Sentences with phrase «not utopianism»

Yet this, was not utopianism.

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It was not in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God.

I am not a Lord Zealous for utopianism.

Unlike utopianism, Judaism and Christianity do not posit a sinless world.

Religion which has not lost its utopianism is the opposite of the opiate of the people.

When it did not fall into a secular utopianism, which its most discerning Christian exponents never did, it nevertheless tended to rely too much on human effort and not to lay enough stress on divine grace for the conquest of evil.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

It must be emphasized that such a reassessment would properly be a far cry from the triumphalism about democratic capitalism that (understandably perhaps) found favor in right - of - center circles in the last few years: we must be careful not to substitute a right - leaning utopianism for the left - leaning one of the past.

I do not think this necessarily implies utopianism unless «the whole creation» is interpreted atomistically to mean that everything that looks evil is actually good.

Universities minister David Willetts, president of the group, told the audience that «Conservatism has its own strand of utopianism... it's in the past» something the party «mustn't have» and instead should offer people optimism.