Sentences with phrase «influence culture by»

We dive into everything from the Aztec origins of their names, to the influence of thier creative, activist, entrepreneurial parents, to running a successful Kickstarter and later raising money from Backstage Capital, to their ambitious vision to influence culture by creating musical tools to bridge the gap between instrumentalists and electronic music.

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One important aspect of this culture that's been greatly influenced by this technology and social media is humor.

The type of culture you have as part of your brand is influenced almost entirely by you.

These radiations in part came from Japanese management culture, very different from U.S. practice, the ideas of Deming — which both influenced and reflected Japanese practice — and their elaborations by others.

Limited partners play a critical role in shaping culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and influence.

Further, it is understood that emphasis should be on recruitment of Directors who bring more than credentials or designations by contributing to a culture that accelerates business success by advocating and influencing public policy, developing business leaders, connecting businesses and presenting thought leaders.

«Muslims are definitely being impacted by this content,» Ahussain told Newsweek about the influence material found on social media potentially has on the culture at large.

The character and culture of a province, state, or country is also shaped and influenced by people's choices.

The argument of The Good Society is that Americans are people determined by a Lockean political culture» that is, one which emphasizes individual freedom and pursuit of individual influence» yet we are determined by a most un-Lockean economy and government.

At the time there was a cult by Corinth in the nearby city of Eleasus (sp) who baptised for the dead, Paul was also warning the Corinthians (who were highly influenced by the other cultures around them) not to follow suit.

Personally, I feel that if there is a god, and he wants me to believe he exists, he can come over here and tell me himself, I don't accept the Bible as «proof» of anything, because it is self - contradictory and appears to be heavily influenced by the governing culture of the time.

I think if you did a more careful analyis of many of these «differences» between men and women you would find that both the degree of difference and the prevalence for many of them would vary greatly from one culture and time to another as they are largely influenced by our environments and societal attitudes.

Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

We are stuck in a boundaried culture where the walls are being constantly bombarded by the influx of others and their influences and differences.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

If you feel your culture is under threat, however, or is going to be swamped by what you regard as alien influences, or if you want to have some control over the degree to which another culture influences yours — then you may develop a mentality of resistance.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

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.

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.

Who a person becomes is affected greatly by the formative influence of the whole culture in which he lives.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

When Jesus walked the earth, the culture was heavily influenced by religion;.

A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

This is not to question their merit, although several are debatable, but to emphasise that contemporary culture, as influenced by successive governments and the mainstream media, has its own set of moral absolutes, usually underpinned by legislation.

Every church has a dominant culture deeply influenced by the traditions and expectations of the dominant group and leaders in the church.

However, regardless of whether or not Jesus was influenced by this or that culture, the point still stands that if something is true, it is likely to show up in various cultures and places rather than appearing in only one place and one culture.

So widespread is the influence of the Christian faith in the culture that has nurtured us, that nothing we do or say is left uninfluenced by it.

The dominance of religious television by this one minority expression of American religious culture assumes more serious implications when it is considered with the factors that have influenced it, which is the substance of our next chapter.

It must be remembered that the early Christian community moved almost wholly into the Gentile world within a generation or two after its origin within Judaism, and that, as Christian thought took more definite shape within the next three or four centuries, it was inevitable that it should have been strongly influenced by the prevailing philosophy of the Hellenistic culture in which the church moved.

(I put «traditional» in quotes because our conception of what constitutes «traditional» is typically influenced more by our Western, relatively privileged, culture than that of the ancient Near Eastern world in which the Bible was written.)

Modern Indian translators in the North Eastern and other parts of India are influenced by the tribal culture to bring different cultural languages in translations than the original.11 As Nida says, «there is every reason to believe that the revision (of the translated Bible) will be greatly welcomed by non-Christians with a Hindu cultural background.

The religion itself was not created by the influence of any culture at all which is why i follow this religion, especially since the Quran has not been changed ever.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

It appears to them and it appears to me that many churches, ministries are more influenced by culture, more influenced by political ideology, more influenced by American nationalism than by the radical demands by Jesus to live as exiles and sojourners and refugees in this alien world called America.

Reply to Bob: You wouldn't expect much difference really because we live in a culture that has been so influenced and shaped by Christian morality.

On the contrary it teaches that throughout the ages the life of humanity is being leavened and permeated by a transcendent principle, and every culture or human way of life is capable of being influenced and remolded by this divine influence.

I'd also point out how the Jews were influenced by Greek / Roman culture in that time period so even if they were heavily honor driven they had other cultural influences.

In cultures influenced by African religiosity the inculturation of pre-Christian elements is particularly profound.

Because your responses are influenced by environment, culture and, most importantly, spiritual health.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

The persistence and growth of the influence of Jesus seem also to be assured by the proven ability of Christianity to survive the death of cultures with which it has been intimately associated and, after a period of crisis provoked by the collapse of such a culture, not only to win a foothold in the new, succeeding culture but also to make a deeper impress upon it than upon its predecessor.

You can not escape the influence of Hebrew God (same as Christ) simply by having been touched by our culture.

Being loyal to, and trusting in, one god, was not always understood by other cultures, but the Hebrew culture influenced others by their beliefs and religious practices.

This suggests that language is not only influenced by culture but also has the potential to be an influence on culture.

This theoretical description is influenced by the culture of science, which must have its grounding as science in experimental evidence.

The imagination is attuned to the sounds, sights, scents, that is, physical sensations, so that the interstices or the spacelets of the imagination can be formed by the drama of the Mass. 12 Participating in the liturgy and the sacraments imprints upon the imagination beneficial experiences which influence the intellect and will and, subsequently, generate responses and actions that ow into culture.

And Western culture has been so influenced by the biblical tradition that «humanitarianism» in any form may owe a greater debt to Christianity than it recognizes.

Influenced by thesurrounding intellectual culture, they readily dismissed concepts as productions of limited perspectives, which later experience can and should modify.