Sentences with phrase «on cultural understanding»

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«If you understand the cultural things that go on in international business, those cultural issues will apply whether you're in Paris or Shanghai or in Berlin,» Kelm says.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

What people so fail to understand is that Jesus set cultural rules for women on their head (as he did in so many areas).

My disagreement with Weigel on this point might be a quibble except that our differing understandings of what fueled cultural secularization point to different causes, and thus to different cures.

To understand how BioLogos relates to other positions «in play» in our cultural conversation on origins, we have created the following categorical scheme into which most participants can be readily placed.

We hope this podcast will serve as pushback to our very real tendency to make assumptions based on limited knowledge or experience, and to indulge in outrage and conclusion - drawing before we understand the important but mundane details of a cultural event.

Here is another place where knowing the historical - cultural Jewish background of the Scriptures really helps understand what is going on.

Within modern American Christianity the dominant way to understand the cultural impact of Christianity has been largely in terms of social action on a range of issues.

This book does not address Scripture, but it sheds important light on the cultural norms and practices that would have shaped early Christians» understandings of same - sex sexuality.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

The questions of peace and security over against violence are to be understood on economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on social and political levels.

So if I have understood you rightly it's about learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, not holding on steadfastly to convictions that either we have come to by our own volition or by cultural influences.

To fulfll the Lord's mission worldwide, we must understand that we live in different social, political, historical and cultural contexts in and through which God acts and speaks to us, though we live on the same globe.

The Reformation, on the other hand, failed to understand the cultural potentialities of grace.

In the meantime, if CNN wants to shed light on the lingo of a cultural group it understands, let's see an article on the terminology of East coast liberals.

The professor for the class actually understood worldviews, so rather than mere didactic note - taking on presuppositions we had a healthy dose of cultural participation.

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

We do this to understand the impact that television is having upon our worship practices and take on the larger question of how we are to interpret our faith in our «electronic» cultural milieu.

on touchy or difficult topics, trying to listen and understand while wanting to be heard and understood, not to mention our differences in denominational / spiritual / cultural backgrounds — all things considered I think we do alright.

The question of peace and security over against violence is to be understood on the economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on the social and political levels.

In short, understanding the meaning of Christ as Lord and Savior is deeply contextual, dependent on historical memory and cultural - linguistic literacy.

It is an interpretation based on my best attempt to study the grammatical, historical, cultural, and theological contexts of Scripture, but in the end, it is only my understanding of what the text is saying.

Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the cultural and Scriptural context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.

On the other hand, if another anthropology so focused on the social and cultural limitations of the self as either to ignore or to deny that the self nonetheless always bears responsibility for understanding itself and leading its own unique life, it would be equally unable to understand justice in either of its senses as ultimately grounded in the self - understanding of faitOn the other hand, if another anthropology so focused on the social and cultural limitations of the self as either to ignore or to deny that the self nonetheless always bears responsibility for understanding itself and leading its own unique life, it would be equally unable to understand justice in either of its senses as ultimately grounded in the self - understanding of faiton the social and cultural limitations of the self as either to ignore or to deny that the self nonetheless always bears responsibility for understanding itself and leading its own unique life, it would be equally unable to understand justice in either of its senses as ultimately grounded in the self - understanding of faith.

On the other hand, once this understanding can be presuppposed, we have the right to conclude that justice is a demand of faith itself even in the specifically political sense of creating and maintaining right structures of social and cultural order.

The Egyptian and the Jewish tradition are good representatives of religious beliefs on baptism, and pave the way for helping us understand the cultural, historical, and religious background to Christian baptism.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

Those who try to argue that the intimate relationship of David and Jonathan was homoerotic simply fail to understand the Jewish cultural context, and retroactively visit the assumptions of our own highly sexualised culture on the text, in an attempt to make the Bible say what it does not.

One difference is that today's commentaries hold very little knowledge of Torah culture and even the Jewish dialogue going on in the New Testament and although they have a lot of knowledge, it is diluted by a full cultural engagement which leaves a lot out with a very gentile understanding of Scripture.

While we can not compromise on Gospel truth, it is necessary for us to understand the kinds of intellectual and cultural influences Millennials are experiencing.

I have read snippets from a couple of websites now so that ought to put me on par with people who've read dozens of books on the topic, understand neurobiology and have written on both the philosophical and cultural aspects of free will and people's belief in the topic.

Logos 6 uses all sort of cultural, archaeological, and geographical insights to help you understand the background information on a text.

If this culture wants to survive and to keep drawing on its two sources, it should be careful to help Christians towards a better understanding of their own cultural mission.

Nevertheless my understanding of Davids cartoon is that it dealing with molding a girls body image based on western cultural bias.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

Divisions and bondings occur among people and groups on the basis of categories of skill, morality, ethnicity, cultural tradition, gender, religion, etc. that are not reducible to class analysis, and attempts to use a single version of the «master - slave» relationship to understand the modern social world is to pervert the real fabric of human relationships.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

That way they would be best prepared in an ongoing manner, on the one hand, to understand the cultural setting in which they ministered and possible new developments in it, and, on the other hand, to distinguish the essence of Christianity from its various historically conditioned forms and to reformulate it for every new cultural context of ministry.

What makes this one stand apart is the observations of Judge Salvatore Vasta, who honed in on a problem that needs to be better understand and monitored: business owners or franchisees hiring workers with similar cultural backgrounds.

I spend many hours counseling families on nutrition and exercise, especially as our cultural understanding of pregnancy and birth is decidedly unhealthy («You can eat for two!»).

So would you say this is your opinion, based on cultural biases and a lack of understanding about breastfeeding?

Guided by an anti-oppression framework that acknowledges intersectionality, our work is also based on the use of cultural humility and the understanding that we are committed to being lifelong learners with critical self - reflection.

To better understand the importance of fathering in today's society, you have to better comprehend the impact fathers have on their children, the various cultural pathways to fathering, and how interventions with fathers can help them, their families and their children's development.

Learn basic techniques such as shampooing, conditioning and hair styling for different types hair, consider the impact hair care has on self - esteem and cultural identity, understand the myths versus realities of caring for natural hair.

It helps put non-Native American cultural challenges surrounding breastfeeding into perspective and can give us understanding of why culture can seem to be so slow to change on the view of breastfeeding.

On a practical level, one of your first steps must be to create a team with the right mix of local and international knowledge, cultural understanding and analytical skills.