Sentences with phrase «own emancipation»

«It just happened at a time that women were beginning to work and that little dress that was both feminine but empowered them became a symbol of that time and became a symbol of women's emancipation,» she said.

The Scientific Humanitarian Committee was then the world's leading homosexual emancipation group, boasting a membership of about 100 people.

We're talking medical emancipation.»

Less than half of these youth will be employed within four years of emancipation, and just three percent will graduate from college.

The handbag was part of the changes brought about after the First World War and the increasing emancipation of women, for whom carrying a bag became a sign of independence and stature.

They absolutize a commitment to liberation, emancipation, and empowerment.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

I have often compared the struggle for homosexual emancipation to the abolition of slavery.

But the emancipation of Jesus resonates through my whole being: «If you had known what these words mean, «I desire mercy, not sacrifice,» you would not have condemned the innocent.»

Modernity amounts to the gradual but steady emancipation of the political sphere from the religious sphere.

So the movement towards emancipation from rules leads us ironically into ever - greater episodes of self - righteousness (the secular press makes the Pharisees of Jesus» day seem downright latitudinarian) and scape - goating (and the bigger the goat the better: e.g., Joe Paterno).

The coming of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, with its subsequent political emancipation of the Jews in Western Europe, radically changed the context of all social and cultural relationships.

Thus, in discussing «women publicly consecrated to virginity,» the draft says: «Their witness stands out precisely because many achieved a certain autonomy with respect to men, a certain «emancipation» and a self - direction in pursuit of the spiritual life, advanced studies, and apostolic works.»

But I think we have risen above this distinction and can recognize in the activity of the painter and the sculptor, no less than in that of the poet and the dancer, the emancipation from the «deadliness of doing» that distinguishes art from «work.»

Though they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, both strains of liberalism are founded on a concept of freedom as the emancipation of individual choice.

However, the more insecure the future of a liberal, secular society appears to be, the more confident I feel about the future of religion — not a future in relation to emancipation and economic and / or political liberation.

In like manner the emancipation, or «redemption», of Israel from Egyptian servitude by the crossing of the Red Sea came to stand as a symbol, first, of God's providence over His people, and then of the «redemption» of mankind in a far deeper sense.

Others, perhaps those with a stricter, academic understanding of feminism, will be disappointed not actually to discover a valid segment of feminism that has been lost among the shuffling conversation Mobley primarily set out to interpret Montgomery's great theme» «The emancipation of women through the gospel of Jesus Christ»» but because he tangled his interpretation with the controversial vocabulary of feminism, he will not please everyone.

In much contemporary discourse, freedom is seen as emancipation from God.

Could the mosaic have suggested what would have been in the air still so soon after the Catholic emancipation of 1825?

«What is often expressed and understood by the term «gender» ultimately ends up being man's attempt at self - emancipation from creation and the Creator.

However, as we see daily, this leads not to any real emancipation but to a deepening crisis and misery reflected in the broken hearts, minds and lives of somany of our fellow - citizens in our culture.

This recognition paved the way for eventual emancipation.

It is interesting to compare Ogden's treatment with that of Metz in «Redemption and emancipation», first published in English in Cross Currents and included, in an adapted version, as Chapter 7 in Faith in History and

The «prevailing Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion of the rapture, the equality of women, the emancipation of slaves, and a host of other things that most Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.

Liberation includes both redemption and emancipation.5 Ogden identifies God's redemption as the boundless acceptance of all things, even sinners, into the divine life.

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

It is one of the most beautiful ironies of the recent emancipations in the East that people have expressed their right to self - determination by insisting that we are, nationally and religiously, already determined.»

It encourages the emancipation of slaves by giving them the possibility of purchasing their freedom, it urges that part of zakat be given to slaves to help them free themselves, and it offers the possibility of atonement for certain sins, such as having sexual intercourse during fasting days, by releasing slaves.

Whereas Marx found God as standing in the way of human freedom and autonomy, a barrier to human emancipation, Bonhoeffer believed that God granted human freedom and autonomy by making Jesus the point of disclosure for His transcendence.

The question was being recast in terms of a constitutional and moral crisis, with Northern calls for emancipation becoming ever more adamant.

In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the emancipation of Daedalus and Icarus in their winged escape from Crete.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

Further, it is emancipation, bringing inward freedom through detachment from all sensual objects of desire.

There can be no emancipation without obedience.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

In L'Osservatore Romano France's Minister of Labour, Xavier Darcos, said that the encyclical proposes «a «comprehensive development» that assures a shared humanistic emancipation.»

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

He replied to a committee representing various Protestant denominations asking for immediate emancipation in 1862 by saying: «I am approached with the most opposite opinion and advice, and that by religious men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will.

After the Ottoman rule, in more recent times, France and Italy seized control of North Africa and held it until in the past few years, Libya, Tunis, and Morocco were able to establish their own governments, leaving only Algeria struggling for emancipation from French imperialism.

Before Lincoln's emancipation act many generals had simply turned Negroes over to the Army chaplain to take care of them.

As soon as the Union forces proved victorious anywhere the Churches demanded the immediate emancipation of all slaves.

«15 In his «Notes on Virginia» of 1781 Jefferson foresaw a future «total emancipation» but was not insensitive to the irony of a people fighting for its own freedom keeping another in subjection.

As Boodin has said, the new intellectual renaissance into which physics has led us in the twentieth century is marked, not only by the emancipation from mechanism, but «the discovery of form or structure as fundamental in reality.

As we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the human Israel which points us away from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's self - emancipation.

The Jewish fight for survival, struggle for emancipation, and a shared lachrymose conception of history were adopted as better ways to express Jewish identity.

It should be evident that maximizing the emancipation of all and, thereby, our common humanity prescribes a wide range of social practices.

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

For any given individual, the conditions of emancipation are complex, consisting in part of those that are distinctively hers or his and extending through those specific to intimate and local associations to those shared within increasingly wider communities.

With the emancipation of church from state in the post-Reformation era, churches in North America have inherited a rather different set of implications for the conversion of political figures.