Sentences with phrase «with social evil»

Despite all influences to the contrary, it lifted a standard of judgment in the light of which the Christian conscience at its best could not be content with social evil.
Yet the same people who applaud Christianity's break with the law may be found demanding tougher laws, more rigorous enforcement and longer prison terms to deal with the social evils of our own day.

Not exact matches

Finally, there remains one pressing objection: Is not an appeal for an activist movement of direct, albeit nonviolent, confrontation with evil social structures fundamentally incompatible with Jesus» call for nonresistance?
This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.
Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.
Social action groups are excellent for couples in this stage, keeping them involved with problems and perspectives beyond themselves, while using their aggressive energy to help reduce a social evil and make it a better Social action groups are excellent for couples in this stage, keeping them involved with problems and perspectives beyond themselves, while using their aggressive energy to help reduce a social evil and make it a better social evil and make it a better world.
He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.
Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.
The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.
Then the article turns to theology, with the argument that warfare resembles other social ills (e.g., «suffering, poverty, and disease») which have released forces both good and evil.
As citizens, we need to dispense with the idea that pluralism implies an obligation to ignore or accommodate serious evil in the name of social harmony.
Many who did not go this far stressed the need of human effort to build the kingdom, with a strong emphasis on the need to attack and eliminate the social evils of war, injustice, and oppression.
The kingdom then becomes moral and ethical obedience to God's call within the total sweep of personal and social living, with special emphasis on the human responsibility to correct the evils of an unjust and unloving society.
It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious evil consequences and is hardest to reckon with.
It would only do so were we to understand human nature, in the manner of Rousseau, to be intrinsically good, with evil a mirage of unjust social life that will disappear with the transformation of corrupt institutions.
While I've become disillusioned with this approach, I've also found the evolutionary optimism / social gospel route to be discouraging because, as Wright suggests, «it will never solve evil retrospectively... (and it) underestimates the nature and power of evil itself...»
My concern is to show that in each of the several topics to be considered — Christianity as an organic whole; the fact of evil known to every one of us; the meaning of human personality in itself, in its familial, and in its social aspects; and the religious community — becoming and belonging must be taken with utmost seriousness.
The reality of death as a fact: the inescapable element of decision and the consequences in searching appraisal: the social or communal nature of human existence, coupled with the honest recognition that no man is in and of himself a perfect agent of the purpose of God and the love of God: the joy of fulfillment with one's brethren in the imperishable reality of God: and the terrible character of evil — these were values which the older scheme somehow affirmed and expressed.
Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and dehumanizing life.
I concluded the analysis of these two camps with a quote from Dr. Vernon Grounds, president of Evangelicals for Social Action: «[The question of whether we should use aborted fetuses for this kind of research] comes back to «Shall we do evil that good may come?
She was doing social work with young women and had come to the conclusion that abortion is, in some cases, the lesser evil.
Syriza, on the other hand, has its roots in more traditional radical left politics, but in the past four years it has ditched doctrinal debates about the evils of capitalism and embraced Keynesian solutions to deal with Greece's debt and social crisis.
(Of course, technology isn't all evil, because there are tons of ways you can keep in touch with your friends, especially far - flung ones, on social media and never leave the couch.)
The latest drama from Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) focuses on the evil that our current fascination with texting, social media and the Internets hath wrought, from sexting moms and porn - addicted kids to Adam Sandler being able to order a high - priced call girl from his laptop.
None are notable save for the minor title tune, which suffers from a ludicrous rendering where the King lies on a beach «singing» along with a song on the radio to a social worker who has evil designs on him.
Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.
A while back, a candid photo was posted on social media showing Brosnan doing the «hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil» pose with LOGAN actor Hugh Jackman and DEADPOOL star Ryan Reynolds.
Sure some of its wit seemed a bit forced - see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil - but with that the viewer gets an epic look at the the social make up of the ape society.
Role of psychology to deal with different social evils by focusing on the root cause of these social evils.
Marketing, particularly social networking, is a necessary evil if you want to do more than just share your stories with a few friends and family members.
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At this year's GameCity event in Nottingham, I sat down with Blow to talk about The Witness, how he's avoiding the design flaws that killed adventure games in the mid-90s, and why, in his opinion, social games are evil.
Then in the last couple of days, all the western Resident Evil game social sites have been updated with a new image akin to the old Resident Evil 2 PAL region logo and to the font in the original announcement video.
1:30 — 2:30 pm Thomas J. Lax in conversation with Sondra Perry Sondra Perry, the subject of the solo exhibition Resident Evil at The Kitchen (2016) and Thomas J. Lax (Associate Curator, Museum of Modern Art) discuss legacies of media art, the role of appropriation, and the stakes of representing violence and social protest.
This juxtaposition of human evil with the innocent child may be a reaction to Japan's rigid social conventions.
Critic Eleanor Heartney described the biennial as «social work or therapy» with pieces that were «numbing didactic,» and said that too many of the «most prominent works simply target the white male power elite as the source of all evil
The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.
The Canadian Bar Association supported «retaining section 13 as a useful tool,» but had reservations about the punitive fines and stated in a paper that promotion of hatred is a «social evil» that has increased with the proliferation of the Internet, and that the standard for wilful promotion of hatred in the Criminal Code is very hard to prove.
(10) The Court then explained, after stating that drug addiction represents a serious evil for the individual and is fraught with social and economic danger to mankind, that such trafficking could reach a level of intensity that might directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.
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