Sentences with phrase «social ethicists»

Socialism has been attractive to many social ethicists precisely because it is clearly of the second type» a concrete blueprint, based on an allegedly scientific understanding of the forces of history and providing some reasonably clear guidelines for action.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

These three figures are arguably among the most influential Protestant social ethicists of 20th - century America, and in any case offer a representative spectrum of opinion.

Social ethicist Joseph Fletcher — author of Situation Ethics, Morals and Medicine and The Ethics of Genetic Control — is a visiting professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School and at the Texas Medical Center's Institute of Religion and Human Development.

An interview with social ethicist Joseph Flecher which delves into the ethical issues of the «triage / lifeboat» approach to world hunger relief.

This is a good opportunity for me to say publicly how much I, as an evangelical social ethicist, have been influenced by Marty's writings.

Although there is some variety in the editorial position reflected in the journal, the editorializing of theologian and social ethicist Lewis Smedes is perhaps representative.

Possibly no other social ethicist was as committed to realism as Reinhold Niebuhr.

Not exact matches

Two years ago, former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris launched Time Well Spent to help people fight social media addiction.

I did not become an ethicist because my primary interest was social change or particular moral «issues.»

The social gospel spawned ethicists who became social scientists, or at least read social science, in the interest of social transformation.

Conferences bringing representatives of religious communions together with other concerned groups — foundations, think tanks, social scientists, ethicists — dot the landscapes of developed nations and occasionally others as well.

In a newspaper interview, Sister Pat Talone, the hospital's ethicist, defended the committee's recommendation to withdraw treatment by saying that the group «examines medical reality as well as social, spiritual, and ethical principles before making a recommendation.»

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

Social media companies — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Snapchat, YouTube and others — have been microtargeting users with millions of specific advertisements, images, videos and other elements that are aimed at driving engagement, argue the campaign's backers, led by CHT Executive Director Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google.