Sentences with phrase «mean in the political sense»

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Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquIn its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

In order to understand what Metz means by political theology, and thus the obstacle to a process theologian's becoming a political theologian in Metz's sense, we will need to study more carefully the position to which he came in that booIn order to understand what Metz means by political theology, and thus the obstacle to a process theologian's becoming a political theologian in Metz's sense, we will need to study more carefully the position to which he came in that booin Metz's sense, we will need to study more carefully the position to which he came in that booin that book.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

«Public» attached to theology means «worldwide» in a normative sense, or it is simply political.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

In a political sense, this doesn't mean that Ms. Bachmann's husband would be telling her what to do or ordering her around.

Clearly, the understanding of these matters that underlies the demand for justice in the specifically political sense is closely related to our distinctively modern historical consciousness, by which I mean our consciousness of ourselves as historical subjects who bear full responsibility for creating ourselves and one another in and through our creation of society and culture.

That is to say, they are not isolated in time but become part of a homogeneous series, bearing witness to the same certitude about the efficacy of spiritual means in improving corrupted social and political situations with their sense of compassion for the universal.

For, «political systems incapable of counter-balancing unusually swollen middle class, myriads of white collar jobs, non-local means of subsistence, irresistible passion for consumer goods and a social life making sense only in the idiom of science and technology hardly grant an easy walk - over for anti-development movements.

In view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioIn view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploration.

A perverse way to do God that arises distressingly often in the book is in the Machiavellian sense: as a means to achieve political ends.

The above point was meant as «options in a political sense».

Black Panther is a political movie, in the sense that much of it centers on questions of political succession in Wakanda, and that means everybody in the cast has to have a perspective on the question of how Wakanda should deal with both its succession problem and its relations to the outside world.

Although there is a political element to this movie, however, it works on a primal level — that of a person struggling to find not only a path forward but some kind of meaning in an act that lacks reason, compassion, or sense.

Shira Wachsmann (b. 1984) in her works focuses on the notion of land, in both meanings: land as material, as soil, and land as a place, as territory; in a natural and cultural as well as political and historical sense.

His work is both meaningful in historical terms, reminiscent of Roman civilization ending right there at Hadrian's wall, and in a contemporary political sense, provoking a thinking on what this border means for England and Scotland today.

, found the term all over recent books of natural history, art and poetry, and on a death - metal album, and concluded his study of what the word might mean for Marxist political economists with an attempt to project it into the eagerly awaited post-capitalist future: «In the political sense of the term, then, the question about the Anthropocene isn't when it began but whether it ever will, and if so, where first.

Fox: Yes, but I'm actually talking about... I mean if you want to talk about the political freedoms of the people in Romania, what you need is actually a sense of freedom in Romania, to fight for your rights, equally.

However I will stipulate that my comment was meant to imply that Brandon's competence, was in the direction of forcing long answers to simple statements he makes, like calling anyone that implies that billions of political dollars and the politics of government power have a corrupting influence on the science, a «paranoid conspiracy nut» So, in a sense, I was politely calling him a competent troll.

One of the points I have made before on various occasions is that fundamentally totalitarianism isn't really political — at least not in the sense that people mean the term «political.»

The commentators seem to mean political in a traditional left / right sense.)