Sentences with word «syncretism»

In response to the pervasive relativism in contemporary culture, and the form of relativism that is called religious syncretism in the dialogue between religions — a problem that came in for special attention at a recent Synod for Asia — CDF, with the Pope's express support, is reiterating the Church's faith that Jesus is, as he said of himself, the way, the truth, and the life.

Perhaps we face new kind of religious syncretism that combines digital fever with the worship of Creation.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who left Nigeria aged 16 to move to the US, traces the seams of this kind of cultural syncretism, through large - scale, mixed - media works on paper that patchwork different modes and techniques of representation to forge a continuity between her experiences in both countries.

Both groups would immediately see such syncretism as a corruption of both communities and a violation of their most central claims, and they would be appropriately outraged.

But when you hear mainstream theologians talking about syncretism it is always and everywhere wrong.

Essays at syncretism which down - graded the uniqueness of the central core of Christianity — the incarnation, the crucifixion, and the resurrection — and the work of the Holy Spirit, while numerous and recurring, either have been passing phenomena or have failed to enlist large numbers.

For a helpful discussion of how «the Deuteronomic Ideology» made the herein a standard element of the conquest, turned a human vow into a divine command, and assigned a new purpose to the herein (to avoid syncretism), see Patrick D. Miller, Jr.'s commentary Deuteronomy in the Interpretation series (Louisville, Ky.: John Knox Press, 1990), p 41.

A dance syncretism made of menacing beats skittering from dark dancehall to mashed - up jungle, super-warped bass frequencies, stark anti-hooks, and a voice that is the most authentic to emerge in years.

It is this: The emerging church is headed toward syncretism.

According to Jayant Lele, it is this form of «pedagogic violence» that drives the current situation: «The proponents of Hindutva want to appropriate the same syncretism as a property of Hinduism and are thus able to assert that India is secular because it is Hindu.

Eliade understands syncretism not in a pejorative sense but as something inherent in culture and religion to influence each other.

On this grey afternoon, there could be nothing more wonderful than sharing the work of Cuban - American painter Cesar Santos who has recreated iconic paintings with a modern twist for his series called Syncretism.

Christianity becomes guilty of syncretism when critical, basic elements of the Christian faith are undermined or replaced by the religious elements of its host culture or the world around it.

I didn't want to feel fractured or compartmental, but I believe in syncretism more than orthodoxy anyway.

When religions exist side by side syncretism always results.

While I abhor the fundamentalists exaggerated political power in the USA (as uncharitable as that sounds) I can't warm to pseudo-Christian syncretism either.

The fact that we have not done so leaves the door open to the presumed integrated perspectives of Eastern spirituality, to fundamentalist absolutisms of multiple stripes, to worldly syncretisms in which every soul worships its own idol, or to the sprinkling of holy water over Leninist slogans.

Contextualization, as a fetish of conflict - resolution - avoidance, peddled syncretism naming it Christianity.

Christian / atheist syncretism is just another example.

I think many / most of the «pagan» elements are pagan, without the quotation marks, and Eldredge picked them up through undiscerning syncretism.

Sanneh says «syncretism represents the unresolved, unassimilated and tension - filled mixing of Christian ideas with local custom and ritual, and that scarcely results in the kind of fulfilling change signaled by conversion and church membership.

This attitude of syncretism saved them from Roman destruction, on the other hand the early Christians stood firm in their faith in Jesus Christ alone.

He fears that the suggested changes in Christology will portend «the end of all meaningful religious and spiritual dialogue» and will result in a «sterile relativism, a monistic spiritual syncretism devoid of creative, truly pluralistic conflict and fruitful, truly creative tension.»

Finally, could Posner and Segall's notion of religion as the Constitution's «ward» mean tending after those who are still so underdeveloped in their fidelity to the Constitution as not to understand that the current dispensation of U.S. Church - State relations requires syncretism?

«YAHWEH HATES SYNCRETISM» (a) You don't know that.

First, exegetes had to explain how one got from the unmessianic, unapocalyptic, prophetic Jesus to the apocalyptic community which worshiped him as Messiah; to a community in which were united Jewish eschatology, stoic philosophy, and mystery religion in a wondrous syncretism.

The powerful hold of Yahweh on the grateful memory and devotion of Israel is, indeed, made evident by the fact that they did not surrender him to the Canaanitish gods of the land, but kept him, added to him the functions, powers, and ceremonies of the baals, until the prophets rose in a desperate and magnificent attempt to conserve the good and eradicate the evil of this perilous syncretism.

Some think my criticisms represent a slippery slope in one direction (toward legalistic tendencies); Henry and Hesselgrave make it clear that there are two slippery slopes, and the other one ends in this very sort of designer theology that constitutes syncretism.

Some Catholics fear that he has betrayed a kind of «ecumenical syncretism»; others hope for a shift toward religious pluralism.

Numbers of those who take that view have advocated syncretism, a religion which would combine the insights of all and a joint search for the ultimate truth, if there be ultimate truth, and which would avail itself of all that man has thus far found in his age - long quest.

None of these movements aims at an unorganic syncretism of religions.

What u r doing is Syncretism where u combine as many religions as possible so that if u get some wrong some wud b right.

Historians of religions (Eichhorn, Alfred Jeremias, Gunkel, Gressmann, Bousset, Heitmilller, Clemen, Preisker, et al.) have revealed the intimate connection between the Old Testament and ancient oriental religion and between New Testament Christianity, late Judaism, and oriental - Hellenistic syncretism.