Sentences with phrase «separate from the culture»

«Goals are not separate from the culture of the organization,» he continues.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

We are 2000 years separated from the culture that produced the Bible to address it's problems and norms.

«Christ against culture» means «Christ separating from culture.

Their actions show where their hearts truly are — separate from culture, invested in something far from reaction and outrage every time someone does or says something awful.

To what extent the private individual can be separated from the culture that spawned them is one of the abiding questions thrown up by Jim Shaw's work.

We can say «sorry» in a meaningful way to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who have been separated from their cultures, their lands, their communities and their families, without having to feel personally guilty for what has been (and still continues to be) inflicted on them by our public institutions.

Not exact matches

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

With the vantage point of the 21st century, we can now see that a successful skunk works — separated from its corporate parent, with its own culture, in control of its own R&D and distribution channel — looked much like a startup.

But what separates BAF from the pack is its ability to screen for them, reinforce them via training and culture, and maximize their impact.

Culture is the line a group draws that separates the behaviors they stand for, advocate, and tolerate from the behaviors they will not tolerate.

Building and maintaining a strong culture is much of what separates average startups from those with staying power.

A workplace rich in culture is what separates the leaders from the rest, recognizing that it takes a multitude of different points of view to fully comprehend the complexity of business challenges.

«It's what separates an innovation culture from a normal corporate culture.»

One thing that separates a civilized man from a terrorist is that the cultured man will not do anything to win.

Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences.

But for us, I think Jonathan and I suffered from many of the patterns of our culture that separate from the poor or the marginalized or people who look different from us.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

This removes children from the protection of their family environment and allows increased sexualisation of our culture which aids the view of sex as recreation and separates it from its reproductive naturalorder.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

Although relatively isolated from the rest of world Christianity and fully integrated into Indian culture as a separate caste, it maintained a strong Christian identity that reached back through memory and tradition to St. Thomas, the apostle to the East.

Consequently, the Church must be able to clearly distinguish (and separate, if need be) itself from the broader culture.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

In both cases we can trace the spread of culture from certain early centers, but we can also see that it emerged independently in widely separated places and at different times.

As Martin sees it, this separates him from the intolerance of the hyper - conservative fundamentalists, on the one hand, and the liberal, apostate culture on the other.

Though possessing many common cultural traits found also in Europe and the West, the much closer similarities between the cultures of Iran or Persia and India have led scholars to distinguish an Indo - Iranian branch of the larger whole as having early separated itself from the central or original Aryan migration, perhaps moving eastward from the, as yet, not certainly located origin of the Aryan group.

Justin cites scholars who believe this instruction likely had something to do with cult prostitution, especially given the fact that the rest of the passage is about keeping the Israelites separate from polytheistic cultures.

Victorian dualisms continue to be operative in a congregation if members separate church life from daily life.3 It is dualistic to believe that American culture is secular but church members are sacred, as if they do not live in «the world.»

Because we don't have the capacity and time to teach them about everything, we teach them the tools on how to separate right from wrong and know this is something in culture that you don't have to follow and this is something that you should adopt because it is aligned with your religion.

We should remember the traditional Catholic distinction between a formal heretic — someone who initiates a heresy and consciously rejects Catholic teaching — and a material heretic — someone brought up in a culture and tradition separated from or outside the Church.

Scott: I think that one of the things Mary Ann and I have learned along the way, and which has further separated us from the mainstream culture, is the realization that we can always make room for one more.

And even the «negative» programs on TV — the game shows and «Miami Vice» and Music TV — should be included in the curriculum, so that students will begin to understand their culture and become capable of separating the good from the bad from the indifferent.

The meaning and function of our modernity is to unveil, by means of the distance which today separates our culture from ancient culture, what has been unique and extraordinary in this hermeneutic situation since the beginning.

They recognize the huge pressure our culture has put on us to succeed and choose to separate what they have accomplished from their value and worth as children of the Most High.

I certainly think there is a distinction that can be made between «Christ against culture,» by which Niebuhr means Christ separated from aspects of culture, and «Christ against culture.»

The resources of religion and culture can not be separated from the minorities» social, economic, and political activity of resistance - liberation.

Even before then, Ireland was engaged in a struggle to prevent its separate identity and culture from being destroyed by England.

Some who see themselves at war choose to separate from the mainstream culture, some live militantly in a paradoxical relation to that culture, not of the world but still in it.

Just as, in general, good works are distinct from faith and not to be identified with it, and yet are also demanded by faith and not to be separated from it, so justice in its political meaning as right structures of society and culture is both distinct from faith and demanded by it, and hence neither identifiable with faith nor separable from it.

Lewis Mumford's life - long investigation of the interaction between culture and its technology, demonstrates convincingly the impossibility of separating a discussion of technology from the cultures in which it is invented and used.

But there have been as well periods in which religion was sundered apart from culture, science was separated from religion and religion was separated from metaphysics.

Superimpose on that all the layers that are influenced by culture and society, the expectations and prejudices having to do with gender roles and gender expression, and try to separate those from gender identity.

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

Culture can not be separated from a pattern of values and a way of life.

That prevailing paradigm holds that the individual self can be grasped as a separate entity abstracted from its political contexts and from the larger social contexts of our culture.

This dichotomy not only separates disciplines from one another and fragments them within themselves; more important, it produces a schizophrenic sensibility within contemporary culture and individuals.

In short, how are we, Christians in Asia, to tell stores of our faith in the world of cultures, religions and histories which though unrelated to Christianity in origin and development, can not be separated from who we are and what we are?