Sentences with phrase «from a culture far»

The theology Driscoll, and sadly, many others embrace stems from a culture far removed from ours in time.

It's only wrong on religious grounds; ancient ones from a culture far removed from our own at that.

Not exact matches

Now, Pelourinho's culture is as vibrant as its facades, and tourists from Brazil and the far reaches of the world flock to the historical center for food, dancing, and the Museu Afro - Brasileiro.

Hannah Rose Thomas: Ever since I was really young, I've always just had this yearning to travel to these far - flung places and understand those whose life and culture are really different from ours here in the West.

For a long time, Scott Seeley immersed himself in the literary world of Park Slope, Brooklyn, rarely venturing far from the borough and its world of books, culture, food, and intellectuals.

If culture flows from success, then it follows that an attempt to change culture is far easier to accomplish when the most obvious indicator of success — one that has a direct impact on employee pocket - books — is moving up - and - to - the - right.

Anyone who reads The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, however, must recognize that, far from being uncritical, Novak evinces an intense and well - informed sense about where the American experiment has gone wrong and is going wrong» from race relations, to the urban underclass, to crime, and the debasement of popular culture.

Those who have so far survived the culture wars with their sanity and compassion intact want to save them from that adjustment.

In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of them.

iranians / persians come from a culture and history far greater than yours,... just remember that!

Hopefully, illustrating the value of Whitehead's categories for understanding Indian culture and religion will stimulate further research into the area of Fast - West comparisons from a Whiteheadian point of view.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

He had to teach them that there was only one God, a spiritual being who did not resemble human beings, and this could only be done by keeping them as far apart as possible from other peoples and cultures.

It is far easier to folow the history and see why your book, your god, and the NT needed to be created, BY MEN... no evidence of divine inspiration... a line showing the previous cultures your story was taken from, and one can see where the wisdom of men was incorporated... just in your version it is not mans wisdom, but something from some deity (who until the NT was a very vindictive, murderous, egotistical god), who suddenly is all love and flowers.

The Muslim culture in Sind did not receive much influence from its Arab rulers since the center of the Arab Empire was in Damascus and then in Baghdad, so far from the Sind that the Arabs paid little attention to their distant eastern provinces.

And it is growing in the developing world, far from the celebrity - obsessed American culture, through the faithful work of both men and women who are committed to yielding to this Spirit of grace.

The Lutheran heritage in music is far from barren — Luther himself was a musician of note and to be Lutheran is to know that J. S. Bach is to music as Shakespeare is to literature — but the musical culture of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) had by the 1940s been considerably corrupted by American evangelical Protestantism, and I wallowed in the corruption.

Justin's attraction to men did not emerge out of some strange, deviant culture, far removed from my own; it emerged out of a culture and background exactly like mine!

Additionally, further generations that would have arisen from the perverse culture, are likewise prevented from coming into existence and spreading their sin.

But, the truth is the bible is far from fantasy, but you've never really studied the history, culture, of the bible have you, you just like to jab.

They censor words because a few in our diverse melting pot of culture may get «offended,» but sheltering them from these «offensive» things only serves to further divides between us.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

(1) What the slogan concealed was the complexity of the process involved in understanding God's Word in the context of cultures far removed in time and psychological texture from those in which the revelation was originally given.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

I heard statements from my grandfather as far back as I could remember that homosexual practices were something the «white man» taught us and that it was a sign of weakness and weirdness in their culture.

Another reason might be that what was clear to Paul and his readers is not clear to us because we are removed so far from the original context by time, geography, language, and culture.

The parish tends to be close - knit because it shares a common first language and a culture drawn from a homeland far removed.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

He spoke from a culture in which caring meant controlling, directing, making decisions for children of far older than nursery - school age.

In a Western culture that is, on the one hand, insouciantly «nonjudgmental» and, on the other, determined to exact the last ounce of blood from those responsible for real or alleged crimes against humanity, Tutu represents a seasoned sensibility that combines both judgment and mercy as essential components in coping with a far from satisfactory world.

Adultery (and many other no - nos) were frowned upon by numerous cultures long before — and far removed geographically — from the Middle Eastern Hebrews.

@Uh «Adultery (and many other no - nos) were frowned upon by numerous cultures long before — and far removed geographically — from the Middle Eastern Hebrews.»

With some entailment of that danger always implicit in superlatives, one may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone ages has had the far - reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves.

Of course the response is condemned as a philistine reaction against today's so - called high culture, which has, for the most part, descended into a self - indulgent and transgressive vulgarity far removed from the panache and imagination of an earlier modernism.

«Spiritualist cults» might refer to Santeria, but Santeria is far from being «completely foreign to the culture and tradition» of Cuba.

The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals — church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus.

In both cases individual members may exercise some dominance over others, in particular by altering the patterns guiding further growth and development, but the social coordination stems from basic patterns embodied in the genetic makeup of the plant cells and in the laws and traditions of human culture.

As Kenya's Musimbi Kanyoro wrote, «Those cultures which are far removed from biblical culture risk reading the Bible as fiction.»

The emerging culture of North America is as different from the culture of Europe as both of these are different in turn from the cultures of the Far East.

The readers of First Things, I know, are eagerly awaiting further reports by this writer from the wilder shores of American feminism and other battlefields of this country's culture war.

This disdain for children, and for children's culture, serves to further alienate adults and children from one another.

This is a common historical misrepresentation of cultures, in that the so - called Mayan Calendar did not originate from the Mayans at all but rather was passed down to them from the far older and more mysterious Olmec civilization by which they were preceded.

To quote Kenyan feminist theologian Musimbi Kanyoro, «Those cultures which are far removed from biblical culture risk reading the Bible as fiction,» Conversely, societies that identify with the biblical world feel at home in the text.

For Christians in America, however far and for however long they may have strayed, the journey from liberal culture to conservatism is essentially a journey back home, where, so to speak, there are a multitude of loving arms to enfold them.

Scott: I think that one of the things Mary Ann and I have learned along the way, and which has further separated us from the mainstream culture, is the realization that we can always make room for one more.

Racist hate - mongers like Farrakhan and Cokely and their genocidal messages, far from being stigmatized and isolated on the political fringe, have — through the intervention of the political left, the tolerance of the civil rights establishment, and the acquiescence of the liberal center — become part of the culture itself.

Their actions show where their hearts truly are — separate from culture, invested in something far from reaction and outrage every time someone does or says something awful.

In so far as people in our culture act in segmentalized roles are defined and required by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.

It isn't even a single book — but rather an ancient collection of letters and laws, prophecies and proverbs, stories and songs, spanning thousands of years and written in languages and cultures far removed from my own.

I have been on enough leadership retreats over the last ten years to know that a culture of perfectionism exists across our denominations and traditions, and it is as present within churches that are far from focused on presentation and aesthetics as it is within those that offer the sharpest of products.