Sentences with phrase «preserving social arrangements»

Precisely because a congregation has «material» bases and is necessarily located at some point in conflicts within a society which may tend to privilege its access to the material resources it needs, a congregation's practices are always in danger of serving to preserve the social arrangements from which they profit and of obscuring the inequalities inherent in those arrangements.

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Among the interests driving these transactions will be interests to preserve the features of the arrangements of social, economic, and political power in that community from which the school benefits.

According to Luther, social arrangements should be preserved within the Church lest we give scandal to the gospel.