Sentences with phrase «dominant culture christian»

Austin serves as a counselor and adviser within dominant culture Christian ministries and churches.

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By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

The dominant Protestant culture enabled some Christians in this country to forget, as the book of Hebrews proclaims, that here we have no abiding city.

Furthermore, Origen insisted that Christian paideia had to be practiced in conversation with the pagan paideia dominant in the church's host culture.

There is, indeed, need to renew the faithfulness that establishes our identity as Christians and not to confuse this with whatever is current and dominant in the culture.

Could we not make the awkward relationship between the church and the dominant culture serve the Christian evangel?

My thesis (to remind you) is that intentional disengagement from the dominant culture is the necessary prerequisite to Christian engagement of that same culture.

Christian disengagement from the dominant culture is not to be confused, however, with the abandonment of that society.

And how can we engage with this, our culture's dominant story of the moment, as a connection point to the Christian story?

The dominant culture, that of the Occident, has especially been shaped by the Christian faith.

Of course, it could be said that all of Western culture is pervaded by the direct and indirect influence of Jesus of Nazareth simply because of the dominant role of the Christian Church in shaping our heritage.

Mormon polygamy was outlawed in this country, despite the constitutional protection of freedom of religion, because it violated the sensibilities of the dominant Christian culture, even though no explicit biblical prohibition against polygamy exists.

Palestinians are the result of the real inhabitants (The Gaints) of the land who the King David had killed their leader (Goliath), they are as well the result of children of israel that had remained on land and did not immigrate... they are as well a result of a mixed up with other neighboring cultures and dominant religions therefore you find the Jewish, the Christian, the Muslim among Palestinians.

Instead, many dominant - culture Christian leaders just don't feel responsible for fulfilling this vision, or don't see the ramifications of omitting brothers and sisters of color.

Secondly, modern missionary movement which became dominant in the 18th and 19th centuries have been emphasizing proclamation of the gospel to people of other religions and cultures making clear that they were called to decide for or against Christ and that their decision for Christ involved joining the fellowship of Christians in one of the denominational churches as representing the Church, the Body of Christ.

Rather he is simply adopting a language to juxtapose that which we see as duties shaped by Christian commitment and the dominant culture.

Over the course of his writing life, Augustine combined a number of elements from his fragmented culture — Neoplatonic philosophy, Roman civic morality, the heritage of the great Roman poets, Manichaeism — with his dominant but open - ended Christian faith, into a new synthesis.

To what extent is contemporary Christian feminism shaped by adopting the views of the dominant culture, and to what extent might it represent an attempt to transform or Christianize those views?

He wants to get at the problem of how Christian faith should be related to the dominant surrounding culture and to point out the various types of ways leading thinkers have addressed that problem.

The Bible knows only a love ethic, which is constantly being brought to bear on whatever sexual mores are dominant in any given country, or culture, or period» («Biblical Perspectives on Homosexuality,» The Christian Century, November 7, 1979)

It means that Christians are supposed to behave differently from the standards of the dominant culture.

Scholars who are Christians are trained by the dominant academic culture to keep quiet about their faith as the price of full acceptance in the academic community.

Schindler's contrary opinion, however, bears serious consideration: «My own view is that the habit of communication of the dominant culture, which knows no discreet activities that ought not to be fully exposed, and no mysteries that ought not to be fully unveiled, is precisely what needs to be called into question, by both the form and the content of an authentically Christian - human response.»