Not exact matches
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Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and
conscience, can come to different conclusions.»
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.
But the significance of
such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private
conscience which can at any time become
social fact.»
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.
Once T'Challa's true challenge is revealed, «Black Panther» becomes something deeper than the mere formation of one superhero, engaging
such subjects as: the legacy of colonialism; collective memory and interior geography; the tension between autonomy and
social conscience; and the need for solidarity within an African diaspora at political and cultural odds with itself.
And so, with a slippery smooth melding of
social conscience and satire, British firebrand Ben Wheatley (Kill List) chose for his fifth feature to conform the skyscraping High - Rise, knowing full well the risks involved in
such a structure.
Mamet shows a bit of a
social conscience here by tackling
such a disturbing global issue, but that's only part of the reason we go along.
Artworks with a
social conscience that walked in a stride of independence
such as Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos series (1796 - 97), and Edward Keinholz's State Hospital (1964 - 66).
How will newly developed
social network technologies
such as youtube, vimeo, myspace, facebook and twitter play a role in the fabric of our
social conscience?