Sentences with phrase «social location»

This kind of critical and transformative awareness of one's own social location and that of neighbors who are different can be a rich resource for preaching on ethical issues.

The tension exists between texts with different social locations.

While in the past, meeting potential partners was done through social circles or social locations like bars, today's most popular dating is done through online dating sites.

You don't have the time to go out every night to loads of casual social locations.

How might you become more conscious of your own social location and its effects?

Such an account, however, does show a particular social location of its inception, at Yale — a place where I taught for 17 years.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

The persons being formed are fully as concrete, as deeply particularized by history, by social location, by being bodies as is this school.

A postmodern theology must arise out of the Christian experience and insight of people from many cultures and diverse social locations within those cultures.

Within the North Atlantic theological community it is the German political theologians who are most effectively calling the church to the type of self - criticism that follows from reflection on social location.

It enjoys some particular social location within that society, and at least in that immediate vicinity fills some social roles in which it exercises what social power it has.

I see no problem for one whose social location is close to the poor to be a liberation theologian who appropriates the basic categories of process thought.

The VSNT faculty stand in a variety of diverse social locations and - each member is highly respected internationally for their longstanding therapeutic practice, writings and teaching know how.

But when all exceptions have been noted, the fact remains that the determinative social location of process theology as a style of thought has been the white, middle class university or seminary, chiefly in North America.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

Moreover, objectivity does not rule thought; human imagination, valuation and social location govern how we identify and classify things — and thus, how we construct contexts for comparison.

Black theologians were the first to point out how radically social location determined the topics discussed and the ways they were discussed, and excluded the perspectives of the oppressed.

It involves discovering those newly emergent social locations, forums, problems and «standards of scholarship» within which many intellectuals and some theologians are already working.

«We fall into spiritual complacency, or a rut or a rigidity [of thinking] that [our] social location is everything.

Picture this, you're out at the bar, or club, or basically any other social location, you check into tingle and instantly you have a list off just how many people you could potentially get lucky with.

Social location firm Foursquare has announced that more than 500,000 businesses are now registered on its service.

In short, the Social Gospel did not free its practitioners from their own social location in the dominant white culture.

Simply, it's about asking questions that help us understand if budget priorities, tax structures, and government programs maintain or worsen inequality, or if they help «level the playing field» for people occupying different social locations.

Further, process theologians» compatibility claims entail «an implicit apologetic» that it is not ensnared and blindsided by the values and interests of its own social location.

The background, identity, and social location of lawyers (and ultimately judges) matter because they inform their values and perspectives, and determine how they understand the circumstances of justice system users.

This is because of the purpose that several of them are embarrassed about seeking their special someone by personal means like meeting them in social locations like events, parties, and other social occasions.

Secondly I argue that the New Testament's seeing Jesus as example is a necessary correlate of what later theology calls his divine sonship (the other side of the «incarnation»), in such a way that those who downgrade the weight of Jesus» example, on the grounds that his particular social location or example can not be a norm, renew a counterpart of the old «Ebionitic» heresy.

This score, Jones suggests, is in keeping with the social location of process theology's advocates.

This matter of social location can be taken as simply accidental.

Even in faithfulness to this tradition, self - criticism in light of social location is required.

When white, middle class, North American process theologians consider our social location seriously and adapt our theology to the understanding that results, North Atlantic process theology as a whole can become complementary to liberation theology.

In addition, the topics to which attention is given must be affected by our social location.

The social location of liberation theology is in a church which has, at least to some extent, taken the preferential option for the poor.

The social location of the two theological traditions has informed their problems and methods.

There is a very real danger that if middle class process theologians in North America construct a vision of a just society, the values they express and try to realize will be the middle class values of their own social location and that the results will once again sanction and sanctify the oppression of others.

Process theology has just begun to reflect on its social location and the effects of that location on its work.

Hence, insofar as our social location has led us to neglect the needs of the poor and the oppressed, we can only repent.

My point here is that we need to take our social location very seriously, to be suspicious of ourselves, and to work constantly to correct for the bias that our location introduces.

There is nothing in the social location of liberation theologians to prevent this.

Until these external pressures became strong, our social location in the departmentalized university had more effect upon our way of working than did the conceptual models with which we worked!

In the social location of all North Americans, issues of race, also, will rightly play a larger role than they have played thus far among Latin Americans.

His concern with the social location of poverty is part of his larger effort to understand the character of Christianity as it negotiated its place in a still durable classical culture.

In the case of a theological school this means that both the social location of the school itself and the locations of various persons within the school, taken as a small society in its own right, leave the effort to understand God open to ideological distortion.

Thus a theological school, precisely as a concrete social reality in its own right, is vulnerable to ideological distortions arising from within itself in regard to its governance and externally in regard to its social location.

We are prone to be over-determined by circumstances, social location and identities that are secularly constructed and never able to give a full account of who we are as imago dei or an account of the journey of faith we are traveling.

From what types of social location are its students, faculty, and staff drawn?

Within the micro-society and culture that this crossroads hamlet is in itself, what types of social location are characteristically assigned to faculty, to staff, to students?

The church flourished, membership grew, the missionary enterprise exploded, and the denomination's social location was transferred to the middle class.