Sentences with phrase «political order of the world»

The 1990s saw major shifts in the economic and political order of the world, and many people have responded by turning away from larger issues and concentrating on smaller and more intimate areas of life, in essence, reexamining the ground under their own feet.

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The world is facing many deliberate and unintended distortions of our social, economic and political order.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

The explanation, argues South African theologian John de Gruchy in his book Reconciliation, lies in the growing conviction among Christian theologians in the twentieth century that God's reconciliation of the world to himself through Jesus Christ encompasses political orders, not merely relationships among persons or within families or church communities.

In fact, however, reconciliation is stressed only in order to justify the Christian's intervention in politics: since the world is reconciled (and under the Lordship of Jesus Christ), all its undertakings — political, technological, scientific, economic — are legitimate and claim everyone's participation.

What ties together Shenk's different arguments is what I call the divine inversion — the many ways in which God acts contrary not merely to physical nature, but to what humans take to be the natural order of things in the social and political world.

We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

They forsake the safe harbor of stale political pieties, entering instead those open, uncertain seas where, as Stanley Hoffman proposes, we acknowledge the stark realities of the struggle for power, while working nonetheless toward a more cooperative world order.

But those who do not accept the to - some - degree given character of our political communities, who want to reverse McWilliams» order and «start the world anew» on the basis of a creedal community, and who ultimately seek to unify the world into such, must divide all mankind into two groups, of which one group will absorb the other.

Still others move from the new awareness of the intrinsic value of the world to reflection about how human beings can order their social, political, and economic lives so as to respect this value.

Küng's underlying thesis is essentially the same as that of the 1993 statement of the Parliament of the World's Religions, «Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)»: In the face of multiple global challenges (political, economic, ecological), a new world order is neWorld's Religions, «Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)»: In the face of multiple global challenges (political, economic, ecological), a new world order is neworld order is needed.

Its major fault is that it ignores the fact that liberalism arose in a specific historical framework, in response to both political and cultural shifts in Europe (the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, and the late - Medieval world order in general).

The «social principle,» for Buber, means the dialogical while the «political» means the necessary and ordered realm of the world of It.

When Constantine became a Christian he created a golden opportunity to unite a wholeheartedly universalist religion and its abundance of scriptural authority and missionary impetus with an empire's forces of political, military, and economic expansion in order to create a genuine world empire.

Since World War II this fundamental shift of power between the political order and the economic order has gone a long way.

Make no snide remarks about «streets of gold,» because Revelation 21 depicts a radical new economic and political order that will replace the banks and corporations and armies that dominate our world.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

In spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situations.

[Roy, 2001] For a greater just and peaceful order in the world, the quest for democracy has to go further than the political management of nation stations.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

There is not a final contradiction here between what love requires and what we accept as political necessities so long as we recognize that the threat of nuclear destruction may help to restrain nations from all out war long enough to allow the growth of a minimal world order under law which can bring the weaponry under control.

While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the orders of the world guided by love and justice, both Reformers see the organization of society in terms which we know are far too simple in the light of the later history of democratic forms of political life.

But one thing is certain, and it appears to me that its recognition in theory, and acceptance in practice, must be the sine qua non of any valid discussion and effective action affecting the political, economic and moral ordering of the present world: this is that nothing, absolutely nothing — we may as well make up our minds to it — can arrest the progress of social Man towards ever greater interdependence and cohesion.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

In this context one can understand why George Bush's popularization of the phrase «new world order» at the time of the gulf war was a political gaffe.

Political leaders of Third World countries are simply told that they have to adjust themselves and fit into this new global economic order.

They were nonpolitical, not in the sense of segregation from political life and interests, as the signs of a purely «spiritual» change in the world, say in human hearts, but in the sense of total supernaturalism: the whole present world order, with its politics and its oppression, its hunger and its hatred, was to be completely done away.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

In other words, Muentzer demanded that the prince and common man be reborn by the Holy Spirit in order to create a political force which would cleanse the world of all evil through the sword of the elect.

Longest section of the commentary is the one explaining the saying «the restoration of peace in the world depends on ordering the material life»; quite in keeping with Confucius» well - known preoccupation with questions of a political nature.

One possibility, of course, is that the United Kingdom will, at long last, emulate its errant child, the United States, one of whose major 18th century contributions to world constitutionalism was precisely the notion of a formal «constitutional convention» that ostensibly possessed a constituent power to propose radically transformations of the existing political order (even if ratification was in the hands of some other body).

The production combines five of Pinter's later, political plays: Press Conference, One for the Road, Precisely, Mountain Language and The New World Order.

The order of elections is critical to the success or failure of most political parties because of the kind of politics we play in this part of the world.

And Rep. Brian Higgins, D - Buffalo, said: «The message of this order around the world is that we have sacrificed our values to score political points of dubious value.»

Armando Iannucci is leaving the world of political satire for a while in order to take on Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield, and he will be joined by Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie.

They were inner - city vigilantes, detectives, nurses and ex-cons that waged anti-establishment wars against authority, drugs, gangs and corruption — one - man (or woman) hit - squads operating against the real - world political backdrop of Nixon's «law and order» campaign.

RECKLESS PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Chris Black (w, ep), Martin Campbell (d, ep) LOGLINE: Thriller centers on a resourceful problem solver who, when his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resorts to entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes in order to get her out.

New Orleans has been a system of schools without a collective bargaining agreement for almost a decade and has avoided political confrontations the new world order would say helped academic growth.

Within three months of beginning work with them I appeared on prominent radio talk shows and national TV, my book created a «buzz» in the political world, and my book sales increased so dramatically that I had to order a hurry - up second printing.

And with this «flattening» of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?

Within three months of beginning work with them I have appeared on prominent radio talk shows, my book has created a «buzz» in the political world, and my book sales have increased so dramatically that I have had to order a hurry - up second printing.

In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders.

Instead of continuing on from last year where things seemed to be in their proper order, we have started with recurrent volatility, political incompetence, an increase in terrorist incidents around the world, currency instability in both the developed and developing markets, and more than a faint scent of deflation creeping into the nostrils and minds of central bankers.

Even though it was a fun, colourful, cartoony world, it was actually a very political game: it asked players if they would choose to live in a grey and colourless world of control and order, or if they will be the person who breaks the rules in order to create beauty and give people hope.

The opening moments confirmed much of what was shown in previous trailers: a world filled with political intrigue, prejudice against human augmentation, social disorder, and high - value targets that need to be dispatched in order to bring some sort of order to Dubai.

As he explains, «Like continental drift at the beginning of the world, the new cities will search for their positions in the air in order to find their place in the universe... [this structure is] capable of imagining more elastic and dynamic border rules (political, geographical, etc.) for a new space / cyberspace.»

As the culture is mighty tool for imprinting political ideology and / or economical agenda, art of the 1950s was one of the battlefields for the ultimate and long - lasting victory of communism or capitalism as the proposals for the New World Order.

This political idea of «beginning» has a tight link with the «revolutionary dream», which could be seen also as a de-evolution, in the way that people still believe that everything could be changed in order to create a better world to live in, although political order in the society is actually against this.

We think of artistic modernism as having had two great expansive phases: the first leading from Cézanne through Cubism to the birth of abstraction in the Netherlands and Russia but soon eclipsed — in the West by the postwar «return to order,» in Russia by the political changes wrought by Lenin's death in 1924 (though the complete triumph of socialist realism would only come a decade later)-- and the second, very different phase, commencing after World War II with the Abstract Expressionists

«A utopia is not a portrait of the real world, of the actual political or social order.