Not exact matches
One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up
in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to
love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt
action on behalf of
social justice.
One of the most striking findings
in the
Love, Sweat & Tears report was that church growth and
social action are not only compatible but «may reinforce each other».
In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of
love as
action from
social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).
The kind of
action from
social awareness that is demanded by perfect
love is such as must admit the tragic reality that there are people who are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances,
love itself may dictate that «It is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live
in a permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).
In developing a theism which conceives of the supreme instance of goodness in terms of perfect love, Hartshorne argues that this «religious ideal of love» is «not a mere emotional glow toward others,» but rather, love is «action from social awareness» (MVG 166
In developing a theism which conceives of the supreme instance of goodness
in terms of perfect love, Hartshorne argues that this «religious ideal of love» is «not a mere emotional glow toward others,» but rather, love is «action from social awareness» (MVG 166
in terms of perfect
love, Hartshorne argues that this «religious ideal of
love» is «not a mere emotional glow toward others,» but rather,
love is «
action from
social awareness» (MVG 166).
Throughout his life,
love was always Auden's remedy, but
in these early years he described it sometimes
in Freudian terms as a release from repression, sometimes
in Marxist terms as authentic existence through
social action.
That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally
social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its
actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or
love and expressed
in brotherly affection and fellow membership
in one common body.
The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership
in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness
in the
social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor
love through responsible corporate
action.
Non-violent
action can, of course, be undertaken without reference to
love, but one characteristic of most of the non-violent ethical movements has been the conviction that this strategy is required by
love and provides a way of giving
love a direct expression
in social conflict.
The experiment with strategies of
social change through nonviolent
action is an important movement
in the modern history of
love.
Rightly understood, faith and justice are
in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding
in trust and loyalty
in response to God's
love, justice is a matter of human
action, whether right
action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of
social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).
The theory and practice of
love in direct
action for
social change received new impetus
in the 20th century.
But
in the perspective that we have taken
in this book, the ethical dimension is a matter of the human realization of possibility and accountability, with men and women
in their
social belonging and
in the light of the one absolute ethical principle — which is nothing other than
love -
in -
action.
He must express his faith
in loving social action and thereby communicate it to others.
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Covering everything from
action films,
social dramas,
love stories and crime films, what they have
in common is an African identity and cultural grounding that make them more popular than Hollywood films for Nigerian audiences.
Zuke's is asking pet owners to share photos and videos of their dogs
in action for its Fuel the
Love to Fuel the Cure
social media fundraiser.
While all of the exhibiting artists
in Love Action Art Lounge approach the
social from distinct and varied perspectives, they, arguably, share what Yates McKee, the author of Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition, describes, when writing about Occupy Wall Street, as a horizontal pedagogical space
in which viewers themselves might be prompted to imagine and perhaps eventually enact their own sense of
social transformation.