The fact is that some of the barriers
which national cultures have imposed upon religious comprehension have already grown so high that very little if any understanding exists across them.
Among secondary interests should be included all those interests related to the realization of the special ends of our
American national culture.
The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions
of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).
In Kosovo, Albanian Muslims form an overwhelming majority, but Albanian Catholics have played a major role
in national culture and identity.
Although broad academic theories focus on such factors
as national culture and state terror, the film suggests several particularistic answers.
My only comment would be that each of these movements is doomed to eventual failure in so far as the Protestant churches in different lands become subservient to the ends of their
respective national cultures rather than to the ends of Christendom.
Information and well - reasoned analysis belong in sermons, but they are ineffectual as long as the preacher has not entered the landscape of the heart and challenged the reigning metaphors of secularist
national culture with the images and narratives of faith.
These are simply the assumptions, already alluded to, that there should be a
unified national culture of which Protestant religion ought to play a leading supportive part.
To confuse the process of cross-fertilization
between national cultures with the mission of the Christian church is in effect to betray the faith of that church.
There is no doubt in my own mind that the process of the domestication of Protestantism
within national cultures is steadily taking place.
Drawing on his scholarly research on evangelical and Pentecostal Christian movements in Latin America, he places them alongside voluntary religion in Britain and the United States as examples of what he argues to be a more general phenomenon: that such forms of Christianity employ the core biblical narratives more centrally than others and are deeply pacifistic in their relation to the
larger national culture.
A majority of those who responded to the study said that they were either concerned or fearful that globalization was damaging the economy, that social values were being eroded, and that immigration was
damaging national culture.
In any case, even if we acknowledge that the nation's cultural vocabulary does not have to be elitist and that schools could do a better job of drawing more children into a
literate national culture, it is fair to ask who should determine that national cultural vocabulary.
You both hate America or non American hearted... in a
multi national culture you can never know who is your enemy but who ever does that is a public enemy of American Unity... so should expect those sick hearted are not writing from the U.S...
Instead of expiring in courageous resistance, it will save itself by domesticating itself within the
different national cultures, and as it does this it will degenerate into a spiritual or ethical manifestation of particular cultures and cease to be a reliable witness to the revelation of God in Christ.
It has been created by men who are quite unconscious of the indirect consequences of their intellectual assumptions, and who as individuals would energetically oppose the extension of the authority of
national culture over the whole range of life.
He valued religious practice as an integral part of
Jewish national culture and never saw reason to look down on devout Jews or to dissociate himself from the rhythms and habits characteristic of traditional Jewish culture.
Director of Creative Arts responsible for Programmes & Projects at the Commission for
National Culture Socrates Safo has called for...
National Culture Collection for Pathogens (NCCP) NCCP, a centralized pathogen resource bank, collects, preserves, and standardizes the pathogens isolated from Korean clinical patients.
Research Fellowships in Science and Engineering are intended to give scientists or engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity for early independence with the objective of contributing to the knowledge base required for a healthy and
innovative national culture.
British is charming for the long and complex history,
abundant national culture, pleasant pastoral scenery, the genuine castles and more.
Faa is set in a purpose - built skinny four - storey building across the road from the grand
Lao National Culture Hall.
Senegal is marked by a discrepancy between an
official national culture and one that is determined by artistic communities and local audiences.
Legal marijuana, the gig economy and transgender issues have also put business lawyers at the forefront of
national culture debates.
If this trend continues the issue before the Protestant churches is clear: Are the different Protestant communities to become the spiritual or ethical facets of their
respective national cultures, thereby ceasing to be Christian, or will they survive as reliable witnesses to the Christian faith?
To be conservative today means promoting an ever - greater economic freedom while calling for the restoration of a
unified national culture that promotes solidarity — economic individualism in tandem with cultural consolidation.
What began as an attempt to universalize the message of the Protestant churches ends with the degradation of that message to the level of cross-fertilization
between national cultures.
«It worries me to know that the state has invested in the infrastructure of Centre
for National Culture but people do not patronise these facilities,» she said.
I think the answer lies in some assumptions deeply embedded in the dominant
American national culture that Protestantism had so much to do with shaping.
Having adopted culture as his frame of reference, Professor Baker heroically attempts to escape from the limitations
of national culture by positing the emergence of a new world culture.
And these execs are not always the ideal hire: Local management teams often have deep knowledge and understanding of
national cultures, markets, and worker psychology that most companies need for long - term stability, says Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ, an Atlanta research and management consulting firm.
But at the present stage of European integration, it may be difficult for any European government to put into legislation many of the sentiments espoused by nationalist parties, such as immigration reform, opposition to economic integration or the protection of what they see as
their national culture.
It's a challenge to pull off, largely because «people come from
a national culture, and they tend to think [their culture] is the default, like, «This is how Brits look at the world, and it's probably more right than [how someone else] looks at it.»
Our libertarian friends would argue that our inability to establish a stable conservative - but - not - libertarian position in
the national culture is a sign of the incoherence of our principles, a sign that our attempt to reconcile freedom, an entrepreneurial economy, and human dignity with the safety net and the regulatory state is just an attempt to have our cake and eat it, too.
There is a slight suspicion that Catholicism, which is not identified with
any national culture, might be seen as slightly alien...
Then, reaching over the lines with respectful assistance to
the national culture sews together world peace.
I can not help but think of the work of John Henry Newman or Yves Congar when reflecting upon a participatory theology, as the Church struggles to move toward more inclusive roles for laity, for women, for
national cultures.
Christianity exists without
a national culture.
Phrases with «national culture»