Moral Concerns and Economic Strength

Worldview ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Jack Mendelsohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Business And Politics ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
Justice And Mercy ◽  
Moral Convictions

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the late, justice and mercy and faith " - Jesus (Gospel of Matthew)"We cannot keep our moral convictions in one pocket and our thoughts and action about business and politics and social order and justice in another pocket quite apart."-Bishop Arthur LichtcnbergerPast Presiding BishopEpiscopal Church, U.S.A.Should churches, to the extent that they have economic muscle, use it to attack specific social evils and to support specific ethical ideals? The deepening involvement of religions bodies in social problems has brought them face to face with an old quandry in a new guise.’ Are there really two realms, God's and Mammon's, or is there only one a kingdom of heaven on earth to be established at least in part by judicious combinations of moral right and economic might?

The Instrumental University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Research University ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Procedural Rationality ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Knowledge

This book argues that Clark Kerr, Gaylord P. Harnwell, and other post-World War II academic leaders set the American research university on a new course by creating the instrumental university. With its emphasis on procedural rationality, organized research, and project-based funding by external patrons, the instrumental university would provide technical and managerial knowledge to shape the social order. Its leaders hoped that by solving the nation’s pressing social problems, the research university would become the essential institution of postwar America. On this view, the university’s leading purposes included promoting economic development and coordinating research from many fields in order to attack social problems. Reorienting institutions to prioritize these activities had numerous consequences. One was to inject more capitalistic and managerial tendencies into universities. Today, those who decry universities’ corporatizing and market-driven tendencies often trace them to the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s. This book suggests that a fuller explanation of these tendencies must highlight their deeper roots in the technocratic progressive tradition that originated in the 1910s, particularly the organizational changes within universities that this tradition spawned from the 1940s onward as part of the instrumental university.

Site Unseen

Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Site

This chapter argues that to perform a site reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is to appreciate how the text functions as a novel of purpose that aims to vivify the planet as what Latour would call a “matter of concern.” Still, The Road reads less as a critique of contemporary social problems than as a “thought-experiment,” a sort of literary climate model, forecasting a chillingly plausible correlation between a ruined site and a grisly social order. By imagining this correlation through narrative form, McCarthy offers his own striking contribution to environmental and sociological thought, a contribution that starts to become apparent the moment we ask how his setting functions as an actant, both in the novel itself and beyond.

scholarly journals Looking for the Just

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pellauer
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Related Development

This essay explores the idea of the just which allowed Ricoeur to move beyond and expand the “little ethics” presented in Oneself as Another. One key development is that he moves beyond the idea of solicitude as a kind of benevolent spontaneity on the basis of the insight that not all intersubjective relations are face-to-face. This recognition that who the other is can be important allows him to show why the just is a notion that explicitly arises at the level of the distant and often anonymous other, which is that of social and political institutions where the question of justice rather than friendship is central. Another related development is that the idea of reciprocity is shown still to fall short of truly mutual recognition. Pursuing a just solution to social problems leads to the question of a limited but bounded pluralism and a concomitant role for tolerance at the level of society and politics.  

scholarly journals خیبرپختونخوا میں سکھوں کے معاشرتی مسائل کا شرعی جائزہ اور ان کا حل

Al-Duhaa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 282-294
Author(s):  
Fazli Hadi ◽  
Dr. syed Rashid Ali ◽  
Shahid Ameen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Find ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Times

The study is conducted with a view to analyze the social problems of the Sikh community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan in light of the Islamic Sharia. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was reservation for various religions from ancient times and Sikh creed is one of them. Guru Nanak is its founder and its successor Ranjit Singh has ruled this province for some time i-e (1834-1849) but later on unable to maintain its kingdom and supremacy. The author has collected the major social problems from the social, political, business men and other influential people of various districts through face to face interviews and other print and electronic media. The study find these major problems: registration of marriage act, building of shamshanghaat, educational curriculum and minority seats in educational institutions, census problems, free celebration of cultural and religious festivals, pending of social and religious cases in courts and teasing of the children in schools by saying kafir kafir etc. The study concluded that, the Islamic Sharia allows them full social freedom under certain conditions and keeping in view the sentiments of the Muslims which is an important part of the Islamic history.

