Sentences with phrase «from biblical culture»

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.

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

Not exact matches

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

In ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedom.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

8 W. F. Albright, The Biblical Period (Pittsburgh, 1950), p. 7, reprinted from The Jews; Their History, Culture, and Religion (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949), ed.

And, I would go on to argue, if biblical authors wrote in a culture with an attitude different to historical reporting from ours, then they wrote as the products of such a culture.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

If you've read A Year of Biblical Womanhood, you'll know I first learned this from my Jewish friend Ahava who told me that in her culture, it's not the women who memorize Proverbs 31, but the men.

Not the biblical tradition, but modern secular culture will increasingly be the heritage from which distance is sought.

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

More importantly, it is the primary conveyor of a consumer culture whose values system is radically dissonant from biblical faith.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

... I was becoming... open to learning things from people of a different culture concerning what biblical Christianity should look like in their culture.

If one of the motives of the nineteenth - century historical - critical scholars was to free the Bible from dogmatic ecclesiastical interpretations, Ricoeur in turn seeks to free the Bible from culture - bound, subjectivizing interpretations as well as from fundamentalist, objectivizing interpretations by asking us to listen carefully to what biblical discourse testifies.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

So men who wish to honor God with their lives and humbly submit to His will should make physical labor their primary occupation, and resist the urge to give in to our culture's glorification of «white collar» work, which is a departure from biblical principles of masculinity.

Of course, different cultures had different myths, but the point is that they all had them... What makes Genesis different from its ancient Near Eastern counterparts is that it begins to make the point to Abraham and his seed that the God they are bound to, the God who called them into existence, is different from the gods around them... The biblical worldview described in Genesis is an Ancient Near Eastern one.

MLK called out a racist culture from WITHIN the biblical framework to which they claimed to adhere.

But I'm also struck by how differently our culture — the American justice system to be specific — operates from this biblical truth.

The Sages as Successors of the Prophets Biblical Wisdom did not differ from that of the surrounding cultures except in its honesty and courage.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

Where not a little understanding of the general moral and spiritual Biblical values on the part of students was evidenced, there was still quite often an amazing lack of acquaintance with the Bible from which our culture has largely drawn them.

We can train our children in our culture by a simple biblical teaching: «Train up your child while they are young, when they grow up, they will not depart from it.»

The ebony bird that croaked «Nevermore» over Edgar Allan Poe's chamber door is famous worldwide, being revered by native cultures of the Pacific Northwest and appearing in everything from biblical verse to Norse mythology.

Boundless.org, known for its articles and weekly podcast on issues ranging from biblical dating and relationships to worldview, culture and faith, will provide content for singles on ChristianCafe.com, including articles on navigating the path to marriage with purpose and a solid foundation.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).

2013 Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley - Lee Collection, International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI Ashé to Amen: African - Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

The exhibition title, Devil's Pie, is derived from singer - songwriter D'Angelo's 1998 lyrical meditation on temptation and retribution, reaffirming the artist's longstanding relationship with music, especially hip - hop sounds and culture, as well as his continued exploration of Biblical themes, as demonstrated throughout the exhibition.

The delirious abandon of his headlong rush through our late - capitalist culture seems to take a cue from Bob Dylan's «A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall» (1963) with its Biblical end - of - days resonances.

London About Blog My overriding theological interest at the moment is in how we retell the biblical story as we negotiate the difficult transition from the centre to the margins of our culture following the collapse of Western Christendom.