Sentences with phrase «on social morality»

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They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

«[Religious leaders] essentially decided during the past twenty years that people could fend for themselves on matters of personal morality while the churches joined the «struggle» to establish social «rights» whose imprimatur comes from the courts, America's unique bishopric.»

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

It is a sort of miscellaneous collection of material on a great variety of subjects, literary, social, scientific, and religious, for instance one book discusses astrology, another miracles that have occurred, another morality and custom.

The two Churches heads discussed various matters including contemporary social life, pastoral care, education and issues of morality, while also touching on the current events affecting both Egypt and Russia.

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

He rightly and ominously warned that if it were, «the Christian ethic of charity and compassion would be a morality dependent on authoritarian social structures.»

If the condemnation of homosexuality depends on the historical and social context, then the morality of the Bible changes with time and culture, and thus is relative to and dependant on human values.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

Although Pope John Paul II has made clear his disagreement with the revolutionary approach of liberation theologians, Catholic social teaching is more radical than the popular opinion of the present Pope, based on his views about birth control and sexual morality, might suggest.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church polity.

The former view, one that accepts the social contract theory, leads to a hyper «individualism that, on the liberal side, fetishizes free speech and subscribes to a «do your own thing» morality, and, on the conservative side, is reflected in libertarian economics, as in Margaret Thatcher's famous (or notorious?)

In Livezey's terms, adapted from Robert Wuthnow's, they are more likely to engage in «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social action.

Some earlier courses of these Open Lectures have been devoted to particular questions of social and personal morality, such as the series on God, Sex and War (Collins, Fontana Books, 1963) delivered in 1962.

Fed by success stories of advertising campaigns and occasional stories of individuals acting out bizarre incidents seen on television or in movies, a large part of the community believe that television and videos major effect on social behaviour is a direct one, whereby programme material is either directly imitated or directly undermines social morality.

Mainline theology and social philosophy, on the other hand, allow for a concept of corporate or social morality as well as individual or personal morality.

Theologians also point out that, in contrast to the church's teachings on social ethics and justice, its stands on sexual morality have been governed more by absolute abstract norms than by references to the human condition and experience.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

Divisions and bondings occur among people and groups on the basis of categories of skill, morality, ethnicity, cultural tradition, gender, religion, etc. that are not reducible to class analysis, and attempts to use a single version of the «master - slave» relationship to understand the modern social world is to pervert the real fabric of human relationships.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

Political rhetoric continues to assume that social morality simply means government activism on behalf of those deemed to be the least advantaged members of society.

His views on gay rights, gay marriage and personal and social morality are indicative of a politician who believes that the state has little if any place in the bedroom or anywhere else.

«A politician and a government that tried to make Christianity and Christian beliefs the foundation of British values or a social morality would be building on seriously unstable foundations.

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA commented «Any politician or government that tried to make Christianity and Christian beliefs the foundation of British values or social morality would be building on seriously unstable foundations.

The apes may focus on dominance rather than morality when it comes to interpreting social behaviors

The new paper uses data from the 2006 — 2014 General Social Survey, a regular poll that asks thousands of Americans for their opinions on everything from national spending priorities to morality.

View that morality is based on social agreements that serve the interests of those who make the agreement.

Conservative commentator on topics ranging from personal and social issues, to morality and religion airs on AM 870 KRLA, weekdays 9:00 AM to Noon.

Despite the obvious commentary on contemporary on social and political topics, McDonagh constantly reminds us that morality is a fluid beast.

Themes ranges from love to identity to morality to technology to social change and so on.

Understand the role of conditioning on a dog's intelligence and morality; predatory and social behavior; socialization, conflict resolution, fear and aggression; behavior problems & solutions.»

The Ministry of Culture carried out a random check on 200 game operators recently and found that 36 of them were operating games with illegal content such as pornography and gambling as well as including contents abetting to crimes and «offending social morality».

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Her work focuses on how culture shapes social cognition, with a particular focus on mind perception, religion, cooperation, and morality.

Regression analyses revealed that the type of prime (morality vs. might) mediated the moderating relationship of participants» social value orientation on PDG behaviour.