Seen as such, the contribution that art can make to challenging
political realities of our times can only be representational, a sort of additional layer of understanding for awareness.
Augustine solved the problem for himself and many subsequent theologians by denying the ultimate
reality of time as human beings experience it.
It taunts me that I am not a church theologian but just another academic theologian who continues to draw off the residual resources of Constantinian Christianity to fantasize about a church that does not and probably can not or should not exist, given the political and
economic realities of our time.
Most impressively, Vikings captures the
grim reality of these times and the limitations of these characters — barbarous, superstitious creatures that they are — in a manner that draws one into their world without necessarily evoking sympathy for it.
Nietzsche was, of course, a prophetic thinker, which means that his thought reflected the
deepest reality of his time, and of our time as well; for to exist in our time is to exist in what Sartre calls a «hole in Being,» a «hole» created by the death of God.
This is a compromise that reflects the
fiscal reality of our times, and I believe it is an important and essential step New York must take.»
«Working on Watch Dogs was enormously interesting to me because its world offers the convergence of cyberpunk and the edgy
tech reality of our times; it all plays out with action and energy against the inner city backdrop that I thrive in» said John Shirley.
Senior Curator Mason Klein illuminates how Modigliani's work can not be fully understood without acknowledging the ways that he, as an Italian Sephardic Jew, responded to the
social realities of his time.
«Our mission is to give a voice to the unsung heroes of yesterday that captured their
personal reality of the times as future generations deserve access to diverse and real perspectives,» says Maher.
In 1951, a group of artists, later called the «Irascibles», wrote to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art boycotting their exhibition called American Painting Today — 1950, claiming that it didn't represent the
true reality of the time: it didn't take into consideration Abstract Expressionism.
The duality of the work is key to the American artist's long - term practice, carefully balancing stylised animations against the
stark reality of the times we live in.
This is the
sad reality of our times — that kids are no longer allowed the same freedoms that previous generations did, despite the fact that, statistically, there has never been a safer time to be a kid in America.
As broadcasts were obviously not invented at the time of the Act's original construction, the legislature introduced these provisions in 1958, to reflect the changing
technological realities of the time.
Jesus used parables to help instruct the laymen, in terms and stories they understood, sometimes using th
harsh realities of the times to explain God His father.
Both political theories came to be pushed aside by ideologies that were deemed (mostly by those with power) to better respond to the economic and
political realities of their time.
Using a phrase of Locke's, he speaks in Process and
Reality of time as a «perpetual perishing.»
Although the company was a bit more hopeful that the downturn wouldn't last as long as it did, it has taken action by closing some locations and finding new concepts for them that are a better fit for the
economic realities of the time.
What he tries to do is the opposite: «I am writing about everyday people whose plausibility exists only because of the
historical reality of their times and places.»
I plan to give away a great deal more money to charity, I've already committed to do so, and trying to figure out how I - as an amateur philanthropist - I'm trying to figure out how I can do that most effectively given
the realities of this time.
the reality of that time was that people sold themselves into slavery to avoid starvation.
Put briefly, sentimentality is a distortion of proper sentiment as oriented by
the realities of time and place and thus a distortion of significant creation.
The «everydayness» of the elements of the Mass mediate
the reality of time and place to intellect, justifying existential reality at last as rescued.
Indeed, for him the very essence of faith is this conviction, and it is this faith which frees the Christian for total openness to
the reality of his time, however dark and empty it may appear.
This course steers clear both of tossing tradition to the wind and of being so tightly bound to tradition that we can not respond faithfully and courageously to
the realities of our times.
«To understand
the reality of our times more profoundly, we have to break out of circles confining our vision... It is impossible to have real intercultural communication in the electronic age without leaving «your country and your kindred and your father's house» (Gen 12:1).
Another idea always presupposed in practice is
the reality of time, meaning the distinction between a settled past, a settling present, and a partly unsettled future.
Thus Royce affirmed
the reality of time and, at least in The Problem of Christianity, seems to say that God has a temporal aspect.
In proposing a Christian theology of hope Jurgen Moltmann agrees that theology can not live with the Parmenidean god of being who renders
the reality of time empty.