Sentences with phrase «cultural concepts in»

The Social Gospel and the Christian Cultus, he sought to link social and cultural concepts in worship.

Not exact matches

It may be nothing more than a cultural observation, but there is something to be said for the fact that CBC is in its fifth season of the Dragon's Den, a TV show where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls.

In Zechariah 8:19, «truth & peace» go hand - in - hand, which necessarily conflicts with many contemporary concepts of «Christian truth» that sow heartache, resentment, conflict & oppression in the name of cultural or religious warfarIn Zechariah 8:19, «truth & peace» go hand - in - hand, which necessarily conflicts with many contemporary concepts of «Christian truth» that sow heartache, resentment, conflict & oppression in the name of cultural or religious warfarin - hand, which necessarily conflicts with many contemporary concepts of «Christian truth» that sow heartache, resentment, conflict & oppression in the name of cultural or religious warfarin the name of cultural or religious warfare.

The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

We recognize the force of cultural influences and individual choice on concepts of maleness and femaleness, but we affirm that sexuality is rooted in the biological designation of the two sexes» male and female.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.

This concept has kept instruction in the world's greatest literary masterpiece and its most influential body of literature out of the public schools and hence out of the primary channel for the transmission of our cultural heritage.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

In describing the need for criteria within the corrective task, I noted that to know what «Jesus Christ» means requires acquaintance with a widening circle of «assumptions and prerequisites, cultural backgrounds, and definitions of concepts.»

So morality (I hate using that word because the concept is really human decency) is actually based in the individual, and imperfectly codified in the cultural; it is not distant or God - based.

While Colson and Eckerd are certainly correct to argue that the church is not the only institution capable of addressing the moral vacuum in American society, their conclusion that «basic moral concepts... are mounting a comeback» among secular cultural elites» Norman Lear is cited as an example» is certainly overstated.

He will compare instances where religious concepts, forces, and personalities effected subtle or far - reaching changes and transformations in the cultural and social context in which they occurred.

If our relationship with God is in the spirit of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then challenge our own cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

We need to know what we're up against, and in the work of social and cultural analysis, theological concepts offer particularly powerful insights.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

We live in the world which is in large part shaped for us by the system of cultural symbols and concepts which we inherit.

As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.

In answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for lifIn answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for lifin the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for life.

Sifton rightly concludes that everything her father wrote about American politics took for granted that there is little point in writing if one had no concept of America's spiritual and cultural identity.

[16] This heritage, which many Indian - Christian theologians have too often accepted uncritically, accepting the broad brush - strokes, without going into the nitty - gritty details, needs to be re-examined and re-evaluated so that the meaning of several concepts which such a heritage has spawned and which is reflected, often unconsciously, in the present attitudes of Indian - Christians, can be liberated «from the socio - cultural, philosophical and historical contexts in which they have been deified, and make their theological insights reincarnate in the life and concerns of the people.

Much current discussion of cultural, religious, moral, and intellectual pluralism uses the concept «pluralism» in a way that seems to shift from a descriptive use («such diversity does in fact exist») to an evaluative and even celebratory use («such diversity is a good thing and should exist»).

Of course that judgment may be exercised in the name of «efficiency» or «technological rationality,» but I think that those concepts are themselves much less monolithic and more open to personal and cultural interpretation than Hall seems willing to grant.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

The overarching concept that, for Lasch, links changes in women's roles and the family to the cultural history of the West in general is the rationalization of everyday life.

In addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptIn addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptin present language and concepts.

Following T. Dobzhansky and F. Ayala, we may define the concepts of internal (or natural) and external (or artifactual) teleology as conceptually useful terms in describing causal features in biological and cultural evolution.9 Such a definition of internal and external teleology was recently summarized by Ayala as follows: 10

Her concept contains what black feminist scholar Bell Hooks in From Margin to Center identifies as cultural codes.

Another venue in which to foster cultural communication is the concept of pop - up restaurants that use plug - and - play equipment, a concept that exists now in micro-restaurants and action stations.

From fairy tales to sophisticated and complex concepts in modern society, all subjects are taught from historical and cultural origins.

I think it's a cool concept this idea of a third culture, but in my Colombian - American household we've taken a kind of different approach to our dueling cultural backgrounds.

In governance we strive to apply Rudolf Steiner's concept of the threefold social organism which meets the different qualities and requirements of the economic, legal, and cultural spheres.

Ultimately, what children need in a daycare or preschool curriculum is an engaging introduction to oral language, phonemes and letters, words, mathematics and puzzles, science and cultural concepts.

However, there are cultural and religious barriers that prevent the establishment of human milk banks in the Muslim countries due to the concept of milk kinship.

It also strikes me as problematic for a number of other reasons, mostly because it's hard enough living in a female body without another cultural concept floating around that makes other people feel like they're entitled to tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing with my own body.

The importance of the in - laws in these countries also emphasises the fact that the concept of what is considered «social support» may vary according to the cultural and social background of the mother.

The Heritage Area Commission is charged with the responsibility of advising the Mayor and the Common Council on all matters related to the Kingston Heritage Area and its programs in a manner consistent with the concepts, goals and objectives set forth in relevant state and local legislation regarding New York State Heritage Areas and in the Urban Cultural Park Management Plan.

The document outlines how the two municipalities would collaborate in future endeavors, from creating a stronger uptown - downtown concept to leading the way for economic, cultural and recreational opportunities that «transcend municipal boundaries,» as stated in the agreement.

The term «cognition» is also used in a wider sense to mean the act of knowing or knowledge, and may be interpreted in a social or cultural sense to describe the emergent development of knowledge and concepts within a group that culminate in both thought and action.

The findings, just published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, reveal that the self - beliefs of members of Western cultural groups have much more in common with the rest of the world than was previously suggested, contradicting the generally accepted view of a «West versus the rest» divide in concepts of selfhood.

Readers of Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore will be familiar with the concept that ideas have a Darwinian existence in which survival of the fittest is played out at the behest of memes, the cultural analogue...

In contrast, several other cultural groups tend to convey a sociocentric concept of self and emphasize a sense of both interdependent personhood and intertwined mind - body - spirit.

But back to the concept of Classic style, I think despite those «10 Items» wardrobe lists that keep popping up on Pinterest, cultural notions of style have also evolved in recent years.

The answer is simple: because couture offers cultural validation; because couture sits quite nicely in the fashion cycle, allowing for early product deliveries; but, most of all, because couture is couture — fashion to the nth degree and the last remaining remnant of the old world concept of fashion as a language and privilege of the elite.

The authors admit that «Local Hollywood» is more difficult to describe than Global Hollywood as a concept; not least because there are different historical, cultural, political and economic forces at work in each location.

The importance, joy and rewards of education can be drawn from the narrow definition of the concept of education provided by United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1974: