Sentences with phrase «cultural messages of»

So these interactive algorithms transmit cultural messages of near constant affirmation of male heterosexual dominance, while simultaneously reinforcing the widespread regressive belief that women's primary role is to satisfy the desires of men (either literally or voyeuristically).

It is the little things that give us cultural messages of normalcy; we can make someone's day by speaking positively to them.

And that goes back to our cultural messaging of how women today are told that their belly should be flat and hard.

«The intersecting themes of the exhibition address the most vital points of contemporary society's connection with the past and present, and the variety of accompanying programs align with the spirit of openness and dialogue that characterizes the cultural message of Milan's museums,» said Anna Maria Montaldo, director of Polo Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Milan.

Not exact matches

What I feel many Christians miss is the incredible ability of the Christian message to adapt over time and reach into so many different cultural / historical moments.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

God has chosen the agenda of the text, and we must be content with the wisdom of these choices... The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism.»

... The consequences, positive or negative, of decisions of a principally cultural or political nature in relation to the family touch upon the various areas of the life of a society and a country» (Pope Francis, Message to participants in the 47th Social Week for Italian Catholics, 13 September 2013).

He questions whether the Willow Creek activist, pragmatic approach sufficiently recognizes the limits of the current cultural tools and ideas that are allowed to dominate its message.

Rainey comes bearing the new, academically orthodox, message that «modernism... is a strategy whereby the work of art invites and solicits its commodification, but does so in such a way that it becomes a commodity of a special sort, one that is temporarily exempted from the exigencies of immediate consumption prevalent within the larger cultural economy and instead is integrated into a different economic circuit of patronage, collecting, speculation, and investment.»

In discussions of the «indigenization» of the church in non-Western cultures one hears that the New Testament itself is a particular indigenization and that the gospel message needs to be extracted from first century «cultural clothing» to be re-clothed in that of another age.

This is a message not likely to be well received by those secular elites that shape much of American cultural life.

The grandeur of their productions, the images of «success,» their «positive thinking» messages, and their offering of gifts and goods in return for donations translates the Christian message into an attractive consumer package that reflects a cultural form similar to that of media consumerism.

What he was getting were messages about subjective meanings that were filtered through a very formalized, socially constructed set of cultural categories.

It goes on for a while — he is a professor of cultural studies — but its message is well worth considering, all the more so because of the remarkable circumstances under which it was written.

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

It would only be a proof of colonialism to pretend that one religious message, like the New Testament, has the right and the duty to inculturate itself everywhere, as if it were something supra - cultural.

One does not «correlate» the Catholic faith to something else, or «recontextualise» the faith to some new cultural condition, but rather one «interrupts» the non-Christian culture with the message of the divine mediatorial office of the person of Christ as expressed so powerfully in the Letter to the Hebrews.

Well, the same could be said of the church's treatment of African - Americans, but it didn't stop blacks from separating the essential message of the gospel from its warped cultural accretions.

Every theology needs to state the substance of the Christian message in a form that is both credible and relevant to the particular cultural situation to which it is addressed.

Yes, and they are wrong, except for the fact there are still parts of the message (see above regarding «no greater love has a man than this» moral truth, that still resonates with us today) that have managed to transcend both cultural and historical changes, albeit they need to be slightly recast from time to time so they retain their relevance.

To be sure, the introduction of historical and cultural content into the Gospel message raises the fear of the loss of immediacy and threatens the church with an archaic and history - trapped pulpit.

If this message is to be most fruitfully grasped, whether for cultural enrichment or the deepening of personal faith, we need to understand the Bible's structure and content.

Mocked and derided across the cultural spectrum, the message of «health and wealth» enjoys wider support than one might imagine.

They hold media industries accountable for what they produce and distribute, and propose critical analysis of the cultural, social, political and economic influences on media messages, the development of creative production centers that create community, and taking personal and public action to challenge government and industry abuses.

