Sentences with phrase «ideology of»

«Immortality is the ideology of the rich» contends Segal, because it «valorized their intellectual pursuits.»

Needless to say, the ideology of rationalism is one of the main supports of this delusion of neutrality.

As the Jesuit theologian Alfred T. Hennelly says, we now need a new «Ockham's razor» to be used for «the careful dissection of the manifold relationships that exist between the ideology of the Western ruling elites and the development of western theology.»

Understanding how the dominant ideology of any society, including our own, becomes a latent but potent element in the production of theology should be an integral, not just an ancillary, part of the theological enterprise itself.

In fact, it will be uncomfortable with the tendency of the whole «values» approach, both as description and as prescription, to impose an abstracting ideology of rationalism on the dynamic, sentient character of human existence.

What Jencks and Riesman seem to be describing is a welding of the ideology of rationalism with the bourgeois, individualistic spirit of capitalism.

The problem is that the leading practitioners of these voguish arts operate precisely within that same ideology of rationalism which possesses academic culture.

It is a rare insight into the culture and ideology of Anglo - Saxon culture of around 700AD.

Thus while we guard against silly supernaturalism, we may from this script join issue with the ideology of the day.

As a result of this definitive study one can see the growth of New England distrust of bishops to a fear of a Crown and Parliament bent on imposing an abominable system to an ideology of opposition.

Whatever its material causes (about which Heidegger really had nothing to say), the founding ideology of the modern vision of reality was, he believed, easily defined: the triumph of subjectivity in philosophy and of mechanism in science; egoism and technology.

Islam Christianity Judaism are all monotheist faiths, even with the manufactured ideology of the «trinity», Christianity's message was reverence in one God.

Here particularly the development of an ideology of public Confucianism helped to bureaucratize the samurai — turn them from private military henchmen into public servants — and to bring the common people actively into the Tokugawa consensus through the idea of benevolent rule (jinsei).

Communism may have opposed «religion», but when it became the controlling ideology of a people, it adopted many religious characteristics.

Pointing out these things, of course, is not to endorse the ideology of the National Socialist movement or to admire the personality of its leader.

Nevertheless, after the hurricane of terror it is probable that a sector of the working class grasped what comfort it could from the ideology of the corporative state and gave it its tacit consent.

The monolithic language and ideology of the Babylonian Empire did not create communication, but imposed the will of the power upon the people.

Add to these a «theology» — an ideology of purpose and destiny or theodicy — and a civil religion may be close behind.

By homologizing these deities (i.e., the lineage ideology of ancient Japan) with the ancestor worship of the common people, the government thought to create a feeling of national unity and dedication.

But in spite of the cognitive elite, philosophical liberalism has not completely destroyed biblical religion as public theology or republicanism as the ideology of the common good and the public interest.

A monolithic language, the ideology of modern day power, was established for the erection of the Tower of Babel, the Babylonian Empire.

As the founder of the Soviet state, V. I. Lenin, put it: Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion.

By saying it is a Christian country is saying that others are not welcome or will not fit in with the religious ideology of the nation.

It is the ideology of individualism, and in this country it exists to protect racism, sexism and the class system of capitalism.

It is not enough simply to condemn the actions of anti-life forces for exploiting the suffering of women to promote the ideology of abortion.

State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as gosateizm, [1] and was based on the ideology of Marxism — Leninism.

The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the ideology of the economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework of a culture of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.

It is based on the sexual experiences of the poor, using economic and political analysis while unveiling the sexual ideology of systematic theology.»

As with any distortion of the truth and meaning of human sexuality, the theory and ideology of «gender» bears bitter fruits — confusion, suffering, damaged lives and personal tragedies, even suicide.

Even in States which had the ideology of Communism as established truth, as formerly in Russia and China, it was only the truth in its established sense that was originally given the right of freedom of propagation; it was a purely medieval theocratic idea in its reverse Secularist form.

It is the ideology of individualism, the flawed humanism of the Enlightenment, and an interpretation of Christianity which resolutely avoids addressing the principalities and powers.

What a case study of the American evangelical broadcasters shows us is that in many ways the ideology of television shapes religion much more easily than religion shapes it.

Pope Benedict himself acknowledged this charism of vibrant hopefulness in his homily at the Mass of Beatification, saying that Blessed John Paul «directed Christianity once again to the future» and «rightly reclaimed for Christianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered before Marxism and the ideology of progress.»

Just at the moment when inequities might be confronted, the ideology of individualism blocks the view.

They can say «Hey look, one of you smart people decided to come back to our ideology of «ignorance is bliss» where we don't need to worry about global warming, or sharing what we have with the poor or any science and wellfare stuff at all because God will just take care of it...»

Dr. Thomas proposes a new ideology of struggle for both social and ecological justice — a spiritual framework for a post modern holistic humanism based on an understanding of Christ as the Suffering Servant.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

To an extent, it has become the ideology of the «sexual revolution.»

Archbishop Justin and Patriarch Kirill also suggested: «We ought not to forget preventative measures against the ideology of extremism that has spread throughout the world under the influence of militants like an epidemic.

Schumacher's book Small is Beautiful is a technologist's restatement of Neo-Gandhism as an ideology of humanized technology.

Last month («A Dissolving Age»), I argued that an ideology of globalism poses a threat to Christian principles of public life.

In a statement on its website, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said it plans to mark the anniversary of the 2001 attacks by burning Qurans this weekend «to warn about the teaching and ideology of Islam, which we do hate as it is hateful.»

In an unexpected way, the metaphysical materialism that characterized Marxism has re-emerged after its collapse in a new form, as the ideology of the leadership class in liberal culture.

It was necessary to say that not Jesus Christ mixed - up with the ideology of «Blut und Boden» would do but that Jesus Christ is the only Word of God.

It is the ideology of conquest, the original religion of the status quo.

In many instances reconciliation with parents has been facilitated by the more stable life - style and the religious ideology of acceptance rather than confrontation.

A diversity of cultures and an open - ended view of the possibilities of cultural exchange provide an antidote to the forces of cultural globalization.17 In India, the ideology of Hindutva seeks to define «Indianness» and to dominate the whole nation.

The people who are fed up with the barbaric ideology of political correctness desperately seek leaders, parties, and organizations that might oppose it.

The general rejection of socialism in America by the by the 1850s, after an earlier flurry of interest, is to be explained far more by the victory of the ideology of individualism than as a choice between alternate ways to order a new industrial economy whose outlines were as yet hardly discernible.

Denying religious groups public funding is discriminatory, denies the right to freedom of religion, undermines freedom of speech and belief, and is typical of an ideology of homogenization and socialism so strongly exposed by the current administration and Democratic party.