Sentences with phrase «public dimensions of»

To be sure, forensic science (even the ubiquity of DNA) is not foolproof while the political and public dimensions of a terrorism trial can challenge a democracy's ability to ensure a fair trial.

More seriously, we saw, it is open to the objection that it fails to show how theology bears on the public dimensions of human life; in this view, theology seems confined to the private realm of the interiority of consciousness.

At a time when global community is urgent if both this planet and its peoples are to be safe, our current spiritual dilemma, then, must be, «How do we link the personal with the public dimensions of life?»

But the shift of emphasis to public suffering and to exposing the public dimensions of private pain, is decisive.

Neither can individual Jews survive as Jews in private without the public dimension of their covenantal religion.

Conclusion It was the Pope's controversial words on condom use outside of marriage that reignited the public dimension of the Gormally - Rhonheimer debate.

the evidence suggests that the public dimension of public education is not very much on their minds.

Domènec's work is articulated around issues such as the distance between utopias and social reality; speculation about the public dimension of architecture and the ideological precepts that determine it; socio - historical mechanisms and how they are interfered with; and about what conditions memory and oblivion.

Not exact matches

The account of how the deal came together — and how it briefly fell apart — adds a dimension of brinkmanship to the public understanding of the transaction.

If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.

A dimension of the sexual revolution, it has always been unique in its claim for public space.

Don't forget the big conference at Berry College this Thursday and Friday on the public policy dimension of being stuck with virtue — featuring Ben Hippen, Paul McHugh, Jim Capretta, and Jean Elshtain.

The GOD, POLITICS AND THE JEWISH TRADITION SEMINAR is two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in the relevance of Judaism's political and theological dimensions to public life, led by Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) and David Novak (University of Toronto).

It seemed that perhaps public education could leave room for the transcendent after all, that the religious dimension of the human experience might not be curtailed in the right environment.

But Farley's account of the dimensions of appraisal is still relatively molar and seems not to be fine - tuned enough to carry the church very far into the dialogues and conversations of the public world.

No teacher should be or need be at a loss to deal intelligently and fairly with most religious issues that might arise in public schools in a pluralistic society, and every teacher can be and ought to be prepared to grasp the religious dimensions in any subject of study and to use sectarian differences to clarify issues and enrich the learning of all.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

The need for a strong Christian witness in the public square was certainly one factor that impelled the formation of Evangelicals and Catholics Together — and that element continues to be an important dimension of ECT's work.

This point becomes pafficularly crncial when it is juxtaposed with Lindblom's critique of the advertising and public relations dimensions of the market system.

In this work, written almost two decades ago, Haring says that a new dimension of today's communication is its «public forum» role.

Like marriage, divorce has a public dimension that touches the lives of all who know the couple.

As your own «Call to Covenant Community» puts it,»... Christian faith has an inevitable public and political dimension,» and therefore «the place of the church is in the world» even though its gospel is not of the world.

America's public faith (a term I prefer to «civil religion») emerged precisely because denominationalism could be tolerated only if a creative relationship to the larger political and cultural dimensions of religious necessity were maintained.

About both of those dimensions of MLK's legacy, the acceptance of post-racialism and the exercise of religion in public life, the left is ambivalent at best.

Reston self - consciously addresses what he identifies as the moral dimension of public issues.

It is a hopeful sign that leaders of public opinion in other spheres of life are now recognizing the importance of the moral and spiritual dimension of life in society.

That's my argument at Public Discourse today: Some astute observers have noticed the dimensions of the problem and called attention to it.

So here it goes: In contemporary usage I hear «kingdom» used for two primary dimensions — for public sector social justice activism (I call this «skinny jeans» because a pastor told me a story about his social justice associates who wore skinny jeans) and for seeing kingdom as God's redemptive power unleashed wherever that power is unleashed (again, I call this pleated pants kingdom because of the same story).

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

Secondly, how to recognize the religious dimension of public life in a society of many religions and secular ideologies without allowing society to fall into the dangers of religious fundamentalism and communalism?

The political theologians are also entirely correct in holding that commitment to this goal entails involvement in all dimensions of social and public life.

Thus a second position holds that Christian theology is a kind of wisdom, perhaps wisdom in being a person in any of the dimensions of human life, private or public (cf. Farley on theologia).

The expression of this dimension of prayer, that we pray together with the whole people of God, is brought to articulation in the liturgy, in the public prayer of the gathered community.

To project realistic goals for the society of the future in both its national and global dimensions, to nourish a consciousness embodying the ideas, ideals, and life - styles appropriate to the emerging society — these define basic tasks to which the public ministry of the church should be directed.

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

The concept of personal and public leadership adds a new dimension to our programs.

A full - size crib is a bed that: (1) is designed to provide sleeping accommodations for an infant; (2) is intended for use in the home, in a child care facility, in a family child care home, or in places of public accommodation affecting commerce; and (3) that has interior dimensions of 28 ± 5/8 inches (71 ± 1.6 centimeters) in width x 52 3/8 ± 5/8 inches (133 ± 1.6 centimeters) in length.

Child deaths: Causes and epidemiological dimensions Robert E. Black, M.D., M.P.H. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Full text at The Lancet

Meanwhile, the US foreign policy machine formulates a comprehensive package of sanctions which puts together all the elements of the equation, i.e. Iran - Syria - Hezbollah, projecting the conflict onto an explicitly regional dimension, where references to cross-border forces, as said, Hezbollah, Pasdaran and PKK in Syria and Iraq (in anti-Turkey dimension), or CIA, Mossad (in pro-rebel fashion) are part of the public strategic schema of the conflict.

What do you think, if any, is the significance of this speech act and the implication that it was a public recognition of the racial dimensions of the case?

Those are important dimensions of democratic theory and practice, but the other term which is talked about less, is objects, whose «thingness» creates a sense of publicity beyond the so - called public sphere, and whose finitude creates friction.

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

Anne Spadone, Superintendent of the Lackawanna City school district, added, «Lackawanna Public Schools is very excited to be part of this pilot program, having a CPS worker housed within our district will add a new dimension as we directly link our students with the very critical services needed.»

The statement reads:» The public is hereby alerted to a new dimension in the orchestrated plot to diminish the stature of President Muhammadu Buhari before millions of Nigerians who love and adore their President.

This is not the first the public has heard of such institutional brutality in state prisons, and it is another dimension of an undisciplined, sometimes lawless culture in state prisons.

The problem of effective warnings «has dimensions that are geographic, temporal, cognitive, and perceptual, particularly in how the public might respond,» says Cova.

But, currently, public warning researchers are each carving out little hazard niches (hurricanes, wildfires, hazmat), as well as single dimensions of the warning problem (timing them, delimiting risk zones, selecting protective actions).

«Folic acid deficiency in pregnant women could well constitute a public health problem of dimensions we have not originally recognized,» he says...