This system involves cultural images and messages, as well as institutional policies and practices, which in the U.S., operate to the advantage of some and to the disadvantage of others.

The Buddhist message and teachings were «released» into the mainstream of the national religious and cultural life without any demand that any person becoming Buddhist had to «leave» his or her cultural and religious heritage behind.

At the same time, our distinctly Christian codes of personal ethics do not reveal the only meanings in MASH, and, as Christians, we also have to be sensitive and aware of the wider cultural meanings, meanings in the programs, meanings that may or may not also be Christian — the anti-war message, the compassion, the community, the healing, and, of course, the humor — and celebrate, criticize and enjoy them as well.

The encounter with death finally enables Ivan to see that he has lived the life of an «automatic cultural person,» to use Ernest Becker's apt phrase for a life lived in accord with the messages of culture.

This simple, heartwarming message aligns nicely with the cultural values of the Mexican holiday, Dia De Los Muertos.

Such a view is based on a reading of the household codes that elevates their cultural context over their gospel message (and sometimes on a misunderstanding of the creation narrative, which I discuss here).

History presently offers us a scenario of socio - economic, cultural and spiritual crisis, which highlights the need for a discernment guided by a creative proposal of the Church's social message.

When and if they allow us to share the message that describes the gospel they have noticed us living all this time, then the process formally known as cultural contextualization of the gospel can occur.

@jim, I hope you believe it because of the cultural shifts or perhaps because you had a vision or believe some messages in a religious text... and not because you're planning to do something.

The terms of the Church's message are different because the historical and cultural situation is different.

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.

It may be that those churches which market their message by emphasising authority, personal success, health and prosperity through faith may have intuited the proper response of the Christian faith to the new cultural situation in which we find ourselves.

The message echoed that of Francis's landmark 2015 encyclical Laudato Sii (Praise Be), where Latin America's first pope called for a cultural revolution to correct a «structurally perverse» economic system in which the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an «immense pile of filth».

The goal, or at least the effect, of such image adaptations of the Christian faith to the culture is to erase the distinctions between the Christian message and the cultural environment.

Francis says, «We should do the work, the hard work, of distinguishing the message of Life from the form of its transmission, the form being the cultural elements in which that message was expressed [encoded] at one time.»

For when you face a system that attributes everything to the cultural (the God the Bible speaks of is only a curtural expression) and to linguistic structures (the message has no true content — it only has syntactic structure), your intellectual refutation of it can not be couched in terms more exact than those adduced in support of the system.

Traditionally, the people's communication processes are suppressed by those of the powerful rulers, who have controlled the message and media through the ruling elites and the established cultural and religious institutions.

«The claim which the Church makes for its Lord has its origin, not in any religious pride or cultural egocentricity, but in the message of the New Testament.

Whereas the second Quest demythologized the apocalyptic eschatology that informed Jesus» message of the kingdom in such a way that the kingdom remained God's initiative and gift eliciting a new ethos, thereby respecting the biblical - Jewish roots of Jesus» word and deed, the Borg - Crossan construal tacitly posits an inert deity who at best provides a formal warrant for a class - based cultural criticism and who apparently has allowed the covenant - commitment to Israel to lapse, for there remains neither promise nonfulfillment.

He received all sorts of messages from that cultural milieu.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

They know that birthing at home or in a birth center with a trained midwife is a very safe option with lower rates of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by cultural anecdotes and message boards.

According to the paper, «In U.S. society, youth are inundated with messages from media, peers and family about cultural expectations of gender expression for girls and women, boys and men.

«Thirty years ago, the National Park Service was at the forefront of research on the cultural history — American, French, Spanish, and Native American — of our country,» Plog wrote to Science in an e-mail message.

Due to the cultural stereotypes that portray «brilliance» as a male trait, messages that tie success in a particular field, job opportunity, or college major to this trait undermine women's interest in it, shows a new study appearing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.