Sentences with phrase «social liberal thinking»

This pamphlet draws together social liberal thinking from past and present, advocating policies that would lead to sustainable prosperity and good jobs for all.

Not exact matches

In other words, plan fiduciaries now will have greater freedom to expend portfolio resources to effect liberal social goals simply by claiming that they think doing so will have long - term benefits without having to quantify those benefits.

Within the general concepts of humanism there are three branches of thought: liberal humanism, social humanism and evolutionary humanism.

I think it comes down to the reality that not only are most news reporters and producers liberals themselves, they are also embedded in social networks of people who are much more partisan liberals.

I do think that how liberal - leaning journalists interpret events is powerfully and often unconsciously shaped by their social networks and that this influences their coverage choices.

I don't know, but I'll risk a guess that the editors thought it worth a momentary suspension of their liberal propensities to have someone take on with gusto, which Laurent certainly does, those terrible Catholic neoconservatives who construe Catholic social doctrine in a way supportive of a market economy and liberal polity.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

The dangers of conservative religious thought have frequently been noted by liberal theologians to include a kind of individualistic withdrawal from the social realities of the world.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

By the way I think the progressive liberal experiment in modern social values is going extremely well [sic]... what do you think?

Indeed, the clergymen recognize this: 94 per cent of the liberal ministers thought their own theological views generally encouraged their participation in social - action activities, but only 39 per cent of the most conservative clergy thought so.

Here the defenders of the humanities fall into two camps: those who think the liberal arts promote the effective acquisition of wealth, and those who think they promote social and political goods.

Does liberal Protestantism — as a species of thought, faith and social commitment — have a future?

The ecumenical social thought in this century has also been in transition from the context of the liberal society, to the challenge of the socialist society and, then, to the Cold War context, and then to the post-Cold War situation.

The more our liberal, social - scientific thinking excuses human culpability, the more it points the finger at God, the primal source of our ambiguous existences.

As I got older I responded to these questions out of a liberation faith informed by my own religious and social action experience and by the thought of various liberal, neo-orthodox and liberation theologians.

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).

By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.

In the heyday of the liberal social gospel which occurred at the same time that form criticism and other important New Testament studies were making a fresh impact on Christian thought, the kingdom was considerably explored.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

Important as it is, however, this change has been along lines familiar to me from my background in liberal theology, including the tradition of the social gospel, and thus is a matter of deepening and broadening my thinking more than of substantially revising it.

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

They believed that social and political activities were typical for a church dominated by liberal theology, so they thought purifying the gospel meant to stay away from public life.

Nourished by Dewey's thought, Protestant liberals such as Charles Clayton Morrison, owner and editor of the Christian Century until 1947 could fuse social gospel into the civil experiment of constructive Protestantism united under a National Council of Churches.

The military isn't exactly on the leading edge as crusaders for the liberal agenda on social issues and even though atheists are finally getting recognition and not just rejection in the overall community, there are still many in the military who think differently and won't reccomend this soldier for a higher rank.

The only way they can hold the existing party together is to hope for an evolution in thought over the next 4 years, producing a more socially liberal base (possible... but won't happen quickly) or to have some other very large even occur which puts the dems in such a bad light as to lift the pressure (possible, but won't reverse the social trends).

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

Suppose that it is true that the philosophy of the liberal society is inferior to, say, Catholic social thought on these two points.

Does the social and political logic of liberal constitutionalism point us down the road toward a certain way of living and thinking?

I think he was saying radical liberal ends are best achieved through modernized social democratic means... which may refer to democratic republicanism.

A modern liberal education equates to a near total course of indoctrination into internationalist social - democratic thought.

Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

I don't think Miliband is a liberal republican of the social democratic strand.

I think your summary of the differences between the liberal and social democratic positions is a fair one, but I do think that post 18 education and training is a fine example of a «merit good», and that there is considerable benefit to both individuals and society from earmarking this funding for education and study.

Miller 2.0 I think the important point on which it would be worth trying to build agreement is that almost all social democratic and liberal socialist conceptions of equality and fairness do have scope for legitimate or merited differences of outcome.

In the end it comes down to a difference between a liberal perspective which wants to empower without being too judgmental about specific goods, and a more traditional social democratic approach which thinks in terms of access to specific «merit goods».

This strand of thought is not alien to the party, and for much of the history of the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left social liberalism.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Norman Lamb, in a thought - provoking speech about the potential future role of mutuals in public services at the Social Liberal Forum Conference, did just that.

The Social Liberal Forum has recently undertaken an exercise to begin to develop policy in key areas in an attempt to express progress in Lib Dem thinking.

I thought that the coalition had wiped out any Social Liberal beliefs, but then you posted this.

sanbikinoraion: when I wrote the above I was thinking about liberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the LiberalLiberal State.

For all this, I don't think social democrats or liberals will go down without a fight.

I think that a New England GOP is often more liberal than a deep south DEM about social and religious matters.

Well, it is absolutely none of my business to desire to enquire as to when and why Mr. Banda fell out of friendship with Nana Akufo - Addo; what is definitely my business, as a critically thinking journalist, is to demand, as a matter of fairness and social justice, that Alhaji Banda provide specific and intimate examples of what he claims to be his old friend's abject lack of wisdom, or talent, in bringing people together or uniting the rank - and - file membership of the country's largest liberal - democratic and progressive political organization.

If he does, however, I think social liberal such as yourselves will have to start thinking about the long term future of the Lib Dems or rather your place in it.

The launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate was a truly excellent meeting — I don't think I have ever come across so much enthusiasm at such an event.