Sentences with phrase «politics as a corrective»

There is a need now more than ever to develop a means for doing religious social ethics which emphasizes the goal - orientation aspect of politics as a corrective to stress on the coercive - power factor in determining social policy.

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A minority among the evangelicals — represented by such journals as Sojourners and the Other Side — is so radical in its criticism of the American economy and of our foreign policies that it gives up on liberal politics; nonetheless, its witness is an important corrective to what many of us regard as the Moral Majority's distortions of Christian faith.