Sentences with phrase «social ethics at»

Dr. Livezey is assistant professor of Christian social ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.

The sixties ushered in that option for social ethics at the expense ofdeeper theological symbolism.

J. Philip Wogaman is professor of Christian social ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Christine Pohl is professor of social ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and author of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans).

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Yesterday, at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility's annual Forum, I got the chance to ask keynote speaker Stephen Lewis about the ethics of lobbying.

They willingly cheat and ignore privacy rules and data ethics in order to win,» said social media analyst Jonathan Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

After a brief stint at Woman's College in North Carolina and a few years teaching «social ethics» at the Hartford Seminary, the relentless clacking of Berger's typewriter earned him a return ticket to the New School in 1963.

He asserts that the social pathologies noticeable in the underclass are there because «there are no ethics at the top of society.»

Some recognize that Buddhism, at least in the form in which it has operated in China, Korea, and Japan, has failed to develop the kind of social ethic needed in the modern world.

Yet while no excuse can be offered for the biblical ethic at this point, at least the historical and social reasons for it can be understood.

American studies, biblical literature and Reinhold Niebuhr's social ethics focus on careerism, are issues consuming attention on American campuses, especially at predominantly women's colleges.

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.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

An attempt at consensus - building regarding social ethics is one of contemporary evangelicalism's most critical tasks, but it will not prove an easy one to accomplish.

The overall suspicion, in other words, is that somehow Christian faith has lost its «transcendent» element, that It has been «reduced» to «horizontalism» at the expense of «verticalism,» that it has become nothing more than «ethics» (and left - wing ethics at that), that «social analysis» has replaced theology, that revolution has replaced revelation — and that Karl Marx is the source of all the difficulty.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

At the same time, love is impossible as a wholly adequate social ethic.

If we now inquire about Mark's «sociology» or his «social ethics,» we shall be checked at once.

Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.

Stanley Hauerwas, a Methodist theologian at Duke University, is often quoted: «The Church does not have a social ethic.

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).

At first, outside one's social group ruthlessness was enjoined and within it justice was commonly denied; at the end, an ethic of love had been envisioned whose fulfillment is still the best hope of the worlAt first, outside one's social group ruthlessness was enjoined and within it justice was commonly denied; at the end, an ethic of love had been envisioned whose fulfillment is still the best hope of the worlat the end, an ethic of love had been envisioned whose fulfillment is still the best hope of the world.

There are several reasons for beginning our study of the ethics of social institutions at this point.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

If the recovery of this historic Protestant ethic is vital at this moment of unprecedented numerical presence, public visibility, and social responsibility, then the historic churches, and above all those that lay claim to the Reformed heritage, must first of all rediscover their own past and apply it creatively to the Latin American present.

I don't believe this is intentional, but given that she is considering a PhD in consumer ethics and social corporate responsibility, I might urge her to look at herself as having built an «establishment» from this blog (which is commendable given her following), and consequently to feel the social responsibility to make sure misrepresentation is not occurring by removing these letters.

Without a new ethic of responsible parenting, Sawhill says social mobility will continue to be limited for those at the bottom.

This means that liberalism, at base, is other - regarding and expresses an ethic of social responsibility.

Former Assemblyman and senior fellow at the Demos foundation, Richard Brodsky, says if there is another convention, it won't be motivated by concern about legislative ethics, but by social issues that people care more about, like schools, and pension benefits.

The Nigerian Airforce (NAF) has introduced Advanced Social Media Programmes at its Air War College (NAFAWC) to inculcate in participants tenets of professional ethics...

Jonathan D. Moreno, a professor of medical ethics and health policy and of the history and sociology of science and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed to the social and ethical implications such technologies introduce.

In the study, Prof. Kolk looks back at over 50 years of research in three main areas of social responsibility: the environment, ethics, and poverty and sustainable development.

Also at Science, Brad Wible, 2005 — 07 Executive Branch Fellow at NIH, is a senior editor who works «to tell people why research matters and what society needs to consider in terms of social impacts, economics, ethics, politics, etc.» Like Thompson, he has always felt science was critical but underappreciated, so he works to make science «more attractive.»

The widespread thesis of social Darwinism, promoted at the end of the 19th century was that evolutionary explanations were at odds with the development of ethics.

Mats Hansson is the director of the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at the University of Uppsala and has conducted extensive research in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medical ethics.

The new synthetic biology centre at Imperial College London will focus on ethics as well as science.ICLA synthetic - biology centre opening today at Imperial College London is hoping to pre-empt public concerns about the field by integrating social scientists into its research team.

«The ethical, legal, and social issues in genetic and genomic testing have been subject to special scrutiny for several reasons,» Jeffery R. Botkin, MD, MPH, chief of the division of medical ethics and humanities in the department of internal medicine at the University of Utah.

- Jean A. Luckowski is a professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Montana, where she teaches social studies methods and professional ethics.

Nevertheless, employers and universities alike are looking at well - rounded globally literate applicants, capable of not only mastering modern Knowledge such as engineering and entrepreneurship, social sciences and information literacy, but also are Skilled: creative, critical thinkers who are communicative and collaborative; display Character qualities: mindfulness, curiosity, courage, resilience, ethics and leadership; adapt and learn how to learn via Meta - Learning abilities with growth mindset and metacognition.

This situation demands a new ethic based on respect for different, and involves decision, political will, mobilize and organization of all educational stakeholders to enhance dynamic and critical thinking, which generate new ideas that promote economic and social development, aimed at creating a better world in the future.

Mr. Howard completed his undergraduate work in Cultural Anthropology and Social Psychology at Yale University and did graduate work in ethics and social justice at Yale Divinity SSocial Psychology at Yale University and did graduate work in ethics and social justice at Yale Divinity Ssocial justice at Yale Divinity School.

A degree in journalism produces graduates with the three key elements that employers want, according to Professor Richard Sambrook, director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff University: initiative, training in how to write a story according to media law and ethics, and fluency in social media.

If ethics and social responsibility are important to you, take a look at companies» environmental and human rights policies.

Bradford's Art + Practice organization — an exhibition and social space in Leimert Park that, in collaboration with the youth services group RightWay, provides job training and education for teenagers coming out of foster care in south Los Angeles — is testament to an admirable ethics at the core of his activities.

at New Museum In light of the release of Rhizome's Mellon Foundation — funded Webrecorder, a digital archival tool, the New Museum is hosting a discussion of ethics pertaining to social - media archiving.

Today's NWEI Changemaker Interview is with Chef Instructor Ramona White, who teaches food ethics and social responsibility at Oregon Culinary Institute.