Not exact matches
If Catholicism was once a Western
faith, associated with institutional
power and privilege, its
center of gravity is now in the developing world and its membership is strongest among the poor.
This
faith apprehends that God the creator, the
power of being, is also the redeemer or the
center of value.
For human meaning
centers in
faith; and we now see the dialectic
of faith, that is,
of Christian
faith, in its radicality, namely, that the transcendence
of God passes totally into the immanence
of Christ, so that transcendence when perceived as such has only a shell left — the
power of repression.
Biblical
faith, on the contrary, is
centered in the existence and activity
of a deity who is infinite in wisdom,
power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each
of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.
It also introduces new work such as Shirazeh Houshiary's «Turning Around the
Center» (1993), which turns what look like minimal sculptures into light - catching devices that avow
faith in «the
power of art to transform our lives,» as the exhibition title has it.