Contemporary liberal Christians may prefer to read Jesus ' miracles as metaphorical narratives for understanding the power of God.

Contemporary liberal Christians may prefer to read Jesus ' miracles as metaphorical narratives for understanding the power of God.

Contemporary sidewalks are most often made of concrete in the United States and Canada, while tarmac, asphalt, brick, stone, slab and ( increasingly ) rubber are more common in Europe.

" To the former belong the mutual revocation in 1965 of the anathemas of 1054 ( see below Contemporary developments ), returning the relics of Sabbas the Sanctified ( a common saint ) to Mar Saba in the same year, and the first visit of a Pope to an Orthodox country in a millennium ( Pope John Paul II accepting the invitation of the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Teoctist, in 1999 ), among others.

Many secular radio stations devote some of their weekend programming to Christian music ; for example, Black Gospel programming is common on Sundays on many stations featuring the Urban Contemporary format.

Contemporary music includes e. g. a renowned metal music scene, in common with the other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock and pop bands, jazz musicians, hip hop performers and makers of dance music.

* " A defence of common sense ", published in Contemporary British Philosophy ' ( 2nd series ), ed.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Contemporary children's play dollhouses are mostly in 1: 18 ( or 2 / 3 ") scale, while 1: 12 ( or 1 ") scale is common for dollhouses made for adult collectors.

Contemporary Sant Mat movements claim to incorporate a personal and private path of spiritual development in the common tradition of mystics past and present.

Contemporary surgical options have developed that have revolutionized treatment of this common injury.

Contemporary hit radio ( also known as CHR, Contemporary Hits, Hit List, Current Hits, Hit Music, Top 40, or Pop Radio ) is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts.

Certain common structuring elements for Sukuk were criticised by Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani President of the Shariah Council of the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions ( AAOIFI ) in a paper entitled " Sukuk and their Contemporary Applications " released in November 2007.

In the event, Cassell's Contemporary Spanish dictionary generally indicates that por denotes “ cause ” and “ reason ” ( retrospective ), while para denotes “ purpose ” and “ destination ” ( prospective ); the following are common usages of these prepositions:

Contemporary common diminutive forms are Ilonka and Ilike.

* Ankerl, G. C. Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

* Ankerl, G. Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

Contemporary Western scholars of hadith include: Herbert Berg, Fred M. Donner and Wilferd Madelung.

Contemporary scientific research suggests that the majority of the human population is bisexual, adhering to a fluid sexual scale rather than a category, as Western society typically views sexual nature.

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

* Ankerl, Guy ( 2000 ) Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

* Ankerl Guy: Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

vol I: Coexisiting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Mulsim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

* Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia

vol. I: Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Mulsim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

Contemporary fusions of Indigenous and Western styles ( exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu ) mark distinctly Australian contributions to world music.

* Ankerl, Guy: Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

* 1999 — Best Contemporary Folk Album, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions with Emmylou Harris

Contemporary Western news reports described the orbital mission of Soyuz 3 in the same manner as the Soviets, referring to a successful " rendezvous " with Soyuz 2, but characterizing it as a test with no actual ship-to-ship docking planned.

Contemporary Slovak society organically combines elements of both folk traditions and Western European lifestyles.

Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western.

Both Contemporary Contexts and East Meets West involve taking integrated classes during normal semester then traveling abroad during ' Mayterm ', exploring the roots of Western culture.

* Guy Ankerl, Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western, Geneva, INUPRESS, 2000, ISBN 2-88155-004-5.

Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe.

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From the latter half of the 20th century to the present day in Western Christendom — especially in the United States and in other countries with evangelical churches — various genres of music, originally often related to pop rock, have been created under the label of Contemporary Christian Music for home-listening and concert use.

In March 2007, a four bass noise band from Perth, Western Australia named Abe Sada won a Contemporary Music Grant from the Australian Department of Culture and the Arts to tour Japan in June and July 2007.

Contemporary philosophy of sex is sometimes informed by Western feminism.

Contemporary productions are also frequently experimental in nature, and may incorporate Western influences.

* Museum of Contemporary Art ( disambiguation ), several museums around the world

Contemporary Japan-the world of Toyota and Seiko, air pollution and contaminated beaches-assembles itself around him.

At 300 m, the its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.

Christine is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits as saying of her solo album, " Maybe it isn't the most adventurous album in the world, but I wanted to be honest and please my own ears with it.

Currently the largest building in Europe and the second-largest in the world, the Palace houses the Romanian Parliament ( the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate ), as well as the National Museum of Contemporary Art.

Contemporary Chilean authors have earned an international reputation in the literary world.

Contemporary fantasies are set in the real world but may also include distinct fantasy settings within it, such as the Harry Potter series, in which case they would be high rather than low fantasy.

Paris has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, but also the Musée d ' Orsay, mostly devoted to impressionism, and Beaubourg, dedicated to Contemporary art.

Contemporary Kabbalists, Tosafists and Rationalists continue to engage in lively, sometimes caustic, debate in support of their positions and influence in the Jewish world.

Contemporary forms of popular culture, much like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world.

Contemporary artist Xu Bing created Book from the Ground, a universal language made up of pictograms collected from around the world.

Contemporary left communist theory defends that Lenin was mistaken on his definition of imperialism ( although how grave his mistake was and how much of his work on imperialism is valid varies from groups to groups ) and Rosa Luxemburg to be basically correct on this question, thus accepting capitalism as a world epoch similarly to Lenin, but a world epoch from which no capitalist state can oppose or avoid being a part of.

Contemporary jian versions are often forged ( shaped with heat and hammer ) and assembled by mostly traditional methods for training of practitioners of Chinese martial arts around the world.

Contemporary Islamic scholars have pointed out the inapplicability of this early philosophical division of the world given its lack of scriptural backing and its reflection of an early Muslim response to geo-political realities that simply do not exist today in a globalized world of international law.

Contemporary genre hybrids with world music elements naturally proliferate in proportion to the globalization of music culture on the whole.

The Art Strike campaign caused something of a rumpus in the contemporary London art world ( Home got to talk about the Art Strike at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as on national BBC Radio arts programmes and London area television arts programmes ), but was more seriously discussed in subcultural art networks, especially in Mail Art.

Contemporary artists in the Islamic world draw on the heritage of calligraphy to use calligraphic inscriptions or abstractions in their work.

There are two museums in the world devoted exclusively to Australian Aboriginal art: the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art located in Utrecht, The Netherlands ; and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.

Works by the artist are held in collections around the world including Museum of Modern Art, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions around the world, and appear in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Contemporary Quebec cuisine is characterized by an innovative use of all things native to the land which are then prepared following all contemporary trends of the world.