Sentences with phrase «raised by modernity»

A great theoretician, his work is inseparable from his brilliant reading of art history and modernity: according to him, we haven't yet dealt with the fundamental questions raised by modernity.

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The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

To an extent this apologetic tone still persists in many theologies of revelation, and even in this book we can not ignore those questions raised by the critical spirit of academic modernity.

33 Lack of exposure of bare skin to sunshine is not the only biological consequence of modern life for which we must compensate; we must also return to the nutrient - rich foods on which our ancestors thrived and of which modernity has disposed: the fats and organs of animals raised on the pasture of mineral - rich soil, foods preserved by traditional fermentation rather than modern refrigeration, and the mineral - rich gifts of the oceans in which life originated.

The fact that the narrative (rewritten by The Devil Wears Prada's Aline Brosh McKenna from a first draft by Emma Thompson) can't raise its rich / poor themes above the level of mobile phone ownership or its modernity beyond an acknowledgment of viral videos, and social media (an Instagram - led helicopter chase seems terribly old - fashioned) is only part of a more general uncertainty about what Annie means to today's movie - going audiences.