Sentences with phrase «social evils»

It was the old question of the gospel against entrenched social evil.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

In both the Roman Catholic and the fundamentalist Protestant traditions there is an impulse toward contrition for what is recognized as sin and a channel of escape, but relatively little attention is given either to the more subtle sins of the spirit or to major social evils in which as sinners we all participate.

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.

All such men expressed dissatisfaction also with the current orthodox theology which tended to talk only about conversion and the life to come while the great social evils of the present were ignored.

The churches were urged to attack social evils at their roots.

Such misuse of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave trade in the first place and to many other social evils, not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.

The strategy of withdrawal (# 1 above) maintains in a dramatic form the prophetic witness against social evils; under a totalitarian government it may be the only way in which the church can exist at all.

To commit to this kind of revivalism represented in Niebuhr's mind another kind of naivety that distracted from the real work of forging coalitions that could assault social evil.

We need to understand what the abolition of the supposed social evils they label will achieve.

If all men are brought to Christ social evils will disappear.

The suffering that comes in conjunction with the great social evils just mentioned is a persistent warning to us that God, the Ruler of all, requires us to make this earthly scene into the kind of world he wills it to be.

It neglected man s present concerns by concentrating on his eternal destiny, it neglected public morals by restricting itself to individual perfection, and it sanctioned social evil with its doctrine of predestination.

As long as the human being is incapable of eradicating social evils, the need for «illusory compensation» will continue to exist.

Its leaders did not believe that the society they were building was the Kingdom of God, but they did believe that human obedience to God could usher in a world in which many of the present social evils would be overcome.

Particularly in the realm of sexual behavior, the elite can enjoy the freedoms that the dissolution of taboos allows, while yet being shielded from the resultant social evils, most notably the collapse of family and community.

Moving between judgment and forgiveness and not by a direct application of Jesus» teachings was the way to face social evils.

In spite of persisting social evils such as untouchability, caste system, inequity, communalism in South Asian societies the sense of * «Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam» has been part of our cultural sensibility since time immemorial.

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

Other stories are about social evils like dowry, killing of a female fetus and much more.

In New York, during the conservatism of the Reagan era, Keith Haring (1958 — 1990) made it his mission to highlight social evils in his work.

Casado Hernandez is a founding member of the researched - based feminist art collective The Great Social Evil and a collaborator of the Protest Banner Lending Library.

Corporate codes of ethics can have reverse effects and mask anomalies or social evils in operations outsourced to low - wage countries.

King, a non-violent protestor and prophet of love, was continually told that such social evils were merely windmills — ordinary realities of modern American culture.

Churches are required to be agents of resistance to genocide or any other kind of social evil, as a basic expression of faithfulness to their God, their sacred scriptures and their social responsibility.

Annika Elias, head of the Swedish managers» union Ledarnas and president of the pan-European managers federation, CEC, said the traditional view that wage differences were a social evil was losing ground.

We become involved with anybody, any where, any time and in any manner that's designed to eliminate the evils, the political, economic and social evils that are afflicting the people of our community.

The editors viewed their job as a committed ministry and believed that they were working toward building a positive society by calling attention to social evils and praising worthwhile social developments.

The unprincipled free reign of individual choice has, of course, long been seen as the sure prelude to social evil.

Conversely, a social evil, such as the decline of the two - parent American family, need not be the cause of all the world's ills, such as the bubble in the housing market.

As the social evils multiply and the exploitation of the lower classes increases, the need for religious morality is recognized and the penal laws of religion come into force.

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

The end point should not be forgotten and that is that opposition to homosexuality («homophobia») will be treated as a social evil.

This shows the depth of the social evil produced by the slave system — it could not be eradicated by war, sermon, or prayer.

Social action groups are excellent for couples in this stage, keeping them involved with problems and perspectives beyond themselves, while using their aggressive energy to help reduce a social evil and make it a better world.