Sentences with phrase «of alienation as»

Courts must exercise great care before accepting allegations of alienation as true, or they will mistakenly place children with physically and psychologically abusive parents.

So much so that, in 2010, a High Court judge ruled that «the concept of alienation as a feature of some high conflict parental disputes may today be regarded as mainstream.»

2) To legislate the non-existence of alienation as forbidden in assessments of children in custody and visitation disputes (Assembly Bill in the California 2010 legislature).

Dr. Tener rated the degree of alienation as moderate....

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

Not exact matches

I think that really gave me a glimpse of what it must be like for the refugees as well when they arrive in a foreign land or in unknown places, what it's like... that alienation.

It has also served as a long - standing source of western alienation, largely because farmers in Eastern Canada and most of British Columbia are exempt from the wheat board's authority.

And as noted above, the use of stone boundary markers rather than wooden or clay ones indicated that alienations of land to the public sector (usually to the palace) were irreversible, in contrast to communal land tenure.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

This alienation is reflected in the existential uncertainties of a man as deeply pious as Samuel Johnson; or it can be seen in Mary Margaret Alacoque, immersed in a cloistered religious life.

During a fast as long and stringent as Yom Kippur, the children of Israel chant dirges mourning their alienation from God.

Religiously, we are aware of ourselves as created by and in relationship with God (even if this relationship is one of alienation), and this too is neither objective nor subjective, but must be both.

They believed that Jesus had come as God in human form and that by his coming, and above all by his suffering, death, and resurrection, he had saved God's children from their unfortunate condition of sin and their resultant alienation from God.

Alienation and repression must forever rule in history if it is impossible to abolish their ground; so long as the ultimate ground of a fallen history remains wholly isolated and absolutely autonomous, there can be no hope in the resurrection of energy and life.

When self - righteousness and natural virtue are unveiled as Satan's holiness, we are once again confronting a transcendence and inversion of the Western moral and theological tradition, an inversion revealing that the natural virtue and power of an individual selfhood is the inevitable expression of the self - alienation of a fallen and isolated humanity.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

--- Suing a third person for offenses that interfere with the success of your marriage, such as alienation of affection and criminal conversation (these laws are available in only a few states).

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

Lutherans throw themselves as radically as they do on God's grace because they know as intensely as they do the reality of sin — sin not simply or even essentially as concession to the passions but as fundamental alienation from the will of God.

Those that he describes as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable as God's creations, that is they exist in a state of sin.

Can Christians dismiss the «hope of a blessed resurrection» as a form of alienation or accept it grudgingly as an optional accessory for the weak - minded?

Lack of self - acceptance may have the retrogressive appearance of alienation from others, in which solitariness is felt as an intolerable burden and the totality is perceived as a void.

The basic ideas in the meaning of hell are alienation and separation from God by persistent rejection of him, the tighter forging of the chains of sin as we misuse our freedom, and the loneliness, remorse, and inner turmoil which are sin's worst punishment.

As I said yesterday in my prayer from the cell post called «satellite phone», I have this strange feeling of alienation from God since I left the professional ministry and haven't been to church...

According to the opening chapters of Genesis, humanity and all the world are created good — but humans repeatedly choose, as they are free to do, a course which yields disruption, alienation and chaos.

In this sense, then, Jesus did see the possession of wealth itself as a source of injustice and a sign of alienation (cf. Mark 10: 17 - 25; Luke 6:20 - 2 1; Luke 19:1 - 10).

These are stories of serious despair and alienation, and perhaps of grace as well.

Thérèse Souga from Cameroon says that «Christ is the true human, the one who makes it possible for all persons to reach fulfillment and to overcome the historic alienations weighing them down... The realism of the cross every day tells me, as a woman of the Third World, that the laws of history can be overcome by means of crucified love.»

The sense of alienation both from the unconscious and from the world of Socratic reason created a consciousness of self or spirit as something wholly other to all the rest of the psychic life.

The shift of the seat of existence to the rational consciousness, however, created an alienation of the self from the unconscious psychic life as a whole.

Wilson's biography also highlights certain events as crucial in Lewis's personal and literary development, chiefly the death of his mother (when Lewis was nine) and his alienation from his father.

Merely recognizing the fact that man is alienated from himself does no good as long as man is not emancipated from the underlying causes of alienation found in the economic order.

Religion is often described as the healing of an alienation which has opened between man and his world: this is true; but we may not forget that it is religion which has brought about that alienation.

With a priori alienation (Verfremdung) from the text as the starting point, the intelligibility of mind, laboring in and through methodology, would transport the interpreter into the realm of another time and place and by the determination of meaning in relation to a specific historical context would illuminate the obscure text.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

Hence «private property» is considered here as an expression of human self - alienation.

Between the naivete of uncritical fusion with the horizon of one's own heritage and the sundering of that unity by the distance of objectification lies a moment of negativity which can be variously described as suspicion, alienation, doubt, detachment, temptation, or death.

David's reversal takes the form of alienation within his own communities — family, city, and kingdom — as a result of this violent desecration of community (II Sam.

Theological anthropology would agree with this but would add that it is too superficial to interpret the self - centredness in human beings as a mechanical disorder or as an organic maladjustment easily corrected by the mechanical or organic processes to come; and that the condition of rational objectivity also requires overcoming of the spiritual alienation of the self from God which is behind all psychic and social alienations.

Since the Christian Faith holds that as a law or an ideal, it is impossible of realization because of human alienation from God and that where it is realized even partially in history, it is realized as the result of the Divine Forgiveness freely given in Christ providing the motivation for mutual forgiveness among persons and peoples in their historical setting.

Israel's alienation from Yahweh is willful and complete, the shocking betrayal of her pride and arrogance which appear all the more reprehensible against the background of such relationships as father - son (Isa.

Since in the insecurity arising out of its awareness of its finite freedom, the self tends to absolutise itself and puts itself in opposition to its own nature as given by God in Creation and Redemption, self - alienation is an ever - present aspect of human reality.

My eschatological death, therefore, terminates my participation in the human condition of sin that dominates the old moral order as well as the alienation that that disease engenders.

There has been a shift from understanding sexual sin as a matter of wrong sexual acts to understanding sexual sin as alienation from our intended sexuality.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

The textual tradition entrusted to the preacher has as a task the discernment of that alienation and the consideration of alternatives to it.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

While there are tributes to the earth in the scriptures and in Christian liturgy, there is a tendency to see the earth as a seductive reality, which brought about alienation from God in the agricultural peoples of the Near East.

As with the Protestant alienation a century earlier, the severance of formal ties has been the achievement of enlightened and observant clergy, or members of religious orders, acting in order to shelter their upgrading institutions from church authorities who were seen as anti-intellectual, intrusively authoritarian, and unable to offer any resources but their own unimpressive governancAs with the Protestant alienation a century earlier, the severance of formal ties has been the achievement of enlightened and observant clergy, or members of religious orders, acting in order to shelter their upgrading institutions from church authorities who were seen as anti-intellectual, intrusively authoritarian, and unable to offer any resources but their own unimpressive governancas anti-intellectual, intrusively authoritarian, and unable to offer any resources but their own unimpressive governance.