Sentences with phrase «cultural realities in»

These works connect painting to the constantly changing cultural realities in which the works find themselves.

He also served on several university committees that dealt not only with the usual problems of a startup, but also with the fundamental tensions between the king's vision and the political and cultural realities in the kingdom.

Not exact matches

Companies are breaking boundaries in every aspect of travel from virtual reality apps to cultural exchange platforms

It is abundantly clear and the evidence has shown through the history and by adopting the maxim of parsimony in a cultural biogeographic context — we can say that religion is not a force of reality.

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

But dealing with these realities requires sure footing, and many find it easier to bend with the times than to confront a popular cultural shift in spite of its obvious hazards and horrific social results.

In Whitehead's case it may indicate that he did not think it was the best term to use in dealing with social reality and cultural goalIn Whitehead's case it may indicate that he did not think it was the best term to use in dealing with social reality and cultural goalin dealing with social reality and cultural goals.

The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only by clariflying what universal realities are worth living and dying for, can we find hope.

Cultural tales about supernatural beings that have no basis in reality are often called myths.

Of course it does, but to state matters in that way implies that there is something else with which cultural phenomena could be contrasted, such as a metaphysical reality.

She saw that women are a disadvantaged group in our society and that this cultural reality contributes significantly to their individual psychological problems.

The reality is that those really concerned about human dignity are those who are willing to place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties of cultural trends.

This new cultural reality raises some anxieties, but it also presents many of us with an opportunity to rediscover Christian witness in a world that we do not control.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

That understanding has already been superceded in theoretical physics, which I will also return to briefly, but that image of reality is still dominant at the level of cultural consciousness.

Really, the problem really is about semantics and the conceptualization of something in the light of cultural (i.e. religious) views that we grow with; in reality, we are thinking about the same, just modeling differently.

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

She laughs at the fantasy she has of America, but innumerable others have grown up in cultural enclaves that define for them an America that is similarly at odds with the reality.

But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing «a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people.

I'm here, and yes, all religions are cultural fairy tales with little to no basis in reality, but if humans want their silly tribal fetishes, I don't care.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

What Mr. Van Biema does not know, at least to judge by his essay in Time, is the political, cultural and religious reality of America, both past and present.

In reality, it is a cultural construct that must be recreated and sustained by each generation.

In the growth in knowledge and love of God, Israel develops as a religious and cultural reality deeply ingrained with the fundamental insights of God as the one creator who is infinite love itself and holds all things in beinIn the growth in knowledge and love of God, Israel develops as a religious and cultural reality deeply ingrained with the fundamental insights of God as the one creator who is infinite love itself and holds all things in beinin knowledge and love of God, Israel develops as a religious and cultural reality deeply ingrained with the fundamental insights of God as the one creator who is infinite love itself and holds all things in beinin being.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

This entire covenantal process is the vocation of every individual in his personal, social and cultural reality.

In suggesting that the evangelical subculture is simply a socially constructed reality, does Balmer mean to imply that the «larger world»» the world, presumably, of academia and the cultural elite» is not so constructed?

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.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

Students themselves engage in theological reality - testing from the workplace, family life, cultural ferment and contexts of oppression.

In reality, we're seeing the decline of «cultural Christianity» — the version of faith that says nostalgic Americanism equals de facto Christianity.

The reality of the matter is quite the opposite: Juan is not familiar to us at all today, and the reason our cultural imagination no longer has much room for him — and would certainly be incapable of producing another figure like him — is that he, far more than the buoyantly eternal Quixote, is a figure fixed in a particular cultural moment.

The cultural power of science comes from its ability to explain many of the observable workings of reality, and also from the technology it creates, which can be very useful in humanity's service.

In reality they have the human and cultural capacity, the possibility and the values to resist this imposition, but will they have the knowledge and will to do so?

Spirituality paints itself as a benign, benevolent force, when in reality it is a dangerous and divisive cultural extension whose benefits stand in stark contrast to its legacy of inhumanity.

If culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel now?

Beginning with Genesis 1:1, I plan on taking you verse by verse through the Bible to explain it from a historical - cultural perspective, and in a way that exposes how religion has forced Scripture to become its errand boy, when in reality, Scripture should be leading us away from religion and into a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.

15 I do not mean to argue that there is a «given» to be defended, nor that frameworks are not operative; but only to suggest that the reduction of everything to cultural frameworks can not work in a two - option world, for that reality to which a framework argument can apply would then be missing.

Given this reality, then how effective have we been in bringing to the understanding of the issues of baptism, conversion, and mission a distinctive «local cultural idiom»?

But today, for reasons discussed in earlier chapters, it is simply a widespread cultural phenomenon that for increasing numbers the God - talk and religious language in which the church proclaims her message possesses little or no reality.

In terms of substantive belief, historical experience, and present cultural reality, the Christian connection with Islam is in no way comparable, and is in most respects antitheticaIn terms of substantive belief, historical experience, and present cultural reality, the Christian connection with Islam is in no way comparable, and is in most respects antitheticain no way comparable, and is in most respects antitheticain most respects antithetical.

«In every locale, in other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitieIn every locale, in other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitiein other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitiein the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realities.

It is not just the skepticism of intellectuals or the inadequacies of moral education but the structural and cultural realities of our society in this historical moment that make us doubt any kind of transcending narrative.

Religious and cultural pluralism became a reality, and this affected the status of the Protestant minister in the American community.

We should instead anticipate that if all reality is somehow ingredient in our experience at the pole of primary perception, no particular expression could fully retrieve it, and different peoples will represent their primary perception in radically different ways, depending on cultural and historical conditions.

The chief problem with this world view is that it allows for more than one «truth» about reality, truths which merely coexist in discrete personal and cultural worlds.

Library, 1961) ~ Charles Hartshorne, The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1962) ~ Bernard E, Meland, The Realities of Faith: the Revolution of Cultural Forces (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962): and Daniel Day Williams, The Spirit and the Forms of Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).

Hence, social power arrangements and cultural practices that constitute social beings are reduced to personal or interpersonal terms and not addressed as realities in themselves.

In simpler language, we may state that primordial objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitieIn simpler language, we may state that primordial objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitiein the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitiein an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilities.