First, there is the fact that the Christian message centers so largely in faith and love that
justice in social relations tends to be overshadowed.
The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of
men in their social relations.
Neither in one's own inner experience nor as a persuasive witness to others will the gospel be effective if its fruits are not
manifest in social relations.
Christian ethics establishes the family as
primary in all social relations based on the explicit teachings of Jesus and their implications that monogamy is the standard, agape the controlling factor, divorce a compromise, and our relation to God the foundation.
In view of this ubiquity of the struggle for
power in all social relations and on all levels of social organization, is it surprising that nation state politics is of necessity power politics»
Nonanarchist Pirates Michael Shermer's Skeptic column, «Captain Hook meets Adam Smith,» makes the common mistake about «anarchy» that it signifies
disorder in social relations and the rule of the strongest by violence.
Paradoxically (and without spoiling the plot), Swanberg finds the touchstone of
identity in social relations, and finds the inner life in constant echo with the uneasy negotiations between people, whether the characters» nearest and dearest or sudden new connections.
Still, it doesn't bother me much, given that it's only a book title; it would be much more offensive if it was a daily practice by a contemporary newspaper or on a TV commercial, and it is always
offensive in social relations.
She received her BA from Swarthmore College, and her MA and
PhD in social relations from Harvard University and Radcliffe College.
With adolescence characterized by identity development and
changes in social relations (Falci 2011), the negative effects of external locus of control in adolescence endure into adulthood (Kiviruusu et al. 2013).
When significant impediments prevent children from developing such strategies, they develop sub-optimal emotional and behavioural functioning, resulting in considerable
deficits in their social relations with caregivers and peers.
A social creature with a deep
interest in social relations, Emma's greatest joy is meeting and connecting with people from all walks of life.
Instead of economics process being
embedded in social relations, in such market societies, social relations are embedded in economic system.
Karl Marx, the father of materialistic communism, satirically asked: «Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conceptions — in one word, man's consciousness — changes with every change in the conditionsof his material existence,
in his social relations, and in his social life?»
First of all we shall understand that revelation is not a set of propositions about God but is the living presence of God unveiled and operating in the flesh, that is, in the bodies of persons,
in their social relations and in history, in this world of time and space.