Sentences with word «publicness»

The basic strategy of that earlier book still seems correct to me: an attempt to develop criteria of publicness for responding to the three central questions posed to Christian belief.

My own proposal on particular ways through which publicness occurs is to argue that there exist three major sub-disciplines constituting theology — viz., fundamental, systematic and practical theology.

The shorthand word for the cultural problem which this question of publicness addresses is the «privatization of religion.»

When I wrote Blessed Rage for Order, I did state that even if the arguments for the public character of fundamental theology in that book were sound, those arguments could not determine the distinctive form of publicness proper to systematic theology or that proper to practical theology.

They also reject the heart of that tradition's attempt to achieve publicness through persuasive argument.

An insight into the universal character of the divine reality as the always - present object of the Christian's trust and loyalty is what ultimately impels every theology to attempt publicness.

But whenever a theologian will not allow a societal definition of religion as a sometimes useful, sometimes dangerous, usually harmless «private option,» then the struggle of contemporary theology for authentic publicness begins.

It is a conviction based on the theological warrant that any seriously theocentric construal of reality demands publicness.

Often times, it is an aspiration for an inwardness, but also a corresponding publicness.

His work is concerned with the mediation of histories and contemporary narratives by political, institutional and corporate bodies examining how innovations in the field of communication and technology serve to redefine publicness, sovereignty, and power.

Accordingly, Pousttchi and Buren's informal conversation touches on many dimensions of the public art project's supposed publicness»» and its constraints.

Her regionally and nationally recognized work has critically addressed constructions of femininity and desire in image culture, the politics of literacy, institutional manipulations of language, and civic and cultural publicness.

At that time (1975) I knew that there was a real difference between fundamental and systematic theology and, therefore, between the forms of publicness proper to each.

This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created.

The shorthand word for the cultural problem which this question of publicness addresses is...

A recently completed book on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism [Crossroad, 1981]-RRB- defends a second, less obvious but no less genuine notion of the kind of publicness that systematic theologies actually achieve.

It is not, of course, the case that all theologians should accept an explicit concern with «publicness» as their major focus.

It is time for the genuine pluralism among theologians to affirm itself again as a conversing, arguing, conflictual pluralism grounded in a common commitment to publicness.

Second, theologians must argue how the general «publicness» of all theological language is actualized into distinct but related theological disciplines.

That book defends the first and obvious meaning of publicness (viz., as meaning and truth available to all intelligent, reasonable and rational persons through persuasive argument) for the logically ordered questions of religion, God and Christ.

For the kinds of «publicness» achieved by different theologies are strongly influenced by the distinct kinds of social realities (or publics) from which theologies emerge and to which they speak.

That drive to publicness which constitutes all good theological discourse is a drive from and to those three publics.

A thrust to publicness must, however, be present in all theologies.

Like the ancient Romans who made a desert and called it peace, we are tempted to root out all particularity and call it publicness.

The «publicness» of a school isn't based on whether the district runs it.

«I think the difference for me has been the publicness of the position and how recognizable I have been when I go different places and that basically what I say, people hold on to and you kind of know that from a distance, but until you're actually in the position, it becomes more real to you,» she said.

Selected projects inscribe themselves in the structural, historical and societal contexts of the city, while also pointing beyond the specific site: themes related to the global present and reflections on contemporary concepts of sculpture are as much an integral part of the artistic inquiries as investigation into the basic parameters of publicness and the public realm.

Examining the crisis of publicness, progress and the loss of private life, Cally Spooner's writing will be published in eight parts and made public online as they are written, enacting the process of «thinking out loud» integral to all of Spooner's work.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres spreads out his gigantic pictures on city billboards, symbolizing both the stillness of «being - with - oneself» and the publicness of outward thrust.

From the privacy of a household to the publicness of national history, the domestic is interior, gendered, comforting, invisible, controlled, and integral to keeping the status quo.