Sentences with phrase «rejection of tradition»

He recognized the uplifting quality in mid-century art: «The abstract - expressionist movement, although negative in its rejection of all tradition and especially of the French art of the first half of the century, did reflect this positive element, the postwar euphoria, the sudden feeling of strength both physically and spiritually.»

What helped establish a common ground was the same rejection of tradition and academic training both of these painters based their works on.

Significantly, Hammons insisted that L&M break with convention by issuing no press release, but the works themselves spoke eloquently enough about how an artist need neither to renounce nor adhere to any aspect of his tradition (including the by - now - traditional rejection of tradition) in order for «outrageously magical things» to happen.

First, it implied that a movement based on the rejection of tradition had become a tradition of its own.

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

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The design, he said, is «a total rejection of the past and tradition and, honestly, of everything that Eisenhower himself stood for.»

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

The Oblates declare their rejection of «the premise that European languages, traditions, and religious practices [are] superior to native languages, traditions, and religious practices.»

He did not identify God with sheer infinity and absolute independence (as scholasticism did) and was emphatic in his rejection of that aspect of the tradition.

Nevertheless there have been both rejection and criticism of the mainstream Buddhist tradition by Zen.

One of the little - noticed but highly significant facts of our time is the quiet but persistent growing rejection among evangelicals of the fundamentalist tradition.

Regardless of the openness with which one reads Balthasar's works or the sympathy one may have for him personally, it is undeniable that his theology of Christ's descent entails a de facto, and sometimes even conscious, rejection of Catholic tradition.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

Rejection of churchly traditions in favor of Scripture, «the living oracles,» had quickly established the distinctive features of Disciples worship and polity: weekly communion, believer's baptism by immersion, a prominent role for the laity, and fervent regard for congregational autonomy.

Our group preamble is «this group of A.A. attempts to maintain a tradition of free expression, and conduct a meeting where alcoholics may feel free to express any doubts or disbeliefs they may have, and to share their own personal form of spiritual experience, their search for it, or their rejection of it.

Our American political tradition begins with a revolutionary assertion of civic equality — a rejection of custom and heritage in favor of a brighter future, a novus ordo seclorum.

A case can be made that, in their rejection of authoritative tradition, in their fascination with novel spiritualities and high - tech expertise, and in the assertion of a right to control their lives and deaths, the suicides of Heaven's Gate exemplify the «mainstream faith» of the Times» editorial page.

As such it is an outright rejection of many religious traditions» ultimate aims.

(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.

Indeed, Peter's appeal to the apocalyptic tradition is an implicit rejection of utopianism.

This allows Balthasar to disagree with Barth's wholesale rejection of natural theology but transform this overly theologized insight into a practical claim regarding the inefficacy of modern Catholic appeal to the classical Western metaphysical and moral tradition in today's secular culture.

Partly out of a rejection of a priestly description of ministry, and the absence of a tradition of vested clergy among such denominations as Baptists, Congregationalists and the Society of Friends, Protestants have largely rejected sacred vestments.

To Splash, with his love of metaphor, The Relay suddenly seemed to symbolize meaningful transition in an age of instant rejection, a rapid but orderly transfer of confidence and tradition from one man to the next, if not between generations.

Some describe it as a strange and abrupt rejection from Albany of a working - class tradition close to the spirit of the state fair.

Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self - definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention.

Trained as a painter and spending his youth in Venice, Calzolari went on a very original path that would not include any rejection of the past and tradition.

In 1996, the academic John Roberts summed up the spirit of the age as one of «fuck - you attitudinising» in relation to traditions and orthodoxies; writing in The Guardian in 2012, Will Self recalled that he admired the Goldsmiths generation in their heady heyday precisely because of «their conscious rejection of all codified styles and modes.»

Then, «experimentation, emulation of Western styles and rejection of many native traditions characterized the»80s.

Atheism is the primary focus, because, among other things, it represents the ultimate rejection of the demands of religious teachings and moral traditions, most of which are based on a quasi-governmental purpose that includes control of the population.