Sentences with phrase «in social solidarity»

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

No sooner had early Christianity thus carried the insights of great prophets, like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, through to their logical conclusion, than it found itself facing the profound and inescapable truths involved in social solidarity.

Not exact matches

«How wonderful would it be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social work, and became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples and countries.

Through on - and off - campus events, we provide a sense of social solidarity and cohesiveness among students interested in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources.

Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and assault, Harvey Weinstein — one of the biggest executives in filmmaking — was forced from his place of power in Hollywood while a wave of empathy and solidarity with those who spoke out swept across social media via the #MeToo campaign.

Is it too cynical to suggest that Harper is not keen on preserving the history of workers combining in solidarity and risking everything for social justice?

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

I have been heavily involved with the solidarity movements with the struggles of the South and I have worked in collaboration with numerous social movements.

So long as social solidarity existed as a fact in Israel and the national group was still coherent, traditional ideas of social solidarity were bound to persist.

So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

Taken for granted here is that family and friends share a conviction that living virtuously is the only truly good human life, and that we need friendship and social solidarity in pursuing that great good.

The evils endured by the returning exiles, the need of uncompromising separateness if they were not to be assimilated and lost, the bitter resentment aroused by the cruelty of Hellenistic and Roman conquerors, constrained Judaism not only to social solidarity but, in Palestine especially, to extreme racial, national, and religious particularism.

To be sure, under the influence of social solidarity, Hebrew hopes of the future were in the beginning centered on an undying nation upon earth, but when hope outgrew this early stage and resurrection from Sheol became a Jewish expectation, it took of necessity the form of an individual return.

When the later Judaism saw in retrospect this conflict between prophetic ideals and popular religion, it was clear that the social solidarity of the nation had been on the wrong side of the issue and that Jeremiah, in his courageous and sacrificial isolation, had been right.

He was «loyal to the royal» in himself at a time when social solidarity was rapidly disintegrating.

In this regard the debt of Christians to the Old Testament's sturdy, realistic consciousness of social solidarity is immeasurable.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

These qualities, while not necessarily categoreal, are indisputable factors in human feelings, either accounting for or contributing to the ambiguous impulses which both individual solitude and social solidarity manifest.

More generally, Berger has argued that, given their shared concern with meaning, solidarity, and the transmission of culture from one generation to the next, and their social proximity to one another in the private sphere, religion and family in the West have been inclined to work together, and reinforce one another.

is to be replaced by the God of what might be called in English «ethical solidarity,» «social coherence,» «cohesive social order,» «the order of ethical life,» or, in Tillich's vocabulary, «theonomy,» but which is really much better expressed by Sittlichkeit in Hegel's German or by koinônia in New Testament Greek.

In the face of historic injustices, can we forever repress a theological reading of what our social instincts tell us — that we should stand in solidarity with the oppressed and be suspicious of the totalitarian potential of poweIn the face of historic injustices, can we forever repress a theological reading of what our social instincts tell us — that we should stand in solidarity with the oppressed and be suspicious of the totalitarian potential of powein solidarity with the oppressed and be suspicious of the totalitarian potential of power?

In the second book, with Sigmund, he reflected on the broader democratic experience of Europe and the three constant prerequisites of free governments (community solidarity, freedom of the individual, and social justice), but he continued to warn Americans of the complacency, sentimentality, utopianism, and parochialism which he saw in our heritagIn the second book, with Sigmund, he reflected on the broader democratic experience of Europe and the three constant prerequisites of free governments (community solidarity, freedom of the individual, and social justice), but he continued to warn Americans of the complacency, sentimentality, utopianism, and parochialism which he saw in our heritagin our heritage.

In his great systematic work, A Theology for the Social Gospel, 1917, Rauschenbusch indicated the solidarity of sin and the extension of salvation.

He acknowledges, as he has before, the «kernel of truth» in Marxism which is the declared concern for the poor and social solidarity.

In general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relationIn general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relationin prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relationin a society of events that share a real union through internal relations.

Knowledge as empowerment towards participation in the emergent probability of ecologically inclusive wholeness indicates both the importance of communal solidarity in life - worlds and the intrinsic relationship between genuine intelligence and social justice.

But the victims of modernity, and those of us in solidarity with them, contradict the hopes of those who would manage the ever increasing crises of modernity through more adroit use of the techniques of social engineering and bureaucratic professionalism.

Both right and left in America imagine that today's social distemper stems from too little freedom, when, in fact, what currently agitates society is the loss of stability, unity, and solidarity.

