Sentences with phrase «present social world»

Not exact matches

If social media today, a decade after Facebook's founding, presents a warped, cracked reflection of the world around us, RelSci is trying to map that world, especially the professional part of it, with increasing detail, precision, and context.

Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.

They're satisfied enough with their present existence that they have no ambition to make history; they can't even imagine a social or political world better than the one they inhabit.

He called upon the Church to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

Grace can be present and operative to an immeasurable extent in the world and its history, without everywhere in the course of history finding tangible social expression in the Church.

Its leaders did not believe that the society they were building was the Kingdom of God, but they did believe that human obedience to God could usher in a world in which many of the present social evils would be overcome.

They are our authentic heritage from the Hebrew prophets, the Gospels and the early church (see, for example, Charles Avila's Ownership: Early Christian Teaching [Orbis, 1983]; they are themes that were anticipated in part by developments in the papal «social encyclicals» from 1891 to the present, and by the Vatican Council's 1965 pastoral constitution «The Church and the World Today.»

The principal paths that have been followed are an apocalyptic, cataclysmic, second coming to put an end to the present world and the prophetic or social gospel kingdom that has accented the conquest of earth's evil by human effort to increase love and justice in response to God's call.

As a backdrop for discussing the bearing of the kingdom of God on personal living, social action, the state of the churches today, and their possible service to the future, let us assemble some familiar facts about our present world.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

The exposition of the gospel through the text presents a world view and results in a social effect.

The world of the children is no longer the same as that of their parents: it often happens that parents have to ask their children, or grandchildren, to explain the technology and social vocabulary of the present.

Yet we are witnesses to the amazing spectacle of the uncritical acceptance of this unscientific and romantic assumption by men who, in every other sphere of life, pride themselves upon their devotion to evidence presented by «the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.»

The preaching model that is faithful to the social worlds inherent in the sermon moment, rather than establishing itself on a line that carries message, preacher, and people in sequence, actually presents itself in a loop of three interlocking circles within an encompassing circle.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unease) have caused us all to feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present taking place in the world.

Think of the numerous forms of captivity entrapping a poor inhabitant of a Third World nation — economic, social, environmental, spiritual and appreciate the promise of liberation and loosing presented in Jesus» inaugural sermon in the Nazareth synagogue.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

Expanding from a Jewish to a Gentile world the early church concluded that no legalism, Judaic or Gentile, was adequate to fulfill the gospel standard of agape, that the Kingdom of God was already present and yet to come, and that in living the gospel in this world with its political, economic and social challenges would require faithfulness and patience.

He clarified the ethical demands of a God - centered life by applying obedient love or agape to all human situations, both personal and social, and insisted this included the earthly as well as the eternal, and required our best actions amid the relativities of the present world.

The practitioners of religion have often been much more attuned to the international realities of the present world than their counterparts in the social sciences.

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.

Still, in the final analysis, our history makes us what we are now, and the conventions of our present social, political, economic and moral world constitute a realm of external determination on our lives.

That past world, and especially his own personal past, not only presents Simpson with certain data — and this any realistic phenomenology of experience must recognize — sets itself forth as desirous of certain conceptual syntheses of those data and their implied concrete expressions, e.g., honesty, respect for social order, obedience to duly established authority, etc..

Obviously, the moral principles and social goals implied in this vision do not at present dominate the world.

Often the exceptionally imaginative and creative people are the ones most vulnerable to persecution, since through them even newer and more disturbing dreams of a still better world enter the arena of our social consciousness, stirring up criticism of the present order and making obsolete our plans for a new society.

But Crossan too disabuses Jesus of expecting divine intervention to bring the kingdom, and claims not only that Jesus became «almost the exact opposite of the Baptist» but also that Jesus taught a present sapiential kingdom, though as understood not by elites (like Wisdom of Solomon or Philo) but by peasants, whose dream of an egalitarian world was a matter of social protest.

Is this why some conservative, fundamentalistic preaching which, although enormously popular at present, «makes little attempt to analyze the world» in terms of its social structures?

I often just turn my phone off for a few days and take a social media holiday, and I must say it feels great getting out in the real world and just relishing the present moment again for a bit!

Finger Lakes Wine Alliance offers its members a wide array of programs, including coordinating submissions to wine trade publications for reviews, presenting seminars on best practices in social media outreach and holding online events such as virtual wine tastings to build relationships with wine professionals located around the world.

Not just something to present to the world via social media so it appears that you are happy.

Also present were bodies set up to further their aims, such as Epode (an initiative that promotes corporate involvement in and funding of nutrition education), the International Food and Beverage Alliance, the World Economic Forum, the Global Social Observatory and the International Association of Infant Food Manufacturers.

Also, given the very very severe consequences that go along with these sorts of accusations (both legal, and social), and the negligible consequences for a proven false accusation, the world you present seems like a terrifying place to live in as the sex that doesn't get that presumption of being truthful.

«The goal of our research is to understand the neurodynamics of real - world social interactions, and we used the classroom as a real - world social neuroscience lab,» says Suzanne Dikker of NYU and Utrecht University, who is presenting this new research at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference today.

For example, being infused with internet - connected nano - sensors that reveal your most intimate biological details to the world could present social and psychological risks that can't be solved by technology alone.

At the three - day First International Society for Social Neuroscience Symposium, Cacioppo and his fellow researchers from around the world will present their most recent insights on the neuroscience of emotions, decision making and learning.

And in the world we live in, where social media presents a far fuller picture of a stranger than you would have ever seen in the past, it's not hard to get over-excited.

PRESS RELEASE — Aug 19 — Dr. Igor Kotlyar, CEO and creator of OmniDate, and Ravit Abelman, co-founder, will present the reality of virtual worlds to the personal and social networking community at the Internet Dating Conference, taking place on September 22 and 23, 2008, in London, England.

On the contrary, the seven popular novels and eight films have more likely resonated with millions of adults and children around the world for the reason that people have realized, intuitively, that something is wrong with the present state of things — that social and artistic life, as they are, are unsatisfactory.

Usually, you'll see this approach applied to a character to whose thoughts the reader is privy, but who, for reasons of either social necessity or just their personality, tends to present an impassive mask to the world.

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present LIFE ITSELF, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert — a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

Repressions during World War II are presented as a necessary means in preventing looting and alarmism, thereby strengthening the labor discipline and social order.

In the fast changing world of technology we rarely acknowledge that eLearning is also present in the natural process of mastering new ways of communication via complex social platforms.

Education World presents a variety of history and social studies resources that all teachers can use to liven up instruction.

In the Sustainability and Social development Agenda, gender perspective and women rights are considered to be key to the eradication of poverty and hunger, and to the creation of the WORLD AND FUTURE THAT MUST BE CREATED FOR THE CARE OF PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE URGENT CARE OF THE PLANET.

In 2000, we simply highlighted how the Internet could be used by teachers to access information and people to support the development of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness of past present and future» (Cogan, Grossman, & Lei., 2000, p. 50).

This begins with demonstrating the power of technology to support specific social studies activities and projects that together center on the development of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness of past present and future» (Cogan et al., 2000, p. 50).

Make sure reading texts present high - quality content (including excellent literature, as well as informational texts that explore our natural and social worlds).

The News Literacy Project presented at both the 2016 and 2017 National Council for the Social Studies annual conference so we know these curricula will be used to create the C3 Framework «lenses» to evaluate how students view the world around them.