Sentences with phrase «own cultural context»

A relevant name can convey a brand's engaging personality, express something interesting about the product or service, or it can be geared toward the intended audience and relate to cultural contexts.

What works in that cultural context might not work the same in yours.

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

We now have the technological ability to respond to the cultural context as and when it is happening.»

Market intelligence is critical, but also dangerous on its own without the cross cultural context that drives each market.

This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view) as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and cultural contexts.

Social and cultural contexts are increasingly becoming more prominent in viewing how and why buyers buy.

Where as (following the suffrage and civil rights movements) they have taken Biblical references regarding women and slavery and rightly applied cultural context to them, they have not done the same regarding gays and lesbians.

But even if I am horribly wrong and am sinning, do you think our God will send me to everlasting torment because I applied cultural context to scripture and came to the conclusion that it is ok?

Just as we apply cultural context to hundreds of other passages in the Bible we should do the same for these.

I can not and will not deny that the Bible has great insight into human nature, especially when put in the proper historical and cultural contexts.

But to lift one verse out of the textual and cultural context in which it was written, and apply it literally is not a persuasive approach to biblical interpretation.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

The scripture is parable, poetry, and metaphorical narrative from a cultural context that no longer exists.

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.

Scripture is authoritative in every age and cultural context.

If he had continued until this day — in the new cultural context — his views would have evolved and undoubtedly swayed toward athiesm and this is especially evident in his posthumous memoires:

All evidence (including historical application of the book, cultural context, linguistics and origins) indicates the bible absolutely was intended (and not mistakenly used as) as a guide for behavior and morality.

Yet, in every age and cultural context Scripture must be interpreted, consensually, by the Christian community.

-- if he had continued until this day — in the new cultural context — his views would have evolved and undoubtedly swayed toward athiesm and this is especially evident in his posthumous memoires:

Given the likely cultural context (especially specifically in the water rite that may have been occurring at this time), I'm not sure nakedpastor is over analyzing.

Fascinating bit of historical / cultural context.

In this broader cultural context, cyberspace can in some ways be a step backwards.

The Roman emperor was a central feature of the cultural context of the first century and must be taken consistently into account in exegesis of the New Testament.

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

These facts serve as further evidence for the validity of these common conceptions from widely differing cultural contexts.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

It's simply one of hundreds, likely thousands of misunderstandings of ancient texts, which were mistranslated and hijacked later for assorted purposes, and taken out of their original cultural context, and used to suit a later worldview, which had nothing to do with their original meaning and iintent.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

As Gordon Fee explains in «The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9»:

If we approach this verse (and all scripture passages) with careful exegesis we should consider the cultural context and language.

Discovering Biblical Equality: Complemenatrity Without Hierarchy, edited by Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis; Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire by Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat; The Womens» Bible Commentary, Expanded Edition, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ring; The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9 by Gordon D. Fee

If we understand the social and cultural context Moses was writing in, then our «literal» interpretation of Genesis 1 - 2 might change.

Obviously some of the cultural context is different, but He clearly sees value in singleness — not just people who are waiting to be married.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

So far in this study, we've learned about the history of the Asian church, discussed contextualization, and considered some of the unique ways Asian church leaders are presenting the gospel so that it will be received within their own cultural context.

It is this homeless Christ who represents 8,990 cultural contexts in the world today (I use the figures of statistician David B. Barrett).

The book takes the various sections of prophecy in Scripture and presents them in their literary and cultural contexts, providing a brief summary of the various views and interpretations that are available for each section.

«Marxism and Christianity in India», in The Encounter of Church with Movement of Social Change in various cultural contexts with special reference to Marxism, LWF, Geneva, 1977.

Well, at the Madras missionary conference, way back in 1938, they explained that churches had to be «indigenous,» or be rooted and related to their own cultural context:

To read in the original languages is sure to bring even more misunderstanding and misinterpretation, because to any of us, they are foreign to our language experience, but even more so, to the cultural context of the times in which any were written.

J.R.B.: The phrase «celebrity pastor» is a contradiction of terms, but it feels somewhat normal to us in our cultural context because the mindset is so rampant.

This will happen, for example, when the social and cultural context of its practices changes and seems novel and puzzling.

Never mind that these paradoxes are precisely the same as the cultural context into which Jesus was born.

Burton Mack is another interpreter who believes that interpreters must pay attention to the cultural context in which a rhetorical act takes place.

Especially when we understand it in light of its historical and cultural contexts (which is the only way to read an ancient document like the Bible).

Biblical revelation was given in a particular cultural context but it is also intended to be heard in our own context.

And they always have a historical and cultural context.

The kind that weave convoluted interpretations of words and claim weird cultural contexts to excuse parts of the Bible.

As stated in the article and in the book «The Bible Now»; based on other usage in the Hebrew Bible, what makes this «offense» offensive is based on cultural context.