Sentences with phrase «for social unity»

An integral part of the human story, interwoven throughout the fabric of time, is that food does not only represent nourishment and sustenance, but it is also a tool for social unity and solidarity - making, for forging bonds of community, for pleasure - seeking and satiation.

Murder is wrong for the same reason why most other species don't kill their own kind: It's bad for genetics and it's bad for social unity.

Not exact matches

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.

For Holloway this flows from the fact that «in a mysterious way, God has united himself to every man» -LCB- Gaudium et Spes 22), and this unity is also a visible, social reality in the Body of Christ which is the Church.

A major UK Christian conference for unity and social transformation took place this weekend.

For this special type of social unity Paul found the fitting expression: «the communion of the Holy Spirit» (a Cor.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

My predecessor at Duke, H. Shelton Smith, asserted (in Faith and Nurture) the important unity of education and theology and sought to build a bridge between liberalism's concern with the social order and neo-orthodoxy's concern for the tradition.

The drive for social and economic unity Europe has thus failed because while it «fills the human wallet it fails to fill the human spirit».

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

There were frequent comparisons of the best in «evangelicalism» with what seems to them the worst in «ecumenism»... The most frequent charges against us were theological liberalism, loss of evangelical conviction, universalism in theology, substitution of social action for evangelism, and the search for unity at the expense of biblical truth.

For Whitehead, every kind of «society» has its ground of unity in its «defining characteristic,» that is, in a formal element common to all its «members» and in virtue of which there is a generally dominant «social order.»

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

The relation to God and the relation to society must neither be confused with each other as is the case in social religion, nor separated from each other as is the case in Christian isolationism; they must be maintained in the unity of responsibility to God for the neighbor.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

In this situation, the awakened tribal people of Chotanagpur have a special role, not only to fight for their political autonomy within the unity of the nation, but also to affirm their solidarity with all their bellow - victims of the lopsided processes of modernization in their struggle for political and social justice.

The truth is that we now live in an age very different from that of the mid-twentieth century, one characterized by liberal political disenchantment, in which secularists aspire to create space for liberal freedoms, but no longer aspire to a deep form of social and philosophical unity.

The dominant motive which led to it was neither curiosity about the creation of the world nor philosophic interest, as in Greece, about the divine immateriality and interior unity, but faith that the social justice for which Yahweh stood would conquer.

For the postmodern imagination, strong social unity can only be imposed in artificial, violent, and tyrannical ways.

That movement had its unity not in a theology but in the conviction that the Christian churches had the responsibility to address the injustices of the class society being produced by industrialization and that the Bible, properly understood, required concern for these social issues.

It is clearly on a regional level that this will pose the least problem for such construction, whether is on a pan-African level, Arab unity, a Latin - American front or the European construction; they will be provided with a social progressive agenda and other regional projects.

What was Paul requiring but the social solidarity of the Corinthians when he called for them to assert their unity in Christ?

Rap, reggae, hip - hop and a combination of the three continue to create networks of global connectivity and unity that surpass the nation state and serve as popular cultural platforms for social justice issues.

The glass ceiling represented social and cultural unity for an inclusive America, while the wall promised economic prosperity and security for «the people».

Not only a senior appointment to a Davis - ite (and therefore good for party unity), but he is undoubtedly the party's specialist on social security.

While there's no need for unity for within their own ranks, like with the Reform Party, they don't want social issues to distract from fiscal issues, so they can achieve some unity on fiscal issues in the country as a whole.

DAILY GUIDE has stumbled on social media platform conversations that seem to suggest that the confusion is intensifying in the party by the day, as the call for unity has clearly fallen on deaf ears.

So I urge you to ensure the unity and stability of the Yoruba race within the territory of Nigeria, interface with the Yoruba inside Africa continent and network the Yoruba in the Diaspora for global collaboration in the areas of cultural integration, skills development, mental enrichment and social interaction.

There is now a need for people to demonstrate unity, use social media to garner support and attention and to ensure our young people are also educated and empowered with regards to the problem.

To go up against the ideological state apparatuses (that also have coercive practices such as non-promotion and systems of privilege for those who follow the rules) and the repressive state apparatuses (that are also coercive in that they secure internal unity and social authority ideologically via patriotism and nationalism) is not an easy task.

Islamic scholars have an active discourse around nonviolence and according to Chaiwat Satha - Anand (Qader Mohideen) co-editor of a book addressing Islam and nonviolence, «a practicing Muslim should possess the potential for disobedience, discipline, social concern and action, patience and willingness to suffer for a cause, and the idea of unity — all of which are crucial for successful nonviolent action.

Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow, and vice president for external affairs of the conservative - leaning education think tank The Thomas Fordham Institute suggests meanwhile that the trend toward emphasizing student differences could be promoting social division rather than unity.

More recently, some theoreticians in their essays on culture have tried to increase it, speaking about the representation of the social order with equivalent opportunities, not solely with respect to liberties, but as well representation that provides particular defense for unities that have all the while been separated on other grounds.

For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone.

Within this partnership, States retain the primary responsibility for satisfying economic, social and cultural rights such as educat ion, community infrastructure, health services and housing in Indigenous comm unities.