Sentences with phrase «existing social order»
Each author represents a particular existing social order, and his vision of human advancement may be seen as a continuation and extension of that order.
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Only thus can the Church avoid becoming merely an ideological superstructure built above a certain existing social order.
At the National Conference on Religious Work in Beijing in April 2016, Xi declared that religion must adapt itself to China's existing social order and accept the party's leadership.
It is not weakness, doing as one is told» what Wolin labeled «Gadamer's ethical «conventionalism»: the view that, instead of making waves, we should follow the rules and procedures of the existing social order.»
As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.
He seems to agree with Bracken that the creativity of individual occasions is primary and is constitutive both of enduring human persons and of societies, but unlike Lakeland his objections to the existing social order of things are melioristic and reformist rather than fundamental and hence revolutionist.
Paradoxically, despite their common interest in creative transformation of the existing social order, adherents of the two theologies have had little contact with one another.
The Church must announce Christian principles and point out where the existing social order at any time is in conflict with them.
The language of the Hebrew Bible does not often seek to legitimate an existing social order but rather attempts to undercut a debilitating power structure.
Myth sanctions the existing social order and justifies its status system and power structure, providing a rationale for social and political institutions — from kinship to kingship.
August Sander, working most brilliantly on «People of the 20th Century» in the 1920s, identified his subjects not by name but by occupation and class to outline the existing social order.