Sentences with phrase «of cultural matter»

Each viewer is a unique parcel of cultural matters and beliefs about the beyond.

Not exact matches

When hiring freelancers, it's not just a matter of finding the right technical skills and expertise — you need freelancers who are a good cultural fit for the organization.

I and others invested an enormous amount of time and resources trying to change him, but no matter what we did we just couldn't get the cultural shoe to fit.

Ad people like to believe that they create the public's tastes and moods (when they're not «disrupting» them), but it's usually more a matter of paddling around on their intellectual surf boards, searching for a cultural wave they can profitably ride to the beach.

The story ignited a firestorm among top creators and their legions of fans, illustrating that, even as old media mainstays may chuckle at a new wave of digital influencers, their budding economic and cultural clout has become no laughing matter.

«While we see CEOs and the heads of diversity talking about it, what really matters is what those frontline workers and everyday people think and feel about diversity because that's where the real cultural change is going to happen,» said Aubrey Blanche, global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian.

«We know that if the Enbridge pipeline is allowed to go forward that it will just be a matter of time before there is a major spill that devastates our marine environment and the cultural traditions, jobs and communities that rely on a healthy ocean,» said Chandra Herbert.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

It's the flagship publication of its sort in the Evangelical world and the major magazine in which Evangelicalism's peculiar genius is applied to cultural matters.

They do not eschew politics entirely, but they recognize that «[n] o administration in Washington, no matter how ostensibly pro-Christian, is capable of stopping cultural trends toward desacralization and fragmentation that have been building for centuries.»

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.

Well concerning the matter of biblical cultural status of women then yeah I guess that is reasonable.

Jewish - Christian rejection of homosexuality can not be, as some claim, a matter of «cultural conditioning,» since on this question it is obvious that Jews and Christians made such a determined, and successful, effort to resist the influence of surrounding cultures.

The economic and political issues raised by the Latin Americans have relevance everywhere, but in much of the world they are closely intertwined with cultural matters.

[3] Fasting in Cardinal Heenan's eyes had plainly become a matter of cultural etiquette.

We can not at this point go into the whole matter of the relation of the Bible to its cultural setting.

Of course it does, but to state matters in that way implies that there is something else with which cultural phenomena could be contrasted, such as a metaphysical reality.

The law is thus being interpreted and applied in line with the canons of political and cultural discourse that have emerged over the last fifty years, where oppression is increasingly a psychological category and ethics is increasingly aesthetics, a matter of taste.

The fact of the matter is this: in every missional cultural engagement, some go too far and some don't go far enough.

However we approach the question, it remains true as a matter of simple history that Christianity in its development represents what we might describe as the marriage of Jewish realism and of cultural forms which are not Jewish at all.

Since the fundamental principle of the mechanistic philosophy — all bodies are externally related within instantaneous configurations of matter — is not universal in scope, its cultural dominance throughout several centuries created two types of intellectual difficulties.

Again, she didn't have to matter in 2017, but it was significant that she chose not to, and that decision could mean the end of Swift's cultural queenship.

Yet it is also the case that such groups frequently come into being in the first place out of a desire to strike back at what their members perceive as America's bullying tactics (in cultural as much as military matters).

Other scholars say that religious tax exemption is simply a matter of good public policy, much as educational, cultural, and other voluntary organizations that render public service are tax - exempt.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

being verbally inspired, the Biblical writers were also supernaturally enabled by God to understand the best way to take certain non-revelational, cultural matters, and without changing them, use them to enhance the communication of revelational truths to the original hearers or readers.47

Indeed, with regard to the historical development of philosophy and science we know it to be the case that it was the doctrine of the Fall, which is peculiar to the Judeo - Christian faith, which enabled the Christian culture to maintain an ontological distinction between matter and evil in the face of cultural opposition.

But even Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum makes reference to a panoply of earlier encyclicals that furnish the larger social, political, cultural, and religious context for tackling any of these economic matters.

In each case (1965 and 1981) it is evident (and somewhat embarrassing) that my sense of theological dislocation is hardly a matter of my own new insight or innovation, but one of a somewhat panicky, sloppy and inept reaction to external events, to massive and threatening cultural and historical changes that, quite against my will, force on me a different procedure, a different viewpoint, a different set of questions — a different theology.

The reality of the matter is quite the opposite: Juan is not familiar to us at all today, and the reason our cultural imagination no longer has much room for him — and would certainly be incapable of producing another figure like him — is that he, far more than the buoyantly eternal Quixote, is a figure fixed in a particular cultural moment.

For the problem of cultural distance is not only a matter of conceptual and linguistic difference.

They became intellectual and cultural commonplaces, generally accepted characteristics of what education «ought» to be, no matter how it was actually conducted.

Now, Frogist... I «know» that you know me well enough by now, from the multi-tude of postings over the last year and a half with you, and... from looking up at what I wrote above, in terms of my cultural melting - pot group of friends, and by taking each person individually, no matter what their religion, etc...

Yet inasmuch as it seems bereft of any consistently reasoned and integrative perspective on its subject matter, Romanticism is unlikely to satisfy the demand for critical demystification of past cultural formations that has long been prevalent in the contemporary academy.

None of this is to suggest that economic issues do not matter, but how and why they matter depends on the cultural context.

This is another way of saying that mainstream Marxist thought and practice paid too little attention to cultural matters.

Webb writes, «When it comes to cultural assessment, it matters little where our culture is on any of the issues discussed in this book!

On the contrary, political and cultural efforts to rationally solve the problem of man and woman — and we are, to be frank, in the midst of such Utopian spasms — will almost certainly be harmful, even dehumanizing — to man, to woman, and especially, to children — not least because the matters are so delicate and private, and their deeper meanings inexpressible.

(2) Freedom of choice should be allowed in those matters on which a plurality of views are held — views based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical and religious beliefs.

I also indicated that the state should permit freedom of choice on matters where a plurality of views are held, based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical or religious beliefs.

Yesterday, perhaps, it was still possible for us to wonder whether Mankind as an ethnic and cultural whole could be said to constitute a finally stabilized group: today, overtaken by the rush of events, there is no longer room for any uncertainty in the matter.

The attack on determinism, quite apart from its systematic philosophical interest, is a matter of vital cultural importance today.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

And since scientists have little to gain from such a turn — it can even represent a loss of cultural status — the move can not be considered a matter of self - interest.

As a matter of ethnic identity and pride, most Indians support the ongoing effort to recover and reconstitute their cultural heritage.

The fact of the matter is that once we get away from Niebuhr himself and try to use the categories constructively, they are extraordinarily useful for analyzing the attitudes of almost any Christians on almost any cultural issues.

In response to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas, they argue that it is middle American families who most acutely reap the consequences of our cultural breakdown» and this explains their inclination toward the social conservatism of the Republicans.

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

Decisions that affect people's daily lives are taken in such matters as the quality of information, the diversity of cultural products, or the security of communications.

In my view the curriculum matters because there is real cultural knowledge, handed down by a process of natural selection.