Rabih Kayrouz to women whose religious, cultural or personal tastes lean to a modest style aesthetic.

Every detail from the rich leather stools to the brides organic tropical bouquet celebrated the experience that Sandals can offer for contemporary wedding ceremonies on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean.

The signature 10 year - old venue is focused on cocktail and beer selections guaranteed to pique the interest of experienced imbibers and novices alike, paired with a boutique dining menu to match the roomâ $ ™ s contemporary classic feel.

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