Sentences with phrase «cultural points of»

Located between Interstate 5 and State Route 134, Empire Landing is well situated between cultural points of interest and major employers.

In addition, the hotel's proximity to the Metro and many of Athens» cultural points of interest will make it a destination for business and leisure travellers alike.

Heading east, Flores delivers on volcanoes, cultural points of interest and excellent beaches.

Interesting from a cultural point of view as it shows some foreign students take on the French school system and a comparison with their own.

James Price Point — Aside from its obvious outstanding natural beauty with its 20 metre - high red pindan cliffs, white sandy beaches and monsoonal vine thickets, from an Aboriginal cultural point of view, this headland is an integral part of the renowned Lurrajarri Heritage Trail.

However, in my opinion, those islands were not very interesting from a cultural point of view.

«There is a lived experience in this work, and for people to come to Africa and to engage with it closer to where the dialogue originated... that says that African artifacts of our time are valuable enough from a cultural point of view to build a cathedral for them» — a cathedral, he added, on «the same scale and the same ambition and the same platform» as those devoted to, say, «Jeff Koons and Michelangelo.»

It also considers pigeons from a cultural point of view as well as from a cognitive and neurobiological vantage, such as their remarkable mental acuity that includes self - awareness and the ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away.

Therapy can be seen as a «gym for the mind» - and sessions ought to be accessible from a financial and cultural point of view.

Not exact matches

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

Cultural attitudes, fairness, economics, and entrepreneurial behavior all point to extension of this trend toward legalization.

But the point is the discussion of these cultural threads and getting past the race / religion overtones in our thinking isn't easy.

Qualitative measurement of this type of progress is difficult, but the goal should be a lasting cultural shift, not a data point to share with the world.

The winter of 2005 — 06 was a turning point in America's cultural self - understanding.

The point is, this quote has become a part of our cultural fabric, and it has done so because it expresses a simple and fundamental truth.

Another elite echoed this view and also pointed to the younger generation's more limited knowledge of China's ups and downs in general, including the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

In this fast - paced talk Doug will take your group on a remarkable examination of the cultural and social roots of shopping and the transformation smart retailers are making to turn their stores into beloved gathering points and hearts of their communities.

Residents in the area point to great job opportunities, low cost of living, and exciting cultural offerings as reasons for their migration into the area.

Several points were highlighted in Austin's talk, including cultural differences, the evolution of Chinese business practices, and common misconceptions of investment from China.

More than 50 Deaf baristas received green aprons with «Starbucks» embroidered in ASL fingerspelling to serve as a visual communications cue for customers and a point of Deaf cultural pride.

@Mike, Actually the spread of some religions does nothing to counteract the point that different regions began worshipping different gods, it simply displays the growth of cross cultural communications and reinforces what we already know, that the world is getting «smaller».

The cultural aspects of Pope Francis's statement seem on point: Millennials on the whole don't value the marital commitment as much as previous generations.

My disagreement with Weigel on this point might be a quibble except that our differing understandings of what fueled cultural secularization point to different causes, and thus to different cures.

You also haven't explained any of my other points and copy and pasting the chi.t fred wrote shows that you have no original material at all and that you think fred actually had a point, which is basically as.serting his own cultural chauvinism and dismissing zeus for god because the bible tells him to.

Campbell points to a cultural shift in the style of the mid-week Bible studies for children.

«It is symptomatic,» she wrote, «that the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which God knows, has never lifted a finger in this country for either culture or freedom, has become a kind of collecting point for these types.»

In a statement on its website, the cathedral says the award will help make it «an important cultural and faith gathering point in the multi-cultural city of Leicester.»

Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

The point is that our culture has reached a level of understanding where many of the well educated scientific and cultural leaders of our day have abandoned supersti - tion in favor of science and reason.

But Americans have been so concerned to maintain the purity of the gospel that few contemporary U.S. theologians are attempting to find points of positive intersection between Christianity and our cultural mythos.

From the point of view of the Christian tradition itself, such a renovation is not merely a capitulation to one more cultural expression, «but a new stage in the ongoing shaping of the gospel in different times and contexts.

This crime marks the culminating point of the cultural ethos which shapes the male psyche in terms of winner - loser.

Christianity becomes cultural Christianity when the faith is dominated by a culture to the point that it loses much or most of its authenticity.

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

We can not at this point go into the whole matter of the relation of the Bible to its cultural setting.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

Burhoe's point is that if cultural evolution is the subject for discussion, then the religious traditions whose wisdom has survived millennia of selective pressures can be left out of the discussion only at the cost of scientific adequacy and competency.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

For example, Bernard Lonergan points out, «A theology mediates between a cultural matrix and the significance and role of a religion in that matrix.

This human point of view calls for further elaboration, for one often sees reference to the cultural and historical conditionedness of Scripture as though it were a cause for concern.

That kind of love not only overrides fear, anger, misunderstandings and cultural differences; it points to a truth that is more powerful than any force on heaven and on earth: The love of Christ.

It would be nice if they could, of course, but the pertinent social and cultural fact — the fact pointed to by the phrase «Christian America» — is that this is what they think is the case regarding morality.

The challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure of overpopulation.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

As millions of destitute Americans continue to be deprived of adequate access to good health care, people of all parties in the UK regard the retention of the National Health Service, «free at the point of delivery,» as essential to our cultural health.

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

If we read this story carefully and take in its finer points, we realize that the visit of the three men is presented as a cultural event.