Sentences with phrase «many modern states»

The 1948 declaration which established the modern state of Israel pledges that the country will «ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex,» and that it «it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.»

Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

The size and existence of the modern state is limited only by the ability to borrow money; an ability dependent on the continuing value of fiat paper money.

Greece is the canary in the coal mine of the modern state.

The treaties we possess from the Hittites (an ancient Indo - European people who once inhabited what is now the modern state of Turkey) established the way these suzerains interacted with the city - states under their control.

For Milbank, Taylor «is highly alert to the fact that disenchantment perhaps primarily came about because a certain style of theology favored this — a style wishing to monopolize all mystery in the one God, somewhat in the way that the modern state now monopolized all coercive power at the sovereign center.»

«The nascent modern state,» Muchembled observes, «was all the more eager to instill fear in that it lacked real means to punish the majority of delinquents.»

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

Indeed, real questions remain: What does the sheer existence of the modern state of Israel mean for theology» particularly for Christian theology?

Falwell spoke for a large number of Christian Zionists in the U.S., Christians who believe that the modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and so deserves unconditional political, financial and religious support.

The modern states, that are characterized as the technocratic organization to survive in the competition and rivarly with the enemy state (s), can be parabolized as the Leviathan.

But, Anderson goes on to say, in our modern state, social justice substitutes for personal charity.

Indeed, in many ways he took his stand, and encouraged others to take their stand, over against politics — especially politics as dominated by the machinations of the modern State.

But this notion leaves out the account the fact that, by its very structure, the modern state controls socialism and perverts it, turning it into nonsocialism.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

Surely one cause has been the rise of the modern state, which has allowed laypersons to shape public policy in a way unimagined in the patristic period.

It would be to our interests if the Arab nations were thoroughly modern states, completely independent and autonomous.

She shows how the covenantal invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and modern states.

Their and the Irgun's revolt was indispensable to the creation of the modern State of Israel.

If they were free, strong, independent modern states, or if they formed a powerful autonomous bloc, the great Russian mass is so very much on the top of them and the danger of the Communist kind of «colonialism» is so real, that nothing could prevent their being on our side in the event of a conflict with communism.

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

When the modern state of Israel was established there were about 400,000 of us.

Russell could scornfully reply: put a «hood» over your head, put a «hood» over the slaughter on the western front, put a «hood» over your protest against the Moloch of the modern state that demands that children be sacrificed.

The Archbishop of Denver in a pastoral letter on recent court rulings: «The direction of the modern state is against the dignity of human life.

The former is associated mainly with the modern state and, strategically, gives Habermas a means of criticizing his neighbors to the east, while the latter conjures up the dangers of rampant free enterprise which, to many Europeans, the United States epitomizes.

As Burleigh demonstrated in Earthly Powers, the great story of modern times is not how the Church allowed itself to be manipulated by the modern state but how the Church stood up» imperfectly, often ineffectively» to that state.

In the Western countries, including the United States, Muslims are struggling to reconcile their traditional belief that the Sharia embraces all of life, including politics, with the religious and cultural pluralism of the modern state.

This dreadful threat to their national community must have contributed considerable drive to the present establishment of the modern state of Israel.

Writing on Dooyeweerd's social and political philosophy, Jonathan Chaplin points out that «the modern state actually made possible the arrival of civil society.

Waldstein skillfully articulates, thirteenth - century France was ordered according to a different theology and anthropology, within which the temporal and the spiritual were dynamically and sacramentally interrelated, manifested in a social space known as «the peace» that bore little resemblance to modern states, confessional or otherwise.

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

It is the modern state, with its insatiable ambition to power, that is limited by the separation of church and state.

Ultimately, I suspect, there is no universal morality that all of us will recognize as such, and it is only the legal monism of the modern state that compels us to look for such.

16 The best available general study of Hegel's state is Shlomo Avineri's Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).

In declaring itself legally autonomous and creating the first body of codified law since the collapse of Rome, the Church took on all the aspects of a modern State.

The modern state is ubiquitous in almost every facet of life.

One hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, evangelicals are divided on how the modern state of Israel should be viewed.

Yet, if I understand your views regarding the modern state of Israel and its current conflict with its neighbors correctly, I do have some real concerns — particularly in light of the current political climate (the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood) as well as a growing trend among certain Christian polemicists against Israel (see Gary Burge and Stephen Sizer).

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

Yes, the bible is infallible and exactly correct, BUT — and this is a big but — not in its modern state.

William T. Cavanaugh describes in his excellent study of the rise of the modern state, Migrations of the Holy, how Hobbes's new arrangement promised liberation, not oppression:

It includes the growth of the modern state, about which I will say more later.

No one was more influential in the definition of the modern state than Thomas Hobbes, who through the conceit of the «state of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the State.

K C Abraham: The emergence of the modern state, thanks to British rule and the impact of the West on the elite, has changed the political scenario.

When you dismental your borders and permit people from other cultures then you invite disaster and this is what the modern states face.

The American church has largely purported just one theology about the modern state of Israel, but now questions are being asked - especially by younger Christians learning of persecution and human rights issues happening in the region - if the church should have a more active role in peacemaking.

- attempted «biblical» support for the modern state of Israel as the fulfillment of scriptural prophesy - an overall failure to pay attention to context and hermeneutics

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, p. 89.)

One reason for this is that, before the establishment of Israel in 1948, Judaism had never had the experience of being the religio» cultural establishment in a modern state.

But Hertzberg holds that Israel should not be judged differently from other nations, and that in the exercise of nationalistic power Israel's record compares quite favorably with that of other modern states.