Sentences with word «synchronic»

(b) Exegesis can no longer be studied in a unilinear, synchronic fashion, as is the case with scientific findings which do not depend upon their history but only upon the precision of their data.

Characteristic of Ratzinger's thought is that the communion of believing must include not solely all those now making up the pilgrim Church on earth (synchronic communion) but all those who have come before us marked with the sign of faith (diachronic communion).

The best and most recent scholarship on the dormition narratives, after all, testifies to a «synchronic coexistence of a variety of traditions,» as Stephen J. Shoemaker described it, in early Christianity.

Infant sign language program effects on synchronic mother - infant interactions.

Recent art, literature and criticism of all kinds have explored ways of collapsing past, present and future into one synchronic instance of time, but this is an impossible principle around which to organise an exhibition.

In many ways, both punk musicians and the New Image Painters were responding to the same synchronic tensions.

The proper role for the study of the diachronic dimensions of the text lies not in fragmenting or in replacing the synchronic level, but in using a recovery of a depth dimension for increasing an understanding of the theological substance that constitutes the biblical narrative itself.

«The diachronic incessancy of (negative --RRB- time thwarts any spatial «fixation»; the synchronic demands of (negative --RRB- spatial measurements thwart incessant temporal flux».

Studying the diachronic, or ongoing, nature of plot requires an exploratory device different from those used to investigate the synchronic, or simultaneous, aspects of setting and character.

Episodes of «Mash» or «Cheers» are much better known — and loved — in their synchronic order than is the Old Testament.

True development of doctrine, therefore, always operates within the analogy of faith; it operates, as Cardinal Ratzinger has noted, in a diachronic and not simply a synchronic sense.

Although, as in any performance breed, you will find a certain lateral (synchronic) variability in phenotype across different lines, you will nevertheless find uncanny chronological continuity in these types across decades.

Any attempt to assimilate his vertical and horizontal bands to a reading of harmony and melody, or more generally of simultaneity and succession, synchronic and diachronic time, brings us to the same conclusion: Reinhardt's axes, neutral and equal, cancel each other out.

New York, NY... «NYC 1993» looks at art made and exhibited in New York over the course of one year, providing a synchronic panorama in which established artists and emerging figures of the time are presented alongside the work of authors whose influence has since faded from the discussion.

I use the term «fresh» in the synchronic sense, which has momentarily displaced the diachronic one, that is, if one chooses to go the route of Jean Piaget's Structuralism.

Situating the movement from a representation toward abstraction as a synchronic historical moment, as well as one of modernism's principal activities, this Eurocentric organizational feat elaborates a network based on cross talk, spontaneity, and simultaneous development.

It repeats structuralism's distinction between the synchronic, or associative, and the diachronic, or one thing after another.

In theoretical terms, I would talk about the synchronic and the diachronic.

The synchronic means everything that's happening at the same moment in time, so we need to see where the artist fits into the picture, and the diachronic refers the developments across time — historically, what are the historical developments that suggest that to show Marlene Dumas at this point is right.

Thanks to a practically unmatched work ethic, Ms. Abney's graphic execution has become flawless over the years: a synchronic surface of colors and crisp techniques.