We know a great deal today about how our thinking is
conditioned by culture, gender, and class interest, and is thoroughly perspectival in character, and we become rightly suspicious of every claim to truth that does not acknowledge its own conditionedness and relativity.
This is not to say that the form through which the meaning of the Christian cross is interpreted or the form through which its truth is incarnated in the life of any age is not
conditioned by the culture of that age.
He recognizes that his thought is
conditioned by his culture and his personal intuitions affected by his own upbringing.
So many of us have been
conditioned by our culture to not cry, and as a result we struggle to connect to our tears.
Not exact matches
By my reckoning, the social
conditions that made him so alluring — most importantly the nostalgia for an integral Christian
culture — are no longer in place.
By my reading of both the human
condition and our current
culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.
The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer
culture (as evidenced
by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the
conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.
It is an experience of living together, in community and in conflict, within boundaries set
by our moral and philosophical commitments but also under
conditions determined
by our vices and virtues, our character, our circumstances, and the habits of our variegated
culture.
Certainly the Newtonian apprehension of nature was
conditioned by history and
culture, but it was also substantiated in its partial truth
by centuries of patient thought and experimentation.
Islamic
culture has been affected
by the cultural, social, and political
conditions in which it existed and
by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.
This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of
culture and the
condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his
cultures, but asserts his personal dignity
by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.
A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural
conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped
by the time and place in which we live,
by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of
culture or time.
There again Michael you are confusing Roman
culture and Greek
culture... there is not fact and verifiable to your claim only random hypothosis motivated
by an emotional sinful
culture to change Jesus» words... instead of proof texting take all the text together they all
condition that marraige is between man and woman... and unless you can have babies your arguement is futile.
At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human
condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted
by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American
culture.
Moreover, every civilization is
conditioned in all its forms
by its faith, be it idolatrous or divine, so that it is difficult to draw a precise line between
culture and religion.
One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought
by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral
culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the
culture encountered in the local church.
Within those basic
conditions, I have no issues with polygamy - it was practiced in all
cultures -
by royals and rich merchants who could maintain more than one wife.
But as Postman has pointed out, in a
culture thoroughly
conditioned by electronic media, the main problems for imaginatively imparting information in educational institutions are radically different from what Whitehead had in mind or probably could have suspected.
It is perfectly true that there is a divine simplicity about Christ's teaching which is more readily grasped
by the uncomplicated than
by those whose minds have become so «
cultured,» «
conditioned» and «educated» that they are blind to the prime
conditions of human life upon this planet.
The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created
by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter
cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing
conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.
The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean
culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City's streets Monday but, once again, was marred
by violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical
condition.
In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental
conditions by different peoples with different ancestral
cultures.
Then they mimicked desert
conditions by feeding the
cultured samples a salt solution, illuminating them with a 100 - watt lamp, and keeping them at a constant temperature of 33 degrees Celsius.
Despite a lack of rigorous clinical trials to test safety or efficacy, a ban of the treatment
by health authorities, and a lack of peer review
by the scientific community, the privately funded Stamina Foundation has been using
cultured mesenchymal stem cells that have been exposed to putative
conditions that favour neuronal differentiation to treat different diseases in severely or terminally ill patients.
The increasingly global nature of human society, with interdependent economies, international communications networks and intermingling
cultures, has created, according to Gregory Stock, the
conditions for the emergence of a new type of being — a social super-organism bound together
by technology, which he calls Metaman.
Phase - contrast images of organ - derived endothelial cells (37 °C
culture conditions) that had undergone two successive selection processes
by flow cytometry.
The characterization of cytokines produced
by MSC is still provisional and is hindered
by the lack of standardization in isolation and
culture conditions, which have given rise to multiple findings and interpretations.
Skeletal muscle stem cells propagated as myospheres display electrophysiological properties modulated
by culture conditions.
The most well - known of these are so - called «senescent» cells, originally characterized
by Leonard Hayflick as mitotic cells that reached growth arrest after a limited replicative lifespan (later associated with telomere attrition) under unphysiological
conditions in
culture.
The
culture and manipulation of GEMM - ESC clones is performed entirely under feeder - and serum - free
conditions using the defined N2B27 medium with LIF and the two inhibitors (2i), CHIR99021 and PD0325901, as originally described
by the group of Austin Smith, Cambridge, UK.
