Sentences with phrase «own cultural background»

Add to that a world - class food scene, theatre on par with its east - coast cousins, a rich historical and cultural background and affordable housing, and you can see how it's quickly become a hub of millennials and aspiring entrepreneurs.

At the same time, a wide range of cultural backgrounds allows us to effectively market to a diverse customer base.

That moment encapsulates a lot about what is at the center of Cole's belief system about people and about how to do business: Focus on the positive, even across a wide experiential or cultural background.

Instead, build a diverse team whose strength lies in its members» range of work experience, education and cultural backgrounds that play off of one another.

«The more your network includes individuals from different cultural backgrounds, the more you will be creatively stimulated by different ideas and perspectives,» according to research by Harvard Business School professor Roy Y.J. Chua.

You want to make sure people working on automated solutions for content are not just all from one cultural background.»

Diversity in the room continues to impress me even now, after almost a month of classes: investment bankers, entrepreneurs, Canadian military officers, engineers, management consultants and medical doctors of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Beyond keeping tabs on your board composition, issuers should draft a policy on diversity (regarding women but also cultural background, sexuality and disability), tenure and overboarding.

Aside from the unacceptable optics, evidence shows that boards composed of people with diverse skills, cultural backgrounds, gender and experience — just like the real world — are more effective than less diverse boards, Leblanc says.

People with different cultural backgrounds and skills help to bring innovation and creative ideas to the business.

We are proud to be a multicultural team with employees from all different cultural backgrounds as well as vendors from all over the world, and we are sure that our market benefits from this.

One of the glories of science is that people come together to do it who have all sorts of religious beliefs, philosophical views, cultural backgrounds, and political opinions.

But to me, Christianity was an ambiguous, amorphous cultural background.

However, I also want to bring the Gospel of Luke to life, not just with insights and information from the cultural background of the Bible, but also by showing how Scripture makes a difference in your life.

But we must also consider some of the cultural background issues, especially those dealing with the ancient worldview of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

I think this field of social and cultural backgrounds to the Bible might be one of the most important areas of hermeneutics, and may be one of the most neglected.

But each of the great scriptures contains some — some more, some less — timeless passages which speak to peoples of widely different ages and cultural backgrounds.

Rejecting my Asian religious and cultural background as worthless, I thought that the theological knowledge discussed, formulated and presented in the West was the authentic Christian theology.

His family life, his school, his clubs and his whole cultural background have contributed to make him what he is.

As they seek to communicate the Gospel to their Muslim neighbours and friends, they will have a common linguistic and cultural background in which, and from which, to engage but they will also wish to transmit the uniqueness of God's self revelation in the living, dying, rising again and teaching of Jesus the Messiah.

They constitute a tremendous complex of instincts and inherited traits, family and cultural background, education, and all the aspects of the individual's own past experience which remain in his memory and in his unconscious as continuing motivating forces.

But within the limits set by the cultural background of the world, there are still considerable differences in the connotation the word has for each of us.

Modern Indian translators in the North Eastern and other parts of India are influenced by the tribal culture to bring different cultural languages in translations than the original.11 As Nida says, «there is every reason to believe that the revision (of the translated Bible) will be greatly welcomed by non-Christians with a Hindu cultural background.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

Hence, in attempting to address the theme of the symposium, my objective will be to explain the epistemological standpoint (as well as the cultural background) underlying my interest in process thought, a standpoint which makes me regard it as a conceptual framework.

I suppose this is part of the reason we have different translations, and also why we need teachers who understand Greek, Hebrew, and cultural backgrounds.

«12 Thus the use of different cultural backgrounds with linguistic flavor in translations will provide a different worldview than the original text.

In describing the need for criteria within the corrective task, I noted that to know what «Jesus Christ» means requires acquaintance with a widening circle of «assumptions and prerequisites, cultural backgrounds, and definitions of concepts.»

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

Like their fathers before them, Robert and Tommy's cultural background almost dictated which of the city's two giant clubs they would support.

The Bangkok Declaration boldly attempted to deny the universality of human rights, to relativize them in terms of «national and regional particularities and various historical, religious, and cultural backgrounds.»

The book that I read that was really good about this is called Powers of Darkness: Principalities and Powers in Paul's Letters It's really good for understanding the cultural background of the letters, which helps to unlock insight into how it applies to us today.

We must know the literary genre, historical and cultural background, immediate situation and occasion, and intended function of each passage before we can be confident that we have properly understood it.

Only 9 % indicated that they had made an intensive study of the biblical cultural background; 43 % had undertaken a limited study, while 48 % had not made any attempt to do so.

Paul through Mediterranean Eyes is a great book by Kenneth Bailey for understanding the cultural background of 1 Corinthians and the Apostle Paul.

I am convinced that the historical cultural background study of Scripture is probably more important than the grammatical word studies that seem to be so popular.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

Rather than struggle to understand the cultural background of the text and the alternate meanings suggested by recent historico - grammatical research, Jewett is content to judge the text as reflecting Paul's rabbinic conditioning and disregard it.

Liberalism is about individuals getting to be who they decide they most truly are, according to their own lights, whether they are women or men, gay or straight, no matter what their color, cultural background or economic status.

My parents were not religious, but they celebrated Christmas and Easter holidays because the family gathered; the huge majority of Americans have this cultural background.

Not only must the uniqueness of each man be taken into account, but also the diversity of cultural background, personal experience, educational attainment and intellectual level of comprehension.

One important tool that many good scholars use to help them understand how the words were used and understood by the original author and to the original audience is historical - cultural background studies.

However, as with everything else, there is a lot of wiggle room when it comes to how much historical and cultural background studies help us understand the text.

So historical - cultural background studies are helpful, but even they will not give you absolute certainty about the meaning of any text.

So again, even if we were doing a «Historical - cultural background» study on our very own day and our very own culture, it is impossible to give a blanket statement and say, «Well, in the 21st century, Christians believe that...» Whatever you put there, some Christians will believe it, and some won't.

I could now say, «The Hebrew says this, the cultural background study backs it up, therefore, I believe it, and you better not disagree with me, you ignorant and uneducated worm!»

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

It is not clear how far the difference between Paul and his Corinthian readers was due simply to the differences in terminology and idiom which stemmed from their respective cultural backgrounds.

Third, one my favorite things to study is the historical / cultural background of the books of the Bible.