Sentences with phrase «pan-disciplinary cultural situations»

If, as a progressive Protestant, I am fully committed to the truth, whether or not it is supportive of my Christian biases, should I in fact continue to follow a Jewish teacher of the early part of the first century whose teaching obviously reflected a very different socio - cultural situation than mine?

For Moltmann, our present cultural situation is one in which freedom has become a rarity, and with it, laughter and play.

With regard to the efforts of the death - of - God theologians, Ogden observes that to base Christian theology on the secularistic premise that God is dead is to make an assessment of our cultural situation that is «completely undiscriminating in simply assuming that secularism is an essentially unified and internally consistent outlook.

There are many problems to solve when we are sending persons for clinical training overseas, in a cultural situation different from the one they come from and to which they should return.

I do not mean to imply that the many serious problems involved in the reappropriation of traditional religious symbols in the present cultural situation have all been solved.

The Christian faith decisively helps the individual to overcome the difficulties of the cultural situation of our time.

There is another fact of our present cultural situation that bears heavily upon the image of evangelizing that has been presented.

If I have outlined the cultural situation of Catholic writers in mostly negative terms, it is not out of despair or cynicism.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

These critics err in their estimate of the contemporary cultural situation, in their understanding of what recreation is, and in their appraisal of the relation between work and play.

Knowledge depends on and is conditioned by both our historical - cultural situation and in the context of certain practices.

Awareness that there are particular cultural situations rather than a universal culture within which the gospel takes form raises, of course, the obvious question: what is the gospel?

Many outward expressions are suitable, the appropriate one in any given case depending on personality type and on the person's social and cultural situation.

The cultural situation in Corinth can not be so quickly ignored.

They are necessary implications which theological controversy and new cultural situations have brought to light.

Waiving for the moment the far from settled question of the extent that Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence were adapted to the particular social and cultural situation in which he found himself, we still must ask whether we can really see the vindication of hope for the higher values in a cumulative and secure achievement of orders of persuasion over brute force.

When this passage is applied to the religious and cultural situation today, we can perhaps hear a call to endurance and hope as we travel the holy way to the New Jerusalem, to the heavenly Mount Zion.

As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture.

Obviously our cultural situation has already been shaped by images and ideas flowing from what Christians would call revelation, and our concrete questions arise out of a context that has been deeply influenced by biblical motifs.

Elements of democratic ethics, such as doctrines of human rights and religious freedom, are gradually finding their way into Catholic thought.7 Since the Church is a living organism it can respond to every new cultural situation while maintaining steadfastly its own absolute authority.

I feel moved to write about what I perceive to be a critical cultural situation.

Every theology needs to state the substance of the Christian message in a form that is both credible and relevant to the particular cultural situation to which it is addressed.

Like Moses, let's look briefly at the cultural situation in the United States from 1960 - 1998, the era that formed, institutionally, the spiritual life of most of us prior to the new millennium theologies.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

We can learn a great deal about today «s religious response to the cultural situation by understanding the pattern followed in previous awakenings.

The question for us is, what's our cultural situation now?

Constructive theology, aware of God's continuing revelation in the present, is a hermeneutical mode of reflection that, by exploring our particular historical, social and cultural situation in the light of the church's tradition, attempts dialectically to make sense of both our contemporary experience - knowledge and our tradition.

From the start, Ricoeur rejects the assumption that to understand a text is to understand the intention of the author, or, alternatively, to grasp the text's meaning as it was grasped by the first hearers or readers who shared the author's cultural situation.

There are other Christian thinkers who believe that the new cultural situation must be taken a lot more seriously.

Second, there should be an honest and summary communication of the scientific and cultural situation in the present day, with a variety of related material, and dealing with problems and proposed answers.

Adam, My interpretation is based on the best research I know how to do from the original Hebrew text and from the historical / cultural situation in which the text was written.

Second, I believe that the interpreter must take seriously both the historical context of the biblical writer and the present cultural situation.

The terms of the Church's message are different because the historical and cultural situation is different.

It may be that those churches which market their message by emphasising authority, personal success, health and prosperity through faith may have intuited the proper response of the Christian faith to the new cultural situation in which we find ourselves.

The question to be considered in the analysis of any religious phenomenon or expression, therefore, is not whether it reflects any cultural attributes or not, but whether in addressing itself relevantly to the immediate cultural situation it has also effectively retained the essence of its historical and revelatory insights.

Cultural situations in which contemplative understanding of God thrives tend to be highly homogeneous and intolerant of pluralism.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

Furthermore, they have done so reflecting the ethos of their respective cultural situations.

There can be underlying medical, social and cultural situations that impact milk supply.

Linking this theory to the current cultural situation yields four steps that could increase the acceptance of you — and your female colleagues — as leaders in the world of science (Figure 5).

But it certainly also applies to the entire cultural situation, where «low - fat» became nutritionally synonymous with «added sugar» and certain parties became poised to take advantage of the situation by proliferating diets that the average consumer could not distinguish from the therapeutic diets you mention.

Ultimately, the goal of the costume designer is to amplify the personalities written on the page rather than distract from them, and Lyn Paolo, the costume designer behind Shameless, How to Get Away With Murder, and Scandal, says that if she were to dress a character inappropriately for their economic and cultural situation, then she'd be failing at her job.

«So when I say it's a cultural situation, I'm not trying to bring a racial barrier into it.

In his case, as the attached list of his exhibitions planned for this year seems to demonstrate, the presumption works pretty well in a wide spectrum of cultural situations.

O'Hara was not only a poet, but a curator and critic who grounded his critical approach to art, not in theory or philosophy, but in a direct appraisal of the art works themselves, the cultural situation of the time, and the circumstances of the artist.

Alongside loans from prestigious international institutions, this exhibition will showcase its fresh collection of prints pertaining to America's recent social, political and cultural situation.

The Center's graduate program is specifically designed to deepen students» understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present - day arts institutions.

The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present - day urban arts institutions, and to help students improve their interpretive and critical writing.

The Center's graduate program is specifically designed to deepen students» understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present - day urban arts institutions.

The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly within the complex social and cultural situations of present - day arts institutions, and to help students improve their interpretive and critical writing.