I am sharing my European
culture and traditions with them.
Sri Phala Resorts & Villa is situated amongst the glimpse of Sanur — one of the oldest traditional fishing villages on the island where the people truly enjoy sharing
their culture and traditions with visitors from around the world.
The Native families have also been a huge asset to our schools and they are incredibly generous in sharing
their culture and traditions with all our students.
Not exact matches
Europe can be strong if it remembers that there are a vast amount of populations
with different identities,
traditions and cultures,» he said, speaking after Lega's election success.
Small businesses, then, should familiarize themselves
with Mexico's foundation of business rules
and traditions -; not to mention the demographics
culture of the marketplace -; before committing resources to this region.
After a hearty meal
and plenty of family time, the citizens of the biggest consumer
culture on our planet will commence
with the age old
tradition...
Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying
and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway,
and attempt to make peace
with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them
and learning about their
cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.
It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double
tradition from which she emerged
with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy
and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former
culture to endure despite its qualities.
Instead of accommodating its usage»
and so its ideas
and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own
culture with its own language
and practices, raising readers up
and rooting them in a rich
tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness,
and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.
The questions of secularization
and the Judeo - Christian
tradition have everything to do
with the
culture wars in which our society is embroiled.
That is why capitalism —
and societies free not only in their economic system but also in their polity
and their
culture — have arisen
with less friction in areas where Jewish
and Christian
traditions are strong.
I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of
tradition and fear or are on the other end
and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary
culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality
with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.
Anyway, we in the West live
with the philosophical
and theological
tradition of analyzing
and then polarizing things that
cultures with more holistic paradigms would keep in paradox.
The author contrasts an ancient abbey
with its
traditions, history
and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without
tradition,
culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.
There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century
with the
tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval
culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability
and domestication in the nineteenth century,
and now seems out of date.
First, in our
culture with its
tradition of voluntaristic moralism it is difficult for people to accept the idea that an individual is not personally responsible for having a neurosis
and yet is responsible to society for getting help, i.e., for becoming more responsible.
The Christian Church — let's spell it
with a capital — combining the Judaeo - Christian faith
and ethic
with the best of Greek thought
and culture, has, at its noblest, been the guardian of our greatest
tradition, the transmitter of a priceless heritage.
(Using the lowercase «c»
with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious
tradition so arrogant
and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians
and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims
and members of nonchristian religions
and cultures.)
Our concern in this
and the subsequent chapters is not, however,
with the total Islamic
culture but
with the specifically religious
culture which originates almost exclusively from the Qur» an, the
Traditions of the Prophet of Islam,
and the various interpretations of these two fundamental sources.
Whenever pluralism becomes too content
with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict
and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation
and oppression)
and religious (sin) dimensions of every person,
culture and tradition.
It found that the relatively prosperous
and well - governed regions were those parts of the country
with a long
tradition of civic
culture.
Although
with a less dramatic involvement in native thought
and culture than Ricci's, both Roman Catholic
and Protestant missionaries in the 19th century often managed to combine a commitment to evangelization in the name of Jesus
with a deep (
and ever deepening) respect for the native
culture and indigenous
traditions of the nations to which they had been sent.
There are many motivations,
and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the
tradition (of our Church)» «Shared
culture and values (
with those like us)» «Fellowship
and community (
with those like us)» «Well - understood
and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles
and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»
Bargaining
and barter were
and are known in all the
cultures that have developed moral
and religious
traditions, most of which have well - known maxims
and principles that deal
with the vast spectrum of social
and moral issues, from fair weight to marriage contracts, bred in the marketplace.
In the Reformed Jewish movement they «maintain that Judaism
and Jewish
traditions should be modernized
and should be compatible
with participation in the surrounding
culture.
The writers of Scripture sought to be faithful to available
tradition,
with all the limitations of oral
culture,
and were not necessarily averse to adjusting narrative to Old Testament prophecy, iconic stories of their
culture,
and theological proclamation.
Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian
Tradition is not co-extensive
with any single
culture or any form of ecclesial existence
and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light of Christ.
But today there is developing a certain discontent
with our
culture and its
tradition,
and a certain suspicion regarding its capacity for radical change.
