Sentences with phrase «cultural movement for»

Jesus» cultural movement for the Reign of God is based on the vision of the Messianic Reign, as manifested in Revelation 21 and 22.

The Pentecostal event of the Spirit shows the emergence of a cultural movement for new covenant community under the domination of the Roman Empire.

Not exact matches

Simon Brault, director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, says the #MeToo movement shed an important light on «unacceptable realities» within cultural sector.

It's that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that's laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

And I know harpin» on the Boomers is a temptation for an X-er like me — as I've said before, we all owe a lot to sensible boomers in the conservative movement, in comparable cultural movements, etc..

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

That site has some really excellent posters you might want to take a look at as well (oh, and it might help get the extra layer of meaning if you know that «po - mo» is also slang for «post modern» which is a term used to describe the meta - level / self - satirize / surreal sort of cultural expression that followed the «modernist» movements): http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm

Some of my friends are sympathetic to the pro-life movement's ideal of a world where mother and child are both offered love and support, a world less subject to the cultural and economic forces that can make motherhood unthinkable for women in unplanned pregnancies.

For yet another, there are movements within the UCC, calling for a Barmen - like commitment to classical Christian faith contra cultural accommodation» such as the fifteen - year - old «Confessing Christ» movement and the Craigville Theological Colloquies celebrating this year their twenty - fifth anniversaFor yet another, there are movements within the UCC, calling for a Barmen - like commitment to classical Christian faith contra cultural accommodation» such as the fifteen - year - old «Confessing Christ» movement and the Craigville Theological Colloquies celebrating this year their twenty - fifth anniversafor a Barmen - like commitment to classical Christian faith contra cultural accommodation» such as the fifteen - year - old «Confessing Christ» movement and the Craigville Theological Colloquies celebrating this year their twenty - fifth anniversary.

And yet it would be difficult to exaggerate not only the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

In Daniel (1913) we find Buber's concern for unity, realization, and creativity expressed for the first time entirely in its own terms and not as the interpretation of some particular thought or religious or cultural movement.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

His reply is that a faith of strong convictions is needed, because only faith of that kind will be able to inspire a movement for cultural and political change.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

And the liberators misunderstood their own needs and those of their movement's members: «The culture of emancipation was apparently too thin to sustain these people and enable them to reproduce themselves; the radical rejection of the past left, as it were, too little material for cultural construction.»

Life can be given for the sake of the Gospel in mass movements, in political revolution, in complex social strategies and cultural creativity.

Editor's Reply We would simply note that at a question and answer session with representatives of the new movements held at Pentecost Pope Francis made the following comment, which seems to dovetail with the emphasis Mr Keeffe places on devotion to the Real Presence: For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

For we hold the bold belief, especially from humble experience in the Faith movement, that if it were our whole society would experience a new cultural springtime.

But white North American Christian feminists have shown a great deal of sensitivity to the need for cultural pluralism within the broader movement of women, and even in this respect they are able to give encouragement, if not leadership, in other cultures.

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

Just for that reason it represents clearly the tension between general cultural influence and a tightly organized in - group that is to be found in many other movements.

For over two decades, he has been considered an early innovator in the Native American cultural contextual movement.

In India, for example, Hindutva, is not just a political ideology against what is called «pseudo-secularism», but also a cultural movement against what are regarded as alien values of globalization.

... The dynamic movement of society gives absolute value to the present, isolating it from the cultural legacy of the past, without attempting to trace a path for the future.

Moreover, the Zionist settlement contributed greatly to exacerbating Palestinian Arab nationalism; and dialectically — through its development of the country and raising of hygienic, economic and cultural levels — it provided the sinews for a strong indigenous nationalist movement.

Their communities have been fertile grounds for new religions and cultural movements, and their history is filled with religious - cultural encounters and conflicts of all sorts.

The movement of Jesus for the Reign of God is a combined struggle against the culture of the Roman and Greek imperial powers and principalities, and against the encroaching cultural pollution in the life of God's people.

For decades liberal Christian churches have supplied the universities with uncommitted intellectuals and each new social and cultural movement with many of its most dedicated followers.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

For Espinosa, food is a catalyst for regeneration and reconciliation in every sense; culinary, political and social — as well as a way to build a whole new cultural identity which both cultivates dignity and peace — a movement which she believes can benefit not only her country, but Latin America as a whoFor Espinosa, food is a catalyst for regeneration and reconciliation in every sense; culinary, political and social — as well as a way to build a whole new cultural identity which both cultivates dignity and peace — a movement which she believes can benefit not only her country, but Latin America as a whofor regeneration and reconciliation in every sense; culinary, political and social — as well as a way to build a whole new cultural identity which both cultivates dignity and peace — a movement which she believes can benefit not only her country, but Latin America as a whole.

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For those of you who have always longed to come face - to - face with other professionals and families in this cultural movement to truly «change the world,» this is your opportunity.

Professor McKenna advises «from an evolutionary and biological perspective, proximity to parental sounds, smells, gases, heat and movement during the night is precisely what the human infant «expects», and in our push for infant independence, we are forgetting that an infant's biology can not change quite as quickly as cultural child - care patterns.»

While much of Afropolitanism plays out «virtually», the online movement has helped to mobilize people in physical places as well, and has served as a platform for a number of social, cultural and economic ventures.

And of course, despite there being many champions of economic globalisation and the spread of capitalist consumerism, can we remember any politician making the positive, proud case for free movement of people, welcoming immigrants and the valuable enriching cultural accoutrements they bring?

«Our research points to the fact that changes in long - distance contact, socio - cultural interactions and population movements may be just as important, or more important, for innovation as environmental drivers,» says van Niekerk.

«One of my tattoos combines my favorite childhood stories about the existence of forest sprites (duendes) as well as one of my favorite cultural movements — hip - hop or breakdancing — which I've been involved in for the past 15 years, and my profession as a botanist.»

For example, historical, economic, language and cultural ties all play a part — population movements with former colonies had particular influence; such as Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya with the UK, and Mali, Niger and Chad with France.

Beyond the mountain's spiritual and cultural significance, it has become a symbol in the movement for Native Hawaiian self - determination.

So how could a cheap little movie that is in many ways, as our Todd Ramlow pointed out, a commercial for «what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas» debauchery, become one of 2009's biggest pop cultural movements (apart from Twilight of course)?

Zoolander and Hansel are veritable Rip Van Winkles, but — distinguishing the film from its Austin Powers template, as well as Zoolander 2's immediate predecessor — it's the cultural innovations they encounter that are held up to ridicule, such as phones that are bigger than Zoolander's (redeeming his microscopic cellphone from the original), hipster patois (although «hashtag» has for some reason penetrated Derek's vocabulary), and a gender - neutral model (Benedict Cumberbatch) whose name, All, and uncanniness mock the trans movement at a particularly precarious moment in our history.

But Facebook has played a key role in Pakistan in gathering people for political and cultural movements of all stripes.

It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product of its time and an effort to broach a taboo subject in light of today's cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.

Yet such is the power of the stunted fanboys and clickbait movie «journalists» fueling discussion of popular cinema in 2015: a depressing forum in which a perceived unsatisfactory Marvel film must be analyzed like the coming of the cultural holocaust, rather than simply being ignored for the unremarkable — and completely familiar — corporate bowel movement that it is.