Sentences with phrase «american culture»

Ahh, the racists are at it again — attacking traditional white American culture.

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

There was a strong sense of continuity between American culture, the importance of serving American society, and the values proclaimed in the Protestant churches.

The Simpsons comedy takes many clever jabs at religion, but it also acknowledges the importance of religion in American culture.

Ms. Composite is all - too - useful in making his path towards greater awareness of the claims Afro - American culture has on him seem to be the natural one.

There was a time when the Presbyterian Church's voice mattered, when its witness informed and transformed American culture.

In another sense, though, the marginalization of conjugal marriage in American culture has profound implications for our gospel witness.

Christianity is no longer integral to American society and its churches no longer shape American culture.

Presbyterian organizational life verifies sociologist James Davison Hunter's observation that American culture has come to be characterized by «the politicization of nearly everything... the turn toward law and politics — the instrumentality of the state — to find solutions to public problems.»

To succeed, more time is needed to convince the rest of American culture that opposition to homosexuality and same - sex marriage is akin to invidious discrimination.

In American culture, we've experienced firsthand the reality that things continually change, that old policies and laws that once sufficed 50 years ago are now ineffective.

Since American culture was seen as Christian, ministry was not «out there» but «in here.»

It is a part of the American culture.

The conference was entitled «The Future of Reproduction» and was troubling in all manner of ways, not least because it was unclear whether I was witnessing a naïve attempt to really speak about the renewal of American culture, or a cynical undertaking to destroy the whole enterprise from within.

The author shows the myriad ways in which fundamentalist rhetoric creates and transforms both the fundamentalist community itself and the wider American culture..

While these voices are doubtless present in American culture, I find the opposite argument more persuasive: The relative absence of ideology in American politics, culture, or religion allows Americans to steer a middle course to navigate clear of the shoals of extremism.»

By the end of the song, she has skillfully shown the myriad ways in which fundamentalist rhetoric created and transformed both the fundamentalist community itself and the wider American culture.

The general view of polygamy is that it is an institution alien to American culture and generally incompatible with modern society.

Conservative ethnic leaders often argued that separateness from dominant American culture was essential to internally uniting their group; but every ethnic group was sharply divided over this very issue.

In Roof's words, the tectonic plates underlying American culture are shifting.

In fact, I believe the American culture to be one of the best nurturing grounds for individuality.

«I believe the American culture to be one of the best nurturing grounds for individuality... I hope it should go without saying that I reject blindly embracing the religious values of different people especially when they are in violation of the law and rights of individuals.»

In my judgment, Hargrove is diagnostically wrong in locating American culture wholly within the parameters of liberal individualism and morally and politically wrong in arguing that «teaching reality» must automatically confine itself to culturally established borders.

«Ex-gay movement members, like other conservative Christians, view themselves as part of a positive transformation of American culture and religious life, often describing themselves as embattled or besieged by secular culture or the gay rights movement.

It seems the American culture (or perhaps every culture) looks at someone who has done wrong as a broken object to be fixed.

I would see it as ethnocentric for the church to take its cues from just the American culture.»

In American culture, God is an equal - opportunity employer.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

That question was at the center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.»

Grady believes that prosperity teaching's move to a more materialistic emphasis began during the 1980s, mirroring what was happening in American culture at the time.

This natural national religion which is emerging out of American culture expresses the most characteristic ethical and spiritual aspects of that culture.

Does the faith to which this church is committed deal with a reality that is universal, true and good for all men everywhere and in all time, or is its faith rather the expression of the highest spiritual insights of our particular American culture?

At Islamic schools we found students and staff actively engaged in an ongoing assessment of which elements of American culture could be accepted and which should be rejected and, in the latter case, what form that rejection should take.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

This once vital tradition was more effective when Protestant values were more dominant in American culture than they are now.

A pastor who challenges the idols of American culture is not likely to find many supportive like - minded people in a congregation.

The broken connection between Christian religion and American culture leaves Protestant churches in the ambiguous position of being conservers of the values of a Victorian worldview.

The paganism of American culture is less obvious, for we do not have to contend with a government that suppresses religious freedom or harasses religious leaders.

Since American culture is primarily Christian, and Americans consider themselves exceptional, then the American view of Christianity is that it is exceptional.

They must choose between the above frame of reference and the frame of reference supplied by American culture.

William G. McLoughlin in his study of the Great Awakenings points out that they have been shaping American culture from its inception.

There are few broadly shared standards for ethical behavior in American culture today.

Otherwise, churches in the United States will only reflect the faithlessness of American culture epitomized in the attitudes and dreams of «the family pew.»

Having a place in America does not require accepting every feature of American culture.

The British empire is gone and American imperial power may also be in decline, but Anglo - American culture and the English language enjoy virtually worldwide hegemony.

Victorian dualisms continue to be operative in a congregation if members separate church life from daily life.3 It is dualistic to believe that American culture is secular but church members are sacred, as if they do not live in «the world.»

To ask middle - class Americans to see American culture as Jesus would see it is to ask them to vote against their own privileged position in society.1

If congregations continue to reflect the racial and sexual prejudices of American culture in the way they define membership, authority, and power, the church will have very little credibility as a prophetic voice in God's world.

In a certain sense Professor Dewey sums up in his own philosophy the present stage of development of American culture.

Since the early 1960s American culture has become increasingly secular in outlook.