Sentences with phrase «great social sin»

Whether it is the debate surrounding gay «marriage,» «women's health,» or another issue, discrimination is viewed as the great social sin of the twenty - first century.

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It must help conspicuously to defeat envy, the greatest of the social sins (worse even than hatred, because more often invisible, and itself one of the causes of hatred).

The great prayers of the Bible concerning national failure and social sin are still the gift of the Old Testament.

In his great systematic work, A Theology for the Social Gospel, 1917, Rauschenbusch indicated the solidarity of sin and the extension of salvation.

But by far the greater factor in the transmission of sin is our embeddedness within a ready - made social system.

It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious evil consequences and is hardest to reckon with.

According to conservatives, the great sin teachers colleges have committed in the past few decades is that they have focused too much on theory and not enough on clinical practice — and by «theory,» they mean critical pedagogy and other theories that enable prospective teachers to situate school knowledge, practices, and modes of governance within wider historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts.