Sentences with phrase «dominant cultural view»

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The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

Of these we will consider three: first, Altizer's view of the normative relation of faith and theology to the dominant cultural movement of the time; second, Altizer's approach to Christology; and third, the style of Altizer's thought and argument.

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

For several centuries the gatherings of the dominant class in American society, white Anglo - Saxon churches have tended to assume that they themselves have no cultural particularity and therefore no reason to investigate their own ethos, tradition, and world view.

We are passing through a great cultural change in which the idea, long dominant in science, that chance is «only a word for our ignorance of causes» is being replaced by the view that the real laws of nature are probabilistic and allow for aspects of genuine chance.

In Radcliffe Bailey's (NAP # 28) new exhibition, Maroons, on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, the Atlanta - based artist challenges the dominant history of slavery, and probes the unexpected cultural interactions that it inadvertently promoted.