Sentences with phrase «in the cultural context in»

«The thing to remember about dopamine is that it's not at all the same thing as pleasure,» says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, who looks at dopamine in a cultural context in his book, Satisfaction.

«The thing to remember about dopamine is that it's not at all the same thing as pleasure,» says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, who looks at dopamine in a cultural context in his forthcoming book, Satisfaction, due out in September.

And these practices often occur in a cultural context in which firms place unreasonable pressure on their lawyers to meet unrealistic hourly billing requirements and in which meeting billing targets is an «all purpose» performance measure for promotion and career advancement purposes.

In the cultural context in which proof of these very difficult elements are required, the amendments to s82 of the NTA can be seen as a further denial of the rights of Indigenous people to cultural equality.

Not exact matches

He said the agreements still occurred in context of native law and Aboriginal cultural heritage considerations and smaller mining companies did not need to fear the risk of setting a precedent.

It's important that when we talk about diversity that we think about it in lots of different contexts, including age, gender, of course, cultural and ethnical background, and also diversity in thought.»

What works in that cultural context might not work the same in yours.

The crackdown on Internet TV, seen in this context, represents just one more step taken by the party to prevent insidious Western cultural influence from undermining the regime.

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

The ECR program is delivered in conjunction with another service, Postgraduates for International Business (PIB), wherein an international graduate student is assigned to the SME to help the company better understand the target market context and cultural differences, and adapt the SME's messages to the host country language.

Social and cultural contexts are increasingly becoming more prominent in viewing how and why buyers buy.

Just as we apply cultural context to hundreds of other passages in the Bible we should do the same for these.

Noel once told me that he started his walk away from Christianity in that context; graduate school finalized that journey and when I came to know him, he was a massively articulate, Bible - steeped skeptic with little taste for the cultural Christianity that characterized all too much of the deep South.

I can not and will not deny that the Bible has great insight into human nature, especially when put in the proper historical and cultural contexts.

But to lift one verse out of the textual and cultural context in which it was written, and apply it literally is not a persuasive approach to biblical interpretation.

The coming of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, with its subsequent political emancipation of the Jews in Western Europe, radically changed the context of all social and cultural relationships.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human developmenIn the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human developmenin truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

We choose the interpretive framework based on the genre of the text and the cultural and historical context in which is was written.

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputIn the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputin the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

Hence, he didn't want to express the denial of the existence of God in the cultural context of his time and due to his sincere sensitivies to those around him who he loved and were religious, but he personally did not believe in a God and certainly had abandoned Christianity or any religion for that matter.

Scripture is authoritative in every age and cultural context.

If he had continued until this day — in the new cultural context — his views would have evolved and undoubtedly swayed toward athiesm and this is especially evident in his posthumous memoires:

Yet, in every age and cultural context Scripture must be interpreted, consensually, by the Christian community.

-- if he had continued until this day — in the new cultural context — his views would have evolved and undoubtedly swayed toward athiesm and this is especially evident in his posthumous memoires:

Given the likely cultural context (especially specifically in the water rite that may have been occurring at this time), I'm not sure nakedpastor is over analyzing.

It is abundantly clear and the evidence has shown through the history and by adopting the maxim of parsimony in a cultural biogeographic context — we can say that religion is not a force of reality.

In this broader cultural context, cyberspace can in some ways be a step backwardIn this broader cultural context, cyberspace can in some ways be a step backwardin some ways be a step backwards.

The Roman emperor was a central feature of the cultural context of the first century and must be taken consistently into account in exegesis of the New Testament.

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

And all of these others have also based their views on careful exegesis of the biblical text, in its grammatical, cultural, historical contexts.

From the point of view of the Christian tradition itself, such a renovation is not merely a capitulation to one more cultural expression, «but a new stage in the ongoing shaping of the gospel in different times and contexts.

In the context of the Asian civilization, we discern various religious and cultural resources for such gardening, which have been rising among the peoples» movments.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

When properly understood in it's historical, cultural, grammatical, and contextual contexts, Ephesians 2 is a chapter which does not defend the Calvinistic system of theology, but disproves it at every turn.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencIn this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencin any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

As Gordon Fee explains in «The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9»:

All these were done in the context of the political and cultural impact of the West on India and contained theological interpretations of that impact.

Of course the Christian college should have some place in its structure where Jesus and his human - ness can be presented in the Scriptural context with its cultural implications, to those who wish to learn about him.

If we understand the social and cultural context Moses was writing in, then our «literal» interpretation of Genesis 1 - 2 might change.

And scripture's witnesses are properly understood only in the context of the social, cultural and historical circumstances from which they come.

Obviously some of the cultural context is different, but He clearly sees value in singleness — not just people who are waiting to be married.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

So far in this study, we've learned about the history of the Asian church, discussed contextualization, and considered some of the unique ways Asian church leaders are presenting the gospel so that it will be received within their own cultural context.

It is this homeless Christ who represents 8,990 cultural contexts in the world today (I use the figures of statistician David B. Barrett).

There are other reasons besides favoritism present in the story for those who care to study it closely enough and who are willing to educate themselves on the meaning of the story in its own cultural and literary context.

The book takes the various sections of prophecy in Scripture and presents them in their literary and cultural contexts, providing a brief summary of the various views and interpretations that are available for each section.

«Marxism and Christianity in India», in The Encounter of Church with Movement of Social Change in various cultural contexts with special reference to Marxism, LWF, Geneva, 1977.

Well, at the Madras missionary conference, way back in 1938, they explained that churches had to be «indigenous,» or be rooted and related to their own cultural context: