Sentences with phrase «sensitive social conscience»

Anyone with a sensitive social conscience must find an answer.

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Since the position of the social parasite is one that can not be universalized, it is indefensible to the sensitive conscience when the true position is made clear.

Only as a sensitive conscience on these matters is aroused can we hope for much in the way of either social salvation or the individual remaking of life.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

Although Barth himself was one of Hitlerism's «most determined foes,» Barthian theology abetted Hitler's type of reactionary politics: «Here,» said Niebuhr, «religious absolutism which begins by making the conscience sensitive to all human weakness ends in complacency toward social injustice» (June 6, 1934).

Ministers trained in liberal seminaries usually have a more informed and sensitive conscience about the bearing of Christianity on major social problems.

Growth - action groups can help us simultaneously develop sensitive ecological consciences and carry out social action to save the environment on which all life depends.