Sentences with phrase «same cultural forces»

He tosses out a few tantalizers here and there: Bakker prospered from the same cultural forces that enabled Reagan to build a presidency on style without substance; Bakker's «full gospel» constituency was determined to believe that revelations of malfeasance were fabricated by a conspiracy of liberal media elites.

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At the same time she questions Calvin's individualized notion of unfaithfulness, insisting that feminists must speak out equally against «unfaithful cultures» — those institutional structures and cultural forces that perpetuate the gendered bondage to sin.

[xxiv] This further lead to modern specialization, fragmentation, and particularization that Heidegger saw as a powerful force within the same cultural milieu.

As to the Roman Catholic community, it has been buffeted by the same social and cultural forces, especially since Vatican II (probably inevitably) greatly weakened the institutional defenses against the overall culture.

They assumed that the media are only one of many forces that shape our cultural environment, and that violence in the media is both a cause and an effect which reflects much that is wrong in society while at the same time amplifying some of its problems.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.