Sentences with phrase «own ideological points»

The move — from a system that «medicalizes» your health to one that «alternativizes» — is not clearly a positive one, even from an ideological point of view.

To transcend one's «own ideological points of departure» means, in a theological context, to be carried artistically beyond one's own take on the ethical and the theological — a transcendence authorized by the text but much resisted by the church.

«The author approaches the David story as an imaginative writer, giving play to that dialectical fullness of conception that leads the greatest writers (Shakespeare, Stendhal, Balzac, Tolstoy, Proust, to name a few apposite instances) to transcend the limitations of their own ideological points of departure,» Alter states.

acknowledged ideological point of view from which scholarship can proceed.

Nevertheless, from an ideological point of view, nothing of substance had actually changed.

And here's a rhetorical one to consider: Do you expect that people should be hired at the Post to solely divorce themselves from their own ideological point of view just to offer the counterpoint to all of Strauss's posts so that it will feed your own ideological point of view?

Recommendations in the Adult Books section of Booklist are based on the premise that any library collection must include both works of current interest and those of lasting value, regardless of their ideological point of view.

I found the use of African sculpture in his film offensively and wifully ignorant, so obsessed with ideological point - scoring that it treats African art as a mere prop.

The general themes would be cherrypicking, shallow analysis, and irrelevant analogies directed at maintaining a particular ideological point of view rather than integration and deep analysis to try to understand what's empirically happening.

An ideological point of view, a religious Zealotry.

A possible link between global warming and hurricanes is important because its affects people, not because it proves an ideological point.

Not exact matches

So the world ought to be at an ideological turning point.

Liberation theology is not the occasion for the ideological promotion of a vantage point, and the fact that it can be done from all vantage points, ecumenically and universally, with each correcting and corrected by the other, should effectively discourage such.

Our departure point is the structural, economic and financial crisis, with all the practical and ideological consequences which we can draw from it for our action programme.

Among other points, Gioia argued that poetry had become obscure, self - referential, and detached from common experience through the influence of university writing programs and trendy ideological nostrums.

The point here is not essentially ideological.

They are so error - prone, even from a technocratic point of view, at least in part because they are actually engaged in a non-technocratic enterprise that is pervasively ideological, in the same way that Soviet science was ideological.

For some of you, that's a point which you make into an ideological cathedral — a point of doctrine which lines up in an acronym that summarizes the faith, your faith.

My point is not merely that a good novel offers richer characterization and more enduring insight than our usual ideological or therapeutic takes on life.

Beyond such lapses in taste, ideological considerations lead the translators at a good many points to a deliberate realignment of the patterns of expression in the Hebrew.

Instead, they regurgitate their ideological stuff all over the place and busy people with that while missing the point that they're missing the points.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.

Against secularism, the same theologians point to the many ideological distortions of science and technology in which scientific reason is used to dominate and victimize the same groups of persons and nature.

The high point of ideological ferment following Allied victory in World War II provoked furious reaction.

Even if you consider your ideological opponents actual enemies (which probably isn't the most productive starting point), name - calling, baiting or antagonizing isn't just ineffective.

Most of us locate ourselves at some point along a spectrum, with religious dogmatism at one extreme and ideological secularism at the other.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

There are in fact three totalitarian elements to all ideological thinking, Arendt points out.

Clark points out that stereotyping, naturalizing and universalizing were the «three common ideological mechanisms through which the Church Fathers constructed «woman.»»

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

When theologians affirm that every quest for a genuine and lasting polis is identical with the development of «personhood» in community they should be aware that — at least from a Marxist or revolutionary political point of view — they are serving as ideological spokesmen for a modern Western or bourgeois conception of politics and society.

It is an ideological starting point that colours your view of the content and use of the Christian Bible.

However, the point is that given our working description of Christian congregations, theological schooling focused by study of congregations would welcome and endorse the most vigorous and detailed exposé of the cultural captivity and ideological functioning of congregations and their practices.

But it apparently does exclude many other kinds of communication, such as nversation that is not aimed at persuading someone of a particular point of view and discourse oriented solely toward description or enrtainment (though this is not to say that these other forms of discourse ight not have some ideological overtones).

In other places the church exists in a wasteland of ideological collapse and secularization (the churches in Eastern Germany are a poignant case in point).

Another methodology, TACCP (Threat Assessment Critical Control point) is also being employed to consider the threat of deliberate attack or sabotage, often for ideological reasons, within the supply base but also during manufacture.

Kreisinger points out that by 1965, when the most recent season takes place, «women had been experiencing an ideological and psychological yo - yo that pulled them in very different and competing directions.»

Interviews conducted with Libyans residing in Tunisia and not affiliated with the MB pointed out the waning ideological influence of the Brotherhood in Tripoli and described support for the Tripoli government (mostly composed of MB affiliated members) as emerging from the need for stability, and thus, not ideological.

(3) To some extent the differences in perspective might simply reflect differences in ideological starting - points rather than real, underlying differences that will persist as ideas are further discussed.

The tension between these ideological traditions has been evident at certain points in the coalition.

For those trying to get their heads around «democratic republicanism» (or the other Marquand ideological traditions, this link given in the piece is the most useful useful starting point, though perhaps we should also invite Stuart White to open a discussion about it over here on LC http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom-theme/tom-griffin/2008/09/19/the-democratic-republican-moment

My colleague Nate Silver has pointed out that Christie's ideological scores, based on public statements and his donors, make him more liberal than all the other serious Republican candidates except George Pataki.

M5S approach to politics is not just innovative in terms of political participation, [2] but also from an ideological stand point.

Without an ideological opponent to run against, you can't really blame people for not seeing the point.

We say non-violent 16 - and 17 - year - olds... My point is, compromise because there is no definite right or wrong, it's ideological.»

Perhaps this is because to the extent that there is still an ideological dividing line in UK politics, the Conservatives are one side while Labour and Lib Dems are on the other, however much Darling and Cable agree or disagree on particular points.

Nevertheless, Liz Jones made a stab at responding to the question about whether the cuts were necessary or ideological by pointing to rising mortgage interest rates, something that she blamed on Gordon Brown and the previous Labour government.

It accuses the Conservatives of taking «major strides back to their ideological roots» since the election and points to the «increasingly shrill language the Tories are using as they vacate the centre ground».

A host of the event, Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington), pointed out the ideological rift in his introduction.