What we call novelty in most artistic, scientific, ethical, and other
cultural contexts as well as the natural creativity of the physical and biological world refers to the novelty inherent in creativity - characterization.
We now have the technological ability to respond to
the cultural context as and when it is happening.»
We are very happy to offer this platform to young talents for the second time, especially in such an important
cultural context as Asia», says Dr. Hjördis Kettenbach, Head of Cultural Affairs, HUGO BOSS AG.
Not exact matches
As research shows, it's likely because elements such as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on u
As research shows, it's likely because elements such
as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on u
as personal preference, experiences, upbringing,
cultural differences,
context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on us.
Our
cultural attitudes are unconsciously shaped by our collective history
as much
as they are consciously shaped by our current
context.
The idea of hygge
as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other
cultural contexts.
This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view)
as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and
cultural contexts.
Where
as (following the suffrage and civil rights movements) they have taken Biblical references regarding women and slavery and rightly applied
cultural context to them, they have not done the same regarding gays and lesbians.
Just
as we apply
cultural context to hundreds of other passages in the Bible we should do the same for these.
This trend has only accelerated
as a result of the growing sensitivity to historical
context and
cultural diversity.
In the course of that same history, and in the
context of crises posed by philosophical and
cultural changes
as well
as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.
That is another way of saying that the texts have a theological
context as well
as a
cultural and historical
context.
All evidence (including historical application of the book,
cultural context, linguistics and origins) indicates the bible absolutely was intended (and not mistakenly used
as)
as a guide for behavior and morality.
These facts serve
as further evidence for the validity of these common conceptions from widely differing
cultural contexts.
In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into
cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even
as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.
As Gordon Fee explains in «The
Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9»:
... viewing morality not simply
as individual perfection but
as part of a social
context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national,
cultural lines respecting different political and
cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.
Never mind that these paradoxes are precisely the same
as the
cultural context into which Jesus was born.
As stated in the article and in the book «The Bible Now»; based on other usage in the Hebrew Bible, what makes this «offense» offensive is based on
cultural context.
If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and
cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off
as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.
Finally, canonical criticism, which often describes itself
as a theological mode of interpretation, may also be considered
as a form of
cultural hermeneutics, since it also puts into the foreground the community
context within which the text was created and from which it is to be read.
As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate
cultural influences or ideological
contexts.
Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of
cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church
as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.
By setting his, discussion in the
context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist
as a
cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.
His own position of seeing the economy
as «embedded» in sociopolitical
contexts and social values opens the door for dialogue about the
cultural - religious ethos and ethical, even explicitly theological, assessment of global processes.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology
as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio -
cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different
contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
But
as long
as socio - religious conditions in a major
cultural context remain unexplored, the work is not done.
The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader
cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred,
as well
as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.
to not understand the
cultural context of the text
as you so well display along with trying to tie the statement of truth to the holocaust and blame the author (God ultimately) and not the person responsible for twisting scripture is absurd.
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.
The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and
cultural context, by means of such literary genres
as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.
However,
as distanciation increases in terms of time, socio -
cultural contexts, and linguistic codes, the alterity of the text becomes opaque and therefore subject to polysemy.
3:2; Titus 1:6 — where we are commanded that an «elder» MUST BE THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE; in addition to the further clarifications given in I Timothy 2:11 — 14 and Titus 2:3 — 5) is not one of an improper «consideration of the historical /
cultural context of Scripture»
as you imply.
When the Scriptures are put in historical and
cultural context and read using reason, we realize the Bible was not intended to condone slavery in modern society but acknowledge it
as a reality of the culture when the Scriptures were written.
The Bible does not condemn h o m o s e x u a l i t y when it is put in historical and
cultural context and is read using reason,
as Jesus did.
Here again, we can not presume to know what God will disclose through his Word to people today, but we can prepare ourselves to hear what he has to say to us
as individuals and to our churches in our own
cultural contexts.
Classical
cultural contexts are defined in terms of the notion of science
as classical theoria: the ideal of certain knowledge of necessary causes (SC 1 - 9, 43 - 67, 193 - 208).
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.
Jewish «
cultural context» is
as I cited above, totally against any homosexual activity.
The argument against christians,
as far
as I'm concerned, is one that needs to be made in the
context of
cultural development.
We forget that just
as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the
context of a
cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.
«Your position that «those acts are labeled
as wrong out of the
context of the times in which the writers wrote» suggests that God follows the changing
cultural trends of man.»
The emphasis on ethics in evangelism is viable today because,
as in the third century, our
cultural context is essentially pagan.
My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same
cultural and social
context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.
Study not just the grammatical
context, but also the historical and
cultural contexts, and when you study the Greek words (
as I have done), make sure you study the way the words were used in the time when James wrote James 2.
This means that
context — in the broad sense of
cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text —
as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.
It is apparent that the statement that there is a plurality of
cultural - linguistic systems is intended by most of them
as something more than a
context - dependent statement.
The attempt to treat even some businesses
as morally neutral is dehumanizing and destroys the necessary
cultural context for virtue and freedom.
Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the
cultural and Scriptural
context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts
as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.
The Bible does not condemn h o m o s e x a l i t y when it is put in historical and
cultural context and read using reason,
as Jesus did.