Sentences with phrase «a voluntary association»

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

By: Jessica Oosthuizen 27th April 2018 The issue of discounting the professional fees of consulting engineers, driven by public sector and private sector clients alike, is plaguing the sustainability of the consulting engineering industry, says voluntary association Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Chris Campbell.

A legal relationship created by the voluntary association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for profit.

It was adopted as part of the official party doctrine at the NSDAP congress in 1920 to express a worldview which was Christian, non-confessional, vigorously opposed to the spirit of «Jewish Materialism», and oriented to the principle of voluntary association of those with a common racial - ethnic background.

Other checks are exercised by the «independent sector»» churches, voluntary associations, labor unions, foundations, and, to some extent, universities.

The teaching of «oughts» properly belongs in the hands of private, voluntary associations — churches, families, neighborhood groups.

Most notably, liberalism has sought to reconfigure as many communities as possible, including the institutional church, as mere voluntary associations.

Through churches, voluntary associations, local governments, and a variety of institutions, conservatives strive to keep community healthy.

First Things and other independent publications, as well as individuals and voluntary associations within the churches, may be as political as they wish or as they deem prudent.

Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.

Brigitte August 13, 2011 12:38 pm Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.

A more explicit theologian, with UU identification and salience, is James Luther Adams, who has focused on social ethics and the religious role of voluntary associations.

Believing God alone is the Lord of the conscience, Baptists deny that civil magistrates have any legitimate authority to regulate or coerce the internal religious life of voluntary associations.

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

He describes spontaneous combustions, voluntary associations, movements which come into being without a charismatic leader or celebrity to whom members swear fealty and from whom they pick up jargon.

We respond to God's calling to reunite the separated or the broken as well as the calling to provide for our families, to be a parent, to be a member of voluntary associations, to be an employee.

I noted several of these institutional changes: (1) Churches became voluntary associations in a strict sense, though lines around religious liberty or «free exercise» were (are) difficult to draw in this «separation» of church and state.

He says about «the various Protestant denominations and ecclesial communities» that «their churches are viewed as human constructs of voluntary association.»

(2) Churches engaged in much political activity, though generally in the same manner and with the same weapons as other voluntary associations.

The minimal proposition is that government should get off the backs and out of the way of mediating institutions — family, church, voluntary associations, etc. — and let them do their vital work as they best know how.

First is strong voluntary associations, such as churches and civic groups, that bring people together around broad common agendas rather than narrow special interests.

The most pressing question for Muslims in many lands is how to order the life of the community in a society that is not governed according to Muslim law and in which Muslims must conceive of their religion, at least in part, as equivalent to a voluntary association.

It is no mere voluntary association, along the lines of the local garden club, the bird watching society or the professional group.

The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the communities of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.

Can churches, universities, and voluntary associations become places where the identity of the common and public spiritual culture will be comprehended?

The widespread recognition of the limits of statist solutions for social problems, and of the indispensable role of mediating institutions such as families, churches, and voluntary associations.

Grant applicants are required to describe how families and «religious and charitable organizations, voluntary associations, and other groups in the private sector as well as services provided by publicly sponsored initiatives» will be included in the proposed activities.

Like them, it looks to voluntary associations rather than government agencies to carry out a social purpose.

Another promising sign is the fact that the current head of the executive branch paid eloquent tribute to voluntary associations in his speech accepting the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.

Still, Everett argues, German history included a governing federal order within which protodemocratic and voluntary associations could exist.

This is not just a logical nicety but an important protection of the freedom of association — a freedom that has been safeguarded in decisions like NAACP v. Alabama (357 U.S. 449, 1958), which held that a state may not compel a voluntary association of citizens to turn over its list of members because that might subject them to governmental penalties.

Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form voluntary associations, the goal of whose activities was the erection of a de facto religious establishment in America.

His work in founding the communitarian movement in 1977 came not because he thought he had changed but because he thought the United States was abandoning its commitment to families and all the voluntary associations that Tocqueville observed as a defining part of a liberal republic.

The civic covenant has many layers: local community, civic organizations, school loyalties, voluntary associations, as well as an overarching devotion to one's country.

They must be balanced by strong moral and cultural institutions, such as families, schools, churches and other voluntary associations that serve the common good.

Instead of centering on a voluntary association of interested individuals, ecumenism would be officially structured into church life.

The church was a voluntary association of the saved.

One of the distinctive characteristics of American democracy is its voluntary associations, which citizens are free to join or not to join.

The Jonah House community is a voluntary association of persons who have no time commitment to each other and who own all of their property in common.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

Against both of those, we are to have a called community — not a voluntary association, but a people addressed and bound in a concrete and abiding loyalty.

If the Church refused to marry them because they did not meet its criteria for a sacramental wedding» if both parties were of the same sex, for example» the state could do nothing about it, since the Church is a voluntary association protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

Families, neighborhoods, work teams, church and other voluntary associations mediate between the lone individual and the power of the state.

The second model of the church that is operating in North America is the church as voluntary association.

collective dimension, and so he briefly explores a number of possible venues: from town meetings to voluntary associations to colleges and the media.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Here, the church as voluntary association in somewhat like a religious civic club.

Keynes Hayek offers little to no discussion of how state intervention can support family autonomy and voluntary associations — or how it can undermine them.

Is the church a voluntary association of individuals, or is it a people God has chosen and ordained?