Sentences with phrase «radical movements in»

Other recent research by her has focused on the role of women in radical movements in Northern Nigeria, the conflict in Yemen, and on civil society in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

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It seems that every major retailer is trying to jump on the movement that was once thought as just a passing trend, but is now seen as a radical shift in what Americans demand from their clothing.

The radical movement is also urban and largely centered in New York.

However, in «Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,» it was revealed that Charles Koch's plans to reshape American politics date back 40 years, when he began strategizing and developing a libertarian movement.

On the other, The Nation describes the movement in terms of radical and sweeping revolution quite beyond anything usually depicted in the anti-homosexualist literature of the right: «But the gay nineties is not only about civil rights, tolerance, and legitimacy.

Although there was no tidy definition of the movement's leadership, it was understood that the movement had the power to certify what was legitimately liberal — remembering that in those tumultuous days liberalism routinely called itself radical.

A christian flying over Macca is sacriliage and just as Jesus warned in the Bilble some radical Islamic movements believe that by killing christians they are doing God a favor and they will ensure their entrly into heaven.

Missiologist David I. Bosch suggests that the international mission movement today is in «a crisis more radical and extensive than anything the church has ever faced in [its] history.»

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

In a radical movement, God unfolds himself into the world which he loves.

Homebrewed Christianity — a male - led podcast in direct partnership with the Emergent movement — recently had a podcast conversation with Peter Rollins, one of the «edgy» emergent stars pushing Radical Theology.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

The other British movement (with American offshoots) is Radical Orthodoxy, which gathers around John Milbank (in Lancaster for many years, followed by Cambridge, and now at the University of Virginia).

Remembering the radical Christian affirmation that God has fully and totally become incarnate in Christ, we must note that neither the Incarnation nor the Crucifixion can here be understood as isolated and once - and - for - all events; rather, they must be conceived as primary expressions of a forward - moving and eschatological process of redemption, a process embodying a progressive movement of Spirit into flesh.

While it is true that the event of the Crucifixion, or the movement of the universal process of atonement, reveals the self - estrangement of God, a polarity manifesting itself in the yawning chasm between the Father and the Son, a consistent and radical form of faith must never fall into a nondialectical dualism by wholly isolating the alien God and the incarnate Word.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Blake's «atheism» was not simply a prophetic reaction to the appearance in his time of a non-redemptive God of power and judgment, but more deeply was a radical Christian response to a divine sovereignty that stands apart from the kenotic movement of the Incarnation.

But an apocalyptic and radical form of the Christian faith celebrates a cosmic and historical movement of the Godhead that culminates in the death of God himself.

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

On a deeper level, the sudden and dizzying changes taking place in the American economy, combined with the even more bewildering changes brought by the end of the cold war, foster radical social movements of every description.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

The violence of radical leftist protesters discredited their movement, contributing to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In the face of a growing religious right - wing backlash against civil rights movements, reactionary Christians and radical feminists alike have advocated a choice: either accept Christian teaching or become liberated and leave the bondage of patriarchal religion behind.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

Southern writers whose assessments of the Civil War defamed the North and idealized the South, share in the blame, as do radicals in the civil rights movement who promoted the notion that American principles are racist.

On the present occasion, a journal issue devoted to exhibiting the implications for theology of post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, it is my function to point out that post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, in one of its developments, points towards a radical theology in the sense made popular by the Death of God movement.

Though the champions of «environmental justice» may not realize the Pandora's Box that they have opened, the shift in the ecology movement from a focus on science to radical egalitarianism should come as no surprise.

The neocons were for the most part disillusioned liberals (or radicals) who broke with their former allies over what they considered the febrile, guilt» ridden anti-Americanism embraced by much of the left in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

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(A great many neoconservatives» Podhoretz notable among them» participated in the early days of the antiwar movement but parted from it in its latter radical stages.)

These are just another version of the same folks picked up by the radical Islamic movements in Pakistan.

I believe that what Miss Emmet said is of enormous importance; and I wish to apply her words to the contemporary theological situation, especially in regard to the various «radical» movements of our day.

Correspondingly, the typical pattern of Christian history is as a movement of the periphery, of the relentless and radical circumvention of the establishment in obedience to a God whose central design leaves earthly arrangements provisional and dispensable.

This movement is assembling the elements for a radical paradigm shift in science, technology, and scholarship.

«Where these movements differ from the ones identified by Shinn and Symanowski is in their sobriety about the future, their acknowledgment of radical opposition, their limited immediate expectations, and even their sense of historical horror.

Platt has pastored the 4,500 - member Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, since 2006, and has called Christians to a movement of radical obedience and discipleship through his ministry Radical and bestselling books Radical and Folradical obedience and discipleship through his ministry Radical and bestselling books Radical and FolRadical and bestselling books Radical and FolRadical and Follow Me.

In the mid-sixties, most of the proponents of the civil rights movement segued into the anti-Vietnam war movement, then into the more generalized counterculture, with all of its continuing sideshows of radical feminism, gay advocacy, and so forth.

American radical theology, or the death - of - God movement, is generally seen as a negation of traditional Christianity in the name of honesty and modernity.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

Widespread awareness that Planned Parenthood's Faye Wattleton is fighting for the unlimited right to abort third - trimester fetuses in Pennsylvania, and that the ACLU advertises its proabortion participation in 80 percent of American abortion litigation, helps us to recognize the prochoice movement as the wildly radical creature it is.

Sometimes they withdrew from participation in the wider communities, but they could also take the form of radical political movements as in the Diggers and Levellers in England.

Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 366 pages, $ 59.95 cloth, $ 22.95 Anyone whose image of the animal rights movement is one of nasty - tempered radicals who bomb laboratories and spray paint on fur coats will be in for a....

Women, said the movement, were an oppressed class, oppressed (in a range of formulations from the so - called «moderate» to the honestly radical) by men, by society, or by the species itself.

It is a commonplace among scholars of the Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.

In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that traditioIn two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that traditioin The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.

In their more hostile moments, radicals even question the motives of neoconservatives, noting the huge sums of money flowing into neoconservative think tanks and movements.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.