Sentences with phrase «of social ethics»

Patenting: For the majority the ethical justification of patenting plants is a qustion of social ethics.

The last half of the book deals with the major contemporary problems of social ethics and attempts to turn the searchlight of the Christian gospel upon them.

It is because of their utter realism as they spoke within the conditions of a social and political community — or to adopt a current term, a responsible society — that next to the teachings of Jesus we find in them our firmest basis of social ethics.

Theodore R. Weber professor emeritus of social ethics in the Candler School of Theology of Emory University, recently wrote Politics in the Order of Salvation: Transforming Wesleyan Political Ethics.

To evade major issues of social ethics is cowardice.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.

On the contrary, love as a principle of social ethics implies that distribution and organization of power which can offer the foundation for free and constructive human relations.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

Using such an approach, I have attempted to spell out the direction such a Biblically defined interpretation of social ethics might take.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

If space allowed for further delineation of the social ethics of these representative evangelicals, it would prove illuminating.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

A Biblical vision of social ethics must involve social, political, and economic realities to be sure.

But contemporary evangelicals also seem to be a house divided on other theological issues they address - consider their discussion on the role of women, their definitions of social ethics, and their responses to homosexuality.

Seen in this light, the differing formulations of social ethics within the evangelical community are highly predictable, as predictable as the clashing once was between Richard Nixon and Pat Brown.

The problems of social ethics came into focus for him.

That contemporary evangelical ideas of social ethics are rooted in outside theological / ideological frameworks can perhaps be illustrated by comparing the four positions outlined above with that of California politics over the last twenty years.

Too often, in that section of the evangelical community which stems from American revivalism and fundamentalism, discussion of social ethics passes over this foundational matter altogether, discussing instead only specific procedures.

When «justice» is noted as the basis and goal of social ethics, it is all too often left undefined.

Regarding matters of social ethics, it is the interaction between competing traditions that holds out the most promise for helping evangelicals to move beyond their current impasse.

Moreover, because of his personal history, Keen has largely ignored matters of social ethics in his discussion of play, despite his desire to become Homo Tempestivus, that timely man who responds appropriately to life around him.

Christine Pohl is professor of social ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and author of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans).

Some recognize that Buddhism, at least in the form in which it has operated in China, Korea, and Japan, has failed to develop the kind of social ethic needed in the modern world.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Not exact matches

Yesterday, at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility's annual Forum, I got the chance to ask keynote speaker Stephen Lewis about the ethics of lobbying.

While relationships between humans are subject to ethics, morals, shared values, and a social conscience, machines and algorithms have none of these.

This included an analysis of each company's ethics, internal culture, CEO presence and social media presence.

Shareholders, for example, according to SHARE's Peter Chapman, are and ought to be concerned about the «ESG» (ethics, social and governance) obligations of the companies they invest in.

It was the recession of the early 1990s that broke the back of the old social contract, says Bruce Mast, an Exeter, N.H., business consultant who has degrees in social psychology and ethics.

Dominic Martin is a philosopher whose research is focused on questions of ethics, economics and the social responsibilities of business.

His current research projects include an examination of the use of Twitter to discuss business ethics and an exploration of the social and ethical implications of 21st century manufacturing technologies.

Richard Leblanc, an expert on corporate governance and accountability, believes that the risk posed by ethics and trust has increased because of the ease and speed with which ethical breaches can be captured (eg on smartphones) and shared (via social media).

Hallmark characteristics of community citizenship include trust, purpose, connectedness, leadership, social capital, passion, empathy, ethics, and responsibility.

Your principles, ethics and vision will not only pioneer groundbreaking innovations, you'll also bring a new era of global awareness and social impact.»

They willingly cheat and ignore privacy rules and data ethics in order to win,» said social media analyst Jonathan Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

He cites a «new work ethic» as the drive behind this shift to social workplaces, and points to the phenomenal — and still growing — rise of coworking.

I want to thank Brian for his tireless work ethic and sharing his drive campaigning as well as the many mornings, evenings and nights that he spent working toward the growth of social democracy in Alberta.

Need proof, check out the global Empathy Index, which analyzes the ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception and public social media messaging of 170 companies listed on major financial indexes.

I think a social ethic of tolerance and inclusion is entirely appropriate.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

This section, «Christianity Today and Tomorrow,» contains four essays on belief, community, moral theology and social ethics, and the future of Christianity.

After a brief stint at Woman's College in North Carolina and a few years teaching «social ethics» at the Hartford Seminary, the relentless clacking of Berger's typewriter earned him a return ticket to the New School in 1963.

He asserts that the social pathologies noticeable in the underclass are there because «there are no ethics at the top of society.»

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

J. Philip Wogaman is professor of Christian social ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

It sifts out into four arenas: personal morality, wisdom decisions, social ethics, mystery / paradoxes of the faith.

We want to show that philosophy can help biologists to develop an ecological model of living things that will both be more fruitful scientifically and give more appropriate guidance to ethics and social policy.

In the name of Christ, modern Christian social ethics points to an eradication of the very poverty that Jesus blessed.

One of the biggest fallouts (to oversimplify) then was that conservatives cared about personal morality and not involvement in social ethics / issues of evil, while liberals cared about social ethics / issues but were seen as lax about morality.