Sentences with phrase «own cultural circumstances»

In these cultural circumstances, people in high places in both the government and Church see that, with an imperial outlook of her own, Orthodoxy might be able to fill the vacuum left by the defunct Communist Party in the system of post-Soviet administration.

In this future - oriented framework, sin becomes at once a more fluid category — open to ongoing revision as it manifests itself in different historical and cultural circumstances.

Unfortunately, the New Evangelization here in the United States is often presented in contrast only to the first half of each of these dichotomies, set off against those errors that I am arguing are least relevant to our own cultural circumstances.

when, in fact, a particular cultural configuration of Catholicism is undergoing change as it accommodates, in accord with venerable tradition, a new cultural circumstance.

Given present cultural circumstances, younger adults find a variety of ways to satisfy their longing for intimacy and friendship.

«Inevitably we are faced with the broad question of the cultural circumstances, the social institutions and events....

It is highly likely given the state of our evidence, that people in antiquity behaved much the same as people in similar cultural circumstances behave today.

Black men also fare badly when compared to black women — who, it is worth remembering, grow up in similar family and cultural circumstances and attend the same schools.

Though the notion of immortality and communing with the dead were not new, and existed well before the Fox sisters, Spiritualism took hold in 19th century America because of a special set of cultural circumstances.

James Cutler, FAIA, founding partner of Cutler Anderson Architects, is known for his environmental and emotional sensitivity to place, institution, program, climate, and cultural circumstance.

Translations of these utterances appear in the form of subtitles, which provide an entry point into the narrators» diverse cultural circumstances.

«For the past forty years, Louise Lawler's witty and slyly feminist work has raised questions about the cultural circumstances that support art's production, circulation, and presentation.

The artists in this exhibition are using the action, symbolism and elements of sport to call attention to narratives that are overlooked, and as a method to innovate beyond the social and cultural circumstances of everyday life.

The idea is to maintain seeds not as a preserved snapshot of a particular genetic moment in time, but rather as a living, evolving resource that adapts to the conditions, climate and even cultural circumstances (think organic growing methods versus conventional, for example) that they find themselves in.

The law must, of course, adapt to different social, economic and cultural circumstances and is bound to change as the requirements of our ever more complex society develop.

However, the barriers experienced by New Canadians are often disproportionately greater because of their different and disadvantaged economic, social, and cultural circumstances.

The standard of «formal equality» required merely that all people be subject to the same laws and protections, regardless of any underlying inequality or difference in their economic and cultural circumstances.

Not exact matches

(The circumstances of board member David Bonderman's resignation even hint at a degree of indulgence for the cultural concerns.)

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

Marital circumstances, whether of clergy or laity, are dealt with «pastorally» and «nonjudgmentally,» which usually means that normative morality is suspended in deference to cultural accommodation and the avoidance of «giving offense.»

Marriage and family patterns have always had historical and cultural features that vary under changing circumstances.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

And scripture's witnesses are properly understood only in the context of the social, cultural and historical circumstances from which they come.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

Examine the rules closely and you will discover a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance, Gwynne promises.

Mark Bauerlein does not reproduce any of N. M. Gwynne's arguments for the claim that the rules of Standard English grammar, unlike those of the many non-standard English dialects, possess «a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance» («Grammar Rules,» February).

Behind the written documents is both an ancient, oral tradition and some very particular historical circumstances and cultural phenomena which have clearly shaped the narratives.

It goes on for a while — he is a professor of cultural studies — but its message is well worth considering, all the more so because of the remarkable circumstances under which it was written.

For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful situations and responses in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of cultural pressures and circumstances.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

There is often a zeitgeist that emerges during periods of significant cultural change — a new consciousness that emerges out of the shifting historical circumstances.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

Under these circumstances, the logic of party coalitions will make cultural values increasingly important.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

Ethics are not immutable and eternal», determined outside of the system, but the result of a process of adaptation to changing circumstances, namely cultural selection.

Our capacity for such cultural change has not matched the changing circumstances on Earth today.

Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements, changing social uses of mass media, and changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.

The implication is that Solzhenitsyn uses prudence rather than abstract ideology to choose the best regime for the circumstances, with the main requirements of good government being constitutional limits on power to prevent crushing tyranny and the promotion of a cultural climate that encourages citizens to develop their souls.

The relationship between theological liberalism and cultural optimism is, however, by now an old, old story, so let us leave the external historical circumstances and return to more purely academic and theological considerations, of which the next to concern us is the rise of form criticism in the 1920s.

Core characteristics include optimizing normal biological psychological, social, and cultural processes of reproduction and early life; timely prevention and management of complications; consultation with and referral to other services; respect for women's individual circumstances and views, and working in partnership with to strengthen women's own capabilities to care for themselves and their families.»

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

This support can come from a partner, extended family or the wider community depending on the particular circumstances and the mom's cultural environment.

De Blasio, like Gillibrand, pointed to the times and the cultural changes that have taken place since the Clinton era, saying circumstances would be different if the same thing happened in the White House today.

Why questions are always difficult but surely it's a mix of bad luck, cultural sentiments and political circumstances.

Political Theory is taking the abstract of political philosophy, and applying it to a specific circumstance that includes and is influenced by a cultural, religious and historical heritage.

Speakers addressed circumstances necessary to produce a cultural environment that nurtures creativity; the role of epiphanies in the creative thinking process; and how science can contribute to enhanced creativity.

«Under certain circumstances,» he says, warfare «stops on a dime» as a result of ecological or cultural change.

«Newer research is discovering that the differences we see in these types of managers are more determined by the circumstances at hand than individual or cultural differences.