Sentences with phrase «as social institutions»

For the Afro - British especially (as well as for African - Americans here), barbershops serve as social institutions for people who don't ordinarily have them....

As social institutions they are more important as bulwarks of achieved social values than as instruments of change.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

Same - sex marriage erodes the very purpose of marriage as a social institution and trivializes the intellectual, psychological, and biological distinctions between men and women.

Theologians have long recognized this and have sanctified marriage as a social institution whose rules sometimes need to take precedence over individual needs.

The traditional reply to this has been to make a distinction between the visible Church (the Church as a social institution) and the invisible Church (the community of those who have been restored to new life by faith in Jesus as Christ, whether they belong to the visible institution or not).

The prediction of the end of the family as a social institution was wrong.

This can not be discarded in determining the definition of marriage since it is a fact of life, which has been recognised by every society in history that has used marriage as a social institution.

And by implication, the date point to a hypocrisy deeply embedded within organized religion as a social institution.

«The Church» as a social institution has had only a marginal and indirect influence on American culture in the twentieth century.15

Information technology is transforming law — as a social institution, and as a profession.

By contrast, legal fundamentalists tend to believe that «law» — as a field of study, as a profession, as a social institution — has an essential meaning, a core content, and distinctive institutional characteristics that may change slowly over time but at any given moment can be authoritatively specified.

Not exact matches

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

Still, in the wake of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, he started thinking that the way of the future for financial institutions might be a different kind of business model — one that emphasized social good as much as turning a profit.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

The announcement further cements BDC's ongoing commitment to social impact; last week it announced its certification as a B Corporation, making it the first financial institution in Canada to receive this important designation.

But as a corporation, the Basij reportedly accumulated vast sums through so - called interest - free financial institutions that the Basij and the IRGC established in mid-1980s and the early 1990s to provide social housing and general welfare to their members.

Overall, our work suggests that stability in financial markets might be improved by considering how social, environmental and procedural factors such as the release of important financial information may impact the hormone levels of traders participating in those markets, and therefore could be of benefit to policymakers intent on developing more efficient institutions.

Peer - to - peer lending (also known as person - to - person lending, peer - to - peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is the practice of lendingmoney to unrelated individuals, or «peers», without going through a traditional financial intermediary such as a bank or other traditional financial institution.

Peer - to - peer lending (also known as person - to - person lending, peer - to - peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is the practice of lending money to unrelated individuals, or «peers», without going through a traditional financial intermediary such as a bank or other traditional financial institution.

In regard to social issues, the Party is committed to supporting the family as the cornerstone of society and to protect and enhance the family institution.

Many will read it as a sustained attack on our social and political institutions, but I fear it is far too conventional.

And later: «A religion is a social institution and, as such, a routine subject for analysis....

Hospitals, in particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been built.

Examining the actual social and ecological effects of the institution upon its environment proved to be an important contribution to the education of the students as well as to the improvement of the institution.

Niebuhr viewed this construction in terms of developing the institutions and social organizations that could embody the essence of the Protestant spirit as «a life, a movement, which could never come to rest again in secure habitations.»

Standing behind that claim is the claim that we, the people, have an ability to know what justice requires that is not so completely dependent upon any social institution as to place that institution beyond the possibility of our reforming it.

Public institutions also get little attention because one can not analyze them quantitatively as easily as social and economic variables.

However, the claim that no social institutions should ever be put beyond the limits of Reform does not entail the idea that there are no such limits; it only implies that the limits on Reform are not of such a kind as to create insuperable protections for particular institutions.

Social science needs more inquiry into poverty culture and institutions, even though they can not be studied as rigorously as social condiSocial science needs more inquiry into poverty culture and institutions, even though they can not be studied as rigorously as social condisocial conditions.

The supernatural element in human life, whether it comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.

The family is a divine institution that stands at the foundation of life of the human person as the prototype of every social order.»

In 2017, we need to restore stability and trustworthiness to marriage, social institutions such as universities, and civic life more broadly.

In the enthusiasm of the early days of the «social gospel» it was natural to take these two parables as referring to a gradual transformation of all social relations and institutions according to the will of God.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

To ask about the future of the identity «Christian,» therefore, is to raise questions not so much about individuals as about social institutions.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

We may not agree on the definition of marriage, but we increasingly agree that the dissolution of marriage as a bedrock social institution is a bad thing, and hits the most vulnerable among us hardest.

Any moral reawakening must be accompanied by a return to markets, truth «telling institutions, and neutrality as a basis of social policy.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

As Berger puts it, «religion legitimates social institutions by bestowing upon them an ultimately valid ontological status, that is, by locating them within a sacred and cosmic frame of reference.

The ministry in general and the Church, as community and as institution, have been highly aware that false prophets claiming immediate empowerment by the Divine always greatly exceed in number the true spokesmen for God, that there are more lying visions than authentic ones, and that personal inspirations must be subjected to social or historical validation.

Progress and modernization of society imply a new division and organization of labor as well as greater complexity of social institutions.

I still think if we want a social institution then churches should support that while keeping the Church (body of Christ i.e. believers) as Christ intended.

There could be such things as saved social institutions — state, economic systems, and schools.

Sin was ingrained in social institutions as well as in individuals.

from both Britain and the Continent have often failed to become involved in the discussion, even misconstruing its significance because of their radically altered historical context.5 In a recent article on evangelical identity, Gerald Sheppard goes so far as to claim that «inerrancy» is for American evangelicals «the official language of social identification, over against other so - called «nonevangelical» institutions.»

Social institutions are phenomena with a unity and stability sufficient to qualify as effective agencies with identifiable activities and patterns of behavior.