Sentences with phrase «ideas of a democratic society»

On the basis on her frankly Jeffersonian reading of the early church, she concludes, «Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society — a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation, but by the voluntary choice of its members.»

In this view, education should immerse students in the continuum of ideas of a democratic society.

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The idea of a Chosen People has usually seemed repugnant to the liberal spirit, particularly in a democratic society where the ideal of equality runs strong.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

Some suggest that the very idea of religions, in the plural, came from a pluralistic society with a democratic form of government.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

The genuinely biblical idea of government does not point to modern democratic society but to Brigham Young and the theocracy of the Mormons.

The issue here, as with last season, is that The Crown seems to acknowledge Elizabeth's royal position as a largely passive object, sprinkled with a few references to her never speaking her mind, but forgoes actually examining the personal consequences of that inactivity; of the idea of a monarch in a democratic society being so purposefully left such little feeling of control over their own destiny.

The recent campaign has caused some harm to these basic ideas, and educators should work in earnest to repair this damage to the democratic fabric of our society.

A peaceful, democratic, and increasingly multicultural society provides ideas for others on how to ascend the peaks of educational change that stand before us.

The school followed Dewey's tenets, his ideas of «art as experience,» for instance, and that the students should be involved in the actual operation of the school, a process aimed to teach students to be responsible citizens in a truly democratic society.