Sentences with phrase «symbols in contemporary ways»

Bultmann's program of demythologizing had great appeal, although others would talk of interpreting traditional stories and symbols in contemporary ways.

Not exact matches

In the manner of Paul Ricoeur's attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Adamic myth of evil over the Orphic myth or of Reinhold Niebuhr's still masterful if methodologically muted attempt to show the relative adequacy of the Judeo - Christian understanding of historical passage, the contemporary revisionist theologian can find public ways to articulate the relative experiential adequacy of particular symbol systems.

In Chapter 1 I have attempted to summarize the main points of Berger's argument, showing how it provides a useful way of understanding the extent to which sacred and nonsacred realities alike are constructed collectively with symbols; I then suggest some features of religion in contemporary society that seem to make sense in these termIn Chapter 1 I have attempted to summarize the main points of Berger's argument, showing how it provides a useful way of understanding the extent to which sacred and nonsacred realities alike are constructed collectively with symbols; I then suggest some features of religion in contemporary society that seem to make sense in these termin contemporary society that seem to make sense in these termin these terms.

Revivalism, which emerged in part out of Puritanism, shared most of the central beliefs and symbols of Puritanism itself; however, the Great Awakening held and embodied these same beliefs in such a way that the believers tended to be highly critical of those same values and beliefs as embodied in the contemporary elite of the day.

The initial curatorial invocation of «personal and collective experiences of race and class» addressed by Simmons's art also flattens the work in a way that feels anathema to his recent subtler, more ambiguous tone, developed with a visible engagement with contemporary art as much as with the symbols of American race relations.

Through a contemporary lens, Marilyn has become a symbol of not only sex appeal, but empowerment and womanhood as she embraced the camera in a way that no celebrity had dared to do before.

The works are rife with clichéd symbols, such as Arabic calligraphy, fragments of ceramic artifacts, images of camels and political cartoons, in an attempt to create work that will meet Western expectations for a brand of contemporary Middle Eastern art much in the same way that smiling Mao and Panda paintings became the brand for post-Cultural Revolutionary art in China in the 1980's.

Reading Between the Lines surveys the contemporary artist's use of language and symbol systems in their work to convey a particular way of seeing.

The ways in which power and symbols are wielded has been a long - running theme in his work, which he has presented in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

As transformed in the framework of contemporary art, these symbols and iconography take on the role of talismans that pave the way for a world where tolerance, compassion and harmony can reign.