Sentences with phrase «own cultural setting»

Texts need to be seen within their cultural settings in order to be revealed as they truly are, as one of the ways by which persons pursue their individual and collective interests.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

You'll see, if you're being intellectually honest, that I am a great proponent of taking into account the relevant social, historical and cultural settings in which the amanuenses wrote.

We can not at this point go into the whole matter of the relation of the Bible to its cultural setting.

Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.

As an institutionalized set of practices, how is this school located in its immediate social and cultural setting?

To ask this second type of question is to raise a variety of issues: «Are the forms of speech and action in question a traditional legacy from an earlier social and cultural setting?

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

For the same reason the religious beliefs and allegiance of a man are nearly always those of his own family, or of his immediate cultural setting.

«Adaptation» is sometimes taken to mean that particular teachings are merely to be adapted to relevant cultural settings; for instance, reinterpreting Western thought from an Asian perspective.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

For example, Augustinian Christianity survived beyond its Pelagian, Manichaean, and Donatist rivals chiefly because (in its specific cultural setting) it made more philosophical sense than they did.

Without even recounting the crucifixion, Bell presented such vivid images of the patterns of sacrifice in the ancient Near East (the cultural setting for the sacrifice of Isaac) that by the time we got to the story of Jesus, our hearts and minds were connecting the dots.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

Stated differently, certain features of human nature will surface and seek expression and satisfaction whatever the cultural setting or era.

In our personal involvement with scripture, it is easy to forget that these texts were written by authors who lived in a time, a place, a historical and cultural setting very different from ours.

Then there's Anna Halpine, president of the World Youth Alliance, a network of pro-life young people all over the world, who witness to the joy of the Gospel and the Gospel of life in an extraordinary variety of social and cultural settings.

Resurrection has been understood in different ways in the different cultural settings and historical periods in which we find it.

This outer circle says that God's Word comes to fruition only in terms of the particular cultural setting of the hearers.

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.

In that cultural setting, understanding was largely narrowed to a choice between expression in a literal sense or through cloudy abstraction.

His typology is not directly applicable to religion in the United States because of the difference in cultural setting.

We know the lies we tell to others; the lies we tell to ourselves are a bit harder to discern; but the only way really to grasp the lies we don't even know we are living is to get outside our own cultural setting.

No, Huck Finn describes the cultural setting and holds Jim up as a moral and good man.

Today the gospel is given very different interpretations by people in different cultural settings.

By the same token, however, they are deeply rooted in larger cultural settings that shape them.

Zens draws attention to these very issues preferring his conclusion as consistent with an understanding of the cultural setting.

In 1985, a group of thirty Protestant and Catholic scholars from colleges and seminaries across the United States met to consider the written statements of Jesus in the light of the idioms, history, and cultural setting of his time, and so to try to determine which statements are «authentic» and which are not.

We saw that the gospel has been interpreted in scores of different cultural settings during the past two millennia, and that it exists in many of different cultural settings throughout the world today.

Moral and legal rules are the product of society, and, though they may have validity in a particular cultural setting, they ought not to be «universalized» to apply to all peoples in all societies.

So much of what is taught about the Bible is done in the context of the social & cultural setting in which it is delivered though, which could be why it appears to be more complicated than it is.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

Every enactment of this worship of God is located in some cultural setting.

So too, attention to congregations whose practice of worship is necessarily shaped by its cultural setting would not be parochially limited to what goes on «within» congregations but rather have to question the value of any sharp contrast between «inside» and «outside» and attend to what is known about the cultural settings that inescapably shape its enactments of worship.

«The newfound evidence for the cultural settings of the Bible led many to conclude that the Bible is essentially defined by these cultural factors.

The central purpose of professional church leadership is apologia — that is, to formulate and defend theories or «doctrines» about God's truth and God's justice for Christian communities worldwide to apply in their lives in diverse cultural settings.

Such a cultural setting tends to generate a deep hunger for certainty about one's worldview in its competition with other worldviews, about one's identity in the face of social rootlessness and anonymity, and about one's unsubstitutable significance as a person in the face of specialization that reduces one's personhood to a single socially useful role.

In my cross cultural setting, one aspect of this is to be aware of where our church plants are taking on traits of our own home culture instead of the local culture.

That way they would be best prepared in an ongoing manner, on the one hand, to understand the cultural setting in which they ministered and possible new developments in it, and, on the other hand, to distinguish the essence of Christianity from its various historically conditioned forms and to reformulate it for every new cultural context of ministry.

Over the past several years, this package has been adapted for use in a large number of countries and cultural settings.

Looking at fatherhood across time and cultural settings is important as it broadens our understanding of the changing role of fathers, and contributing factors to their different level of engagement within the family.

Rather, they suggest that spanking kids may be less harmful in certain cultural settings.

While Western - type liberal democracies remain one of the most effective and tested forms of government in history, what is needed, globally, is not necessarily a transition to liberal democracy but rather a more careful consideration of the fundamental human quest for dignity, which often bears interpretations that are «endogenous» and adapted to various socio - cultural settings.

Problems can also arise when it comes to working in an unfamiliar cultural setting.

The second experiment repeated the first study in a different cultural setting, the Wageningen area of the Netherlands.

The ability to explore various ecological and cultural settings attracts many young researchers to their respective disciplines.

NASA and NOAA used the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite to study light patterns during Christmas and Ramadan to «provide new insights into how energy consumption behaviors vary across different cultural settings.»

The style of music played in a bar can also affect drinking behavior, although in varying ways, depending on the cultural setting.

An inveterate traveler, Tom has practiced integrative manual therapy for 40 years in a variety of clinical and cultural settings.