Sentences with phrase «for social criticism»

She knows that a dark sense of humor, a keen eye for social criticism, and the diligence to work for change are essential tools for survival.

Culling inspiration from advertisement, film and television, and creating visual spaces for social criticism, the Pictures Generation artists were deeply influenced by the pedagogy of writers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Julia Kristeva.

It's un-nerving in the extreme — not just for the garden variety scares it delivers, but for the social criticism it also weaves in.

Not exact matches

But those commenting on her choice of shoes also faced criticism on social media for caring about her footwear and overlooking the point of her visit.

The 18 - year - old is facing the criticism with composure and grace, and she's been a model for how well - meaning people who get caught in the crosshairs of social - justice absurdity should comport themselves.

Zuckerberg, of course, spent the past year facing intense criticism for failing to prevent Russian entities from spreading propaganda on the social network.

After facing criticism on social media when it pre-released its Super Bowl ad last week, automotive brand Audi is being praised for the gender pay equality - themed TV spot it aired during the game.

H&M apologized to customers this morning for modeling a sweatshirt with the words «Coolest Monkey in The Jungle» on a black child after a wave of criticism that the marketing decision was racist erupted on social media.

Social networking giant Facebook has come in for severe criticism over the past week in connection with an alleged data breach on its platform which affected 50 million of its users.

Amid a downbeat week for Tesla thatâ $ ™ s been fraught with mass firings, lawsuits, a Fremont factory protest, and criticism over Muskâ $ ™ s wild optimism and penchant to overpromise and underdeliver, Muskâ $ ™ s latest social media posts seemingly point to a more positive light thatâ $ ™ s about to shine.

It takes a thick skin to run your own business, and although it's perfectly natural for criticism to sometimes get to you, the worst thing you can do is take to you company social media accounts to put the «haters» in their place.

The social media giant has grappled with the criticism over the issue for much of the past year, and struggled to keep public opinion on its side.

The Trump campaign also made heavy use of Facebook, and the social network faced criticism for sending Facebook staff to embed with campaign staffers.

The Republican National Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the social conservative criticisms of the party on Thursday.

Such social criticism is useful for subverting injustice when it is writ large; it is also useful for transcultural solidarity with different peoples and cultures.

For Wells, the pervasive moral stupor characteristic of late - twentieth - century North American culture, to which much social criticism in recent years has been directed, demands a response from the Church before any thoroughgoing moral reconstruction of civil society can take place.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

The most common criticism of AA was that it has no concern for social drinking.

As for the Church's social justice views — Allen mentions conservative criticism of Caritas in Veritate (while overlooking the many conservatives who applauded it)-- I wrote two separate columns for the Times of London online a) praising the essentials of that specific encyclical, and Benedict's economic and social justice teachings in general; and b) saluting Archbishop Oscar Romero, who I believe will one day be declared a saint, precisely as a champion of Catholic social justice.

Other criticisms are perhaps the result of Christians» being so in thrall to the tropes and conventions of Western politics, and so convinced of their own social importance, that they hear any call to break with that culture as a call for unconditional surrender.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

J. Emmette Weir, for example, has cited Juan Luis Segundo's criticism of the social ineffectiveness of the Marxist concept of religion («The Bible and Marx», Scottish Journal of Theology, August 1982) and has also noted that current exponents of liberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, October 1986).

To admit the principle of classification is not to deny the need for democratic criticism of actual social class arrangements.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

Concern for manners should never undermine necessary social criticism.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

The Social Gospel movement with its happy worldliness had lost its capacity for genuinely radical criticism.

«The ethic of Jesus may offer valuable insights to and sources of criticism for a prudential social ethic which deals with present realities; but no such social ethic can be directly derived from a pure religious ethic.

He and his many devoted followers on the left would do well to think through more thoroughly and take to heart more fully the eloquent strictures about the need for engaged social criticism — criticism that first seeks to understand people on their own terms and in light of their own standards — that Walzer has woven into his voluminous writings.

My social media feed lit up with criticism and condemnation for many of these leaders.

Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gsocial planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social GSocial Gospel.

In any event, here is where an authentic theory of natural law proves to be indispensable for Judaism, but only when the social contract theory is abandoned, a task that «requires radical criticism of the key political idea of the Enlightenment,... that human beings can construct their own primary society autonomously.

Much has been said in criticism of Luther's doctrine here, and there are many issues concerning the later development of the Christian ethic in relation to war and social justice; but our immediate concern is to understand Luther's faith that it is possible for the Christian to live the life of agape in the midst of the world's affairs and conflicts.

Hans Kung suggests that the Enlightenment led to the unprecedented progress of the sciences, a completely new social order and a revaluation of the individual.12 Today the Enlightenment approach is subject to strong criticism, especially from post-modernists, but it helped, for good or ill, to divorce political and economic thinking from a basis in a religious view of life.

He not only anticipated some of the now - dominant theories in human sociobiology circles but identified the principles that are now the explicit basis for celebrated feminist social criticism.

Our church leaders shouldn't need to live in fear of harsh criticism; our church councils don't have to accommodate bullying and intimidation and our culture need not threaten social exclusion for those who don't fit easily into any one box.

A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.

And, because Waugh's nostalgia is «a yearning for an irretrievably lost cause... as social criticism [his work] is therefore merely frivolous and petulant.»

Central to the criticisms has been the conviction shared by many religious leaders that the exercise of social power should be directed by a concern for justice on a representative basis rather than a concern to impose one's own particular standards and beliefs on others.

Often the exceptionally imaginative and creative people are the ones most vulnerable to persecution, since through them even newer and more disturbing dreams of a still better world enter the arena of our social consciousness, stirring up criticism of the present order and making obsolete our plans for a new society.

Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self - security but not self - criticism.

The 24 - year - old, who accepted a GQ award from Jeremy Corbyn in September, attracted criticism earlier this month for his language on social media.

I feel it is important for bloggers to be open to constructive criticism about their site or social media, but there is no need at all for cruelty or personal slights.

Morata then came in for some criticism when he was spotted on social media lifting up his wife, as reported by the Sun.

B) I never said he should be punished for stupid things he said as a teenager, merely pointed out that he got off social media to avoid criticism for his OWN shitty actions.

While Cesc Fabregas and Davide Zappcosta came in for some heavy criticism, it was Tiemoue Bakayoko who suffered the ire of the majority of some Chelsea fans on social media.

Kinell Mignolet pic.twitter.com/rpcQzuLN0z — Wayne Ellis (@wayneellis1974) 4 February 2017 The Belgian came in for yet more criticism on social media.