Sentences with phrase «society as free men»

But until we know this is the case, our task is to make every effort to build our society as free men.

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«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Certainly, similar to secular society the Church, too, rests on certain presuppositions which are not produced by the free decision of her members and their free association as such, but are the very conditions of her existence, namely human nature, the saving will of God, redemption through Jesus Christ, the general call of all men to the Church and the resulting «duty» to belong to her.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

This goal of liberal learning as a privilege of free men is fulfilled in America and in other advanced industrial societies in the sense that problems of subsistence

I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

There's still plenty of opportunity to live virtuous — even heroically virtuous — lives as free and prosperous men and women in a society such as ours.

I do not know whether some sort of decentralized democratic socialism can supply a healthier economic base for the kind of change that seems necessary if we are to continue as a society of free men and women.

But finally the ministers who, as Lyman Beecher said, were «chosen by the people who have been educated as free men,» and were «dependent on them for patronage and support, «88 achieved such status as their reputation for personal piety, character, and ability made possible in the society in which they lived.

anthropomorphism or personification of society as the term «social justice»... treat society not as a spontaneous order of free men but as an organization whose members are all made to serve a single hierarchy of ends.