Sentences with phrase «us body politic»

And by pinning his departure on his government's repudiation of transparency and accountability, Rathgeber has diagnosed the body politic and put himself on the right side of an issue at precisely the right time.

Watson, the porn historian, sees a continuum between Daniels» early (and continuing) work as a stripper, her porn career and her current role in the American body politic.

Will the economic uncertainty again put more pressure on body politic to do something for those people that are feeling the impact most acutely of that weaker growth prospect?

should the rename this BLOG to «body politic?»

necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.

Rather than being the omen that Weigel sees in it, the publication of The Secular City was merely a symptom of a malady already plaguing the body politic.

For Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.

It will be nice when this generation shuffles off this mortal coil and some new life is breathed into our body politic.

If we stand together as One Purple People, we the peeps will overcome the perps, and the sociopathogens plaguing the body politic will be rendered harmless.

The political order includes this value, but it adds others such as the general well - being of the body politic, fairness, and the well - being also of the environmnent in which human life is lived.

One part of the answer is that in a pluralistic society we do not have many shared values by which to shape the body politic, whereas we are able to agree that economic improvements are desirable.

It is a corrupted body politic that now abdicates its responsbility to bring broader political values such as justice into play.

They object that such an Islamic state would reduce the non - Muslims to a secondary position in the society and would introduce sectarianism in the body politic.

Carlyle was adamantly Protestant and thought that the church as an invisible reality was a critical counterpart to a natural supernaturalism that informed the body politic.

Unless this happens in the church, it is unlikely that it will happen in the body politic.

They knew that when language loses its precision and power, the body politic is in danger.

There are elements of good sense in folk wisdom and popular religion, and what health remains in the body politic depends on this.

Though the Single One «can not win to a legitimate relation with God without a legitimate relation to the body politic,» the prior relation is that with God, for this is «the defining force.»

However rational the hoarder's strategy may appear in the moment, it has a terrible effect on the body politic over time.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Both our mission under Christ and the wellbeing of the body politic require nothing less.

Religiously, it is better to speak of the loss of an ecumenical, theological confidence and the possession of the body politic by a host of conflicting spirits.

Later, as I thought more about the incident, I came to see how bad the identity - politics of denunciation is for our body politic.

But, as Professor Adebayo Adedeji of the UN Economic Commission on Africa recalled: «Three decades after independence our people continue to be excluded from critical and significant contribution to the ethics of the body politic.

Yet mysticism is scarcely half of what spirituality is about — the other half being prophecy, by which I understand the living out of the grace - experience in the body politic by way of justice.

I have called spirituality «a way of living in this world,» but Neoplatonists suggest a different definition: that it is a way of escaping this world; putting to death the senses; fleeing the body, history and the body politic.

It apparently does not occur to him that the rules and competencies appropriate to the body politic are different from those appropriate to the body of Christ.

I was left wondering, by the end of the semester, how not only individual bodies but the body politic could be affected by such «beautifying.»

This linkage also applies both within the body of the church and within the body politic.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

It matters not whether we speak of the body of Christ or the body politic, for authority to be authority and not a form of domination or manipulation those who have it can not in its exercise rely on force and deception in a way that bypasses the liberty of those over whom it is exercised.

«The Man who is living with the body politic... is not bundled, but bound.»

But the way McCarthy pursued his anti-communism campaign was, as the Times said in a 1998 editorial, «a menace to the body politic.»

The scandal is that it flows quite naturally from the United State's current body politic.

The deep hurt in the body politic and in our bodies, the wounds of not caring and not being cared for, of not belonging, of being unrelated and unconnected, are wounds endemic to our social situation.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

Intended to influence the two - party system constructively, the Disinterested Party would serve «as the organized and effective agency of progressive policies conceived and projected only for the well - being of the whole body politic,» and it would be «protected against decadence by its renunciation of officeholding and patronage.»

That cancer spreads to every other organ and eventually brings down the body politic.

What is often identified as evidence for a culture war has more to do with the requirements of» activist rhetoric than the attitudes or actions of the body politic generally.

In this passage the animistic idea of «unclean spirits» that can invade individual human bodies and distort individual human spirits is not in view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stake.

What a wonderfully dramatic moment this is: the rough - handed rustic delivering a solid punch to the flabby body politic.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

The idea that Nuns of any religion, can act outside of the body politic of that religion is ridiculous and shows a total lack of understanding on the part of the reporter.

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

Adapting their tradition of natural law without its past rigidities, they look for opportunities to address the body politic in terms of its values as well as their own.

In face of this growing dominance of economics over other aspects of human existence, traditional Western political categories — those which define a body politic in which the people in dialogue hammer out conclusions that express their values — need to prove their relevance all over again.

There is an odor of decay surrounding the British body politic and a sense that the memory of a living European culture is in an advanced stage of....

Our political leaders designate «other» people and places as evil and engage in questionable policies because they know the body politic will buy that sort of rhetoric.

Consciousness was raised by the civil rights movement that polarized the nation and loosed a violent and sometimes demonic spirit within the body politic.