Sentences with phrase «own cultural forms»

In this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praises.

But the season of sewing is ending, and we need to separate that which is Christian from cultural forms taken over and reshaped for post-Christian purposes.

Finally, the embodied reason of man's shared cultural forms bears the mark of the free creative determinations of the self - conscious human spirit.

It was out of this ethos that new cultural forms were created and Pentecostalism contributed to blues, jazz, and early rock.

The recent passing of the well - known Gospel singer Andraé Crouch offers an opportunity to reflect further on the way in which Christianity continues to shape culture through the creation of new cultural forms of music, art, etc..

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.

Nevertheless, in an age when distinctive folk cultural forms like hip hop are going mainstream into popular culture, Pentecostalism has a certain kind of appeal.

Rather, what Crouch did was to continue the tradition of creating new cultural forms from within the folk culture he inhabited and taking such artifacts into a broader public space.

By exploring the early Rock scene in Memphis, the home of the Church of God in Christ, one can see how people like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis brought those cultural forms together.

These conversions never happen outside of the people of God and the cultural forms of Christianity they inhabit.

So we've decided that no one cultural form will be dominant and everyone will be equally unhappy with the worship!

Each element of worship rather expresses a particular cultural form that will naturally be more welcoming to some and less to others.

However we approach the question, it remains true as a matter of simple history that Christianity in its development represents what we might describe as the marriage of Jewish realism and of cultural forms which are not Jewish at all.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

The Son of God assumed the form of a servant to seek and save the lost and theology must do likewise, incarnating itself in the cultural forms of its time without ever losing its identity as Christian theology.

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

We know that the gospel relativizes all cultural forms; yet we also know that faith is always embodied in a particular culture.

It might be a good idea to recreate church around the current cultural forms of community.

They are appropriating contemporary cultural forms and creating a new genre of worship music.

The grandeur of their productions, the images of «success,» their «positive thinking» messages, and their offering of gifts and goods in return for donations translates the Christian message into an attractive consumer package that reflects a cultural form similar to that of media consumerism.

If that remains the dominant cultural form within which ministers are trained, then the foundations laid in theological education will be increasingly inadequate for understanding theologically a large part of the world in which ministry will actually be exercised.

And yet, because Christianity is not reducible to the cultural forms it has created in the United States they should question whether those forms faithfully express the whole.

In paintings of Asian Christian communities Christ took Asian cultural forms in a most vivid way.

Among cultural forms he clearly favored the visual arts, thus himself helping to foster another branch of the interdiscipline.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

Does the discussion in Christ Without Myth take adequate account of the nature and status of myth as a cultural form, and thus as an indispensable ingredient of history?

In the economically developed capitalist countries, he explains, secularization tends to take a cultural form.

In his anthropology, Solovyev is trying to show that humanity is always able to transcend the limits of the human situation, creating a multiplicity of cultural forms.

By folk culture I mean to highlight what T. S. Eliot and Christopher Dawson understood to be the interrelated nature of family, region, and religion as elements that give rise to cultural forms.

In fact, some Indian experts think Western or traditional churches trying to impose their cultural form of Christianity could disrupt church growth even more than Hindutva extremism.

In the early twentieth century Protestants are mistaking dynamic cultural forms for the content of their faith.

Consequently when in the life of the church cultural forms triumph over religious content and faith disappears, and when in the course of time men begin to wonder what content these forms were originally intended to symbolize, the historic explanations which they will advance will be given in terms of national or racial destiny rather than in terms of a rediscovered religious truth.

All over the Protestant world it is obvious that preoccupation with the cultural form in which their faith is expressed is a more decisive factor in determining the future of the Protestant churches than preoccupation with the content of their faith.

Cultural forms, on the other hand, can never be relied upon to refer back to a tradition of religious truth.

And the triumph of cultural forms over religious content is even more deadly than the triumph of ecclesiastic forms.

All the cultural forms — drama, art, music — became vehicles through which Christianity found expression.

The affinity between this mode of economic organization and certain modes of moral and cognitive culture that have roots deep in western culture undoubtedly helps explain why those modes, utilitarianism and science, have become such central cultural forms in modern America.

People have become disoriented as traditional cultural forms lose their authority over our lives.

The complex of capitalism, utilitarianism, and science as a cultural form has its own world view, its own «religion» even — though it is an adamantly this - worldly one — and its own utopianism: the utopianism of total technical control, of course in the service of the «freedom» of individual self - interest.

They may reject the pleasures of sex and of wealth, renounce learning and the fine arts, and refuse to participate in civil government or warfare, but they inevitably adopt some other cultural forms, such as language.

For instance, if one believes that Christ is in some sense God incarnate, then there is a sense in which the divine second person of the Trinity stands above history, There is also a sense in which the teachings of Christ might be said to have some trans - cultural character, despite being embedded in very particular cultural forms.

We can seek out all the kinds of community life for their own sake, and wherein we might sustain older cultural forms or even come up with new ones.

Western Christian missionaries inevitably bring with them the Gospel message, but it is already embedded in Western cultural forms.

What was distinctive about Christianity was not the socio - cultural form, samaj dharma, but its religious or spiritual content, sadhana dharma.

If we have truly various cultural forms of faith, we need to also recognize that none of them is capable of expressing all the aspects and dimensions of faith.

This dialogue and communion are truly the way for saving the faith from being reduced to any one particular self - enclosed cultural form.

And ministry to second - and third - generation Hispanics requires a specialized approach, since the English - speaking younger generations still want to express their faith via Latino cultural forms.

Too often church feels foreign to those outside it because of cultural forms of worship.

On this view language and other cultural forms have a self - generating character; this view of cultural systems gives us an alternative to thinking of the interiority of experience in mental terms.

They speak in their own languages, express their feelings in their own style, create their own cultural forms, and establish their own norms.