Sentences with phrase «shaped by our culture»

Of course, Jesus remained a Jew shaped by the culture of his day.

The «godless chatter,» whatever its actual content, would by shaped by the culture and not by the cross of Jesus.

There is a clash between our perception of reality shaped by our theology and that shaped by our culture and traditions.

Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, we believe that public life is ultimately shaped by culture and religion — our ideas about the first and highest things — rather than clever soundbites or wonky white papers.

We need a conceptuality that shows how deeply human beings are shaped by culture and how much they change as their cultures change.

These conceptions of what the Christian ought to do, the objector will point out, are themselves very much shaped by culture.

The way a congregation uses power to adapt its resources is shaped by its culture, its characteristic ways of acting, speaking and socializing.

British Anglicans and African Anglicans, for instance, may differ in many ways that are shaped by their cultures, despite the formal similarities of their creeds.

In an unusually candid and sometimes biting assessment of his successor as attorney general, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer portrayed Andrew M. Cuomo as a man whose decisions have often been driven by political considerations and whose worldview has largely been shaped by the culture of Albany.

In his books Pinker argues that the brain at birth is not simply a blank slate to be shaped by culture and experience.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

Beyond the threshold is a world shaped by a culture that prized integrity, humility, and equality — Quaker values that nurtured Maria Mitchell, America's first female professional astronomer.

«How early is infants» attention to objects and actions shaped by culture?

It's important to recognize that if you are iffy on organ meats, you are not alone — it is a perspective that has been shaped by culture and history.

Yet the way we understand ourselves and the world is also shaped by our culture, language, and ongoing relationships.

Students use reflection to better understand the actions of individuals and groups in specific situations and how these are shaped by culture.

At the same time, the way in which experiences are expressed is also shaped by culture.

Not exact matches

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Finally, HR also gains ethical significance by embodying most of the few tools available for managers to shape that elusive thing known as corporate culture.

Company culture is shaped by every single person who is a part of the organization.

We recognize that every financial institution is different, shaped by its activities, size, history and culture.

Limited partners play a critical role in shaping culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and influence.

Gen - Y will form 75 % of the workforce by 2025 (by Business and Professional Women's (BPW) Foundation) and are actively shaping corporate culture and expectations.

I began to see that much of my understanding of the world is shaped by the different peoples, cultures and access to institutions of which I had come into contact with.

In so many ways, GFI's work culture is shaped by the richness of our out - of - work lives.

The character and culture of a province, state, or country is also shaped and influenced by people's choices.

By chapter 11, even after God has purged the world with a flood, we see righteous Noah's wayward descendants once again impressed with their own God - given ability to shape culture and seeking to replace him with the work of their own hands.

The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

The gospel can not be preached in any other language than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not to be recast when the culture suggests that the Church do so.

Especially encouraging is the renewed Christian urgency in reappropriating the Jewish shape of Christianity and the emergence of a new generation of Jewish intellectual leadership prepared to argue for a culture firmly secured by the Judeo - Christian tradition.

Those of us shaped by the Enlightenment, for example, often think of justice in quite individualistic ways alien to persons of some other cultures.

I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing about for Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.

By this Huizinga does not mean to equate culture and play but only to suggest that «in its earliest phases culture has the play - character, that it proceeds in the shape and mold of play.

It is fundamental to any culture, for the form a culture takes is shaped mainly by the way in which the people are molded in the educative process.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

What happens to a culture shaped by the Bible, if the culture ceases to believe that the Bible tells truth?»

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

It must be remembered that the early Christian community moved almost wholly into the Gentile world within a generation or two after its origin within Judaism, and that, as Christian thought took more definite shape within the next three or four centuries, it was inevitable that it should have been strongly influenced by the prevailing philosophy of the Hellenistic culture in which the church moved.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

We must move beyond the humanistic ideals that have shaped our cultural traditions and invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by descending into our instinctive resources.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

In the East, the South, and the Midwest, even among persons who have no individual experience of these churches, there remains an established culture shaped by the earlier preeminence of these churches.

It starts when we are shaped by God and not the culture around us.

I stumbled into the evangelical world by a kind of accident 15 years ago when some colleagues and I wanted to understand how the culture of a seminary shapes the ministers who are formed there.

Yet because of the uniformity of contemporary culture by which all of us are shaped, we can make some suggestions that are likely to benefit most of us at one time or another during our lifetime.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

She is significantly shaped by her sense of the postmodern intellectual climate and specifically by her understanding of postmodern culture.