Sentences with phrase «with classical culture»

Nor is it the timeless and impassible divine being who is known through the mind alone, and who was the keystone of Christian apologetics in its most formative encounter of all — with classical culture.

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This stream is thought by Wells to be less susceptible to «dalliances with culture» than its contemporary cousin: «The simplest way to state this difference is to say that in classical spirituality what is moral is central, and in postmodern spirituality it is not.»

His concern with the social location of poverty is part of his larger effort to understand the character of Christianity as it negotiated its place in a still durable classical culture.

Now we regard scientific technology with the same reverence that classical culture had for religious worldviews.

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

Regarding classical cultures as a dialectic of Christian theology and theoria, much work remains to be done in recovering the egalitarian and anti-imperialistic communities of reform - minded Christians, how their orthopraxis in communal experiences of repentance and inclusive wholeness envisaged an orthodoxy expressive of solidarity with the poor and outcast.

• «The enormous progress of science and technology must be harmonised with a culture nourished by classical studies according to various traditions» (56).

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.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Classical texts such as the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads are utilized, with interpretations to suit a western culture when appropriate.

It swings between the wildly absurd and creatively inspired, with doses of adult content, as a revered classical culture is offset by contemporary themes.

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

The book soars through time and space — ancient history, pop culture, classical archetypes, arcane philosophy and mediated spaces — with grace and intensity.

Only a relative handful of charter operators nationally are attempting to deliver a classical liberal arts curriculum amid a rigorous academic culture, combined with a full athletic and co-curricular program.

The Classical Academies» personalized learning approach - coupled with parent involvement in education - results in students who are excited to learn and creates a culture of acceptance.

Reconnecting with her culture through intense study of Indian ragas (melodic modes used in Indian classical music), Tandon created an album composed around a single eight - syllable chant that is over 6,000 years old.

Vegueta's very narrow streets are lined with bars and classical buildings that give you a feel of the Las Palmas culture of old.

According to Colvin respected music artist Nitin Sawhney was a clear choice as composer: «We wanted someone with a genuine grounding in Eastern culture who was equally at home with contemporary or classical forms, as well as being completely comfortable with the project's technological setting.

Belousova creates music videos along with producer and director Tom Grey that put a classical twist on pop culture songs.

Houseago has long been fascinated with classical and modernist sculptural techniques and references, and is well known for his ability to synthesize different time periods and cultures into a highly distinctive sculptural language that is completely his own.

Ephemera installed throughout the exhibition by Allison Rudnick, the department's assistant curator, supplied a sense of material culture on the home front: a group of nine chromolithographic postcards from several nations shows zeppelins looming cartoonishly over iconic landmarks, and two examples of printed cotton toiles de guerre from 1916, combining French patriotic and military motifs with a classical ornamental vocabulary.

This black and white video fuses classical antiquity with pop culture, combining wordplay - rich poetry, mythological characters, and contemporary environments.

Reflecting a central aspect of her work; the role of the voice and the feeling of mourning or loss, resilience and survival, in the political and historical, individual and collective, Cammock wants to focus on how emotion is expressed in Italian culture and society, with a particular focus on opera, classical and folk music, art, poetry, writing and dance.

Features African culture, Classical Antiquity and German Expressionism, along with modern art in the Ahmanson Building.

He is most well known for his large paintings populated with scribbled marks, calligraphic or graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical culture.

Co-sponsored with the Regione Piemonte Department of Culture and Tourism, «Colori Tra Cielo e Terra (Colors Between Heaven and Earth): The Four Seasons and Other Vivaldi Inspirations» presents lively, colorful paintings inspired by nature and classical music.

Replacing classical icons with symbols of contemporary pop culture such as taco trucks, canned beans, and an alter ego named Spaztek, Ortiz's work maintains a tense relationship with consumerism and his heritage.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Combining modernist symbolism with coding systems and classical reference, Saville's graphic work pervaded all aspects of visual culture, from music and art to fashion and advertising.

John de Fazio has produced an idiosyncratic body of work that blends themes of pop culture with classical mythologies.

His pots seem classical, but on closer inspection they often surprise, with their surfaces covered with motifs ranging from politics to domestic drama, from consumer culture to sadomasochistic sex.

His work is characterized by a meticulous, old - masterly technique and an unfashionable investment in classical painting traditions commingling with other representational languages drawn from popular culture, including movies, pinups and Scandinavian pornography.

They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful beauty.

Her practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth - making, one in which the interweaving of fact with fiction opens up possibilities for another group of symbolic female characterisations, markedly different from those that appear in either classical history or popular culture.

The Classical Greek culture appears to have evolved during the breakdown of the earlier «chariot - archer aristocratic» predecessor during a period of regular contact with the Phoenicians and perhaps other Mediterranean cultures.

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