Sentences with phrase «if societal views»

If societal views on gender and sexual orientation are changing as rapidly as the secular media might have us think, it is high time the Church sought to form a theological and pastoral response to transgender and the psychological condition that usually pre-empts a gender transition, known as gender dysphoria.

If the societal view is at least as defensible, metaphysically, as its alternative, then the superior adequacy of the societal view for our religious experience should be counted as additional evidence in its favor.

Not exact matches

I hope to convince J.D. that while I grew up with very liberal, Jewish parents (dad from South America) in California, and in a nuclear family without alcohol or violence, I experienced surprisingly similar parallels to many of J.D.'s societal views — even if we may have drawn moderately different conclusions about the underlying solutions.

Delwin Brown, supporting the societal view, writes: «On the entitative view, God is free but once (even if, as we shall consider later, «once» is to be construed in some unique nontemporal sense).

For a Whiteheadian and indeed for any process - thinker, any claim for the uniqueness of Jesus and any notion of his «finality» would require careful re-statement if they are to be accepted; they would need to be brought into congruity with the general line of thought appropriate to such a view of the world as the evolutionary and societal interpretation would provide.

If one points out that, on the societal view, the primordial nature can no longer be temporally prior, the answer is that this is true and that, moreover, it must be true on any Whiteheadian view.

As Whitehead also applies the term «growth» to worldly macro-organisms (PR 188), i.e., to «societies,» the question arises if, and to what extent, he is covertly presenting a «societal view.»

This view clarifies the fact that God, also with regard to the consequent nature, is continually prehensible and so can be continually efficacious (this, quite unexpectedly, in contradistinction to the societal view), even if God's consequent satisfaction is never complete and hence God's subjective immediacy never perishes.

If one wishes to retain the «societal view,» one must also retain the non-reversed polarity of God, and therefore also the existence of phases of indeterminateness in God.

«If we do not recognize the brilliance before us, we can not help but carry on the stereotypic societal views that these [African - American] children are somehow damaged goods and that they can not be expected to succeed.»