Sentences with phrase «cultural situation»

They are necessary implications which theological controversy and new cultural situations have brought to light.

These beliefs and practices may have retained their vitality through accommodations to the contemporary cultural situation.

I feel moved to write about what I perceive to be a critical cultural situation.

Furthermore, they have done so reflecting the ethos of their respective cultural situations.

What is the church to do in this new cultural situation?

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.

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.

For Moltmann, our present cultural situation is one in which freedom has become a rarity, and with it, laughter and play.

When this passage is applied to the religious and cultural situation today, we can perhaps hear a call to endurance and hope

Properly understood, Benjamin's argument reveals that the proliferation of bland, solipsistic personal «stories» in our current cultural situation does not indicate a recovery of «communicable experience,» but just the opposite.

3:28 Realize that labels such as «Hutu» and «Tutsi» (and their correlates in other cultural situations around the world) are human constructs that can become idols or anti-idols.

Elements of democratic ethics, such as doctrines of human rights and religious freedom, are gradually finding their way into Catholic thought.7 Since the Church is a living organism it can respond to every new cultural situation while maintaining steadfastly its own absolute authority.

The question to be considered in the analysis of any religious phenomenon or expression, therefore, is not whether it reflects any cultural attributes or not, but whether in addressing itself relevantly to the immediate cultural situation it has also effectively retained the essence of its historical and revelatory insights.

Herbert Marcuse called this internal cultural situation of the globally expanding technocratic civilization «one dimensionalization»; Soelle calls it apathy and others call it a «cultural wasteland.»

Linking this theory to the current cultural situation yields four steps that could increase the acceptance of you — and your female colleagues — as leaders in the world of science (Figure 5).

Kandler's model is unique to Scottish Gaelic: Quechua, Chinook, Istrian Vlashki, and so on will each need their own, taking into account their unique cultural situations.

Unrated (brief nudity, awkward sexual situations, awkward cultural situations).

During the 1960s and 1970s, a generation of artists emerged with a self - described critical task: to engage with and reveal the power structures and ideological imperatives implicit in any given cultural situation in the belief that doing so could create viable alternatives for living and art - making alike.

Few spaces in the city nurtured the kind of close - knit, pan-disciplinary cultural situations that A Gathering of the Tribes imparted.

The Mexican sculptor Damián Ortega explores specific economic, aesthetic and cultural situations through his work.

Similar twinned compulsions existed in Lanyon, even if his particular cultural situation meant his art more actively staged the contradiction, and that, when speaking of it, he emphasised its roots in the figurative tradition.

In addition to the economic, social and cultural situation described above, the historical distrust of the Aboriginal community against the police and the justice system, as well as perceived racism and discrimination within the State party's institutions, create further barriers for Aboriginal women to access justice.

The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present - day urban arts institutions, and to help students improve their interpretive and critical writing.

I do not mean to imply that the many serious problems involved in the reappropriation of traditional religious symbols in the present cultural situation have all been solved.

When this passage is applied to the religious and cultural situation today, we can perhaps hear a call to endurance and hope as we travel the holy way to the New Jerusalem, to the heavenly Mount Zion.

As though that rather quotidian insight isn't easily gleaned from, and applicable to, a hundred thousand other cultural situations?

Waiving for the moment the far from settled question of the extent that Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence were adapted to the particular social and cultural situation in which he found himself, we still must ask whether we can really see the vindication of hope for the higher values in a cumulative and secure achievement of orders of persuasion over brute force.

Speaking from within the Christian tradition, Harvard theologian Gordon Kaufman in 1993 said something like this: since we are moving very rapidly toward one world, and a global consciousness is already beginning to enter into us, our religious practices and thinking must reflect this great historical fact; all the particular religious traditions have become outmoded and can no longer meet the needs of our new cultural situation in their traditional form.5

You had the story idea for a while, but how did the cultural situation here in America inform the movie?

They inherited incoherent fragments of a once coherent scheme of thought and action, and since they did not recognize their own peculiar historical and cultural situation they could not recognize the impossible and quixotic character of their self - appointed task.»

If, as a progressive Protestant, I am fully committed to the truth, whether or not it is supportive of my Christian biases, should I in fact continue to follow a Jewish teacher of the early part of the first century whose teaching obviously reflected a very different socio - cultural situation than mine?

With regard to the efforts of the death - of - God theologians, Ogden observes that to base Christian theology on the secularistic premise that God is dead is to make an assessment of our cultural situation that is «completely undiscriminating in simply assuming that secularism is an essentially unified and internally consistent outlook.

There are many problems to solve when we are sending persons for clinical training overseas, in a cultural situation different from the one they come from and to which they should return.

God's Word is «enfleshed» in a society as its significance is stated in terms of that cultural situation.

If this kind of hope can be construed as both appropriate to the Christian tradition (especially the biblical traditions about Jesus) and relevant to our cultural situation, then it would seem that the resources of contemporary liberal theology should command more attention than they are presently accorded.

There is another fact of our present cultural situation that bears heavily upon the image of evangelizing that has been presented.

If I have outlined the cultural situation of Catholic writers in mostly negative terms, it is not out of despair or cynicism.

Knowledge depends on and is conditioned by both our historical - cultural situation and in the context of certain practices.