Sentences with phrase «liberal versions of»

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.

But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

The liberal version of American civil religion draws on a different set of religious values and portrays the nation in a very different light.

Or, in a question that assumes what could be called the liberal version of this concern: Should they be required to adopt a radically liberalized version of Islam in order to conform to the norms of the host society?

Sometimes you come perilously close to being a liberal version of Rush.

Some economic liberals have sought to hollow out the party's values too such an extent that the party seems to resemble a liberal version of New Labour devoid of any progressive soul or sense of purpose.

And on Tuesday, he and Warren will gather the national press in Washington D.C. for the unveiling of a national progressive agenda that he says will be a liberal version of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America.

Later today Mr. de Blasio will roll out a plan he's dubbed «The Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,» which he has presented as a liberal version of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract for America.

Until then, if each and every remedy is also part and parcel of the standard liberal agenda, most Americans will continue to assume that Global Warming is the liberal version of the GWOT.

Not exact matches

Holland says the Torstar strategy is to build out its diversified revenue streams while controlling costs and making the Star a better version of its liberal Toronto - boosting self in both the digital and physical worlds.

Now the BC Liberals will form the next government and dominate the Legislative Assembly with enough votes to impose their version of economics and progress without too much bothersome consultation or compromise.

In my opinion, Edmonton - Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman was the only candidate who left the impression that she would define the Liberal Party as more than just a softer version of the Progressive Conservatives.

VANCOUVER — A major media outlet has done what the leader of the B.C. Liberals refused to do — released the full version of the B.C. Liberal - suppressed 2014 ICBC report that would have saved British Columbians billions of dollars at ICBC.

It is not the liberal version that the founders worked hard to keep the word God out of the constitution.

Even when he was most sympathetic to Marxism, he had tracked down its contradictions and its links to other, more liberal and individualistic, versions of morality.

They've adopted a version of the liberal Protestant turn to experience.

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

The political version of crying racism in the face of every form of opposition to, say, busing or affirmative action has brought on the current crisis in the politics of both blacks and white liberals.

A much larger group of liberal Democrats would have liked some version of government - run single - payer health insurance.

The Canadian version of political correctness under the long - running Liberal regime makes the thought police in the U.S. appear libertarian by comparison.

Silly those rifles that the liberal media keeps trying to call «assault rifles» are nothing more than hunting version of the real automatic weapons.

Orwin says what ends up happening for traditional religious believers in a liberal democracy is they have to settle for a watered down version of their practice e.g. Catholic Lite, Jewish Lite etc..

There are liberal and conservative versions of this, but it comes to the same thing.

The offering of a special version of liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue for contemporary human rights and values discourse in East Asia.

I know that by looking into ALL the different versions of conservative and liberal theology that I've been changed.

Fewer students every year seek a liberal arts degree, and their teachers offer a politicized and corrupted version of the liberal arts.

Liberal whites confront blacks who affirm a version of «old - time religion» that still has more salvation in it for black people than liberals usually expect in their religion.

Practically every version of Trinitarian Christianity, from fundamentalist to liberal, sees Jesus as the God of the Old Testament.

Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the institutions.

Reagan's liberal opponents treated his appeal to wage earners as some combination of larceny and sorcery, but the truth was that Reagan was just better at listening to the wage earners of his own time while his opponents believed those wage earners were duty - bound to buy whatever distorted version of the past the Democratic party was selling.

Both conservative and liberal churches need to be continually reminded of the thoroughgoing demands of the gospel, lest they settle too easily for some version of psychologism or culture religion.

The liberal minister attempted to adjust the essentials of evangelical Protestantism to the intellectual trends of the time; the fundamentalist minister attempted to maintain his version of evangelical Protestantism intact, to shut it off from «alien» influences and preserve it from change.

Perhaps it may be right to say, that in general the politically conscious educated middle class of India were guided more by the Liberal and Marxian ideologies than the Gandhian or other versions of reformed Hindu thought.

Different versions of basically the same picture continue through the nineteenth century in both theologically liberal and theologically conservative circles.

In the second part, I will offer a special version of liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue for contemporary human rights and values discourse in East Asia.

Not for nothing, then, did Newman conclude his Apologia Pro Vita Sua with a stinging list of liberalism's errors, which to the liberal mind - set is bound to seem «dogmatic,» «closed - minded,» «narrow,» and «rigid»» all terms of abuse in the liberal catalogue of their version of the seven deadly sins.

Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik complained to the Commons authorities after his name was missed off the online version of Hansard.

Spitzer would prefer that you remember him not as the failed governor, but the very effective state attorney general, a hero of the left who actually investigated the financial industry and articulated a version of liberal populism that had been drowned out by the Bush administration.

There is a strand of liberal opinion that despairs of Britain not being like somewhere else, or an idealised version of somewhere else.

an abridged version of an August 2013 Liberator Article A senior Liberal Democrat, when recently asked about their view of the prospects for the Party is rumoured to have replied, «The Valley of Death», evoking thoughts of the Crimean War.

The leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has apologised after admitting that the Welsh language version of her manifesto was full of errors.

If you would like an Easy Read version, please click here for a summary of the Welsh Liberal Democrats» manifesto or here to find a copy of the Liberal Democrats» manifesto in a range of accessible formats.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

The Liberal Democrat leader's frank apology for having broken his pledge on raising tuition fees was originally greeted by a wall of consternation, but an auto - tuned version now set to be released as a charity single has boosted Clegg's gamble to win back lost supporters.

«In his memoir «A Journey», published by Random House today, Blair said Britain «elected a Tory version of New Labour» in May with a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

And 22 per cent believed that the Conservative leadership «should compromise with the Liberal Democrats to produce a version of the Bill that both sides can broadly agree with».

Alongside this, enacting a version of the Hayden Phillips Review on party funding was one of the so - called «red lines» in the coalition negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats today came to an agreement with the Welsh Labour Government and Plaid Cymru that, in exchange for supporting the Welsh Government's annual budget, schools will receive millions of pounds of extra investment through a «Pupil Deprivation Grant» - a Welsh version of the «Pupil Premium» in England.

No - one is envisaging a new version of the Liberal / SDP Alliance.