Sentences with phrase «secular context»

Of course it was the blood of his human body, but that gives his self - surrender quite a different meaning from what it has in an ordinary secular context.

Religious discourse in the public arena is not simply talk about the gods in an otherwise secular context.

Using rows upon rows of black and white squares and etchings, he takes this meditation to a more secular context, as the alternating squares sinuously trace the calm repose of a woman seated behind a café table, clasping her mobile phone.

The colleges of these denominations are increasingly forced to choose whether to give up their remaining identification as Christian and compete in a purely secular context or to rethink their responsibilities as Christian institutions.

Because of the aggressive nature of the style of music, lyrics like, I surrender, giving up all that is me / Yielding to you, are detached from their historical Christian context and placed into a secular context.

My experience seems to suggest that there are more in a secular context, but that is by no means a representative sample.

(9) The researching and teaching of evolution has had a secular bias as well, since science has been carried on largely in a secular context as a secular enterprise, in relation to which religious affirmations (such as creation) are seen as quaint and superfluous.

Regardless of whether it is framed in its religious or its secular context, regardless of whether the object of one's energy is external or internal, America's understanding of her national character continues to place work at the forefront.

They also make extensive use of contemporary social theology, seeking to understand in the most general terms the ways that societies function, the ways in which ideas are communicated and the ways in which religious concepts can be plausible and authoritative in a modern, secular context.

Gradually the population was shifting from rural to urban settings, and the meaning and nature of work was being defined in a secular context.

Bonhoeffer issued a call to redefine religion in a secular context.

The difficulty was, however, that he did not recognize what he believed and practiced in the preacher's terms; and the preacher had been unable to provide a secular context for his theological interpretations of love.

This work suggests that there may be particular benefits from religiously - based education that are more difficult to produce in a secular context.

These appropriations of historical works pay homage to the tradition of representation of the female figure, in a plethora of forms, both in a devotional context within the Catholic Church and as comforter, temptress or siren in a secular context.

Audience members can discover the power of an impeccably composed piece of religious choral music in a modern, secular context, one that is as close to transcendental as any in San Francisco.

Amy - Blue was one of two portraits of Amy Winehouse unveiled as part of an exhibition of Marlene Dumas's work at the Frith Street Gallery entitled Forsaken, exploring themes of existential despair within both a religious and secular context.

In a secular context, a racist religious belief system is not going to protect you from liability under anti-discrimination laws.