Sentences with phrase «own cultural prejudices»

It's dated, but worth reading as it helps Christians understand the power of humor in doing all the things listed above: embracing spiritual correction, speaking truth to power, eliminating cultural prejudice and deconstructing religious cliques.

It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.

Cultural prejudices, structures of patriarchy, economic exploitation and unjust laws and traditions are some of them.

One should not fight God and insist that he give us his Word in another way, or, as we are more apt to do, rework his Word along theological or cultural prejudices that turn into a minefield of principles, propositions, or imperatives but denude it of its ad hoc character as truly human.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

Arms producers use the media to promote arms sales by fostering conflicts within and among countries, often using cultural prejudices for it.

Though this theory of knowledge as detached reflection appeals to our cultural prejudices, formed as they are by an unreflective scientism, it is a relatively modern notion that has been thoroughly dismantled by the phenomenological tradition.

Such mistreatment comes from personal insecurity and fear rooted in cultural prejudice, not Biblical teaching.

The fact that cultural prejudice sometimes uses Biblical teaching for its own ends does not invalidate the Biblical teaching...

Coverage of the Olympic Winter Games brought Russia's anti-gay laws back into the conversation and exposed some of that country's cultural prejudice against LGBT people.

Though driven by the Spirit to speak and act, our expectation of the perfect freedom of the reign of God can be uttered and our praxis realized only in terms of particular metaphors, projects or cultural prejudices.

Showing perhaps too much confidence in nonviolence, education, legislation and litigation as the only appropriate means to eliminate cultural prejudice, the editors never wavered in their support for civil rights in general.

And usually the standard employed would be derived from common cultural prejudices.

Hawkeye is different; with the feel of family and the healthy experience of the outdoors, Camp Hawkeye uses the joy and fun of camp to break down social and cultural prejudices, misconceptions and barriers.

He notes that the term invasive plant is an intellectual construct, reflecting cultural prejudices as well as scientific facts.

After independence, the Indian government left much of the educational bureaucracy in place, including, some critics say, the cultural prejudices that went with it.

However, I freely admit that my answer is colored by my own cultural prejudices and may very well not be applicable to you.

If by «story» we're talking about the narrative material that occurs entirely outside of game play (such as cut scenes), then there is some truth to this, but even then it's all too easy to be distracted by personal or cultural prejudices.

And finally of course I had to look and see with my own eyes without prejudice — without that Western cultural prejudice.

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

Common sense is a very poor guide to scientific insight for it represents cultural prejudice more often than it reflects the native honesty of a small boy before the naked emperor.»

Not exact matches

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

They want to make God in their own image, conforming to their ideals, backing up their own prejudices and traditional or cultural beliefs.

The pity is that the Bavarian seems hardly able to distinguish between his religious feelings, his anti-Jewish prejudices, and his racial and cultural pride.

[and] education... to promote religious and cultural tolerance and root out prejudice from... education systems.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

In general, editors denounced racial prejudice and spoke of the equality of women, but reflected the narrowness of their cultural attitudes more than they themselves recognized in the jokes they published and in the phrasing of their editorials.

To be haole, therefore, is to participate in a less than proud heritage of cultural arrogance, racial prejudice and sexism dating back to the early European explorers and traders, the sugar planters, even some of the missionaries, and the large businesses that would eventually join to form the Big Five.

Catholics experienced prejudice and discrimination in Protestant America and had to swim against the cultural stream.

And this seems like a silly one perhaps — women in bikinis, good gracious — but it was really a challenge about my body and how I view my body, about shame and freedom, about the goodness of our bodies before God, pushing back against my own prejudices and cultural conditionings.

Its various books reflected many aspects of the cultural environment in which they were composed, including even the prejudices and limited knowledge of their authors.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

«By acknowledging that all our readings are located in a cultural context and have certain prejudices, we understand that engaging with the Bible can never mean that we simply extract meaning from it, but also that we read meaning into it.

They can continue, with some legitimacy to blame public prejudice and discrimination against them, but the truth is that others, with differing cultural values, including members of their own ethnic groups, have been able to succeed despite the obstacles.

Add to this ancient rites and cultural beliefs and prejudices which must be sorted out when trying to rely on the bible for ways in which to conduct one's life in order to figure out what God wants of us and to gain salvation.

6 Nevertheless, the roots of race prejudice are as old as the human race in the tendency to like those who are like oneself and to dislike those who for any reason, biological or cultural, are different.

First, it wrongly assumes that hierarchicalists or patriarchalists do not have their own cultural and subcultural prejudices that impact their reading of Scripture.

Using a graphic image, he concludes, «the normal human reaction to a great cultural achievement like the Bible is to do with it what the Philistines did to Samson: reduce it to impotence, then lock it in a mill to grind our aggressions and prejudices» (p. 233).

They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.

It focused on cultural experiences and attitudes — hostility to the rules and regulations of social liberalisation, national pride and racial prejudice and wrapped an appeal to economic experiences within it: Britain would be better off economically because Britain is great; freeing ourselves of fussy and politically correct regulation would release economic energy; stopping immigration would mean there's more money to go around.

There is something that goes on in the cultural realm, which is truly the site of the significant amount of prejudice that we find today.

«In what has also been referred to as a vicious cycle of prejudice, we find that lower levels of openness to diversity are associated with lower levels of cultural integration,» she said.

Neuroscience studies indicate that racial prejudices involve altered signaling in brain regions involved in empathy, which can be restored by cultural interventions such as increased racial contact or virtual reality training.

Postmodernism adopted ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is relative and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer.

Bounceur also had to adapt to a new cultural context, with the added difficulty that the two countries share a sensitive past that makes prejudices and misunderstandings common.

This website is the online companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh - day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth.

This website is the online companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh - day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth.

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A satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a peek into the way blacks have been represented historically in the media, and the ways in which they have sought to redress the cultural balance (there's a neat look at an extremist hip - hop collective)- it's certainly the nucleus for a meaty and much needed discourse.