Sentences with phrase «for social reform»

Open communication is necessary to our social structure, and essential to maintaining national stability as well as allowing for social reform.

They refused to face the necessities for social reform imposed by the new industrial system and later they refused to face the necessity for intellectual reform imposed by the new knowledge.

It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and non-violence that he discovered the method for social reform that he had been seeking for so many months.

It is from this understanding of family, immediate and extended by friendship and compassion, that Dickens derives his formula for social reform: the virtuous rich independently caring for the virtuous poor.

The not - so - hidden agenda was to make evangelical Christianity the spearhead for social reform — at least partly, one suspects, to gain credibility for it as a theological alternative.

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

In his landmark book Revivalism and Social Reform, historian Timothy L. Smith has laid forever to rest the old myth that the concern for «souls» and the concern for social reform have never met in American religion.

Armed with their «progressive» reading of Vatican II, American Jesuits of this transitional generation became more committed to the struggle for social reform than to the propagation of Christian faith.

While the example of Jesus and the theme of loving one's neighbor are perhaps the best motivation for social reform, I don't see clear biblical mandates calling for such changes specifically.

The minority who constitute the middle class, whose minds are set free from immediate physical concerns, are presented as the fountainhead for most of society's novel ideals, which serve as a lure for social reform.

Even broader than the vocation of the priests who serve the underprivileged is that of those who have been led to share in movements for social reform, F. D. Maurice's Christian Socialism grew directly out of his theology and his view of the Church as the Kingdom of Christ and the priest as its servant.

«By the early 20th century, radical and progressive Liberals did not just support direct taxation; they deliberately increased direct taxation on the rich so as to pay for social reforms.»

The tone and themes of Dickens permeate the book (most notably in the critique of slavery and call for social reform), and there is a dash of Jane Austen as well.

The pre-Raphaelite artists emerged around 1848 during an uprising for social reform in Britain and strived to create work characterized by detail, bright colors and a subject matter of noble or moralizing nature.

Love for Gandhi was a potent instrument for social and collective transformation, it was in this Gandhian emphasis of love and non-violence that I discovered the method for social reform I had been seeking for so many months.»

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.