Sentences with phrase «of cultural crisis»

Dr. Molefi Asante, father of the director, suggests that the holiday was born more out of a cultural crisis than an identity crisis because, historically, African - American school kids have had «two sets of notes, one for the test, one for the truth.»

All this represents a turn to the imagination at a time of cultural crisis and conflict.

New cultural building will begin only when more men and women recognize the religious nature of the cultural crisis.

The sources of the cultural crisis, it turns out, are theological.

In fact, the question of interpretation has always been a central issue in times of cultural crisis.

We are in the midst of a cultural crisis amongst ourselves, and the events in Ferguson have illustrated it.

Not exact matches

«Our cultural assumption that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed is at the heart of our sleep crisis,» she writes.

These demographic and cultural shifts left once - thriving restaurant chains with an identity crisis — so some of them decided to try and rebrand themselves to keep those younger consumers.

We Protestants who signed ECT took this action to advance Christian fellowship, cooperation, and mutual trust among true Christians in the North American cultural crisis and in the worldwide task of evangelism.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

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 dispute.

James Carroll, George Weigel and Garry Wills all agree that the sexual - abuse crisis is symptomatic of a deeper cultural war in Catholicism, but they differ — often diametrically — on what is at stake.

It is also an occasion, amid our fierce cultural crisis over the evils and benefits of humanism, to make a theological assessment of Cheever's unapologetically humanist vision.

Roman Catholic theologian Mary Grey is less concerned with reforming a particular confessional tradition than with addressing a broader cultural crisis — that of global capitalism.

Today, the democratic experiment faces perhaps its gravest threat» a cultural crisis that is at its core a crisis of faith.

Which returns us to the particular crisis of our time: the fact that current ideologies of religious, ethical, cultural and political pluralism do not provide the universalistic principles whereby we can state with clarity and confidence that some things are just plain wrong.

Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

On Christmas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released a statement praising Jesus as «the messenger of humanism and grace» and noted, «I believe that the sole way to save the man from severe moral, social and cultural crises is returning to the exalted teachings of the great messengers of God.»

Yet I am convinced that the prophetic black churches — the churches that have rich cultural and moral resources and a progressive politics — do possess the kind of strategy it takes to meet the crisis of black culture.

The collapse of Catholic literary life reflects a larger crisis of confidence in the Church that touches on all aspects of religious, cultural, and intellectual life.

Unfortunately, there are not enough of these institutions to overcome the cultural and moral crisis.

And I hope that the Synod summons the courage and humility to confess that the Church's own failures to speak words of persuasive truth to the cultural tsunami of the sexual revolution are a significant factor in the crisis of marriage and the family around the world today.

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

One might suggest that the cultural revolution declared at the beginning of the twentieth century was delayed by the distraction of crises — from World War I («the Great War») through the end of the Cold War in 1989.

Our Lady of Guadalupe came among us as the Mother of the family of God in the Americas, and this witness should give us strength to stand up to the broad cultural crisis of the family today.

The large number of second - career seminarians, including those who bring histories of personal and vocational crises, together with a growing multi cultural constituency, brings its own kind of contextuality.

It is not impossible that the cultural crisis of our day will issue in a world - revolution.

History indicates that cultural crises arise when men grow uncertain of the validity of the principles which determine their cultural activities, when they can not look with confidence into the future.

In the 1940s Eric Voegelin wrote that a solution to the modern crisis would require, among other things, a «new Christian philosophy of history» adequate to the full range of political and cultural developments of recent centuries.

This approach recognizes that the family crisis is caused both by cultural changes and by social - systemic developments in areas of work, economics, child care and gender inequality.

(The Jewish state of Israel and the Muslim states have not solved this problem either, nor have the forces of secular humanism proven any more adept at addressing the moral and cultural crisis of modern societies.)

History presently offers us a scenario of socio - economic, cultural and spiritual crisis, which highlights the need for a discernment guided by a creative proposal of the Church's social message.

For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

It has been mainly at times of cultural change and social crisis, however, that apocalyptic beliefs and millennialism have been revived in Christian thought and practice.

Our Road from Regensburg column and lead letter show how in the abuse crisis the permissive media have thrown their significant cultural power behind the idea that there is an intrinsic link between the phenomenon of priestly abuse and the nature of the Church.

Without apportioning blame here, we would note that both crises are involving the further cultural advance of the «permissive» vision of sex and love and the further marginalisation of the only realistic alternative, the Catholic vision.

Reading the history of the Anglicans in the 20th century, through the records of the Lambeth Conferences, ACCs and Primates» meetings, one sees the faithfulness of God through world war, economic crisis, civil and international conflicts, persecution and deep changes in cultural context.

The book is ordered in three parts; the first explaining the diplomatic alignment of Europe during the years preceding the outbreak of war; the second focusing the prevailing cultural and ideological milieu in the early years of the twentieth century; and the third detailing the successive crises in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war.

Borough President Diaz stated that he believed that the festivities should focus not only on the rich cultural heritage of La Isla Del Encanto but should also shed light on the island's economic crisis and the need for immediate federal action.

And, since the group formed during the bruising Erie County cultural funding crisis of 2010 - 11, they had clearly been practicing their moves.

But during the Erie County cultural funding crisis of 2011, the arts community banded together to assert their collective clout and made arguments about the importance of arts funding as an economic driver for the region.

Its plotting is often a tad too plodding, but with the charismatic Mortensen exuding understated internal crisis (in a French - and Arabic - speaking role), Oelhoffen's film proves a compelling portrait of individuals striving to cope with, and at least somewhat overcome, cultural dislocation.

One of military - industrial complexes, of refugee crises, of African - American struggle, and of questions of cultural belonging.

The crisis of causation is of particular interest, as she is breaking new ground in cultural studies on a phenomenon that has become increasingly common in mainstream film and television.

But there has to be some significance to the fact that most of the characters in Black Panther — a film where personal and cultural identity crises drive a pulpy plot — are master spies or have secrets to hide or are otherwise literally masked.

And yet everything instead points to an acute crisis of masculinity, which at least gives the film some cultural relevance.

The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.

The existential plight of the Wine Mom — who seeks relief from the crushing weight of heteronormative capitalist patriarchy at the bottom of a chardonnay bottle — is a real cultural crisis.