Postmodernity

1.6 The Apostles’ Creed- (Patristic)- final form in 8th century Medieval/Byzantine Era: The Apostles Creed is a declaration of one persons’ individual faith. The Apostles Creed begins with “I believe in God… and in Jesus Christ.” This Apostles Creed states that God is the one creator and Jesus is his son. Along with that important statement it tells the story of Jesus such as explaining for example; his birth, the crucifixion, his death, and as well as his resurrection. The creed extends in more…

It is no wonder that class and inequality has held a remarkable interest for sociologists since the discipline of sociology has come into existence. Indeed the notion of inequality has persisted throughout history of mankind societies, stretching back to the middle-ages when feudal lords held reign over vassals and slaves. The very perseverance of inequality in modern societies is an interesting issue, as it becomes apparent that some individuals’ preoccupation with money, status and power may…

thinkers of the twentieth century the task of the magnitude of how theology has become a voice of the transcendence and immanence God that has become a great significance of the future and to balance the two points of transcendence and immanence. Postmodernity covers a broad range of concerns, but one aspect of it has been especially influential in shaping…

results like bombarding and mass killing of individuals in Death camps. In Tralfamadore, time has lost its essentialness and man has no reviewed thought processes. Life itself is not genuine and everything is taken calmly. For example, Montana Wildhack, Billy’s accomplice on Tralfamadore is appeared as a model who stars in a film appeared in a film shown in a pornographic book shop when Billy makes a trip to look at the Kilgore Trout books. She is kidnapped and set in Billy’s natural…

considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney compares the absence of any finite exactitude of postmodernity to the concept of God; being both “remarkably impervious to definition.” However, to enter into any analysis of the relationship between the postmodern paradigm and the socio-political implications thereof, some form of mutually acceptable…

Brief Summary The article’s thesis consist of the argument that “Postmodernity has altered the way we perceive truth and authority.” Therefore generating a shift amonge modern culture’s view towards the moral authority of Scripture. Nullen defends his thesis by presenting recent developments in the use of Scripture in ethics…

Gnostic evil and the postmodern In the context of depth psychology, a link between individual experiences, gnosis and the contemporary world becomes self-evident. Therefore, during the course of the twentieth century, numerous movements embrace both esoteric spirituality and everyday encounters in multiple and highly individualised ways, providing a 'creative reinterpretation of traditional esotericism under the impact of modernity' (Hanegraaff 1996, 383). These groups are often embedded in new…

The novel Neuromancer was published on 1st July 1984. The book was written by William Gibson and possessed by the aura of Orwell. 1984 was the year of Aura of Orwell thereby indicating that every piece of technology resembling the one depicted by the author in his noble novel was perceived as an indicator sign or a disturbing awakening. The book helped dooms day connoisseur and dystopian fanatic immerse further into their apocalypse believe. 1984 is the year in which the entire western world…

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69) was a Jewish German who was a neo-Marxist, with the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany and living in the modernised Age of Enlightenment, criticized how humanity has become stagnant and the ideas of his era would rather conform than to think out of the societal box. (The European Graduate School, n.d.) In Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer, 1944), Adorno, alongside Max Horkheimer mentioned about the culture industry. Adorno’s idea of fetishizing…

The main inspiration for my work was Susan Sontag — a person that links Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett. As a critic she wrote commentaries on both: art and literature. In 1964 Andy Warhol had made a Screen Test of Sontag in his Factory and almost twenty years later she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo. They created a triangle contained of “low” and “hight” culture intertwined with critical interpretation (or the question on interpretation). In this essay I would argue that both: Beckett…