Sentences with phrase «which give that culture»

The religious dimension of a culture promotes particular qualities and aspirations which give that culture its identity and even a name.

Tillich suggested that religion is that which gives culture its depth and its strength.

Not exact matches

In a growth - mindset culture, employees should be given the freedom to contribute to the company's success, which can lead to an increased sense of commitment to the future of that business.

It gives you an opportunity to gather intelligence about your counterpart and the culture in which he or she operates.

As commonsensical as it sounds, the company's «give your job away» mantra has created a culture in which entry - or mid-level employees do not hesitate to call out leaders on their shortcomings.

It gives a culture structure, integrity, grace, and finesse — all of which are uniquely adapted from one culture to another.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

The proximity with other countries give some Chinese provinces the ethnic ties, culture advantages, which mean they could serve an important role in the grand initiative.

Compliance and the means by which companies seek to ensure it give rise to interesting issues of corporate culture.

The magic here comes from understanding which culture you were raised in, which culture you are currently in, and which approach might be more appropriate at a given time.

Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians and others who came before the Hebrews had lots of medical treatments and scientific observations which the Hebrews undoubtedly drew from; but those cultures also were given to many superst «itious beliefs.

We have records from non-biblical sources (Josephus, Roman historians, other writings) which give us some view of Jewish culture (the good guys and the bad guys), and how Jewish culture was viewed by others.

The passages concerning civil law are defined as such right there in the text, and are all relevant to the time and culture in which they were given.

He is only following the cue given by secular culture, which has bombarded him since adolescence with the view that human fulfilment is tied to whatever form of sexual «satisfaction» comes naturally.

Given the assumption of the superiority of Western culture, Hegel's account of the history of Geist inevitably gave Christianity, which is hardly distinguished from Western culture, a superior role.

The moral foundations of our culture, which organized religion has done so much to maintain, are often reasonably secure for one generation, even when actual sharing in the corporation is given up.

There is a dissatisfaction in the young people of today; there is an inner drive, quite undefined, which looks for something much more, for something bigger than life, wider than the world, larger than culture and higher than man - made things, which their formal education has not given them.

The framework within which cultures develop is God - given, as are the foundations of family, economic, and national life which constitute so large a part of any civilization.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

So much for Gopnik's argument that Chesterton's «national spirit» and «extreme localism» led him to his supposed anti-Semitism: they were, in fact, precisely what gave him his respect for other nations and other cultures, including that of the Jews, to which the world owed its knowledge of God, «as narrow as the universe».

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures».

How can we know if it loves or hates, is caring or cold, prehends without loss, or offers us a lure other than those we get from the culture which gives us our conscience?

For precisely that culture which can not be materially given by faith and the Church is nevertheless the earthly duty that determines our eternal salvation.

We wish to God that baptism were meaningless, because it proclaims and gives a meaning which cuts to the core the selfish, materialistic values of our consumer culture.

Whatever may be the level of a given society, it can and does develop such sharing, such participation in agreed values, such mutuality in pursuit of them; and it leads to the appearance of a «culture» which expresses such agreements and aims at their implementation.

What Scripture says, it is argued, is to be determined by the cultures in which it was given and what it means is to determined by, and not merely related to, our own modem culture.

This scene captures the view of human being that gives coherence to The Human Quest: scientific understanding is both exciting and necessary; human cultures are vulnerable systems whose survival is threatened, in the face of which threat we seek moral values embedded within our scientific knowledge.

(1) What the slogan concealed was the complexity of the process involved in understanding God's Word in the context of cultures far removed in time and psychological texture from those in which the revelation was originally given.

From this point of view history can not be understood as a purely immanent development, for it is partially a product of an encounter with a primary reality which transcends culture and gives rise to it.

The cultures to which they give rise, whether we call them primitive or advanced, are grounded in cult.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

This subculture protected them from the storms of secularity, provided a stable base from which to launch repeated evangelistic offensives, and gave them hope that they might regain a role in shaping U.S. culture.

She said: «What we need is a culture in our schools which gives emotional support to children through puberty without encouraging them to make life - long decisions against their natural born biological sex.

Often God has been envisioned as «the great big man up in the sky», in that he is given the attributes of masculinity which society has developed and is denied, save in some slight degree, the feminine qualities which in our culture have unhappily been regarded as somehow inferior to the masculine ones.

Man of God and God fearing is what is counted for a man to represent a mixed culture and beliefs nation for which he has to be aware of those cultures and beliefs of those other nations in order to be able to plant respects to become between those mixed cultures and beliefs as such gives the assurance of mutual understanding between the nation with other overseas nations or even with those within the country of mixed cultures and beliefs...!

However, the doctrine that humans as rational and / or spiritual beings «have ends and loyalties beyond the state», community and nation to which they belong, became part of the «civil religion» or civil culture, which gave moral reinforcement to this whole process of democratization and secularization.

The periods of world history are divided into epochs, each of which is accentuated by the growth and decline of historical cultures and societies; in each of these shortlived tribal units have succeeded each other in the domination of a given region or section of the populated earth, either simply co-existing or vying with each other for temporary or semipermanent superiority.

What we neglected to give our young was a counterbalance to the emphasis on personal freedom and self - determination which they got from both us and the culture.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

Ok, I need to rant, but I'll try to do so in love... I listened to a message a while back by a famous pastor in Seattle who gave a message called «Building a City Within the City» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and -LSB-...]

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

But the subsequent defeat of fascism seemed to have rescued our culture, to have given it a new start — and thus covered over once more the possibility of that culture's ending, the incipient mortality of the democratic and liberal culture which fascism had challenged.

Marsden, in a speech at Austin Theological Seminary marking 50 years since Niebuhr had given the lectures there which later became Christ and Culture, argues that a careful reading reveals that «Niebuhr's five categories can he extremely useful analytical tools.»

A brilliant achievement of Sumer was the impulse given to the Stone - Age cultures of Egypt, which, soon after 3000 B.C., responded with the sudden upward surge of the first dynasties and then the majesty and enduring wonder of the Pyramid age, great in its architecture and engineering, notable for the realism and yet the impassive dignity of its art, and memorable for the brilliance and varied richness of its thronging life.

It appears in Leviticus, which was given to preserve the distinctive characteristics of the religion and culture of Israel.

Our reading for the day was a selection from Daly's second book, Beyond God the Father (1973), which decries a sexist cycle that has patriarchal cultures creating patriarchal divinities who then sanctify in turn the patriarchal cultures that gave them birth.

It is not so much that we should try to do what Jesus did, but that we should let Him do what He wants through us, which, given our different personalities, time period, culture, and geography, may be very different than what Jesus did.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

Just as we depend for physical existence on the forces of the natural world, so to find meaning, fulfillment and purpose in life, we depend on the culture which continues to shape us, on what we receive from one another and on what we are able to give back in return.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.