Sentences with phrase «cultural context first»

Let's look at the historical / cultural context first.

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The Roman emperor was a central feature of the cultural context of the first century and must be taken consistently into account in exegesis of the New Testament.

The historico - cultural context in which the papacy finds itself at the beginning of the twenty - first century has significantly more in common with the era of the great Fathers of the Church such as Athanasius, Ambrose or Gregory the Great than with more recent centuries.

They seem to feel that teh first church wasn't formed by its cultural context, when of course it clearly was.

[I Corinthians 14] John, a distinction is highlighted by your confession, «yes, all of scripture is in fact «cultural» — it is placed first and foremost within the cultural context of the readers».

I'm not sure what exactly you're saying regarding the waffle, but, yes, all of scripture is in fact «cultural» — it is placed first and foremost within the cultural context of the readers (the original, intended recipients) and any proper understanding of it and interpretation of it in our culture today must first understand how it would have been received and interpreted by those it was written to.

First, the conventional wisdom on the role of economic factors in elections is overstated; even in a year when such short - term factors were particularly strong, they operated within the context of long - term cultural alignments.

Religious groups whose ancestors helped articulate the civil society idea in the first place now exist in diverse cultural contexts across the globe.

Steady Bible feasting would open our eyes to a whole new world, allowing us to learn that the Bible speaks first to its original audience, set in a particular historical and cultural context.

In the twenty - first century, the emerging theology will express sensitivity at once, both to the social and cultural contexts.

My criticism of Larivee's article is that it comes from a wholly Western, First World perspective and is totally devoid of cultural context.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

As a Presbyterian PK, my dad studied both Biblical Greek and Hebrew and when you and I do Bible study at First Presbyterian, we do look at the historical and cultural context of scripture.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

First international intervention, particularly if intended to bring about an epistemological or cultural shift may, in some contexts, have negligible impact.

The first key argument of this commentary, therefore, after the legal, cultural and socio - political, context described above, is that corrupt campaign finance is a big problem in Nigerian politics, and that money poses the biggest threat to our democracy.

Only by understanding the cultural context of the men whose studies and ideas first pointed to gender imbalances can we see how deeply biases run, Saini argues.

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When first conceiving the work, I was thinking of the South / Southern African context in particular: the histories of indigenous African women's bodies, African spiritual and cultural practices, particular rituals and games.

For a public symposium held on January 19, 2018, Miguel de Baca further explores ideas first introduced in his book Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture by considering Truitt's oeuvre in the context of the cultural practice of historic preservation and the idea of the 20th - century «monument.»

This publication, which includes a DVD and essay by art historian Hubertus Butin, is the first to present this film, analyzing it in its original cultural context, and situating it within the artist's oeuvre.

In this context, Kelly's pure formalism resonates as strongly as the social and racial connotations of the shades — as they operate in the first part of the display — or their links to formations of cultural identity seen in the final room.

The first instalment in our yearlong survey in which artists, curators and cultural commentators explore the question of what African art (of the contemporary flavour) does or can do within various local contexts across the continent.

Standing at the forefront of investigation and reflection into the complex social and cultural issues underlying a changing world, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT provides a perfect context for the Prague - based artist Eva Koťátková's first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

«' Women of Abstract Expressionism», for the first time, positions this expanded group of painters within the context of abstract expressionism and its cultural milieu,» said Ms. Chanzit, who is also a professor of Museum Studies at the University of Denver, in a release.

This first - hand immersion in different cultural contexts became the basis for a dynamic artistic practice that examines the repercussions of Western hegemony for non-Western cultures and the continued give - and - take between both sides of the colonial divide.

In the late 1970s, this resident of Jerusalem became one of the first artists to position himself both outside of and in relation to Western cultural contexts and to incorporate the challenges of a globalized world in his work.

«Women of Abstract Expressionism, for the first time, positions this expanded group of painters within the context of abstract expressionism and its cultural milieu,» said Gwen Chanzit, curator of modern art at the DAM.

Gustavo Von Ha's production (first time being nominated for the Prize this edition) is developed from a research about the thin boundaries between reality and fiction, art and market, authorial production and cultural industry insite the contemporary art context.

Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts — the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses.

While in residence at the Walker Art Center in 2010 - 11, Macuga produced work for her first solo show in the United States that would investigate the cultural and political context of the Walker Art Center itself.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50

Indigenous people maintain that as the First Peoples of a territory with a specified history and relationship to that territory including one of forced colonisation, they have distinct rights in the context of cultural, social, economic and political protection.

In a cultural context, it represents the first and only comprehensive examination of distressed marriages in Ireland and thus contributes to the development of the fields of marital and family therapy.

An examination of the social interaction context and the developmental pattern of socio - emotional functioning from the within - cultural perspective is the first step toward understanding its meaning and significance and provides a critical and necessary foundation for cross-cultural comparisons on children's socio - emotional functioning.