Sentences with phrase «own social forms»

Today's ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it's the small business.

Consider the other side of the equation, the Millennials» characteristic social form.

«The Führer commands the diplomatic and social forms better than a born sovereign.

Established institutions, inherited social forms, and traditional authorities have been subjected to a long season of criticism.

This constitutes the school a small polis in its own right, a crossroads hamlet with its own social spaces and its own social forms.

They create their own distinctive social spaces and the social spaces require social forms.

But as sociologists they wanted also to examine social forms.

Hence, fourth, a theological school will embrace practices that give it social form.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

If all that is the case, then when people come to Christ, Christ is in some sense taking shape in new social forms.

Christianity, Troeltsch taught, can assume any of three basic social forms or types: the church, the sect and mysticism.

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

It is mainly because of this self - centeredness that the social forms of democracy are necessary.

The social form which this spiritual panic takes is a deification of the nation - state of which one is a part, creating a sacred «nest» which protects one from the voice of God.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

As encompassing and often constraining social forms recede, we feel freer.

Institutions, social forms, and traditional authorities recede.

But our need is to go further, to create new psychic and social forms to enable us to reclaim not only our technologies, but our very imaginations, in the service of the continuity of life.

Recently the social form of this utilitarianism has been given high sanction in an official statement made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

Our identities are formed as we identify with the various social forms that bestow meaning on a society and its participants.

Rather, the term refers to a range of social forms, a variety of patterns of interaction and communication within groups.

But the 20th century has seen the fragmentation, on a global scale, of the old social forms of reality.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

However, one theme the recurring reforms of Christian worship have in common is that none of these alternative social forms for the worship of God can be normative social forms.

On the other hand, a purely theological study of a congregation or of «the church» that ignores its social space and social form ought to be subject to equally vigorous objection in theological schooling.

Inasmuch as congregations are themselves social spaces with social forms, theological schooling focused through questions about them must attend critically to the scripture whose use creates the social space; and it must attend to the disciplines of the human sciences that provide understanding of the social forms that make congregations moral and political realities in their own right.

In yet another social form, Hopewell notes, persons can gather occasionally and informally at a religious shrine, each to perform her or his own individual meritorious rituals of devotion.

As James Hopewell points out, the distinctiveness of this social form can be seen by contrasting it with other «sorts of collectivities by which humans corporately express their religion.»

The congregation is a distinctive social form that the worship of God has assumed in the history of the Christian movement.

The point here, however, is to draw out implications of the narrower truth that a Christian congregation's social form is also shaped by its social space, which in turn is importantly and distinctively, if not exhaustively, shaped by the way biblical writings are used in the congregation's common life.

It has a particular social form.

If the road to the universally relevant is through the concrete, then we must now ask what constitutes a theological school, what sort of social space and social form it may be, and how it is related to particular and equally concrete congregations.

This is not to deny that both the social form and the social space of Christian congregations are also deeply shaped by social forms and cultural symbols prominent in the congregations» host cultures.

From my ecumenical studies and works, I knew the various intellectual, liturgical, constitutional, and social forms of expression adopted by Christianity in the various churches and sects in the past and the present.

1 During the years that followed Barth shifted his position away from this close identification of Christianity and socialism, insisting on the transcendence by Christ of every social form.2 But Barth remained a committed socialist throughout his life.

(6) Television is rarely an innovator of social forms or ideas but is more commonly a purveyor and reflector of those forms.

If it is the recurring patterns as presented on the major social forms of communication which are effective in the molding of culture, greater attention needs to be given to the study of the dominant patterns and images shown on religious television programs and how these relate to other and traditional expressions of religious faith.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

The need for participation in groups and social forms always requires some code whether verbalized or in the form of costume and vestment, as a means of involvement in common action....

He is referring not just to confessional differences but also to the new social forms of the church that have been coming into existence.

The Sunnah was the most important force which bound together in a spiritual unity the communities in Asia, Africa, and Europe — communities without a common geographical environment or a common racial inheritance, but with common social forms and institutions.

Its growth, its renewal, its pruning are to be expected of something that grows organically like any other living body in the world, except that it is living in a social form not its own life but that of Christ.

As Christianity spread throughout the world, the local church has taken root in cultures more readily disposed to other social forms — kinship, for instance, or civil association.

Along with those other innovations, it is in trouble today, since they are all overadapted to social forms that no longer have the place to themselves.

The ache to belong is felt with an acute pain, often motivating intense efforts to recover or restore social forms that capitalism dissolves.

Generally, these social forms have sat like the British parliament has at times, as a simultaneous executive legislature and judiciary.

Gp - 9 is unlikely to act in isolation, and thus, I would like to identify the other genes that may interact with or in parallel to Gp - 9 to specify the monogyne or polygyne social form.

Colonies adopt either the monogyne or polygyne social form based on the willingness of workers to accept or reject queens.