Sentences with phrase «in surrounding culture»

They were pasted on walls around New York City, as a way to make viewers question their roles in surrounding culture.

The «Christ transforming culture» model, which does allow for both affirmation and dissent, assumes that the real arena of God's action is in the surrounding culture, not in and through the church.

And there is not much in the surrounding culture, with all its achievements and its glitter, to elicit hope.

But for symbols to work, they have to be immediately understood by those in our surrounding culture.

In the Reformed Jewish movement they «maintain that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and should be compatible with participation in the surrounding culture.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

This belief is particularly poignant for the person with AIDS who obviously finds much in the surrounding culture to reinforce this incriminating interpretation.

In some surrounding cultures, homosexual prostitution was practiced in conjunction with the worship of Baal, and Hebrew law might have condemned such activities because they were homosexual or because they involved prostitution or because they were connected with Baal worship.

Not exact matches

As foodie culture continues to infiltrate everything from Netflix shows to social media, experiences surrounding food are also spiking in popularity in the travel and tourism sector.

«At Kimpton I am part of a culture that challenges me to be my best self, challenges me to be a leader in the industry and also surrounds my team and I with some of the best leaders in the industry.»

Burn says many men are surrounded by a culture that reduces women to sexualized objects, which normalizes female colleague in a less than professional manner.

«Now the reality is if that bro culture isn't acknowledged and intentionally corrected, you end up in a situation where you've created something that's incredibly valuable that all of a sudden has extreme risk surrounding it, because of that culture,» Ken Ziegler, CEO of cloud - computing company LogicWorks, tells Business Insider.

Amid economic turmoil, growing consciousness about environmental waste and widening acceptance of «takeout culture,» authorities in France are now trying to combat long - held stereotypes surrounding doggie bags.

The next step is to surround yourself with people who believe in your company's mission, share your values and who fit with your culture, so that it can support itself.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

According to Tracy Lambert and her fellow researchers («Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up,» 2003), there is a phenomenon of «pluralistic ignorance» surrounding hookup culture, in which «most students believe others [hookup] primarily because they enjoy doing so, while they see themselves engaging in these behaviors primarily due to peer pressure.»

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

It only allows the woman to go so far in their friendship, community, and their culture before she must surrender her gifts, her body, her decision - making process to the embedded sexism in the marriage and surrounding community.

The following stories are, for those who «read the signs of the times», indicators that the witness of the Church, less and less welcome in the secular culture that surrounds us, has never been more important or necessary.

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

When one looks at the myths of surrounding cultures, in fact, one senses that the current debate over creationism would have seemed very strange, if not unintelligible, to the writers and readers of Genesis.

The deep taboos and symbolic meanings surrounding birth and death linger even in our technically demythologized modern culture.

Many stories in the Qur «an were «borrowed» from surrounding cultures, and well known circulating myths, and cultural historians know exactly where they came from:

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

The stories in this book show in humorous detail how little we understand the culture that surrounds us and how to properly reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the «Christ and culture in paradox» approach, then, the Christian substance appears in the Christian calling of faculty, staff and students and in the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itselIn the «Christ and culture in paradox» approach, then, the Christian substance appears in the Christian calling of faculty, staff and students and in the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itselin paradox» approach, then, the Christian substance appears in the Christian calling of faculty, staff and students and in the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itselin the Christian calling of faculty, staff and students and in the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itselin the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itselin the results of scholarly inquiry itself.

The renunciation of idolatry in 4:6 is an integral part of the definition, a specimen of denunciation which applies if the surrounding culture is idolatrous.

God knew how harsh these surrounding cultures treated their slaves so God gave a big warning not to ever forget just how bad it was and never forget when they were slaves in Egypt.

Whereas most of his others would have been agreed upon as «virtues» in the surrounding Greek culture, gentleness and humility were despised.

Mainline Protestantism has succeeded in communicating its progressive moral and political values to the surrounding culture.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

Lutheran orthodoxy could best be maintained, they thought, if the language barrier helped shield the community from the doctrinal indifference it perceived in the surrounding American Protestant culture.

I know that seems simplistic, and the issues that surround us today are complex, but I think before we dive into a discussion about living in a culture moving in a different direction than Christian views, we need to remind ourselves that God is still God, and God is still good.

Though water baptism is a great and wonderful symbol, it is not immediately understood by our surrounding culture as it was in New Testament times.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

Much of the church seems to agree with the surrounding culture that those in prison deserve to be there, and the more they suffer, the better — end of story.

The Bible never speaks of the divine genitals, even though surrounding cultures emphasized them in fertility rites.

There is an odor of decay surrounding the British body politic and a sense that the memory of a living European culture is in an advanced stage of....

The stories in this book show in humorous detail how little we understand the culture that surrounds us or how to properly reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Some insiders, including Vaticanologists like Sandro Magister, were more critical, pointing out that Francis's pontificate, so far, had had almost no doctrinal or political substance, in the sense of a positioning of the Church vis - à - vis the surrounding culture and unfolding events.

Trying to split hairs about who's society or culture is more murderous is like trying to decide which wolf in a pack that has surrounded you is the «bad» one that is going to attack you first.

In a very real way, our time and the surrounding culture may be defined by scientific and technological advances, and perhaps even more by the incoherent and confused responses to these advances.

As we covered in a previous article, these instructions fall smack in the middle of words to men and women about false teaching and angry disputing over ways the surrounding culture is creeping into the Ephesian church.

We live in a land that has made the accumulation of stuff a divine right AND a divine attribute surrounded by a consumer culture that has «shoved us into it's mold» while we weren't looking.

Surrounding the somewhat recalcitrant materials of community and religious culture are the far less easily mastered elements of the natural world, which in «The Island» is represented by the light, the wind and the sea.

In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy ScripturIn this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripturin God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripture.

Admittedly, these are large and complicated questions, and I am keenly aware that also the faithful gathered at Immaculate Conception are often inwardly torn between Christian particularity and the superstitions and idolatries of the pseudo-nihilism in much of the surrounding culture.