Sentences with phrase «set in a contemporary setting»

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And Amazon's streaming station, despite being set in a fictional 1960s, draws at least a few explicit connections to contemporary politics.

App developers, website designers and content brokers are setting the terms and direction of contemporary marketing, though perhaps they would benefit from education in and exposure to traditional marketing methods.

The Sochi International Investment Forum is a contemporary venue for constructive dialogue between business and government that was set up with the support of the Russian Government to address development of the global economy and its principal trends, discuss the outlook for investment and innovation in our country and to showcase ambitious investment projects in Russia's regions.

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

Primitive Christianity in Its Contemporary Setting.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of realitin which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of realitIn effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of realitin which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

The second is the pitfall of a great deal of contemporary moralizing which assumes that though plenty of sin is abroad in society, God has little if anything to do with setting it right.

A nexal set N of actual entities is serially ordered when it satisfies the following condition (cf. Davies and Priestley 3); For any two actual entities x and y in N, either x feels y or x is felt by y Hence there are no contemporaries in N.

The former set does not contain actual entities that by themselves constitute (in my sense of the term) a nexus, because it does not contain an intermediary actual entity that interrelates the two contemporaries.

«What an audience expects of a contemporary Western is that it will either largely conform to the classic pattern of extolling the heroism of the cowboy, often a lawman cowboy, who has to defend the right in a wild setting, or, that the film will seek to undermine this pattern by means comedic or serious.

Even the Ten Commandments, given in the setting of early Hebrew society but still relevant today, have to be applied in the light of contemporary circumstances.

A theory technically is defined in contemporary logic to be a set of sentences such that any sentence which logically follows from members in the set is also in the set.

Returning then to the question of how the perspective on religion set forth in The Sacred Canopy is to be evaluated, given more than two decades of hindsight, it would appear evident that this perspective still contains much of importance to the contemporary situation.

Formalism, set theory, logicism, and intuitionism are the four major recognized contemporary schools in the philosophy of mathematics.2 If Whitehead did not advocate any of these, including intuitionism (which he never engaged probably because of its Kantian roots), what was his position?

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

The five books that now seem to me to have been most important in this way are Reinhold Niebuhr, The Self and the Dramas of History; Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return; Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness; Rudolf Bultmann, Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting; and Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History.

This would involve moving from the existing recognition of the socio - political character of the text in its original setting to that of the socio - political meaning of the text in the contemporary setting as well.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

Contemporary erotic etiquette, even among the young, has so drained physical love of its enticingly forbidden and urgent quality, and so dispelled its atmosphere of rapturous risk, moral uncertainty, tantalizing mystery, and irresistible yearning, that the actual quantum of pleasure in the transaction is often, one imagines, diminished to a very transitory set of neural agitations.

And the implication of this theological approach would be that the Mission of the Church must be fulfilled in integral relation to, even within the setting of a dialogue with, the revolutionary ferment in contemporary religious and secular movements which express men's search for the spiritual foundations for a fuller and richer human life.

It is therefore proper to our study of worship to inquire what this revolution in language means for the public worship in our churches; to ask whether perhaps it is not a task of contemporary obedience and praise to find fresh forms of statement whereby intelligibly to set forth ancient facts and encounters.

This loop of threefold interplay, all set in and sensitive to the contemporary social context, constitutes the Word - event.

I and its parallels, and in view also of what we have claimed to be the success of the total contemporary approach to the synoptic tradition in which these variations are accounted for on the assumption that they are due to, and a source of knowledge of, the theology of the evangelist or redactor concerned, we claim that we are entirely justified in challenging Gerhardsson to produce an exegesis of some sets of parallel sayings as evidence for his hypothesis, as we are prepared to do as evidence for ours.

The shades of Marcionism move lively again across the pulpit when the Church, for reasons probably sincere and rooted in a theology of the Word, is unwilling to take up the task of interpreting Scripture for specific contemporary settings.

Francis Chan attempts to do so in this impressively produced, contemporary short film, which is designed to be used in a small group setting.

Palmer calls this scheme «objectivism,» and he describes it not so much in terms of a history of ideas or a group of thinkers as in terms of a set of pedagogical practices that characterize the contemporary academy.

But the biblical narrative, the great critic Erich Auerbach wrote, depicted «something which neither the poets nor the historians of antiquity ever set out to portray: the birth of a spiritual movement in the depths of the common people, from within the everyday occurrences of contemporary life.»

If, in this thoroughly unmessianic spirit, we turn to the moral issues of contemporary capitalism, it is possible to distinguish two sets of issues, broadly definable as macro-and micro-dimensional.

And it is this assent, more than any other one intellectual factor, that has set science and religion in opposition to each other in the contemporary mind.3

We discovered a derelict shop in Ripon and quickly set about transforming it into bright, contemporary offices with the help of a builder and architect whom I knew from church.

It is also the interpretation of the event, an interpretation to be sure requiring knowledge of the contemporary understanding of the event, but never complete until set in the perspective which only time can give.

In our contemporary setting, we find Derrida and other deconstructionists asserting that we are «selves» trapped by» the buildup of past structures, above all by our language.

The modern dimension of this wager is that our time is so obviously divorced from the time of Jesus, or, at least, our world and history is clearly estranged from the classical world of Christendom, with the consequence that to choose the traditional form of Christ is either to set oneself against the contemporary world or to decide that the actuality of one's time and situation can have no bearing upon one's faith in Christ.

The fifth Anga sets forth Jam dogma largely in the form of answers by Mahavira to questions asked by one of the chief of his disciples, but it also gives perhaps the most vivid picture of Mahavira himself and his relationship to his contemporaries to be found in any of the books.

His candor may sound harsh and politically incorrect to us in our contemporary setting, but like a skilled surgeon's hands, it still excises cancerous fictions, lies that sicken us unto death.

The obverse of this is the fact, unfortunately too evident in the contemporary world, that when a totalitarian system sets out to destroy an existing social structure, it begins by attacking the home.

Admittedly, there is a rhetorical problem in our contemporary setting when Christians ground their sexual morality exclusively in a biblical understanding of human embodiment.

A wise church that is set in its ways will give up it's traditions and die that a new generation will re-create it into one that is contemporary.

The present writer has set down in detail elsewhere the course of the discussion which has led contemporary biblical scholarship to this all but unanimous conclusion, (N. Perrin, Kingdom, passim.)

Perhaps the finest set of comments on contemporary events through juxtaposition is the temple scene: «Roll on up — for my price is down / Come on in — for the best in town / Take your pick of the finest wine / Lay your bets on this bird of mine.»

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