As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most
other classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more liberal wings of interpretation.
Not exact matches
This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great,
classical religious
traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with
other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.
They have also been influenced by the much - contested argument of Lynn White, Jr., and
others that the
classical Western theological
tradition has proved ecologically problematic.
Black theology's rootage in the
tradition of that
other great protest, schism, and reformation which produced the racially separate African - American congregations determines that it is not at all committed to that predominantly white - Western theological
tradition which Hartshorne calls «
classical theism.»
So weighty was this
tradition that any suggestion that the divine might be
other than how
classical theism conceived it to be was treated as a changing of the subject.
Consequently, I hold that if one is to continue to affirm with the Christian
tradition that faith in God is both indispensable and reasonable, it is incumbent on him to show that such faith may be explicated in
other terms than those of
classical Christian theism.
The reading curriculum, drawn from classic texts in the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish
traditions, will touch on major themes according to the
classical understanding of freedom and its relationship with truth, religion, the public interest, and
other important concepts (see syllabus below).
We may speak by analogy with Hartshorne's «neoclassical theism» of Whitehead's neoclassical empiricism» precisely because it is a self - conscious revision of the
classical tradition on the one hand and can be seen to consist in an analysis of the formally possible doctrines regarding the character and content of experience on the
other.
In this pedagogical pursuit, however, Calvin adopted, in concert with church fathers such as Irenaeus and Chrysostom, the rhetorical
tradition of accommodation embodied in, among
other classical writers, Cicero and Quintillian.
So in her conclusion she highlights some of the accomplishments of Byzantine civilization: an imperial government built on a trained civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a curriculum of secular education that preserved
classical learning; theological thought, artistic expression, and spiritual
traditions that are still alive in the Orthodox churches; and coronation and court rituals that were adopted by
other rulers.
A third approach would be to delve more deeply into what Thomas Oden (and
others) are calling «the Great
Tradition,» «the consensually received instruction in
classical Christian writing.»
Survey research in particular, through the work of Gerhard Lenski, Joseph Fichter, Charles Glock, Rodney Stark, and
others, was beginning to shape the ways in which sociologists thought about religion, on the one hand, while on the
other hand Parsonian theories, speculative and comparative work in the
classical tradition, and some of the newer perspectives of phenomenology posed challenges to empirical positivism.
After just three albums, Bello has become a noteworthy presence in the community of Spanish musicians who deftly mix jazz,
classical and
other traditions from Spain.
Colonized by Portugal (and
other empires including France and the Netherlands) during 1500 to 1822, the production of art (in the Western perspective) in Brazil was always in dialogue with European
classical traditions.
Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or
other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old
tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the
classical categories of the still - life
tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.
The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the
classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as
others return to the figurative
tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.
Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese
classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the
traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of Western artworks that have inspired the artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.
His work is characterized by a meticulous, old - masterly technique and an unfashionable investment in
classical painting
traditions commingling with
other representational languages drawn from popular culture, including movies, pinups and Scandinavian pornography.
On the
other hand he never felt entirely at home with the ideals of the Barbizon School, the members of which saw Romantic idealization of the countrysite as a form of escapism from urban banality, and he remained more faithful to the French
Classical tradition than to the English or Dutch schools.
The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the
classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by
other artists.