Sentences with phrase «by social»

The dominant stream, however, tends toward an anti-metaphysical perspective, viewing the self as the autonomous source of order, beauty, and virtue unsupported by any social or cosmic order.

The lesson demands from us a solid answer, our being a Christian may not be and can not be constituted by any of our religious relationships to God but by our social involvement, a new life in our being there only for others, in participating in the being of Jesus.

Fortunately, there are a number of articles written by social scientists on the subject.

We are not prophets but the repression caused by the social situation is already in motion...

It serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.

Thus, if an anthropology were to advert to the fact that the self is existence and, therefore, can and must understand itself, all the while ignoring the fact that the self's possibilities are also always limited by social and cultural structures, it would so understand the self that the demand for justice in the specifically political sense could not be understood as a demand of faith itself.

One might even hope that this truth was discovered by the social - action - oriented evangelicals who came to the fore in the early»80s.

Although we will always be influenced by our social location, we are not fated to be imprisoned by it.

The man is pleased by his enterprises, by social recognition, by gifts and honors from others, by family life, by entertainments, shows, hunting, and so on, while the infant is pleased by milk, the nurse's embrace, and the gentle rocking which brings peaceful sleep.

Just as individuals are saved by faith, not by works, he reasoned, so are religious communities saved by faith, not by social - ethical success.

The other point to be clear about is that sacraments are not merely arbitrary rites agreed upon by social convention, but possessing no inherent symbolic power.

And yet the models offered by the social sciences for making sense of modern religion pay scant attention to these international and global realities.

So it was that the worship of the Christian Church in its early days, a worship of God which was not individual but for the community, and thus marked by a social quality, could be described as a liturgy.

But man's burdens are not limited to those imposed by social disequilibrium and chaos.

Crucial and hard - to - reverse life decisions may be pushed on him by social expectations (communicated via parents, teachers and the draft).

(2) We have seen that the availability of alcohol and its attractiveness as a symptom, as determined by social attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness, have a great deal to do with the matter of symptom selection.

We too are free to be good when we are unaffected by social conventions and expectations that tame us and render us predictable and safe.

It is a history in which all are involved, and it is a history for each individual, for so long as we are human we are never completely dominated by the social group.

This general point of view concerning psychic needs of hungers is widely accepted by social scientists.

I think their intentions were mostly good — they knew they were distracted by social media in particular, perhaps, and so they wanted to give their best attention to their children.

By social ethic I do not mean something opposed to a personal ethic, but one which is concerned with the issues between groups and nations where the decisions taken alter the lives of multitudes of people and the direction of history.

The sense of not belonging, of being unaccepted by the social, ethical, and religious requirements of his times led him to identify in a special way with the outcasts in order to give them a new and more secure sense of relationship, and therefore of life.

In any event, however much popular piety may be viewed condescendingly by theologians and debunked by social scientists, it is for purposes of social order the source of moral sentiment and judgment.

Even as recently as the post-war period, the dignity of gay Americans was undermined by social conditions and legal restrictions.

The vision of the American dream with its great ideals and dedication to the good of mankind has become clouded, not only by social and political disorder and revelations of immorality, but by the prevalence of a self - centered hedonism which finds expression in a feverish quest for enjoyment.

On the local level, such vigilance is a kind of «civic housekeeping» — a term inspired by the social reformer Jane Addams.

A decision - making process driven by social needs progressively left its place to a cold and blind efficiency, guided by an economic system, the essential value of which is financial gain.

The study echoed this point as some GPs reported feeling frustrated by having little to offer patients with complex problems driven by social and emotional difficulties anything other than pills.

This, in turn is renewed by social interaction.

A society that is almost enamored by social innovation for innovation's sake faces in virtual helplessness a situation that requires — not for the sake of a traditional national interest but for the survival of civilization, if not of mankind itself — an extreme effort of bold, innovating imagination.

The result was increased Catholic defection to the GOP, but by two very different groups: traditionalists motivated by social and foreign policy issues, and the less religiously observant enticed by Reagan's promises of prosperity.

In primitive societies you could ruin the poor by excessive interest and prices.Nowadays you can do it by social break down alone; and then only goods and houses and gold and gems and antiques and food, are worth a thing.

There must be a compromise somewhere — personal liberty tempered by the social instinct, or something like that.

The church has been infiltrated by these social faiths.

By social systems is meant the sum total of all humanly developed knowledge, cultural patterns, institutions, values, and goals.

Ten years later Strauss lamented the relativism ushered in by the social sciences and their methods in a paper on the behavioral sciences.

Studies by social psychiatrists emphasize the role played by environmental pressures on the development of personality illnesses.

This is likely just compatibility, made complicated by gendered language by our social experiences.

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

This is a task that can not be undertaken by the social sciences alone, insofar as the contribution of disciplines such as metaphysics and theology is needed if man's transcendent dignity is to be properly understood.

(29) Because language is a primary medium of communication, its very structure is affected by social organization and culture.

The community, though it embraces the geographical area in which one lives, is a far more pervasive thing than this, for a community is in a large part defined by the social standards of like - minded people.

Where stubborn rebellion is not simply the instinctive reaction of a caged animal fettered by social ties, it may often be something like the almost inevitable practice of freedom, the subject's acceptance of its own responsibility.

These bonds, which draw interest, are being held by the Social Security administration until they come due in the 21st century.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

«Effective historical consciousness» operating in and through philological and historical investigation, augmented by the social sciences, will elucidate the horizon of the text and explicate the socio - cultural idiosyncracies of its repertoire.

I just finished a fascinating book by the social psychologist Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.

Underwood was lucid in specifying what he meant by social policy, a term which he deliberately chose over such others as «servant role,» «mission,» «Kingdom of God,» and «earthly city.»

Finally, I would say that there is a liberal Catholicism that was inspired both by the Second Vatican Council (or at least a certain reading of it) and by the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, particularly feminism.

It would seem that creeds should be judged by their truth value and codes by their social consequences.