Sentences with phrase «in the cultural context of»

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.

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.

Appealing to Islamic sources, Ramadan argues that Western Muslims must fashion an independent Western Islam, anchoring themselves in the cultural context of Europe, the U.S. and Canada, not in the traditions of predominantly Muslim countries.

In November 1971, the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society organized a Consultation on the theme Meaning of Conversion and Baptism in the Cultural Context of India.

German art critic and editor Isabelle Graw discusses with the artist his aesthetic and symbolic strategies in the cultural contexts of America and Europe.

She is interested in the cultural context of parenting, cultural adaptation in immigrant and minority families, identity processes surrounding ethnicity, socio - emotional development and regulation, and research and clinical work that support vulnerable parents and their families.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To read in the original languages is sure to bring even more misunderstanding and misinterpretation, because to any of us, they are foreign to our language experience, but even more so, to the cultural context of the times in which any were written.

J.R.B.: The phrase «celebrity pastor» is a contradiction of terms, but it feels somewhat normal to us in our cultural context because the mindset is so rampant.

Conventional Christianity is, somewhat ironically, declining in the context of great cultural change not unlike that in which Christianity emerged.

Especially when we understand it in light of its historical and cultural contexts (which is the only way to read an ancient document like the Bible).

Similarly, Latina, African and Asian women have taken up the challenge of understanding the ways in which the practices of reading and interpreting the Bible serve to constrain or to emancipate women in their particular social and cultural contexts.

They recognized and analyzed the social, intellectual, and emotional role of faith and the Church in shaping crusaders» mentalities, creating a more rounded understanding of motive, incentive, and cultural context.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

It simply allows the text to say what it says in light of the cultural context of Moses» day.

To make these practices communicative in and through specific cultural contexts, those of us who teach ministers to become «servants of the Word» have encouraged them to become aware of aesthetic conventions and put them into practice in public communication.

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.

Yet mistakes must be avoided which may arise from the application of a technical term developed in a distinctive historical, social, cultural, or religious context to a wider range of phenomena.