Not exact matches
Cultural anthropology shows human nature as it grows
out of the
matrix of integral human communities.
For example, Bernard Lonergan points
out, «A theology mediates between a
cultural matrix and the significance and role of a religion in that
matrix.
When we read the Bible, we should remain aware of the historical
matrix, the
cultural background, against which its events and its writing played
out; for instance, the
matrix of early Genesis is the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent.