Sentences with phrase «social conscience in»

John Walsh, then director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., described Ms. Tucker in especially apt terms in a 1993 article in The New York Times: «There's always been a social conscience in Marcia that's impatient and results in a kind of alertness you can just read across her forehead like a Jenny Holzer sign.»

There was a post-sixties smugness about it — citizens with genuine social conscience in a time of national secrecy, openhearted citizens without judgments, an expectation that the families who lived there had a new moral superiority.

The book further incorporates a history of social conscience in England.

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In contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouseIn contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehousein line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouses.

So - called variable pay plans have been around for more than a century, and were first used by industrial magnates including George Eastman and William Procter out of sense of social conscience, writes Rutgers economist Joseph Blasi in this Huffington Post story.

Names like Death Cab for Cutie evoke a pondering of the demythification of beauty in an arena of social conscience and capital returns.

Add it all up, and McCain looks like a candidate whom social conservatives could support in reasonably good conscience.

Stories like these helped me recognize the «good» within people; not the 2 - dementional stereotypical characters that we tend to see in moviesand associate as «bad guys» (dark eyes and a goatee); that is just movie makeup that plays on the social consciences of that era.

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.

Despite all influences to the contrary, it lifted a standard of judgment in the light of which the Christian conscience at its best could not be content with social evil.

Indeed, so integral are the Old and New Testaments to each other and so truly was Jesus a Hebrew prophet in the great succession from Amos and Hosea on, that from the beginning a powerful social conscience was injected into Christianity.

The supernatural element in human life, whether it comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.

He considered the time of religion to have been «the time of inwardness and conscience».9 As early as 1927, in Sanctorum Communio, Bonhoeffer emphasized the social element in all Christian concepts.

Even those things which lie, as readily admitted in many a papal social encyclical, beyond the Magisterium's strict sphere of competence are still of importance in the shaping of that much - vaunted individual conscience.

There need not be truly subjective guilt either in the case of the individual or of a social group, even when the subjective conscience is confronted with the official teaching of the Church as a formally binding authority.

Nevertheless the bee, or any other social animal, would in our supposed case gain, as it appears to me, some feeling of right and wrong, or a conscience....

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

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.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Carl F. H. Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism was certainly the key document in evangelicalism's emerging social conscience.

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

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.

[35] Their grounding in the social conscience of the Black Church and their participation in liberation movements of the sixties and seventies informed their interpretation and practice of New Thought.

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

The hugely successful Irish band U2 has taken a similar approach, using powerful music and images in its rock music with a social 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).

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

There is a pinnacle of freedom in the individual conscience, but in large measure our conscience itself is a social product.

Their objectives were cultic, not ethical, an illuminating fact in itself as showing that social ethics had not yet seized the conscience of the rulers.

Individuals may or may not agree with this judgment; but its very existence in the form of law is a social fact putting the weight of the collective conscience behind a positive conception of the rights of men.

This remains true even if on the one hand such people contradict each other in their original notional self - understanding, and, on the other, if the Church as the incarnational and social presence of God's grace can never give up the effort to let the uniting forces in their heart and conscience also appear in their profession of the one creed of the one Church.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

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

A third factor explains at least in part the keener social conscience of the prophets as contrasted with the early Christians.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarianSocial Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrariansocial conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

Further compounding these consequences in India and elsewhere, has been the fact that conversion and baptism, though fundamentally consequences of the exercise of personal conscience have assumed marked social and political overtones and repercussions which have enhanced «communalistic «tendencies both within and outside the Church.

As the great French social philosopher Pierre Manent has pointed out, the modern secular nation state is itself in a crisis of transition; and the Catholic Church, having made its peace with and given its support to democratic experiments, is necessarily concerned with a corrosive «privatizing» and relativizing of conscience.

Though the voice of conscience is in part the product of social conditioning, it apparently is not entirely so; it may lead a person to express judgment on his culture and to oppose his society even at the risk of death.

The difference between the two rests, I believe, in the contrast between intentional, cohesive, conscience - shaping communities of identity and social solidarity, not only in Utah but in the Mormon minority communities around the country, and Evangelical communities that are too often influenced by raging pundits, talk radio, and TV shout - shows — and these voices sometimes drown out the pastor's.

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation [of religion] to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.

When social scientists, in their efforts to remain simply «objective,» forget that people have a conscience to which they plead, they are in my opinion unrealistic and are not doing their duty as scientists.

If some U.S. social features emerge in scenarios of the past (for example, individualism, conscience or a sense of guilt), then the scenarios are presumed to be wrong.

On the other hand, there is also an element in conscience which goes beyond social conditioning.

Turning a profit in the food industry is widely recognised as near - impossible, so the explosion of supper clubs with a social conscience is perhaps a surprise, says Sam Sinha.

And he did so with a social conscience: In 1987, 15 years before the establishment of the Rooney Rule (requiring NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head coaching vacancies), Walsh took the lead in an NFL internship program for minority coaches, bringing prospective assistants into training camp each year and giving them significant responsibilitIn 1987, 15 years before the establishment of the Rooney Rule (requiring NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head coaching vacancies), Walsh took the lead in an NFL internship program for minority coaches, bringing prospective assistants into training camp each year and giving them significant responsibilitin an NFL internship program for minority coaches, bringing prospective assistants into training camp each year and giving them significant responsibility.

On Hockey Night in Belfast, the team with the social conscience and the well - designed face - off plays works a backdoor for a tap - in goal, scores on a shorthanded two - on - one and so utterly treats its bitter rival like a chew toy that after the fifth goal Nottingham goaltender Craig Kowalski makes an executive decision to pull himself, bolting from his crease like a man who suddenly has realized he has to pick up his daughter from soccer practice.