Sentences with phrase «understanding by the culture»

Which verses are the ultimate goal that the church should reflect, and which ones are the temporary constraints so that we might be understood by a culture and time?

A script that can be appreciated by both cultures and understood by both cultures.

Not exact matches

For instance, studying the cooking and wardrobe habits of Indian mothers - in - law and daughters - in - law helped Lindstrom and his team make recommendations for how to design the packaging of a breakfast cereal and understanding the isolation of rural and suburban North Carolinians trapped in a car - centric culture sparked his recommendation that a local grocery store chain should double down on its feeling of community by emphasizing its homey roast chicken offering.

Demonstrating that you understand and abide by the culture of your organization shows you not only realize this, but that you also «get» that leaders must guide by example.

But if you look closer, you'll see I'm always trying to hack culture by studying consumer activity and understanding where, why, and how people buy and sell.

According to a 2013 survey of more than 22,000 business executives by the Katzenbach Center at Strategy &, most leaders understand the key point I just mentioned — that culture plays a critical role in achieving great financial performance - and successfully leading and managing change.

They have created «a customer - centric culture where you seek to understand and welcome «the voice of the customer» to the table and where you are defined by the level, quality and breadth of service provided to customers and the experience they have doing business.»

«The best way to measure cultural fit is for the assessor to have a deep understanding of the culture and then to spend time with the person being assessed,» Bonnie Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, tells me by email.

Further, it is understood that emphasis should be on recruitment of Directors who bring more than credentials or designations by contributing to a culture that accelerates business success by advocating and influencing public policy, developing business leaders, connecting businesses and presenting thought leaders.

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 fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

One of the long - term factors that has left our culture unable to understand the kind of claim being made by Hobby Lobby has been the failure of so many churches to teach that business is a vocation.

An implicit apology must be made for the author's faith, an assurance that, yes, this is religious but it can be understood and appreciated by people who are not religious (everyone who is normal and cultured).

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Also, the Bible, was created by people who could only understand what their culture and knowledge allowed them to understand at the time it was written.

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

Religion News Service: U.S. mosques hit by shortage of imams The Spokane Islamic Center wants something mosques all across the country are seeking and can't seem to find: an educated, bilingual, experienced imam who understands American culture.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

Tyson is being misunderstood and judged by people who don't understand the gypsy culture he comes from, nor Christianity.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Actually, I think everyone in every culture in every era is «wired» by God's design to seek a workable system for understanding the world around us and interpreting our experiences in it.

This model invites students to see the New Testament as the product of a profoundly human process of experience and interpretation, by which people of another age and place, galvanized by a radical religious experience, sought to understand both that experience and themselves in the light of the symbols made available to them by their culture.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

One of the unintentional cruelties sometimes practiced by the United States Government in dealing with American Indians has sprung from failure to understand this contrast between primitive and modern culture.

The aim of the anthropologist is to understand cultures by sensitive and sympathetic participation in them on their own terms.

The Church's teaching on sexuality seems puzzling to many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of a culture that practises and glorifies sex without commitment or even deep feeling, a culture in which the most lucrative internet business is pornography.

The practical challenge faced by those who wish to evangelise contemporary culture through the way of beauty is to envision how it might effectively challenge and transform secular values and ways of understanding.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

That paideia became the model for excellence in theological schooling was simply inherent in the way the Christian thing was construed by Christians and pagans alike in a Hellenistic culture that understood itself to be paideia

The great Indo - European mythos, from which Western culture sprang, was chiefly one of sacrifice: it understood the cosmos as a closed system, a finite totality, within which gods and mortals alike occupied places determined by fate.

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.

Even those who don't understand a culture's language are sometimes able to grasp the emotional significance of human interactions by careful attention to nonverbal cues.

Additionally, donors may see the propriety, in our indulgent culture, of exhortations by R&D professionals against selfishness and materialism, but they understand that development «education» that consists of popularized versions of dependency theory is not likely to be helpful - either for rich Western Christians or for their impoverished Third World brethren.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

The Counter-Culture became less defined by a positive understanding of the alternative culture it offered, and more by a general antagonism towards the «Establishment.»

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.

Nature for him (be understands too late) is mere chaos, without form and void, until given meaning by human culture: «This used to be real estate / now it's only fields and trees.»

On the other hand it can be made up of intricate nuances that may not be so easily understood and appreciated by outsiders to the culture.

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.

& been blessed by better understanding of the original culture the proverb originated from..

Needless to say, those who control the commanding heights of British culture do not feel threatened by that understanding of the Christian mission.

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

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

Of course, taboos played a large role in all three cultures, but in the axial period they were understood differently by each culture.

The Integrative Jurisprudence of Harold J. Berman Edited by Howard O. Hunter Westview, 164 pages, $ 59 A much - deserved festschrift for a jurist who has made an inestimable contribution to understanding the connections between law, morality, culture, and religion.