Sentences with phrase «as a corrective means»

While the action - oriented nature of mission as witness serves as a corrective means to traditional missionary paradigm, it also brings with it the tendency to limit mission to social activism.

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Biblical law offers a means for limiting the ravages of the disease of avarice, and as a result it is the Church, not economists, that must lead in offering the corrective.

Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

There is a need now more than ever to develop a means for doing religious social ethics which emphasizes the goal - orientation aspect of politics as a corrective to stress on the coercive - power factor in determining social policy.

The «Athens» type's theological insufficiency in the face of our tendencies toward cognitive idolatry and ideological self - serving means that it needs the Wissenschaft pole of the «Berlin» type as a corrective; but it can not appropriate that without distorting what it appropriates unless it also appropriates the «professional» education pole, and vice versa.

Not only can hardcore horror provide a corrective to «torture porn's ostensible «extremity», and the meanings of «torture porn» as a categorising term,» 4 it can also provide a redefinition of the boundaries of the genre within the context of contemporary U.S. horror.