Other contemporary Christian voices warn that by over-much emphasizing the triumph of Christ, Christians diverted their attention from the need to tackle the evil and exploitation in the world.
Other contemporary Christian musicians, as the music industry designates them, have crossed over to mainstream pop with some success.
Although usually called CCM for «Contemporary Christian Music,» that label not only confuses the genre with the University of Cincinnati's famous music school (CCM: the College — Conservatory of Music) but also suggests an affinity between it and the masterpieces of Messiaen, Penderecki, Tavener, and a host of
other contemporary Christian art composers — with which it has little.
Not exact matches
There are many
other references to New Testament people in
other non
christian contemporary writings.
Christian scripture doesn't have teachings like this toward
other contemporary religions.
I find that most of my
Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the
other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of
contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.
There are
other (often forgotten) voices from the Judeo -
Christian past which are now being heard more clearly — people whose work or writing has contributed to the rise of the
contemporary naturalist worldview.
And a movement of
contemporary Christians and
others may arise to dismantle the cross and abolish capital punishment for all time.
Contemporary theology is indebted to this Christocentric emphasis as it has developed in the century and a half since Schleiermacher, Ritschl and
other liberal theologians pressed further the position that the
Christian knowledge of God is based upon the history of Jesus.
They can turn to underemphasized traditions within the Judeo -
Christian heritage, both biblical and post biblical, highlighting the motif of stewardship; they can turn to
contemporary developments in any and science; and they can turn to feminism and to
other world religions.
My own indignation was especially «righteous» since I was deeply involved, with
others, in a protracted, earnest crusade to recover and re-present John Wesley (not only to Methodists but to
other Christians as well) as a significant theologian and as a fruitful resource for
contemporary ecumenical theology.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some
contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and
other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).
It was in fact one crucial difference in his ideas and those of his predecessors and
contemporaries that leads to Communism / Marxism being distinguished from Socialism: the
others were all
Christians (both Catholics and Protestants) and Marx was an atheist.
A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of
contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the
Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering
others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends more on attitudes than techniques.
When we use such a vocabulary, we find ourselves thinking about the world in different ways — and sometimes, at least, we may find common ground with
other Christians from whom we were divided when our only language was that of
contemporary politics.
In the present instance God is the concrescing entity, so God can not be the ground of the givenness of X when God is prehending X. God is in unison of becoming with every occasion (cf.
Christian, 333 - 334), but it is the definition of
contemporary occasions, occasions in unison of becoming, that neither of them prehend the
other (cf. Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 102).
Parish clergy and
other pastoral workers should be aware of the issues facing the young; they should research them and preach and teach about
Christian approaches to such
contemporary questions.
To clarify its meaning and show its
contemporary relevance has a greater chance of influencing
Christians than
other forms of theological writing.
In «Christianity and Myth» Cobb again considers the possibility of
Christian theism for the modern mind.120 The profane spirit of
contemporary man finds it impossible to talk about some «reality radically different from all
other reality...,» i.e., to speak mythically.
Perhaps the examples of Thomas Tallis and his pupil and friend William Byrd, both Roman Catholics, will give heart to
contemporary Catholic artists — and those who like myself are Anglo - Catholic artists — as well as
other writers in the
Christian tradition who find themselves in the situation that Dana Gioia describes.
In
other words, what separates the classical
Christian position on sex from the
contemporary anything - goes alternative is not one simple argument, but an entire worldview.
That the
Christian Gospel can be unique and yet remain positively related to what is known of God in
other gospels seems to be everywhere denied by
contemporary theologians.
In the past half century, perhaps no
other Christian ministry innovation has been more influential and polarizing than
contemporary worship.
For if anything is clear to the average modern
Christian with even a casual knowledge of the New Testament, it is, first, that «radiant» is hardly the word he would think of to describe his own religious life or that of his
contemporaries, and secondly, that no
other term characterizes so well the life of the primitive church.
The books appear to belong to that curious subset of
contemporary literature that seeks to relieve
others of the burden of an explicit
Christian faith that the authors themselves have found otiose.
Moreover, the
Christian community that knows this prophetic rebellion to belong to its
contemporary mission will recognize and welcome
other witnesses to this same sacredness, be they communities of faith or of purely humane concern.
As with the generosity displayed by Jesus, the compassion James desires believers to show to each
other stands in sharp contrast to the ways
contemporary Christians typically behave toward each
other in public.
From the starting point of the revelation of the nature and will of God that has come to man through Christ, she has dealt first with the biblical foundations of
Christian ethics followed by their application to specific
contemporary problems, including self and society, marriage, economic life, race, the state, war, peace and
others.
After all, for the last 10 years, his mega-hit «How He Loves Us» has been a staple of
contemporary worship services and
Christian radio, and has been covered by the likes of David Crowder, Kim Walker - Smith, Todd Agnew, Flyleaf and countless
others.
It is now almost twenty years since, among
other things, an article by Christopher Duraisingh in Religion and Society, laying emphasis on the hyphenated character of Indian -
Christian identity, [3] sparked off a debate about the nature of this identity of Indian -
Christians in the
contemporary context.
In many
other cases resourcing has become little more than a placement service for students seeking employment as
Christian education directors, youth workers or student pastors, and for local churches seeking to book a
contemporary singing group for the annual youth Sunday.
