Sentences with phrase «surrounding culture»

So I suppose that slavery is okay as long as surrounding cultures practice it and your don't treat them «as bad».

He wants to get at the problem of how Christian faith should be related to the dominant surrounding culture and to point out the various types of ways leading thinkers have addressed that problem.

The film Freedom for Birth is a call to action and pulls back the curtain on the realities surrounding the culture of birth.

They were pasted on walls around New York City, as a way to make viewers question their roles in surrounding culture.

Whether the Sabbath originated with the Israelites themselves or whether Israel appropriated within her Yahwistic context practices from surrounding cultures need not concern us here.

«How early is infants» attention affected by surrounding culture?

Jewish - Christian rejection of homosexuality can not be, as some claim, a matter of «cultural conditioning,» since on this question it is obvious that Jews and Christians made such a determined, and successful, effort to resist the influence of surrounding cultures.

A scholar of prophets, prophecy and prophetic texts in ancient Israel and surrounding cultures specializing in women prophets, she also specializes in womanist and feminist ways of reading scripture.

Surrounding cultures worshiped multiple gods.

The Bible never speaks of the divine genitals, even though surrounding cultures emphasized them in fertility rites.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said Prime Minister David Cameron has «some very serious questions to answer» in the controversy surrounding Culture Secretary Maria Miller.

Friedman's question has been asked by both supporters and critics of the current trends in publishing, but she portrays and industry where readers transform the social fabric surrounding the culture of books.

The frat - boy humour is present and, at times, politically incorrect (although there's more subtlety here than you might expect) but, more often than not, the satire is aimed at video games themselves, rather than any particular surrounding culture.

I suspect that at least some of you will greet concepts surrounding culture with rolling eyes and groans.

(c) The Bible, however, did not simply borrow ideas of the world from surrounding cultures, but modified what it used.

When one looks at the myths of surrounding cultures, in fact, one senses that the current debate over creationism would have seemed very strange, if not unintelligible, to the writers and readers of Genesis.

Although your personal core values may not exactly match anyone else's, they still help you determine your surrounding culture.

But one of them is not that the surrounding culture gets to decide the nature of human personhood and identity, nor the bounds of acceptable sexual expression.

She recognizes it, but her surrounding culture isn't offering an alternative other than self - centered materialism.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

However central religious discourse and habits of life remain in the surrounding culture, alienation and isolation begin to characterize the spiritual seeker.

This belief is particularly poignant for the person with AIDS who obviously finds much in the surrounding culture to reinforce this incriminating interpretation.

A unified collective challenging the divisive dispersion of its surrounding culture.

Much to our shame, though the church should be leading the world in issues like the abolishment of slavery, women's suffrage, affirmative action, income inequality, taking care of the poor and homeless, and human trafficking, it seems that far too often, the church resists such changes while the surrounding culture cries out for justice and equality.

It usually takes the church thirty or forty years to come around and see that the surrounding culture was right after all.

It wants to reestablish the radical difference between Christianity and the surrounding culture.

To disregard this surrounding culture is to nullify much of the Bible's spiritual meaning by reading into it what is not there but is imputed to it from the thought patterns of a different day.

As a Christian church, we are being addressed on these issues by our surrounding culture.

Michael... right... do a little digging into history 101 of the surrounding cultures and you may be shocked as to what you find.

Scripture itself counsels different responses in different contexts, on the one hand reminding us to keep the surrounding culture removed, while on the other hand urging us to reach steadfastly out to the doubters of this world: «But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

A religious culture seeking an effective, faithful response to these issues would not pursue freedom from existing government and economic structures, but would manipulate them in order to strengthen an alternative community, a community formed by a coherent set of values that are at odds with the surrounding culture.

It went something along the lines of the church often merely reflects the same sicknesses of the surrounding culture.

Paul has just instructed men and women to stop angrily disputing ways the surrounding culture is creeping into church.

(For example, by his own standards, Webb would have to admit that Hebrew dietary laws and economic laws were more restrictive than the surrounding culture.

Trower was affected by the surrounding culture, recalling what an Oxford don told him years before: «You will never find love until you find it in the tabernacle.»

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

The prophets have always proclaimed a higher morality than their surrounding cultures.

What I was trying to say is that there has been (and still is) a lot of good things coming out of the surrounding culture, and there is nothing wrong with the church adopting these things so that we can adapt to the culture.

In what congregations build and where they build it, they say something about their relationship to the surrounding culture.

In some surrounding cultures, homosexual prostitution was practiced in conjunction with the worship of Baal, and Hebrew law might have condemned such activities because they were homosexual or because they involved prostitution or because they were connected with Baal worship.

The renunciation of idolatry in 4:6 is an integral part of the definition, a specimen of denunciation which applies if the surrounding culture is idolatrous.

Christian theology, if it is to be Christian theology, must do more than simply acquiesce to its surrounding culture.

Is the morality of god dependent on the surrounding cultures of his «chosen people»?