Sentences with phrase «social ethics today»

In fact, it can be argued (and I will, in what follows below) that the present divergences in social thought throughout contemporary evangelicalism stem largely from this source from differing theological traditions that provide conflicting models for social ethics today.

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This section, «Christianity Today and Tomorrow,» contains four essays on belief, community, moral theology and social ethics, and the future of Christianity.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

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.

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

He made it possible for me to become a Christian as no other figure before or since has (although I can today find similar inspiration from Hans Kung and David Tracy among the Catholics, and Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff among Reformed Christians) More, he made the quest for an apologetic, cosmopolitan Christian social ethic imaginable.

The linkage between social ethics and worship was also startling in the context of the ancient Near East — but not for the reason it startles us today.

Reflecting on this experience, I realized that there is the academic payoff for me: the recognition that there can be no meaningful social ethics written today that does not have complicity written into the heart of it — not as a cheap confession but as an appreciation of the corporateness which binds us one to another in hope and in guilt.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

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.

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

In substance, today's legal ethics standards are so utterly out of sync with the lifestyle, social conventions and technology savvy of today's consumers that they actually breed mistrust.

She blogs at Practical Paralegalism and is a frequent CLE speaker in the areas of ethics, social media, workers» compensation and civil litigation, and has written articles for numerous legal publications, including Paralegal Today.

Today I helped teach a three - hour ethics CLE for lawyers on social media use.

Social Media research raises privacy and ethics issues, (USA Today, Mar. 12, 2014).