If the
Christian mission allies itself with the forces of
contemporary globalization what happens to these «
other missions»?
In concluding the lectures, I should like to suggest that process - thought requires supplementation from at least three
other areas of
contemporary study and to urge that this supplementation will make it even more interesting to
Christian thinkers.
Leveraging the pluralistic stance of the
contemporary academy to the advantage of faith - informed scholarship, he argues that academic freedom must be granted as fully to
Christian scholars as it is to feminists and
other committed researchers.
The three - decker world view of ancient man, and the
contemporary space universe which stems from Copernicus and Galileo are so different from each
other, that every aspect of the
Christian faith on which cosmology impinges must be radically reinterpreted.
Before we do that we need to remember many
other things, especially the way the passion of Jesus has been employed through millennia by
Christian believers for the oppression of Jews.17 We should consider also the need of a people for a homeland, an issue poorly illumined by either the memory of the passion of Jesus alone or
contemporary social sciences.
The Vatican seems oblivious of one of the most obvious and impressive facts about
contemporary theology - that one can not draw the traditional lines between Catholic theological efforts and those that spring from
other parts of the
Christian tradition or even from non-
Christian sources.
It is only with an understanding of vocation and the question of sexual vocation
other than marriage and celibacy that a responsible
Christian sexual ethic can be elaborated which is neither reactionary nor soft - headed, neither simply orthodox nor simply enlightened, but a genuine application of
Christian moral insight to the
contemporary setting.
Whether we know it or not, we do not enter the presence of Christ except along with
others: if we do not approach him in the company of some
contemporary Christian or group of
Christians, then we do so in the company, and with the help, of Peter, Paul and John and the unnamed communities whose memories and faith are conveyed to us in the Gospels.
In
other words, the
contemporary martyrs are involved in political matters and are more often concerned in action than speaking, like the first
Christians, or thinking as at the end of the Middle Ages.
These cartoons are juxtaposed with
contemporary work depicting May by Steve Bell,
Christian Adams, Bob Moran, Martin Rowson, Dave Brown and
others.
I knew nothing about
Christian Science except the few times someone of their faith hits the newspapers for doing something that is totally unorthodox in
contemporary society... I know about the beliefs in healing in
other faiths but information about Paul was not developed enough for me to believe or not believe.
The company has deals with major publishers including Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, HarperCollins
Christian, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with more than 100,000 professionally - published titles from authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Crichton, Walter Isaacson, Janet Evanovich, Mark Halperin, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (uh, some of those are more
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In addition, FIAC will develop the presence of important modernist and
contemporary architectures with exceptional projects by Jean Prouvé,
Christian de Portzamparc and Hans - Walter Müller, among
others, installed on the Esplanade des Feuillants that borders the Rue de Rivoli.
2006 Estrecho Dudoso, TEOR / éTica, San José, Costa Rica, curated by Virginia Pérez Ratton and Tamara Díaz Bringas (Catalog) Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, (screening), Centre Culturel La Clef, Paris, France Estudio Abierto, Palacio de Correos, Buenos Aires, Argentina 10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida (Catalog) Manifesta 6 School, Nicosia, Cyprus, curated by Mai Abu ElDehab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel (Cancelled) Prevailing Climate, (screening), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak 3 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, curated by Antonio Arévalo (Catalog) Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York El Museo's 4th Bienal: The (S) Files, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Catalog) 4ème Festival international du Cinéma iranien en Exil, (Screening), Paris, France When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, organized by Andrea Geyer and
Christian Rattemeyer Bzzzz, Fundacion Cu4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia, curated by Jaime Cerón Russia: Significant
Other, Institute for
Contemporary Art at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, curated by Olga Kopenkina Surveillance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda Moving Time, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, curated by Hwang Yu Jin, Jeeyun Kim, Inhee Iris Moon Featured Artist Projects, Center for Book Arts, New York
He has written numerous contributions on
contemporary art and has curated solo - exhibitions with Louise Lawler, Johanna Billing,
Christian Philipp Müller, Simon Starling, Amelie von Wulffen, Sterling Ruby amongst
others but also large - scale thematic exhibitions like Flashback — Revisiting the Art of the 80s and Index — California Conceptualism.
After the 1995 public debut of its International Artist - In - Residence (IAIR) program, Artpace quickly earned an international reputation for commissioning new artwork from artists who went on to become major figures in
contemporary art, including Nancy Rubins, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Cornelia Parker, Isaac Julien, Teresita Fernandez,
Christian Marclay, Arturo Herrera, Trevor Paglen, Rachel MacLean, Mark Bradford, and
others.
Contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, Doug Aitken, Ugo Rondinone,
Christian Marclay, Elliott Hundley, Phillip Taaffe and many
others have all expressed their intense admiration for Conner's work.
LONDON — Prices for
contemporary German artists — Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo, among
others — soared to new levels at Sotheby's here on Wednesday night in an auction that featured 34 works from the collection of Count
Christian Duerckheim, a German industrialist who became obsessed with what he calls «the art of his time.»
Contemporary art presents works by John Baldessari, Anselm Kiefer, Giulio Paolini, and Ed Ruscha, Vito Acconci, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, Stephan Balkenhol, Fischli & Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Mariko Mori,
Christian Boltanski, Mario Merz, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter, among many
others.