Sentences with phrase «in cultural consensus»

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Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

The task ahead of us is to help disentangle from ideology the issues that make up the themes of this consensus - inter alia, man's relationship to creation, the role of woman in society, people's participation in governance, a global ethic, North - South solidarity, the role of business, cultural identity, holism.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteeIn an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteein Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteein more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteein an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?

Now, as Childs points out, most of the elements in this consensus have been questioned from within and have been made to appear irrelevant by the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

«We urgently appeal to those in positions of social and economic, as well as political and cultural, responsibility to hear the cry of the Earth and to attend to the needs of the marginalised, but above all to respond to the plea of millions and support the consensus of the world for the healing of our wounded creation,» they wrote.

To be quite specific, we are taking it from a consensus that is rooted in the European Enlightenment and that, to a remarkable extent, has become universal, at least among the cultural elites of the world.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

This seemingly simple service of association and presence is a critical social need in the context of extraordinary experiences and rites of passage that depend a shared cultural consensus for their significance.

In a dreadfully volatile way, the current brinkmanship is a symptom of this re-evaluation - and a fundamental cultural consensus that the electorate has to reach.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

As ever, the actual, individual tastes of critics and audience members vary, and there's a danger in trying to assign a cultural consensus to every movie.

«TIGA strongly welcomes the growing political consensus in favour of GTR and the recognition by the UK Coalition Government of the economic and cultural importance of the video games industry.

Its cutting - edge exhibitions conceived in dialogue with major contemporary artists like Louise Bourgeois, Walter De Maria, Thomas Demand and John Baldessari, as well as other cultural activities related to cinema, philosophy, and architecture, have enjoyed a wide international consensus.

The CIA scandal confirmed that the CCF had been enlisted in shoring up an anti-Communist consensus in the service of U.S. hegemony during the cultural Cold War.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

As the above figure indicates, the difference in perceived consensus between the left and right can be explained by Kahan's preferred cultural bias explanation, but the «liberal consensus gap» can't.

It's not like we have achieved any kind of cultural consensus on right and wrong, even in our own societies.

There is only one way to explain their posture and that is the cultural rot politics that they in fact share with most of the vocal «consensus» and the larger climate science community.

The central goal of this study was to see what «belief in scientific consensus» measures — to see how it relates to both knowledge of climate science and cultural identity.

«Settled argument», as well as being a contradiction in terms when used as an argument, as Rud notes, comes from cultural consensus, revealing that the process meant to be providing objectivity has failed.

In particular, What if macroscopic evolution is not just another «a cultural consensus» imposed by like minded atheists / materialists who by definition preclude open science of testing it against the null hypothesis of known stochastic and chemical processes (as distinct from mutations causing microevolution)?

Yet if the individual's existing values are unaligned to the rising cultural consensus, clues to collective deceit will seem much more obvious, meaning skepticism is likely, and will be particularly sharp in those with opposed values.

Just as in the case for individual deception, there are various domain independent clues available for instinct to exploit in detecting the typical deceptions of a whole group (advocating a cultural consensus).

Despite underlying social truths, a cultural consensus is in itself a collective deception22a, b that provides major advantages including: a coalition system for combating individual dominance, an underwriting of altruism within group, and mechanisms to achieve common action in the face of the unknown.

Ultimately a product of group selection21 and gene - culture co-evolution21a, the social groups caught up in the deception versus detection arms race are cultural, i.e. they feature an emergent socially enforced consensus, a cultural consensus21b.

Better than typical prior stuff that was too buried in the «nitty gritty», and probing nearer to the heart of the issue, i.e. that the certainty of calamity is a cultural consensus not a scientifically supported fact.

Empirical studies aimed at trying to make sense of this phenomenon have concluded that the reason the public remains divided on «scientific consensus» isn't that they haven't been exposed to evidence on the matter but rather that when they are exposed to evidence of what experts believe they selectively credit or discredit it in patterns that reflect and reinforce their perception that scientific consensus is consistent with the position that predominates in their cultural or ideological group.

, but describing the problem as simply varying perceptions «that scientific consensus is consistent with the position that predominates in their cultural or ideological group» I think overlooks or ignores a deeper problem: the sense, varyingly expressed, that «scientific consensus» itself is infected with positions that predominate in a cultural or ideological group.

I think that is because you don't highlight the «uncertainties» when addressing the issue - in other words, you don't explicitly state from the outset that it really is unknown the precise degree to which cultural cognition would essentially render attempts to communicate opinion about the «consensus» irrelevant.