Sentences with phrase «social liberal tradition»

Here it presents Rawls and Dworkin as representatives of a social liberal tradition that values income equality in itself.

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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).

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.

Reform Judaism (known in Europe as Liberal Judaism) seeks to preserve the basic moral precepts of the Torah and other ethical aspects of Jewish tradition — including a passionate concern for social justice.

This trajectory suggests that the Balmesian tradition is largely correct to see the development of modern liberal culture as an integral set of often anti-religious social structures, and to see this culture as closely linked to the dynamics of Christian division.

Whereas his father's training was shaped in the classical liberal tradition and his sermons tended to be topical, Dr. Bartlett's training at Yale and his own experiences have moved him to ground his preaching more directly in the Scriptures and, as he said, «When you do that, you have to get involved in social and political concerns.»

Uncle Petie I hope LibDems (especially those with an instinct for either social democratic or LibDem traditions) would not take the view that «more egalitarian reformed (liberal) market outcomes» will make redistribution unnecessary.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

There is a tradition of debates on the role of the state in Liberal politics that stretches back to the 1870s, but by the early 20th century, social liberalism was dominant.

It just sounds to me like a historical stereotype - and a rather one dimensional view of the Fabian tradition too, given that there have often been significant voices (Oscar Wilde, GDH Cole, Tony Crosland among them) arguing for a pluralist and liberal Fabianism and social democracy.

Although the Liberal party was quite marginal for most of the century, the tradition also had some support within the Labour party and, in the 1980s, the Social Democratic Party.

Progressive policies were liberal when they were first proposed, but now that they've been established for almost a century they've become a part of the American tradition and so many conservatives will seek to conserve something like Social Security.

The Liberal Democrat party, as the name suggests, has from its inception been ideologically torn between the progressivism of the social democratic tradition and the aspiration of traditional liberalism.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.