Sentences with phrase «culture in the world does»

«Most other cultures in the world do not operate upon time being linear; time is fluid for them — it's a rolling wave.

Not exact matches

Whatever we, as a culture and species, think we're doing to decrease waste and pollution, our actions are in a whole other world, moving in the opposite direction.

The fact is that there is no culture in the world that shapes people in the way the military does,» Davis notes.

(Brian Orme) Richard, in your new book Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, you take a scene from the movie Hardcore to expound on the issues of Calvinism and culture; do you think that the Calvinistic beliefs inherent in the TULIP are relevant for today's world?

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin romances are the equal of Faulkner's fiction as expressions of American culture.

Our culture doesn't want to accept what is biblical, tithing especially, and actually we should be meeting daily as in Acts, not twice a week, but let me tell your living in dream world if you think people in the church are somehow serving away after they leave.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

That's why we cover life issues and culture next to social justice and spiritual growth — to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.

This can be said in spite of the fact that it must also be said that secularism is a very widespread phenomenon of our culture, and secularism means conformity to the world, the organization of life as if God did not exist.

In our engagement with culture we do not begin by looking at the world, seeing what's wrong and trying to fix it.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

«Unfortunately, we've always had this premise in Christian culture that the world is bad, the world is wicked and anything that has to do with the world you stay away from,» Franklin says.

The social insecurity, which results from foreign rule and the foreign pressures which are effective so long as the Arab world is broken into small states with an average population of one to five millions, makes it impossible for Islamic culture to flower as it did in the days of the Abbasids.

In the same way that we are ignorant of our distant future; they had no knowledge, no idea, no vision, no dream, no fantasy that two millennia hence there would be an increasingly global and interconnected culture and economy of 7 billion people, world wars and holocausts encompassing and killing and making refugees of millions, staggering accomplishments in medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendeIn the same way that we are ignorant of our distant future; they had no knowledge, no idea, no vision, no dream, no fantasy that two millennia hence there would be an increasingly global and interconnected culture and economy of 7 billion people, world wars and holocausts encompassing and killing and making refugees of millions, staggering accomplishments in medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendein medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their time and that they could not have comprehendein their time and that they could not have comprehended.

At times, it seems that the purpose of listening is simply to occupy the time until Muslims, for example, make the same transitions that Catholics and Protestants did centuries earlier so as to «find themselves increasingly at home in a dynamic, liberal, and capitalist world that is full of many faiths and many cultures.»

As these Christians spread across the Mediterranean world they were not belligerent, did not even think of culture wars, did not demand their rights and had no opportunity to live in a protected Christian sub-culture.

In the face of a culture that is increasingly sexual, the world does not need a dissertation on purity, a protest or a ten - point sermon on what it's doing wrong.

When Girard first argued for the superior revelatory power of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Part 2 of Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, he immediately followed it with an analysis that did not in a like manner argue for the superiority of «Christian» culture.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

In an increasingly shrinking world, its a belief that my friends of different religions can have an afterlife that is not doomed to eternal damnation, just because they do not believe the same things I do or because they grew up in a culture different than minIn an increasingly shrinking world, its a belief that my friends of different religions can have an afterlife that is not doomed to eternal damnation, just because they do not believe the same things I do or because they grew up in a culture different than minin a culture different than mine.

Culture, for modern scholars (and also in colloquial use), has nothing to do with Matthew Arnold's deployment of universal standards of reason and taste to identify «the best which has been thought and said in the world.»

Could it be that you are mixing culture with religion like they do over in that region of the world?

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

Victorian dualisms continue to be operative in a congregation if members separate church life from daily life.3 It is dualistic to believe that American culture is secular but church members are sacred, as if they do not live in «the world.»

Rural people, he implied, are trying to escape culture and remove themselves from what God is doing in the world.

There are all types of cultures and most people in the world don't their lives for the purpose of following your bible.

There's a world where religious themes in pop culture get treated with more nuance than this, but Far Cry 5 doesn't go there.

In conclusion, we would all do well to remember that the genius of the culture wars is that they convince us we change the world through bumper stickers, boycotts, and ballot boxes.

To become socialized, to be grown up, to be acculturated, means that we have learned enough of the codes of our own culture so that we can function as do other adults in our world.

The body, of course, is God's — God is found dead in the culture, and the theologian must determine how to do «God - talk» in a godless world.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.

Now that art, long nurtured at the bosom of the church, has come to be seen as part of secular culture, Fuller Theological Seminary aims to use this pilot class as a catalyst for a conversation in the international art world: What kind of training do artists who are Christians need?

This does not mean that the widespread abandonment of traditional religious communities in favor of secular culture benefits the world.

They are integrated into the culture in ways that do not pose significant contradiction to its world - view.»

Most of us will never be genuinely cultured in the Old World / Old University sort of way; our formation and education (and abilities) don't allow for it.

And maybe one reason orthodox culture has lost its standing in the world's ongoing conversation about how to live well is that it does not affirm this instinct as it should.

And, while we have no real reason to believe that the world of television can be completely turned around, at the same time those committed to the task of trying to do so continue to hold up in their communities of faith the ideals of open and free communication and a civility in our culture which we do not yet possess.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

What does it mean that American society is by far the richest culture in the history of the world?

Many of us (in our society, which so values extraversion) do neglect the riches of our inner worlds — the riches that the artists and mystics of all cultures have explored.

One may ask, as the comparatists too often fail to do, whether the Jewish and Hellenistic cultures, by and large the Bible and Platonism, are not stages in an evolution more than they are conceptions of the world considered as complete and heterogeneous types of wisdom.

Paul did not make the presumption that a group of people in Athens sitting around the marketplace of ideas knew anything about his life, culture, world or religion.

GOPer «if morality can only come from God (and specifically in your case via Moses) how did the countless cultures of the world that were never exposed to Judaism come up with a pretty similar set of moral terms.»

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

Do you think it there a kind of «love it hate it» culture / atmosphere there, which doesn't exist for Mormons in the rest of the US and indeed in the world?

He represented in himself the fusion of two great cultures, the Hebrew and the Greek, so that he was well prepared for leadership in turning Christianity into a world religion, rather than allowing it to remain as it might otherwise have done, a Jewish sect.

Besides in there day and in ALOT of cultures around the world today Men hang with Men, Women with Women please don't deflect your gay tendencies to others much GREATER THAN YOU.