Answers to these questions have always been borrowed from the larger host culture within which theological schools are placed. (religion-online.org)
We still need to do theology as well in those ways, but the Bible will help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture. (religion-online.org)
Under siege by a hostile and intolerant host culture, the immigrants clung all the more tenaciously to one another and to the church, an institution that offered security in a strange and forbidding new world. (religion-online.org)