Sentences with phrase «urgent question of»

«This is now an urgent question of acting in the national interest.

My point was, and my point remains, that the very structure of the conference reinforces the stereotype that the Catholic social - justice agenda and the Catholic pro-life agenda need to be reconciled, when, in fact, there is no more urgent question of social justice and moral progress than the protection of innocent human life at every point of development and dependency.

For many sensitive people this is the most urgent question of all today, and they often look in vain to theology for some assistance.

The rise of Muslim minority populations makes urgent the question of international law: What is the appropriate treatment for religious minorities?

Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations.

The book casts long shadows and explores the most important, urgent questions of desire, freedom, and identity.

«As Baltimore's civic museum, we believe it is incumbent upon us to use our exhibitions, collections, and public programs as platforms to engage the most urgent questions of our time,» said BMA Director Christopher Bedford.

In mining the historical and present circumstances that mutually implicate us, the works in Unsettled Sites point to urgent questions of response and action: What does it mean to carry home with us?

The work was cited by the jury as «a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions of our time and pushes the spectator into an aware state of anxiety.»

Beautifully presented, the exhibition addresses urgent questions of female sexuality, the male gaze in female dress and investigates the fault - line between the respectable and the obscene.

Drawing from their shared limbo - land experience of African - American vs American - African, both women investigate urgent questions of race, identity politics, and the objectification of the black female body.

«Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce, and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times....

There is no longer any question about «whether» human activities are changing the climate; instead research must tackle the urgent questions of: «how fast?»

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We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

As much as we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die well.

Today, we all sit at the base of the genomic Tree of Knowledge, facing questions — sometimes urgent ones — of ethics, health, science, and personal choice.

By focusing on strategy, it may be that questions about the turning of the cycle become a little less urgent.

And we drilled down into some of the most urgent questions in this domain: How do we get investment into the right areas quickly — and overcome the barriers that stand in the way of progress.

Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

But the urgent question is the question of a better alternative when the nature of our present crisis is such that our option is a forced option.

The Little Apocalypse was added for a similar reason: it satisfied in some degree the urgent demand for Jesus» own answer to the question of the date of the Parousia and the «signs of the end.»

If the pressure toward globalization of our thinking in practical matters continues to increase, as it almost inevitably will, it can only intensify the spiritual questions that our common fate on this earth raises in new and urgent ways.

The urgent ecumenical question is how African, Asian, Latin American, North American and European Christians can live together in the same church, authentically expressing the same faith of Christ and love of Christ.

It is urgent because it foregrounds the question of whether we would have been better off with a women's movement that respected the family, the complementarity of men and women, and the satisfactions of having and raising children — or, alternatively, with a form of feminism that derides men as oppressors and champions alternate sexualities.

Still, if one brackets the nonetheless important question as to where, if anywhere, Heidegger's substitute divinity resides in the registers of historical religion, there remains the perhaps more urgent query about the relation of his system to those ethical decisions that his - and our - time demands.

It is an urgent test question that the tradition puts to relational thinking if it is to be an appropriate theology of death.

These convictions posit the necessity — before a church lobby can exist, before the mobilization of opinion behind specific policies can be achieved — to create a process for broadening and deepening public debate on urgent questions.

This question has been grossly neglected in our theological thinking, but it is a particularly urgent task for the churches to deal with, given the reality and nature of the modern political powers now dominating the peoples of the world.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

A contemporary theology of revelation must inevitably be somewhat selective and synthetic with respect to the themes it wishes to highlight and correlate with our most urgent questions.

More urgent today is the whole question of imaginative vehicles, of symbolization, in religion.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

I find this development disturbingly problematic, but it does provide, I believe, the most relevant and urgent context for the consideration of questions that address the prospective relationships between religion and higher learning or spirituality and education today.

In the next few years, as our society descends deeper into the abyss, we shall find this question of legitimacy to be increasingly urgent.

For Albert Borgmann, philosophy is a way of taking up the questions that reside at the center of everyday life — questions that are urgent but often inarticulate.

Whenever you tell a Bible story to a child in response to an urgent question, or recite a verse to yourself during a time of crisis or thankfulness — whenever you incorporate the meanings of the Biblical texts in your daily life — you are being an interpreter.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

Exploration of the question of obedient vocation in relation to homosexuality is an urgent pastoral task.

No contemporary theological question is so urgent as the question of the nature and function of the church.

In any case, thoughtful people in these churches where the language of survival has been less urgent — and such thoughtful people are legion — are asking questions of meaning which show that they too are «bothered» and have to look at «what's ahead.»

Responding earlier to an urgent question in the House of Commons, food minister David Heath said that retailers and suppliers were «on course» to provide «meaningful results» on testing of beef products on Friday.

For disadvantaged students, however, especially those whose stress - response systems have been compromised by early experiences of adversity, this question can feel vital and urgent, often dominating their experience of school.

Working with these thoughts and questions we realize that one of the most urgent issues of our time is the caring for the human surroundings and the quality of the adult relationships around the child, to provide a warm, safe and free space for the child's development.»

His birth just made all of these questions that much more urgent and personal.

There is an urgent need to question this trend as it should be clear to everyone that the interests of corporations do not always align with public interests.

John Hemmings revealed the name of the footballer in the Commons during an urgent question on super-injunctions.

Meanwhile the likelihood of a hung parliament after 7 May and the inter-party deals that will be required to form a coalition, plus the existence of unresolved and urgent constitutional questions which require resolution provides the necessary political backdrop for the establishment of a constitutional convention.

Some of the shine was taken off that choreography, however, when pesky Jeremy Corbyn — and even more pesky John Bercow — agreed while the PM was on his way to Wiltshire that the Labour leader should be allowed to ask an urgent question in the Commons.

Labour MP Andy Burnham will ask an urgent question in the House of Commons about the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the events at Orgreave in 1984.

There are, obviously, deep and urgent questions about the future of the Union and «devolution».