Mat Collishaw will be showing photographic works including his series «Idle Young» depicting Indian street children
with eighteenth - century backdrops.
Starting
with eighteenth - century French architectural painting and passing by Charles Burchfield's starved landscapes, the show placed contemporary works of ecotrauma by Pierre Huyghe, Erin Shirreff, Alexis Rockman, and Mark Dion alongside an indelible video from Fukushima, in which an unknown worker in a hazmat suit points at the camera for long minutes: a speechless, unanswerable indictment.
The exhibition «Between» coincides
with the eighteenth annual instalment of Asian Art in London.
Incorporating elements of each, Rauschenberg's Collection resonates
with the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century practice of gentlemen collectors accumulating objects into a Wunderkammer, or room of marvels.
The entrance leads into the dining room furnished
with eighteenth century oak wood furniture and a dining table that seats 6.
With her eighteenth birthday approaching, Tilly is in serious danger of becoming host to a demon, while Dominic suffers every time she leaves his side.
Seventeen titles are current available,
with the eighteenth, Tokyo Ghoul having just been announced by Viz Media at New York Comic Con in October:
However, Odion Ighalo made sure the points were shared
with his eighteenth Championship goal of the season.
Postmodernism challenges modernism which can be said to have begun with seventeenth - century mechanism, petrified
with eighteenth - century rationalism, nineteenth - century positivism and twentieth - century nihilism.
Not exact matches
Last week I shared two such examples, including Scottish gambler John Law's four - year experiment
with paper money in the early
eighteenth century, which ruined France's economy and laid the groundwork for the French Revolution.
«The
eighteenth - century moral philosophers... inherited a set of moral injunctions on the one hand and a conception of human nature on the other which had been expressly designed to be discrepant
with each other....
The coming of the Enlightenment in the
eighteenth century,
with its subsequent political emancipation of the Jews in Western Europe, radically changed the context of all social and cultural relationships.
Authors generally maintain that the pre-tribulation Rapture doctrine originated in the
eighteenth century,
with the Puritan preachers Increase and Cotton Mather, and was then popularized in the 1830s by John Darby.
It is very difficult to try to understand how an
eighteenth - century figure would have reacted to the later struggles of the nineteenth century and how the tradition should be interpreted
with integrity in a new age.
In the chapter on the
eighteenth century, we read of Voltaire's Écrasez L'Infâme, «Christendom will be unwise if ever she forgets that cry, for she will have lost touch
with contrition once more.»
Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the
eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the complex machine and its maker and associated it
with the view that such special forms of the machine as the human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.
Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle
with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the
eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.
If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of
eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain
with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us,
with us, in us, and for us.
The results of this schism are
with us still; it is not uncommon to find Baptist and «Christian» churches still facing one another across town squares and village lanes throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, just as New England Congregationalists divided into Old Lights and New Lights in the
eighteenth century.
By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began
with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.
More particularly, and
with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the
eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..
And, again, what is reflected here of life in the
eighteenth century agrees remarkably
with what is depicted in the Genesis narratives about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
But by the time «catechetics,» as the study of instruction, became a theological discipline in the seventeenth or
eighteenth century, a curious reversal had taken place, and most of the talk was about dealing
with children.
Understood in this sense, «revivalism» is not properly to be associated
with great evangelical leaders of the
eighteenth century like Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, or John Wesley.
At one level, the
eighteenth century missionary interpretation drew a distinction between «home» and «abroad»
with the implication that it is those «out there» who are in real need of the mission of the church.
Many Reformed Baptists in England be-tween the middle of the
eighteenth century and the middle of the twentieth emphasized God's sovereign grace in election to such an extent that they became uncomfortable
with general declarations of the gospel.
The early -
eighteenth - century philosopher Nicolas Malebranche is the Christian most associated
with occasionalism.
The intentions of the bulldozing «renewers» of Mecca are clearly avaricious, in line
with many policies of the House of Saud and its religious partners, the Aal al - Sheikh, as the descendants of the
eighteenth - century preacher Muhammad Ibn Abd al - Wahhab are known.
Both motives came together in 2002
with the leveling of the
eighteenth - century Ottoman - built Ajyad Fortress and of Bulbul Mountain, the hill on which the fortress stood.
The
eighteenth day is called Tijax
with the sign of flint and meant biting and scratching in the Mayan Calendar.
Heaven's gates won't open up for me
With these broken wings I'm fallin» And all I see is you These city walls ain't got no love for me I'm on the ledge of the
eighteenth story And oh I scream for you Come please I'm callin» And all I need from you Hurry I'm fallin», I'm fallin»
Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met
with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the
eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.
During the great awakenings of the
eighteenth century, John Wesley and George Whitefield stopped cooperating
with one another due to differing beliefs about predestination.
Unusual for contemporary theologians, he is much influenced by the
eighteenth - century Jonathan Edwards, and some readers will discern a strong affinity
with Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Even so, the number of people
with serious doubts about the basic Christian concepts and doctrines was still extremely small in the
eighteenth century.
Anyone familiar
with most of the notable versions of the tale from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries will recognize almost all the standard elements here, however much names and details may shift about in various tellings.
With the rise of a new cultural movement during the
eighteenth century, commonly known as the Enlightenment, a new critic of the church but one which was also a helper appeared on the scene.
He argues that «gun ownership was exceptional in the seventeenth,
eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, even on the frontier, and that guns became a common commodity only
with the industrialization of the mid-nineteenth century» and the militarization of America during the Civil War.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in the nineteenth century maintained an extraordinary relationship
with Samuel Johnson in the
eighteenth century.
Thus the identification of Judaism itself
with a universalistic ethics must be seen as part of the effort, which began
with Moses Mendelssohn in Germany in the middle of the
eighteenth century, to argue that Judaism was not hopelessly parochial.
The Church supported the status quo, which is understandable, but the status quo in Europe in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries (and before that) gave us a class society, top to bottom...
with the upper stratum as masters.
(16) The startling changes in human consciousness that came in the seventeenth,
eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries which are associated
with the Enlightenment and modernity have made us aware that the world in which we live is a social contrivance that carries
with it important costs and gains.
The image goes back to the Greeks, but it was given its most complete expression in the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries
with the rise of classical physics.
Yet it would be a mistake to imagine that, in
eighteenth - century Britain, natural theology would have been regarded as in any way opposed to or inconsistent
with Christianity.
Many of the Protestant scholastics of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries were animated by similar concerns as the authors of Christian Dogmatics were: to defend a distinctly Reformed confessional identity, and at the same time claim continuity
with the age - old tradition of the Church.
Corruption is a great word, a political word
with a precise meaning in
eighteenth - century discourse even though its use has become narrowed and debased
with us.
Although this has become dominant in the modern period, it was only
with the enlightenment of the seventeenth and
eighteenth century that this distorted view of faith came into use.
The basic institutional pattern of modern societies was laid down, in his view, between the sixteenth and
eighteenth centuries
with the emergence of a relatively autonomous political system which was accompanied by increasingly autonomous systems in other realms as well, such as science, law, education, and art.
However, as we have said earlier, the Christian missions of the nineteenth century, although often associated closely
with commercial and political imperialism, were to a lesser degree tools of that imperialism than in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth centuries, and even than in the Middle Ages.
Moody's orientation was substantially that of
eighteenth and nineteenth - century evangelical or pietist Protestantism
with its special emphases and interpretations of sin and judgment, conversion, salvation, redemption, heaven and hell, literalistic use of the Bible, its suspicion of the wisdom and ways of this world, its moralism and individualism.