Sentences with phrase «cultural setting of»

In 1985, a group of thirty Protestant and Catholic scholars from colleges and seminaries across the United States met to consider the written statements of Jesus in the light of the idioms, history, and cultural setting of his time, and so to try to determine which statements are «authentic» and which are not.

This outer circle says that God's Word comes to fruition only in terms of the particular cultural setting of the hearers.

«The newfound evidence for the cultural settings of the Bible led many to conclude that the Bible is essentially defined by these cultural factors.

She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina's avant - garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s.

Not exact matches

The two countries are set to launch a «Strategic Partnership Council» aimed at fostering closer economic and cultural relations, with billions of dollars worth of potential deals within the partnership.

As a person who has dedicated over 20 years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.

He said the agreements still occurred in context of native law and Aboriginal cultural heritage considerations and smaller mining companies did not need to fear the risk of setting a precedent.

Every place I have been to has in many ways provided a set of cultural and mental challenges, but in terms of work, the majority of the places have been developed enough to welcome digital nomads with open arms, with reliable internet, affordable accommodation and plenty of beaches for me to unwind after a sweaty day grinding away on my notebook.

Zara — the Spanish retailer, owned by fashion conglomerate, Inditex — faced outrage and accusations of cultural illiteracy when it pitched a set of child's pajamas resembling a concentration camp uniform, complete with a yellow Star of David.

Given the unique team - building and cultural challenges faced by companies that operate completely virtually, it makes sense that no one existing tool or set of tools fits every remote company.

And he has introduced a new set of cultural values for Uber, replacing a list created by Travis Kalanick, the former chief executive who was pushed out last June.

, each with their own set of expectations, requires both a new workplace strategy and cultural approach.

Work has morphed into a twenty - four - hour fact of life, bringing its own set of standards and expectations when it comes to sleep... Sleep is ingrained in our cultural ethos as something that can be put off, dosed with coffee, or ignored.

The development of an international communications strategy (i.e., «a set of procedures for dealing with language and cultural barriers as they arise») could assist Canadian SMEs to establish a presence in markets that do not use English and French but in which the potential for rapid export growth exists.

This third stage depends on the emergence of a new set of proven leaders from outside the company, attracted by the initial vision and momentum, who willingly model the founder's cultural values.

Boasting romantic 18th - century architecture, and a rich artistic and cultural tradition, the colonial city of Cuenca is set high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.

The teaching of the bishops of Malta sets up a cultural environment that will exacerbate both divides.

The tone of the speech strongly suggests that the sun is setting on the powerful cultural - political consensus that has dominated the West since 1945.

But this role they play will be misunderstood, absolutized, unless they are «set against a panoply of other voices» from that same cultural milieu which exhibit the same or competing interests.

Texts need to be seen within their cultural settings in order to be revealed as they truly are, as one of the ways by which persons pursue their individual and collective interests.

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

You'll see, if you're being intellectually honest, that I am a great proponent of taking into account the relevant social, historical and cultural settings in which the amanuenses wrote.

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

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.

As an institutionalized set of practices, how is this school located in its immediate social and cultural setting?

In the outside world, the unity of Quakers is cultural: a shared set of practices and a shared approach to life.

To ask this second type of question is to raise a variety of issues: «Are the forms of speech and action in question a traditional legacy from an earlier social and cultural setting?

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

Unfortunately, the New Evangelization here in the United States is often presented in contrast only to the first half of each of these dichotomies, set off against those errors that I am arguing are least relevant to our own cultural circumstances.

Those who engage in regular and systematic reflection on political / cultural issues will, unless they are utterly mindless, come to some set of interrelated conclusions — however tentatively held — as to how the world does and should work.

For the same reason the religious beliefs and allegiance of a man are nearly always those of his own family, or of his immediate cultural setting.

To be sure, it took more than a biological theory to set in motion all the cultural forces which were beginning to reshape the ethos of the West in the mid-nineteenth century.

But within the limits set by the cultural background of the world, there are still considerable differences in the connotation the word has for each of us.

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

The cultural role of such edifying philosophy is «to help us avoid the self - deception which comes from believing that we know ourselves by knowing a set of objective facts» (PMR 373).

All of this political setting is reinforced, amplified and above all verified every day by every cultural artifact of communication — radio, newspapers, television, movies, tiny schools and huge universities.

What we have, then, is a situation in which introspection is demanded on the one hand, and made possible by a readily available and exceedingly rich set of cultural codes on the other.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

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

The significance of conceptualizing these responses as a distinct set of variables is that cultural innovations are seen as a result of specific actions, not just general phenomena that emerge automatically and mysteriously from structural conditions.

Instead of having to posit a direct, psychological, often mysterious effect on disaggregated individuals, the investigator is able to show that ideas are actually produced by specific sets of people who have access to necessary material and cultural resources, are influenced by particular organizational constraints, and bring their ideas into contact with an audience that has reasons to be receptive.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

In contrast, «cultural relativism,» which Professor Arkes equates with legal positivism, holds that there are «no moral truths which hold their validity across cultures... [So that statutes or constitutional provisions] have the standing of law only because they are «posited» or set down by the authorities in any country.»

The New Testament was a set of letters written to Jews, the Romans, the Galatians, and the Corinthians — each with their own cultural viewpoint.

Likewise there are probably lots in the official first responder set who have last names of different cultural and religious groups.