Sentences with phrase «cultural accommodation»

For yet another, there are movements within the UCC, calling for a Barmen - like commitment to classical Christian faith contra cultural accommodation» such as the fifteen - year - old «Confessing Christ» movement and the Craigville Theological Colloquies celebrating this year their twenty - fifth anniversary.

Furthermore, unlike previous sectarian movements which tended to define themselves against the dominant culture, these churches tend toward cultural accommodation.

For others, many of whom have already left the church, it is but one more sign of the inevitable slide of Anglicanism into a failed cultural accommodation with modernity's egalitarian politics.

We might also put in the category of counterquestions the small Barth revival and the interest in the Barmen Declaration, which may be due as much to a desire to resist cultural accommodation as to the recent anniversaries of the figures they involve.

Other instances of cultural accommodation include denominational adoption of bureaucratic business models and the marketing of the church as a consumer product in the American arcade.

Stephen Carter thinks of himself as a moderate trying to negotiate a reasonable cultural accommodation.

The latter would involve postconservatives in another form of cultural accommodation — denial of transcendent and objective truth — that can only lead to polytheism.

Moore is sympathetic to the Baxter - Hauerwas position, and believes, with justice, that the controversy exposed the ideological captivity of the Notre Dame theological establishment to a liberalism that can not countenance a radically Christian challenge to its form of cultural accommodation, and must therefore try to dismiss someone like Baxter as «sectarian.»

They are called «parables» or «point of view of the author» or «poetic and literary license» or «cultural accommodation» or «figures of speech» or «prophetic imagery» or whatever the preferred terminology might be.

The lexicon of so - called heteronormative culture neutralizes certain bullying and oppressive language, and he is interested in these moments as they mark a timeline of cultural accommodation,» Butler wrote.