Sentences with phrase «pacifist position»

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

If the pacifist position were correct, it would seem logical that throughout history God would either prevent war, or at least not take sides in human conflicts, but that is not the case.

Thus, while individual Catholics may adopt a strictly pacifist position, the Church teaches that war in strictly defined circumstances may be justified as the lesser evil.

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In contrast, I am suggesting that our preaching should presume that we are preaching to a Church in the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifist.

They occupy the same position in regard to consumption and wealth that pacifists do in regard to violence.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

Like Harry Emerson Fosdick in the United States — himself an advocate of World War I but a pacifist during World War II — she shows that mature people can reverse earlier positions and remain models of responsible citizenship and ethical sensitivity.

Jean Lasserre, the staunch and erudite French pacifist, asks: «Why do I take up my position on the ground of the New Testament?»

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

... the generally accepted position of pacifists was that although it was wrong to drop bombs on Germans, Japanese, or somebody else, it was at least permissible to buy the bombs and pay someone else to drop them... [After 1947] many pacifists said they were seeing for the first time that their position of «refusal to give military service» had been a little empty, considering the fact that they were the wrong age, sex, or profession to be called upon.

It is impossible by quoting texts to justify either a pacifist or a nonpacifist position.

I would single out five prominent arguments to which pacifists, if they are to make their own position cogent and realistic, must respond.

Racial hygienists generally positioned themselves on the political left, identifying with ecological and pacifist causes.

They'll break cover in order to charge into open terrain where you can pick them off at your leisure, fail to react to your flanking position and even run right past your squad, who in turn completely won't open fire because they've suddenly become pacifists.

Throughout her entire career, Spero performed from the radical pacifist and feminist position, highly dedicated to her political, social and cultural convictions, constantly asking the questions and challenging injustice and violence.