Sentences with phrase «of present society»

Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

Kelley's transgressive project extends understanding for sexual taboos and illicit pleasures still considered incompatible with the aims and interests of present society.

The use of the regenerative waters of baptism in every aspect of life is a constant call to God to right the wrongs of our present society.

At the same time, I understand this political theology to be a positive attempt to formulate the eschatological message under the conditions of our present society.»

To do something about that is to ask for the greatest change of all to the order of present society.

We can not simply ignore the origins of our present society, which was founded largely on religions.

My aim is to try to provide some clues to the workings of present society and the new society that is emerging.

A socialist revolution is anticipated as bringing an end to the massive oppression of present society without introducing new evils of comparable magnitude.

Not exact matches

A culture of anti-Semitism is a fertile ground for breeding extremism and terrorist sympathizers, while a society with no tolerance for anti-Semitism presents a unified front against their agenda.

To make matters more confusing, many of the issues we currently face as a society are being presented in a way that makes them seem new.

Our society's trend towards narcissism presents a challenge for leaders to fight the cult of self at all costs.

In 2008, the Society of Plastics Engineers presented Cascade with a Greener Environment Award for its EcoCart, a heavy - duty recycling container with up to 50 percent recycled content, more than any similarly sized container on the market.

Now, we're getting the first look at that answer in data presented as part of the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual conference, which starts Friday.

Technology by Cellectis allows cellular engineering, and a human trial of the company's work in editing blood cells will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology.

And while it's a cliche to say that we're now part of an information - based economy and society, «our future... is almost certain to be an intensification of our present reality: greater and greater information dependence in every matter of life and work,» all relying on an open Internet.

The case began several years ago when First Canadian, a title insurance company, sued the Law Society of New Brunswick for amending its professional standards to require a lawyer to be present when property owners swore affidavits for the sale or mortgage of a property.

New research out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America suggests nature sounds might not just mask office chatter, but actually increase your team's productivity as well.

Though dated in its cultural references, Greenleaf presents a powerful description of true servant leadership; leadership focused on every person your enterprise touches - employees, customers, and society in general - asking, «Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?

The purpose of the Global Opportunity Report is to demonstrate how the Opportunity Mindset can reveal the opportunities these risks also present and introduce ideas for how we can wisely use the pressure they exert to create more resilient societies.

Material in this paper has been presented at the conference, «Permission for Pleasure,» in New York, NY, June 28 - July 1, 1998 and the 25th annual meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society in Montreal, June 1 - 4, 1999.

The era of quantum computing is fast approaching and will present new challenges to the cryptography that underpins our electronically - connected, global society.

Elissa's significant role in merging the Institute of Certified Financial Planners (ICFP) and the International Association for Financial Planning (IAFP) to form the Financial Planning Association, her contributions as a thought leader to the advancement of the profession through her writing, presenting, and teaching, and her contributions to society and the profession through her work at the Foundation for Financial Planning were highlighted as she received the award.

He presented the paper to influential groups such as, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the Canadian Bar; Wills & Estates Chapter.

Europacifica CEO Naomi Fink has been invited to present her findings on Japanese Total Factor Productivity at the 2016 Annual Conference of Economists of the Economic Society of Australia in Adelaide.

An American Physical Society meeting of March 22 in Dallas presented a mathematical model on the growth on religious non-affiliation.

Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides to how the Internet World would and would not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns to be heard by society, turned out to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

While presenting themselves as champions of equality, these communitarians take it upon themselves to reeducate the rest of society.

They require us to present ourselves to American society as permanent victims, incapable of advance without the state - enforced philanthropy of possibly resentful whites.

However, the Bible and history provide important insights on our present state of affairs — and the Bible alone reveals where these startling changes are taking our youth and our society.

Today's society everything from politics to entertainment is presented in shades of gray to capitalize on our humanity, but some situations there truly is only black or white, and that's where ones soul, ones fate and ones courage is set to the test.

Our society fails to present a coherent sense of what a good life should look like or how one arrives at a good life; and without a sense of purpose, the demands that fall on teens to «get into a good college» seem arbitrary and dehumanizing.

Importance for self now refers not simply to the immediate experience but also to future experiences in the personal society of which the present occasion is a part.

Given the enormity of the present problem and its obvious urgency for all segments of society, it should not take another 20 years for the churches to begin getting their theological act together.

God is so far removed from today's society as a whole, but he is the same God of the old testament as he is the same God of the new testament and the present day.

But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects of industry, technology, and population growth have presented major «environmental» problems (see CC).

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

In the fall of 2009 a petition, organized by Fellow of the American Physical Society, Roger Cohen, and containing the signatures of hundreds of distinguished APS members was presented to the APS management with a request that at least the truly embarrassing word «incontrovertible» be taken out of the statement.

The attempts by the metropolitan centers and their local representatives to induce population control and the growing importance of military «aid» to suppress the large marginal elements point to the instability of the present system and its lack of satisfactory options for the Latin American societies.

These studies showed that while 85 percent of non-believers had a favorable opinion of Christianity's role in society in 1996, those numbers have fallen sharply in recent years, to the point that 38 percent of young adults have a negative impression of present - day Christianity.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

You also speak as though you are certain no gay people are present and that «we evengelical Christians» are talking amonst ourself about what an entire group of people deserve in terms of full inclusion and acceptance in society and the church.

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderOf course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

To follow Jesus means to hope and pray for a world structured on principles that would turn present society upside down, create countercultural communities, nonviolently, and to do this while remaining open to ideas and ways of being of quite different sorts.

Dr. Paul Tillich of Harvard said recently that an age of conformity seemed about to overwhelm America, and he urged us to «resist the seemingly irresistible forces of conformity of present - day society.»

Camus» objection to any future goal to judge the present, whether a Christian's hope for immortality or a Marxist's dream of a future classless society, is that it leads to an «ideal of the spirit» that fails to appreciate the temporal enjoyment of bodily existence.

My own way of explaining this phenomenon is that these young people (who are most intelligent and can not be fooled by so much sham in present society) are really looking for a meaningful faith, for a satisfying form of transcendence.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)