Sentences with phrase «of surrounding cultures»

The Sages as Successors of the Prophets Biblical Wisdom did not differ from that of the surrounding cultures except in its honesty and courage.

When one looks at the myths of surrounding cultures, in fact, one senses that the current debate over creationism would have seemed very strange, if not unintelligible, to the writers and readers of Genesis.

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.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

A unified collective challenging the divisive dispersion of its surrounding culture.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

What I was trying to say is that there has been (and still is) a lot of good things coming out of the surrounding culture, and there is nothing wrong with the church adopting these things so that we can adapt to the culture.

They see the Bible as the ultimate authority and the last line of defence against Christianity dissolving into the relativism of the surrounding culture.

I can't know for sure, but I believe that Paul's instructions to Timothy regarding the women at Ephesus were intended to protect the gospel from untrained teachers and to ensure that the Church remain distinct from the cults of the surrounding culture.

It must recognize the pagan nature of its surrounding culture, and seek to become God's alternative community.

Churches must therefore exert themselves more to distinguish themselves from the pagan values of the surrounding culture — values that often sneak into our churches themselves.

I'm skeptical of our surrounding culture, because I believe our faith is mostly counter-cultural, and that conforming to culture has provided more problems for us than solutions.

Admittedly, these are large and complicated questions, and I am keenly aware that also the faithful gathered at Immaculate Conception are often inwardly torn between Christian particularity and the superstitions and idolatries of the pseudo-nihilism in much of the surrounding culture.

If Christians believe that the church and the worship it offers to God ought in some ways to counter the norms and practices of the surrounding culture, then what does it mean that after spending so much of our time each week in front of computer monitors, cell phones, and sports bar TVs, we come to church on Sunday and happily position ourselves in front of the biggest screen of all?

She explained that Jews usually adopted clothing styles of the surrounding culture, making changes when necessary.

Aguas also creates a classroom environment that promotes student discovery of surrounding culture, bilingualism, and social justice.

Not exact matches

«At Kimpton I am part of a culture that challenges me to be my best self, challenges me to be a leader in the industry and also surrounds my team and I with some of the best leaders in the industry.»

There's a vast gulf between the culture surrounding major console games like «Call of Duty» (which are largely marketed towards young men) and the culture surrounding massively popular mobile games (which are often marketed at mobile phone users of all genders).

«Now the reality is if that bro culture isn't acknowledged and intentionally corrected, you end up in a situation where you've created something that's incredibly valuable that all of a sudden has extreme risk surrounding it, because of that culture,» Ken Ziegler, CEO of cloud - computing company LogicWorks, tells Business Insider.

Amid economic turmoil, growing consciousness about environmental waste and widening acceptance of «takeout culture,» authorities in France are now trying to combat long - held stereotypes surrounding doggie bags.

What's your view on how Silicon Valley culture of has changed over the past few years given the drama surrounding Uber?

Experts widely believe this is the consequence of America's relaxed laws and culture surrounding guns: Making more guns more accessible means more guns, and more guns mean more deaths.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

But one of them is not that the surrounding culture gets to decide the nature of human personhood and identity, nor the bounds of acceptable sexual expression.

According to Tracy Lambert and her fellow researchers («Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up,» 2003), there is a phenomenon of «pluralistic ignorance» surrounding hookup culture, in which «most students believe others [hookup] primarily because they enjoy doing so, while they see themselves engaging in these behaviors primarily due to peer pressure.»

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

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.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

The following stories are, for those who «read the signs of the times», indicators that the witness of the Church, less and less welcome in the secular culture that surrounds us, has never been more important or necessary.

To disregard this surrounding culture is to nullify much of the Bible's spiritual meaning by reading into it what is not there but is imputed to it from the thought patterns of a different day.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

Confusion surrounding Vatican II had led to a culture of dissent, symbolized by the widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae.

The stories in this book show in humorous detail how little we understand the culture that surrounds us and how to properly reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the «Christ and culture in paradox» approach, then, the Christian substance appears in the Christian calling of faculty, staff and students and in the Christian context surrounding the academic enterprise — only rarely in the results of scholarly inquiry itself.

The renunciation of idolatry in 4:6 is an integral part of the definition, a specimen of denunciation which applies if the surrounding culture is idolatrous.

In some surrounding cultures, homosexual prostitution was practiced in conjunction with the worship of Baal, and Hebrew law might have condemned such activities because they were homosexual or because they involved prostitution or because they were connected with Baal worship.

This suspicion of authority has seeped into the churches themselves from the cultures that surround them.

Whereas most of his others would have been agreed upon as «virtues» in the surrounding Greek culture, gentleness and humility were despised.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

We are surrounded by a culture of selfishness.

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.

Coupled with God's people down through the centuries is revealed the influence of the Hebrew people, and the Bible, on those who interacted with the Hebrews, and remoter cultures surrounding them.

Take, for example, a young woman or young man who doesn't feel a strong culture of love surrounding them.

Sadly and ironically, the surrounding, non-believing culture has typically led the way on many of these issues, which has brought criticism from many of those within the church that all we are doing is following the culture.

All of these are very difficult to commit to unless your surrounded by the culture of whichever faith you explore.

Unlike the gods of surrounding nations, Yahweh does not appear mainly to create a sacred place, a cultic center, where human culture is protected by becoming close to unchanging divine reality.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

Much of the church seems to agree with the surrounding culture that those in prison deserve to be there, and the more they suffer, the better — end of story.