This principle underlies the single, integrated programme of studies at Benedictus; its breadth
and rigour will reconnect all the disciplines
with what Mgr Ronald Knox referred to as the «Hidden Stream», the Christian basis of European
culture and tradition.»
Exploring the world
and various
cultures and traditions makes them smarter
and more able to deal
with diverse people than someone else who accepts the doctrines of their parents
and seeks after nothing.
Greek
culture and language, the cultivation of the body, sex
and family mores at odds
with the
traditions of Yahwism - Judaism, fascination
with the visual arts — all of this Hellenistic world pressed in upon Judaism
and Jerusalem
and even infiltrated in the persons of regularly visiting Jews from communities outside Palestine.
• «The enormous progress of science
and technology must be harmonised
with a
culture nourished by classical studies according to various
traditions» (56).
As Eugene Ulrich
and William G. Thompson conclude, «Scripture, which began as experience, was produced through a process of
tradition (s) being formulated about that experience
and being reformulated by interpreters in dialogue
with the experience of their communities
and with the larger
culture.»
The New Delhi WCC Assembly (1961) rightly observed about
culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western
culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture is the central
culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
culture,
and that therefore «Christian
Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other trad
Culture» is necessarily identified
with the customs
and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel
and a stumbling block to those of other
traditions.
Closeness to God within Islam is not undeveloped or limited to the domain of mysticism; Islamic theological
traditions affirm explicitly that God is at once both transcendent
and immanent — temporal opposition does not pertain to the uncreated —
and day - to - day Muslim
culture reflects discernible intimacy
with God even in mundane affairs.
Ways of speaking reflect the aesthetic
and communicative values of both a particular congregation's
culture and tradition; our language for worship is designed to link the vernacular
with the formal.
At the same time the church is a community of the present, so that the inherited
tradition and the social
and biographical situation of the moment are always enmeshed
with each other, Insofar as the
tradition side retains the «gospel,» it has a certain primacy over the contemporaneous side; that is, Christ should transform
culture.
I have tried thus far to demonstrate that the secular part of Western
culture has itself raised the community question
with unprecedented urgency
and that the religious are best situated to address the question
with authority based upon both
tradition and experience.
We find ourselves
with not only more than two primary
cultures and traditions trying to live in harmony, but there is an extensive history of pain caused by racism in our country.
Like any
culture, the evangelical
culture in the U.S. has its own linguistic affectations
and quirks, blending together lines from Scripture, hymns,
and tradition with everyday colloquialisms
and figures of speech.
Emboldened by the pope's overt approval of his regime, made manifest in their meeting in Rome this past spring, the octogenarian dictator boasted: «We have founded an equitable society
with social justice
and extensive access to
culture, attached to
traditions and to the most advanced ideas of Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean
and the world.»
I never knew my asking questions about unclear text using history,
culture,
and tradition as a framework for them was akin to me playing the role of Eve conversing
with satan.
Eighteenth - century
culture was still steeped in a
tradition that had been Christian since its beginning,
and it was extremely difficult for these thinkers to free themselves from a language saturated
with religion.
With the coming of the technopoly, however, the now subordinate
culture and tradition vanishes
and its influence on technology disappears.
Developed
cultures contribute additional layers of differentiation, replacing myth
and tradition with unified cosmologies
and higher religions, articulating well - codified moral precepts,
and positing universalistic principles as modes of legal
and political legitimation.
In the context of this openness a threefold dialogue is called for: the dialogue
with cultures, religious
traditions and the dispossessed of society.
We have valued especially the cultural
and religious
traditions of Asia
and India which have helped us to open ourselves to the dialogue
with other
cultures and religious.
This allows Balthasar to disagree
with Barth's wholesale rejection of natural theology but transform this overly theologized insight into a practical claim regarding the inefficacy of modern Catholic appeal to the classical Western metaphysical
and moral
tradition in today's secular
culture.
He also emphasises a sense of continuity,
and seeks to ensure that St Mary's offers a connection
with the Church's great
tradition of education
and culture.
We may get away
with it in so far as poverty, oppression,
and injustice are concerned, but we will hardly find room for those faiths,
cultures and ideologies outside the sacred
tradition of the church.