Sentences with phrase «immediate cultural situation»

The question to be considered in the analysis of any religious phenomenon or expression, therefore, is not whether it reflects any cultural attributes or not, but whether in addressing itself relevantly to the immediate cultural situation it has also effectively retained the essence of its historical and revelatory insights.

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We must know the literary genre, historical and cultural background, immediate situation and occasion, and intended function of each passage before we can be confident that we have properly understood it.

Allowing a variety of cultural flotsam to surface, he reconfigures disparate elements to collectively become something new, and explore a sense of how we look to that which is beyond our immediate situation or understanding.