We demonstrate the effectiveness of the system
by comparing hESC growth in different
culture conditions.
In order to improve
culture conditions for maturation of cumulus - free oocytes in vitro, we began
by assaying the expression of 15 growth factors (BDNF, IGF - I, estradiol, GDNF, leptin, FGF1, FGF2, GM - CSF, EGF, TGF - α, TGF - β1; 2; 3, and ET - 1; 2) and 27 of their cognate receptors that have been shown to regulate oocyte maturation.
By culturing RBECs and human endothelial cells under flow
conditions, the researchers found that cell - cell junctions they formed accurately mimicked endothelial barrier formation in the brain.
The red line represents the boundary established
by the
culture conditions.
The expression of SCP1 and SCP3 was examined in the EBs
by RT - PCR (Figure 4B), to examine whether EBs
cultured in
conditioned medium can undergo meiosis.
Increased permissivity of monkey cells to human adenovirus multiplication is affected
by culturing conditions and correlates with both synthesis of virion fiber protein and altered splicing of its mRNA
When young C. elegans larvae are
cultured in adverse environmental
conditions, they pause their development
by entering dauer quiescence — an arrested, non-aging and stress - resistant stage.
Although CD144 - or CD31 - producing cells were seen as early as 3 days in vitro (not shown), a homogeneous monolayer of CD144 and CD - 31 expressing cells was seen
by 8 to 10 days of exposure to high density
culture conditions (Figure 1F — 1H).
For postmitotic neurons, we chose to use an established neuronal differentiation
culture system in which NSCs were induced to differentiate into dopaminergic neurons
by medium
conditioned on stromal cells for 4 weeks.
Heterogeneity in human ES
cultures is reflected
by the variability in expression of cell surface antigens seen under
culture conditions that promote stem cell renewal.
Siva V comments, «This work, primarily driven
by Massimo Nichane and team, demonstrated that a single respiratory cell type — Sox9 + progenitors of lung — can be used to regenerate the lungs and can be propagated in vitro using defined
culture conditions.
Our formulation also includes silymarin, the active bioflavonoid in the seeds of milk thistle, a plant used
by many traditional
cultures to treat diseases and
conditions we now associated with a burdened liver.
Where much talk of film
culture necessarily targets the social
conditions enabled (and disabled)
by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in film criticism takes a step away from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the visions of special auteurs.
The state, law, religion, and the entire realm of ideas, to the extent that they represent the overarching interests in society and are
conditioned by the underlying set of socioeconomic relations, will all be enlisted for the purpose of defending the status quo and of patching up society's contradictions, often through the disheveled fantasies of Hollywood or the brittle enchantments of popular
culture.
By Marta Benavides, GCAP Global Co Chair, and the Feminist Task Force / FTF, SIGLO XXIII Movement for Culture of Peace, El Salvador Today, given the very negative conditions of the World and the Planet, it is urgent to see and understand that the various crisis being faced by humanity and planet are deep, dangerous, urgent and -LSB-..
By Marta Benavides, GCAP Global Co Chair, and the Feminist Task Force / FTF, SIGLO XXIII Movement for
Culture of Peace, El Salvador Today, given the very negative
conditions of the World and the Planet, it is urgent to see and understand that the various crisis being faced
by humanity and planet are deep, dangerous, urgent and -LSB-..
by humanity and planet are deep, dangerous, urgent and -LSB-...]
The
conditions, behaviors, and practices required
by an effective coaching program can affect the
culture of a school or system, thus embedding instructional change within broader efforts to improve school - based
culture and
conditions.
This Informed Educator examines research - proven strategies for implementing and sustaining school improvement
by looking at the key elements of the process, enabling
conditions for improvement, issues of school
culture, and implementation.
Led
by Katherine Bassett, herself a former state teacher of the year in New Jersey, the network is working to improve «the
conditions, capacity and
culture necessary to support great teaching and learning.»
Low - income parents» involvement in school may be hindered
by transportation difficulties, chronic health
conditions, or conflicts with work schedules, while parents whose primary language is not English may not feel able to participate in school activities, or may belong to a
culture where questioning teachers is not a norm.
While «smallness» is not an end in itself, it does help create
conditions for student success
by fostering a shared vision, shared leadership, a professional collaborative
culture, and structured time for teachers to talk about instructional practice, as well as time to visit each others» classrooms (Louis & Kruse, 1995).