But one thing you may experience when dealing with
Christians from other cultures, is that their methods of worship may not be exactly the same as yours.
It could also empower them to learn more about faith and its consequences in life through the witness of
Christians from other cultures and confessions.
Not exact matches
and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the
christians with the blatantly copied story
from other previous
cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.
Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of
Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual
culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence
from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the
other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.
I don't have any answers, but
from all the reading I've done, I realize that
Christian culture contributes to this greatly, as we are told that standing up for ourselves isn't kind, and that confrontation and dissent is wrong if may hurt
others.
«Holmes» influence promised, then, to help release American
culture from a
Christian bias that most Jewish intellectuals found provincial at best and that at worst provided a basis for continued prejudice against Jews and
other non-Christians.»
The
Christian theologians took their cue
from other letters of Paul's in which he is clearly using his
culture's customs to resolve friction that had arisen when women began responding to the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.
He seems to assume that
Christian culture and politics in
other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived
from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.
On the one hand we share with European and
other Christians the task of distinguishing Christianity
from the remnants of superficial
culture - religion, and this necessitates the firm recovery of our christological foundations.
K. Wilson expresses it is as follows:»
Christian Dalit theology does not forbid
Christian Dalits
from working with non-Dalit authentic
Christians, the renascent Hindus, the reformed Muslims and humanistic forces
from various
other faiths and ideologies, on a common human platform and thus hasten the process of establishing a human and humane
culture which is why the Word became flesh.
This concept was born
from the integration of
other cultures and beliefs into the
Christian faith.
It's too bad we forget about persecuting our Muslim brothers and sisters in the United States who have received religious persecution as individuals, as a
culture, and religiously
from Christians and Atheists, and I am sure
others as well.
You are ware that your
Christian bible borrowed the virgin birth, the resurrection, the story of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, Adam & Eve, and the creation story
from other cultures that came long before Christianity, right?
Whether because of pressure
from culture, or an honest re-reading of scripture, we're susceptible to changing our minds on
other doctrines that previous generations of
Christians have held dear.
Today's embryonic global
culture is secular in nature, however much it may draw its values
from the
Christian and
other cultures which have preceded it.
In their attempt to «bring Christ» to people in
other cultures, missionaries (and until recently most
Christian missionaries were sent
from either North America or Europe) sometimes confuse «the gospel» with «the
culture,» namely, their own.
David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish
Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image
from its doctrinal
Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the
other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of
Christian enmity against Jews.
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From Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism&raqu
From Greece the centre of that
culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries
cultures built themselves on top of
others with dizzying density;
Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans
from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism&raqu
from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic
cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism».9