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.
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.
Adam, My interpretation is based on the best research I know how to do from the original Hebrew text and from the historical /
cultural situation in which the text was written.
Second, there should be an honest and summary communication of the scientific and
cultural situation in the present day, with a variety of related material, and dealing with problems and proposed answers.
Constructive theology, aware of God's continuing revelation in the present, is a hermeneutical mode of reflection that, by exploring our particular historical, social and
cultural situation in the light of the church's tradition, attempts dialectically to make sense of both our contemporary experience - knowledge and our tradition.
Like Moses, let's look briefly at
the cultural situation in the United States from 1960 - 1998, the era that formed, institutionally, the spiritual life of most of us prior to the new millennium theologies.
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.
The cultural situation in Corinth can not be so quickly ignored.
Cultural situations in which contemplative understanding of God thrives tend to be highly homogeneous and intolerant of pluralism.
Not exact matches
Pac - 12 Commissioner Larry Scott also declined to confirm the arrests, but said
in a statement the conference was «disappointed by any
situation that detracts from the positive student - athlete educational and
cultural experience that this week is about.»
In this book, he offers both an analysis of how we have come to the cultural and political situation in which we now find ourselves, and hope for the futur
In this book, he offers both an analysis of how we have come to the
cultural and political
situation in which we now find ourselves, and hope for the futur
in which we now find ourselves, and hope for the future.
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?
For Moltmann, our present
cultural situation is one
in which freedom has become a rarity, and with it, laughter and play.
He also knew that very often they were
in that
situation because the good things
in life were taken away from them by those who are powerful
in society who amassed for themselves economic, political and
cultural supremacy at the expense of others.
Healthy Christian theology is always written
in view of the real
situation of the time, whether the issues it addresses are social,
cultural, or more purely intellectual.
Disciplines strive for universality, and that cuts away from interest
in the concete
cultural, social, historical
situations to which they are applied.
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.
In this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
In this late 20th Century, churches face a
situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable
in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation),
in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of
cultural development.
In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
In the late 20th Century, churches face a
situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable
in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation),
in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmen
in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of
cultural development.
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.
God's death and resurrection take place
in all
cultural, political and institutional and personal
situations.
If I have outlined the
cultural situation of Catholic writers
in mostly negative terms, it is not out of despair or cynicism.
For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our
cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender
in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective
in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.
There are so many social,
cultural, religious, economic, and political factors at play
in all these
situations, it is hard to point at any one reason as the cause.
The pastor is a very thoughtful person and usually considers every possibility to a
situation but the oversight of compensation for artists is an example of the
cultural norm
in the Church.
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.
These critics err
in their estimate of the contemporary
cultural situation,
in their understanding of what recreation is, and
in their appraisal of the relation between work and play.
Knowledge depends on and is conditioned by both our historical -
cultural situation and
in the context of certain practices.
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.
I., it was the Portuguese Catholic mission that emphasized the religious and communal exclusiveness of the Christian fellowship of faith
in the Kerala
situation where traditionally there was much syncretic interaction between Syrian Christians and Hindus at all
cultural and social levels.
Many outward expressions are suitable, the appropriate one
in any given case depending on personality type and on the person's social and
cultural situation.
Surely there are many other first responders with various
cultural and religious backgrounds
in the same
situation as her son.He has no official affiliation at the time: that is the criteria
But all of these texts are extremely difficult to interpret: crucial words remain obscure (e. g., authentein; exousia); the addressed
situations are difficult to reconstruct; the «surface meaning» contradicts other Pauline material; and the methods of argument reflect
cultural thought - forms no longer
in use.
For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful
situations and responses
in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of
cultural pressures and circumstances.
Thus
in our present
situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly
in our
cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology
in life and
in action.
All of us alike face the same issue of understanding our own tradition
in the light of our modem
cultural and social
situations — only let us,
in assaying that problem, not forget the present precariousness, the moral temptations and the religious requirements of that infinitely risky modern
situation!
For all of us alike face the same issue of understanding our own tradition
in the light of our modem
cultural and social
situations — only let us,
in assaying that problem, not forget the present precariousness, the moral temptations and the religious requirements of that infinitely risky modern
situation!
As God has spoken his word
in diverse
cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures
in a changing world and
in every form of human culture.
Read stories of how others
in similar
situations have responded, or read for a deeper understanding of the historical and
cultural dynamics that are at play
in your
situation.
That which fosters the expansion of freedom and the intensity of experience may be regarded as good, although the ways
in which freedom and intensity are fostered will depend upon the biological, psychological, social,
cultural, political, economic, and possibly religious
situations in which particular intelligent beings find themselves.
In his anthropology, Solovyev is trying to show that humanity is always able to transcend the limits of the human
situation, creating a multiplicity of
cultural forms.
He recognizes that he is addressing mainly the Catholic
situation in the United States, and even that from his Irish - American perspective, but he believes that his core argument about the Catholic imagination and its
cultural potency has wider application, and I expect he is right about that, although
in this book it is asserted rather than demonstrated.
Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American
cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen
in other
situations.
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.
In situations of
cultural cynicism, prophecy may have the function of reviving old idealisms.
We can learn a great deal about today «s religious response to the
cultural situation by understanding the pattern followed
in previous awakenings.
Still, there are some beliefs and values that are quite generally shared and that persist for at least a while (say, a few lifetimes), even
in a
situation marked by pluralism and greatly accelerated
cultural change.
As a real person, speaking a human language
in a particular historical
situation, he could only speak and think
in the intellectual and
cultural molds of his time and country.
Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process
in which the shared valuations of a
cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited
in the historical
situation, are carried forward and readjusted.