Sentences with word «postmodernity»

Elements of postmodernity as an intellectual current are indeed increasingly present in Latin America.

In postmodernity as in modernity, not everything is black or white.

Because the clump - of - cells argument is so crude and «final», Obama, putting himself at the front of a long train, seeks refuge in bad postmodernity.

While the former was largely geared toward evangelical baby boomers, the latter catered to Gen X and Millennial evangelicals (and «postevangelicals») who are trying to come to grips with postmodernity.

-- to reality and common sense: Postmodernity claims human reason is unable to access reality as it is.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

In my previous piece in this magazine (November, 2007) I drew attention to the importance of attentively monitoring the current convergence of Western postmodernity and the rise of non - Western cultures under the influence of globalisation in all its forms.

If postmodernity is or is going to be something really and materially new, then the Systematic Theology, in its preoccupation with the great problems of modernity and its paradigmatic exemplification of one sort of modernist thinking, will probably be an historical artifact from the day of its publication.

And so Wright sees postmodernity's effect on contemporary Western readings of Scripture as «essentially negative.»

With de Lubac, and against postmodernity, the Church must restore to the human person a sense of the natural human capacity for the universal, and with it the possibility of an ennobling unity based on shared metaphysical truth rather than the negative peace of nonjudgmental tolerance.

While postmodernity reacts against «philosophy» and intellectualism, exalting the «freedom to choose», it does not search for the truth and in fact thrives on the mere «possession» of «knowledge» and on individual «empowerment», thereby retaining pervertedelements of Western cultures that many in Africa have rightfully resented.

Taking ideas from postmodernity, the installations are immortalised within the frame of a flattened image.

The book is for specialists, to be sure, but nonspecialists concerned about postmodernity's impact on «faith in search of understanding» would do well not to ignore it.

Guarino, who teaches at Seton Hall University, holds that recognizably orthodox Christian thought can accommodate postmodernity's difficulties with identity and difference, unity and pluralism.

Evangelical Catholicism recognizes that, in offering everyone the profoundly countercultural possibility of friendship with the Lord Jesus, it is offering the postmodern world something postmodernity badly needs: an encounter with the divine mercy.

Jean - François Lyotard famously characterized postmodernity as incredulity toward metanarratives, the comprehensive stories» Marxist, Enlightenment liberal, religious» that make us confident that we have the Big Picture.

Postmodernity seems to have passed him by.

Another part of the question of postmodernity focuses less on cultural or ecclesial shifts than on more strictly intellectual problems.

Still others will embrace postmodernity in its most decentering, deconstructive forms so fully that «a-theologies» will be born to announce, yet again, that the «death of God» has finally found its true hermeneutical home.

Now they profess at some of our best universities, parse postmodernity, and preach «creation care» with liberal fervor.

In addition, at a philosophical level, postmodernity rejected the claims that atheistic modernity had made about reason's capacity to know with certainty that there was no God.

Postmodernity implies a destabilisation of our rational or theological apprehension of reality, of the anthropological structure given by God to man and woman, of the order of the universe as established by God.

The basic tenet of postmodernity [1] is that every reality is a social construct, that truth and reality have no stable and objective content.

Postmodernity then begins with Hume and Kant.

The triumph of left postmodernity — its identity, if you will — was to render unanswerable the question of what our identities are.

«Postmodernity agress with modernity in scorning both the eschatological claim of Christianity and its solution to the problem of evil, but without putting any alternatives in place,» he says.

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.

As postmodernity on the one hand, and technological developments on the other, threaten to enslave humanity to a world of dream and virtuality, people more than ever feel a longing for what is real.

But postmodernity hides a post-Judeo-Christian agenda and a culture of irrationality.

A number of theologians of late, myself included, have been arguing that Barth inaugurates a theological movement that has some affinities with the intellectual currents running through postmodernity.

This caution notwithstanding, Armstrong's is an accessible, instructive book with much to say about the realism at the heart of postmodernity rightly understood.

... We believe that we are «traditioned» creatures and that we should move beyond the false polarities of an individualistic modernity and a relativistic postmodernity.»

One of many analogies between postmodernity and dying antiquity — in which the church lived for her most creative period — is that the late antique world also insisted on being a meaningless chaos, and that the church had to save her converts by offering herself as the narratable world within which life could be lived with dramatic coherence.

but strangely that non-involvement attempt itself is also a passive statement of postmodernity where individuals, or let's say third - world female individuals.

Here, Barcelona could be replaced with almost any other 1990s western or southern European metropolis, now less accommodating than in previous decades as a result of an alienating postmodernity.

The notion — by some of my fellow reviewers — that the book is too long is precisely the reason I found it captivating... Indeed, most contemporary books are so in love with their own postmodernity that they often run out of narrative momentum within the first 200 pages.

Its refusal to integrate with the Beaux - Arts entrance signals postmodernity in action.

Giving his seminal essays the most careful rereading in years, de Duve reveals an unexpected Greenberg, a passionate art lover open to changes in judgment, a cultured student of modernity and a subtle theorist at odds with nascent postmodernity.

Unfortunately there is an extreme version of PostModernity which is now so endemic it gets its own name: Mean Green.

The «global ethic», initially drawing mainly from Western postmodernity (which is already, in and of itself, highly complex, and far from stable), will become a yet more complex phenomenon.

«All we can do with the Bible, if postmodernity is left in charge, is to play with such texts as give us pleasure, and issue warnings against those that give pain to ourselves or to others who attract our (usually selective) sympathy.»