Sentences with phrase «on modern culture»

«We are pleased to bring these pioneering film and video works to our audiences as a way to learn about the development of this media over the past 50 years and the impact it has had on modern culture.»

Wallinger's installation heroically reflects Freud's immense impact on modern culture.

Sturtevant, who died in May this year, was quick to recognise the significant impact of mass produced and reproduced images on modern culture.

Cartoons and animated movies from the studios of companies such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon and others have had a tremendous impact on modern culture.

Dr. Carl Henry, of Christianity Today, a postwar conservative theological journal, and Professor Martin Marty, of The University of Chicago, found themselves in agreement as to the extent of Christianity's impact on modern culture.

Besides studies on Hegel, Marx and Kierkegaard, he has published works on religion (notably The Other Dimension: A Dubious Heritage and Transcendent Selfhood) and on modern culture (Passage to Modernity).

Not exact matches

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

The corporate culture is also a strong focus with an emphasis on being modern and forward thinking.

These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, either by using suckers and cuttings taken from the underground stem or through modern tissue culture.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social channels.

Unfortunately, the increasingly popular approach to finding truth in our modern -» thinking» culture is one based solely on natural science.

Protestant liberals were bent on proving that genuine Christian faith could live in mutual harmony with the modern developments in science, technology, immigration, communication and culture that were already under way.

To put Genesis on the level of a physical discussion of the natural order is to secularize it — while complaining loudly about secularism in modern culture!

While it's a pretty irreverent take on nativity scene decorations, whether the creators of the «Hipster Nativity Set» were intending to or not, the concept offers interesting commentary about the intersections of modern millennial culture with the ancient holiday.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

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.

On the other hand, Eastern Europe, although for a thousand years it had had a higher culture than the West, might never have developed modern science.

The impact of the technologies and institutions of electronic culture need to be understood in relation to their intertwinement with two other major modern movements, each of which is dependent on the other.

Finally, to draw on Robert Alan Goldberg's Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America (2001), one wonders whether American culture particularly encourages this type of thCulture of Conspiracy in Modern America (2001), one wonders whether American culture particularly encourages this type of thculture particularly encourages this type of thinking.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

A compelling aspect of Kilde's book is her reading of the buildings themselves in order to understand the religious culture that produced them: bold, confident, masculine and modern — yet slightly on the defensive.

When we think about modern culture, we might naturally gravitate towards some of its «evils» (more on this in a moment), but there is so much good to point out.

CALL FOR A CULTURE WITH VISION We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or re-establish Eden - with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

It symbolizes a unity which is not simply a formal bond that circumscribes the unfolding of individual powers in an always equal manner, but rather a process of unified development which all individuals go through together [«On the Concept and the Tragedy of Culture,» by Georg Simmel, in The Conflict in Modern Culture, translated by Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), p. 28].

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

I am convinced that if such programmes are augmented by the vision presented by the Theology of the Body such as that put forward in «Called to Love» by Carl Anderson and Father Jose Granados, then Catholic children will not only be better able to resist the false attractions of the Culture of Death and the nihilistic philosophies of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and happierCulture of Death and the nihilistic philosophies of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and happierculture, they will also go on to live more complete and happier lives.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

It seems true that disaster coverage on media are having an effect (perhaps a disquieting effect) on vast numbers of individuals around the world and, therefore, leaving some kind of imprint on our humanity and modern culture.

John M. Staudenmaier, «The Influence of Communication Technologies on Modern American Culture: A Framework for Analysis,» paper presented at the University of Dayton Conference on Religious Telecommunications, Dayton, OH, September 26, 1988, p. 4.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

In his evolutionary perspective, the growing differentiation of modern culture has placed religion in competition with reason, the natural sciences, and most recently the social sciences, all of which have taken over many of the topics on which religion traditionally spoke with authority.

It may not be possible for such a reality to be constructed for everyone or on a broad scale, for communication with an invisible deity clearly runs counter to the norms of modern culture.

First, the modern world assumed that our knowledge and culture must rest on secure foundations.

Against this backdrop, postmodernity comes in, surfing on globalisation, originating from the West but appearing anti- Western, deconstructing modern tenets on the one hand whilst seeming to offer non-Western cultures opportunities on the other.

I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.

A Year of Papal Caritas Which of us predicted, reading the sermon delivered after the death of Pope John Paul by the then (but only just) Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, with its frontal attack on relativism and the secularisation of modern culture, that the secularists would come to respond as violently as over the last two years - in England, then in Madrid and Germany - they have done to this Pope's steadfast anti-secularism?

When you look at modern cultures that have strict gun control laws, the crazy maniacs who are set on killing people just use other tools to kill people, like bombs, machetes, and cars.

The forces of destructiveness and the dehumanization which have become manifest from the late 19th century onwards have put a question mark on the secular modern culture.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern coModern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern comodern context.

Application to modern culture and issues will also be considered, with an emphasis on how the theological category leads to action and service.

If modern culture were a prize fight, organized Christianity wouldn't quite be knocked out yet, but it would certainly be on the ropes, way behind on points coming to the bell.

CONCLUSION On the Way to Life has identified some of the features of Modern and post-Modern culture that we need to take account of in revitalising our religious education and catechesis, but the document is insufficiently critical towards Modernity, insufficiently aware of our need to challenge its pretensions.

Scholarly acceptance of physical evolution suggested that culture, too, must have evolved, must have risen through stages on the way to modern times, each stage with its own religious orientation and style of life.

Unfortunately, modern culture focuses (maladroitly) on only one constituent element of the act of human freedom: the act of choice, electio in the terminology of the scholastics, the act by which we embrace voluntarily one preferred means to the realization of our happiness.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

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But i must complement wenger he has changed the culture of the club and given the team a spirit But does that give him the right to neglect the needs of the fans for some trophies Arsenal tickets are the most expensive yet the fans settle for good football as opposed to winning football as mentioned on this blog i don't get it But wenger knows once you keep the share holders happy then your in business It puzzles me that a modern manager can go six (6) yes six seasons without a single trophy and some people can come here making bone dry excuses, the ambition of the club has dropped wenger can coach at no other top club in Europe and not win a trophy he would be shown the door.