Sentences with phrase «period of modernity»

Indeed during the period of modernity, being a Christian meant, to a large extent, believing in Christianity, and Christian faith meant, to a large extent, believing.

This understanding of faith, though it's very old, has become dominant in the period of modernity.

«Sounds of Silence,» for example, is a song that attacks a feature of modernity, conformist inauthentic speech / reticence, that to some extent spans the entire period of modernity but which seems particularly strong during one stage of it, that of intermediate modernity.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

But both fundamentalists and liberals during the period of modernity have agreed: facts are what matter.

To say the obvious (but it has so often been lost during the period of modernity) metaphors can be profoundly true, even if they aren't literally or factually true.

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Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Return for a moment to modernity — that great sea - change of human consciousness of the past several centuries (characterized by pluralism and uncertainty) that is leading us to a new Axial period.

It was coupled with a critique of modernity, which I define as the overarching ideology of the modern period characterized by the three key terms describing larger patterns familiar to modern psychotherapy — autonomous individualism, naturalistic reductionism, and narcissistic hedonism.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

But modernity, like other periods of history, is ambiguous.

The «new economy» spurred on by the new technology is still in a period of transition just as our society is groaning though a movement away from modernity and modern rationality into postmodernity and a postmodern rationality signified by its offspring technology that will continue to give it shape.

The first three decades of the twentieth century, a time characterized by the arrival of the culture of modernity, was a period of great change not only for women but also in the realms of economics, politics, the arts, science, and social and religious thought.

Feminine beauty is one of the eternal themes discussed at all times; each era has its own canons of female beauty, which are dictated by modernity: in one period of years, it is fashionable one, tomorrow there are new standards, sometimes totally opposite to the previous, and a few decades again come into vogue long - forgotten images.

Modernity as a topic in the humanities and social sciences is both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio Omaha Love is a modern matchmaking service that was founded in 2009 by Courtney Quinlan.

The Roads to Modernity is a thoughtful and wide - ranging discussion of an important period in the history of ideas.

This period, «c. 1930», was a time of crisis in modernity and, for the artistic avant - gardes in Europe, the contemporary condition also became problematic.

In her 1994 book The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity, the late art historian Linda Nochlin analogized representations of the disintegrated figure to tumultuous moments in the modern period's political and metaphysical flux.

Through a variety of historical objects from MIA's collection, in juxtaposition with photographs and contemporary artworks inspired by the Qajar period, we explore the meaning of the image of women at the onset of modernity.

As they sought to express a cultural identity that could bridge ancient traditions and modernity, they were also experiencing periods of conflict and rapid social change.

Within the work of contemporary Brazilian artists, one can find the history of the country, spanning from 20th century modernity back to the colonial period.

During this period, etching was reinvented as an original art form that — like writing — was uniquely fitted to expressions of an artist's individual personality and the experience of modernity.

Contemporary African photography has emerged during a period of significant historical and social change, including the post-World War II de-colonization movements, the quest for independent national identity, and the effects of globalization and modernity.

As a consequence, during the interwar period, the balance and force of classical forms engendered a fusion of modernity and antiquity, turning away from the two - dimensional abstract spaces and fragmentation of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and other avant - garde movements of the early 20th century.

«One way of understanding the relation of the terms «modern,» «modernity,» and «modernism» is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Together, they reveal the artist's quest to redefine the notion of a monument in a period marked by both intense historicism and the ever - accelerating rhythms of modernity.