Yuval Sharon is a 37-year-old director and producer of opera whose unorthodox performances ― often immersive and itinerant ― challenge the predominant understanding of what opera can be.
All three are about motherless children and surrogate families; their protagonists are itinerant performers who challenge local moralizers and come off as the young nation' s hidden source of progressive thought and social cohesion.
Because history reveals at least something of the role of itinerant preachers who challenged Roman rule in the quarrelsome Jewish world, he assumes it is possible to locate Jesus in that world.Context is necessary for anyone trying to pin down the historical Jesus, but such arguments can go too far.
The execution of an itinerant preacher-peasant for blasphemy, for challenging the standing order of religion, economics, and empire -- this is cathartic enough for me on some social-justice, existential levels.
As ready to puncture mainstream Protestant sanctimony as he was to challenge conservative certainty, Niebuhr emerged an itinerant apostle of "pessimistic optimism," in the words of one of his students, Robert McAfee Brown.
Much like an itinerant preacher, Rinaldo "hears the call" of a challenge or an injustice and walks towards the voice.
The most touching and revealing moments come when Mr. Seeger's wife, Toshi, and their three children recall some of the challenges of living with a stubborn, itinerant folk singer.
And then there was Jesus Christ, an itinerant preacher and revolutionary activist, who not only died challenging the police state of his day--namely, the Roman Empire--but provided a blueprint for civil disobedience that would be followed by those, religious and otherwise, who came after him.
This itinerant upstart with a country-bumpkin background was issuing a direct challenge to the authority of the high priests.
By now, several years into Duk-koo's tenure at Dong-ah, his stablemates were having trouble reconciling the itinerant hillbilly who arrived in 1977 with the fighter now challenging for the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title.
Meanwhile, Dos Santos dispatched his newly appointed tsar for propaganda abroad, ambassador-itinerant António Luvualu, to Portugal to deliver a message that any challenge to the Angolan president's authority would be a declaration of war.
