Sentences with phrase «kuyperian cultural agenda»

The old Religious Right put its cultural agenda front and center.

Tea Party partisans have the same cultural agenda, but this incarnation of the Religious Right proceeds by stealth, in this case with riders to a budget bill - riders they know no Democratic president or Senate can ever accept.

- Undermining the primary rights of parents in order to coerce children and families into compliance with and servitude to the state's cultural agenda.

«Moore provides a primer on how our commitments to Christ and his kingdom (as opposed to our political, social, and cultural agendas) should shape not only how we live our lives, but also what our lives should say to a watching, listening world.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

Though he tries to reconcile his religiously grounded vision with his embrace of the cultural agenda of the left, there is a transparent tension in Jackson's politics that surely accounts for his limited electoral success outside of the black community.

However, it is not true of the recent Jesse Jackson, the Jackson too often beholden to a cultural agenda destructive of moral absolutes and, ultimately, of democratic community itself.

On our recent cultural agenda they have been asked with reference to specific institutions: What is a classroom?

No candidate can be competitive in Iowa (or beyond) without conservative credentials on the cultural agenda.

What, then, would the twenty - first century look like if we were to bring together the Kuyperian cultural agenda, with its emphasis on institution - building for the kingdom, with the evangelical dynamism of Africa's churches?

Music will be integrated across our teams, so that music's not just at the heart of our cultural agenda but also at the heart of our economic agenda.

The session organiser over the past three years, Dr. Daniel Brown of Nottingham Trent University, says: «It highlights the cultural agenda within astronomy, also recognised by the inclusion of aspects of ancient astronomy within the GCSE astronomy curriculum.»

Driven by globalization, digitization, and by different developments and political contexts around the world, debating what's happening in the book industry makes a valuable contribution to shaping today's cultural agenda.

A significant support in the argument for the overdue placement of video games on the cultural agenda of the 21th century.

In existence since 1931, the Rome Quadriennale exhibitions have gained a reputation as the main event in Italy's cultural agenda for Italian art.

The Urban Arts Cooperative is supported in part by The New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust, The Booth Ferris Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Starves Niarchos Foundation and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

It is not science so much from the cultural warriors — but a narrative of science as a proxy for implementation of a cultural agenda.

Whilst the world might seem a local place at times there is still vast communication gaps and differences in cultural agendas.

California About Blog Post on Physics by Science 2.0 - a place where world - class scientists write articles and discuss issues without being filtered by size or editorial limitations, where there are no political or cultural agendas, and the audience can read great science directly from the sources and maybe learn some new things.

Not exact matches

«In no way will Amazon's decision slow our pursuit of a strong growth agenda for Baltimore, as we work to attract new investment, quality job opportunities, and importantly, new residents to a city celebrated for its diversity, and its rich higher educational, athletic, cultural, medical, and maritime assets.

We all can admit that what the misalignment amounts to can be cultural differences related to how groups operate and what their specific agenda is for an organization.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

VERY OFTEN TRUE STATEMENTS ARE POSTED HERE, BUT THEY ARE CATEGORICALLY DENIED BY THOSE WHO HAVE AN AGENDA TO PROMOTE ONLY BELIEF IN THINGS THAT ARE NOT MYSTICAL, NOT SUPERNATURAL, AND ARE MEASURABLE ONLY SCIENTIFICALLY AND INTERPRETED ONLY THROUGH 21TH CENTURY WESTERN CULTURAL FILTERS.

Especially when it comes to heated cultural issues like politics or human sexuality, a church's predetermined agenda can be sour for young people to stomach.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

God has chosen the agenda of the text, and we must be content with the wisdom of these choices... The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism.»

According to the 85 - year - old pontiff, after considerable prayer and reflection on his physical stamina and mental acuity, he concluded that his declining faculties left him unable to helm the Church's ambitious regressive agenda and guide the faith's one billion global followers on their steady march away from modernity and cultural advancement.

Ironically, since the time Wiebe began his crusade the kind of intellectual agenda that worries him most — calling into question the very canons of objective science — has entered the academic scene not through theologians but through postmodern philosophy and radical forms of cultural criticism.

When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say, not the gay rights activists who pressured the BSA to fall in line with their agenda and have turned Scouting into yet another cultural battleground.

Volf knows that modern congregations, like older ones, have uncritically incorporated cultural, racial and political strategies to define and direct their own institutional identities and agendas.

The task of correlating the theological and cultural / philosophical agendas must be characterized by patience and tentativeness — qualities which have not always been highly prized among conservative evangelicals.

But there is another agenda here: you might be asking us to remove cultural holidays such as Christmas and Easter.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

Conversely, a contemplative religio - cultural and ecclesiastical agenda for theology was preoccupied exclusively with the specificities of the energy that flows from the God - human encounter; it neglected the fertile activity of God in the other realms of the world.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

What is more, because of this control over the cultural apparatus, the new middle class has successfully infiltrated its «class enemy» with many of its own ideas, agendas and lifestyles.

Christianity's cultural triumph has shaped much of atheism's agenda in the modern era.

The interviewer for 3: AM Magazine tells him he presents an attractive version of Thomism but that [recitation of cultural leftist clichés about «extreme right - wing Christianity» being «bullying» and hateful etc] and then asks: «Haven't you been hijacked by a very different agenda?»

It is their agenda that is leading us into cultural oblivion.

As the rate of globalization accelerates, the de-emphasis of nationalist agendas and parochialism alongside the emphasis of mutual understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity will be crucial.

While the right has had some success in this space in recent times — for example, with Michael Gove driving through an agenda to raise school standards, or with Chris Grayling's highlighting problems with human rights legislation — the cultural sphere is not one in which the right is intrinsically comfortable.

However, with cultural angst high on the agenda, dissatisfaction with the incumbent government on the rise and a Eurosceptic campaign that is more sophisticated than some realise, it does appear likely that whatever the result, the Leave vote will be fairly strong.

Many of the comments here are right to suggest that most political movements that emphasise cultural imperialism and «racial superiority» do not need any ideological coherence, but only a self - serving agenda and the right socio - economic «climate that favors growth.»

While this plan aims to develop a more long - term strategy, cultural equity has already been on the de Blasio administration's agenda.

READ MORE: Ban harmful cultural practices that undermine women's rights — WiLDAF The United Nation (UN) said, the idea behind this year's theme, «is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning».

True to form, the hotbed Irish Cultural Center issue is scheduled last on the agenda, according to published reports.

The first includes those that put a higher value on cities based on economic - financial prowess, and strong global agenda - setting power in political and cultural matters.

Corner describes the London College of Fashion as being centred around the development of ideas, with the staff and students using fashion, alongside cultural and historical practice, to challenge social, political and ethical agendas.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.