The justice that comes through enforced sharing (found in the tax and benefit systems of welfare states) is higher - since it reflects a consensus of social solidarity - but still not enough.

Many towns in the Dakota Territory were named after Union heroes, and the shared experience of veterans provided an immediate sense of social solidarity that was strongly colored by an idealistic patriotism.

• In favour of some specific approaches to the balance of solidarity and subsidiarity, life issues, sexual morality, globalization, the redistribution of wealth, labour unions, financial markets, the environment and other modern social issues.

For example, it is easy, and in part correct, to mock bankers who defend their practices as «God's work», but a well - run banking system is much more a sign of social solidarity than of untrammelled individualistic greed.

Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in political choices.2 From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint, liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant theologies.

In short, Germany needed to create authentic social solidarity.

(Jeremiah 15:15) Moreover, the saving efficacy of good lives in a community had been an implicit corollary of the old sense of social solidarity, as is picturesquely evidenced in Yahweh's consent to Abraham's argument that if there were even ten good men in Sodom it should not be destroyed.

Even as God's work as Creator is in the deeper interest of every creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all its fellow creatures, so right actions toward others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.

Thus we now recognize not only that we have the power in principle to transform these structures so that they more nearly allow for the realization of all relevant interests but also that it is in the deeper interest of all creatures that there be a social and cultural order that frees each of them to realize its interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all the others.

This disparity — the moral, cultural, and social distance that's opened up between the most successful people in America and everybody else — makes solidarity more difficult.

In his social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of free - market capitalisIn his social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of free - market capitalisin Veritate, Benedict XVI pointed to solidarity as necessary to counter the individualistic, self - interested logic of free - market capitalism.

In this situation, the awakened tribal people of Chotanagpur have a special role, not only to fight for their political autonomy within the unity of the nation, but also to affirm their solidarity with all their bellow - victims of the lopsided processes of modernization in their struggle for political and social justicIn this situation, the awakened tribal people of Chotanagpur have a special role, not only to fight for their political autonomy within the unity of the nation, but also to affirm their solidarity with all their bellow - victims of the lopsided processes of modernization in their struggle for political and social justicin their struggle for political and social justice.

In Centesimus Annus, he designates solidarity as «one of the fundamental principles of the Christian view of social and political organization,» tracing it back to Leo XIII's notion of civic friendship as the enduring bond that unites the often antagonistic relations of labor and capital in modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.&raquIn Centesimus Annus, he designates solidarity as «one of the fundamental principles of the Christian view of social and political organization,» tracing it back to Leo XIII's notion of civic friendship as the enduring bond that unites the often antagonistic relations of labor and capital in modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.&raquin modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.»

He contrasts the «pure and simple teachings of Jesus», with the developments which Christianity has undergone in the West.17 In his analysis of the role of intellectualism, scholasticism, social solidarity, and activism, and of their historic causes, there is much trutin the West.17 In his analysis of the role of intellectualism, scholasticism, social solidarity, and activism, and of their historic causes, there is much trutIn his analysis of the role of intellectualism, scholasticism, social solidarity, and activism, and of their historic causes, there is much truth.

The difference between the two rests, I believe, in the contrast between intentional, cohesive, conscience - shaping communities of identity and social solidarity, not only in Utah but in the Mormon minority communities around the country, and Evangelical communities that are too often influenced by raging pundits, talk radio, and TV shout - shows — and these voices sometimes drown out the pastor's.

Under the combined influence of Science and History, and of social developments, the twofold sense of duration and collectivity has pervaded and re-ordered the entire field of our experience; with the twofold result that the future, hitherto a vague succession of monotonous years awaiting an unimportant number of scattered individual lives, is now seen to be a period of positive becoming and maturing — but one in which we can advance and shape ourselves only in solidarity.

«In demanding love he demands social solidarity?

The second is the social solidarity which in love embraces everyone and grounded in metaphysical reality overcomes competition, compulsion, reserve and strife.

We invite all the parts involved in the conflict to prudence, to social solidarity, and to action aimed at constructing peace.

What was Paul requiring but the social solidarity of the Corinthians when he called for them to assert their unity in Christ?

We endure «the liquefying effects of capitalism and consumerism on the politically protected individuals within liberal states, as men and women in larger numbers prioritize the fulfillment of their self - chosen, acquisitive, individual desires above any social (including familial) solidarities except those they also happen to choose, and only for as long as they happen to choose them.»

The public worship of God also embraces acts done in the public realm in solidarity with those who suffer because of unjust social, economic, and political arrangements that are systemic in the society.