scholarly journals Komparasi Eskatologi Injil Lukas dengan Injil Sinoptik Lainnya

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elkana Chrisna Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Understanding

“Komparasi Eskatologi Injil Lukas dengan Injil Sinoptik Lainnya,” adalah subyek penelitian memberikan eksplanatori mengenai pemikiran-pemikiran teologis dari Lukas selaku penulis Injil Lukas dan Kisah Para Rasul, khususnya yang membahas tentang pemikiran-pemikiran atau pengajaran mengenai doktrin akhir zaman (eskatologi) yang dikomparasikan dengan Injil Matius dan Injil Markus, sebagai serangkaian kelompok dari Injil Sinoptik. Adanya kemiripan kata-kata, dan urutan bahkan isi/peristiwa yang hampir sama di antara ketiganya, serta kepentingan daripada doktrin akhir zaman, memberikan keunikan bagi masing-masing Injil, secara khusus bagi Injil Lukas itu sendiri. Disamping bermaksud untuk menyatakan keunikan dan perbedaan dari Injil Lukas dibandingkan dengan Injil Sinoptik lainnya, penelitian ini juga bermaksud memberikan informasi atau penjelasan mengenai hal-hal yang memiliki koherensi dan relevansi dengan doktrin akhir zaman yang dimaksud dalam subyek penelitian ini, di antaranya seperti perlunya menyentuh tulisan Lukas dalam Kisah Para Rasul, dan pembahasan mengenai Kerajaan Allah dan Kerajaan Sorga serta hal-hal lainnya. Oleh karena itu, untuk mengejawantahkan maksud di atas, maka penulis melaksanakan kajian terhadap beberapa ayat Alkitab dan pandangan para pakar dalam mengadakan pendekatan terhadap ayat-ayat eskatologi yang terdapat dalam ketiga Injil Sinoptik tersebut. Dengan pendekatan tersebut, maka hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan, di antaranya adalah bahwa Lukas menyusun Injilnya serupa dengan Markus, hanya saja terdapat penambahan pemahaman Lukas secara pribadi untuk menekankan nuansa yang berbeda dari tulisannya tersebut. Adapun mengenai istilah Kerajaan Allah dan Kerajaan Sorga, jika Markus dan Lukas konsisten menggunakan frase Kerajaan Allah, sebaliknya Matius menggantinya dengan istilah “Kerajaan Sorga,” meskipun memiliki pengertian yang sama, dengan maksud untuk memberikan pemahaman yang lebih mudah bagi para pembaca asli kitab-kitab tersebut. Di samping itu, ketiga penulis juga menuliskan kedatangan Yesus pada masa yang akan datang sebagai bagian penting dalam pemenuhan janji berkat Kerajaan Allah secara sempurna, sehingga tidak ada keraguan akan masa yang akan datang mengenai kedatangan Kristus kali kedua. "Comparative Luke's Gospel Eschatology with Other Synoptic Gospels," is the subject of an explanatory study of the theological thoughts of Luke as the writer of the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles, especially those which deal with thoughts or teachings about the end-time doctrine (eschatology) which are compared with the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark, as a series of groups from the Synoptic Gospels. The similarity of words, and the order and even the contents / events that are almost the same between the three, as well as the interests of the end-time doctrine, provide uniqueness for each of the Gospels, specifically for the Gospel of Luke itself. Besides intending to express the uniqueness and difference of Luke's Gospel compared to other Synoptic Gospels, this study also intends to provide information or explanations about things that have coherence and relevance to the end-time doctrine referred to in this research subject, including the need to touch writing Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, and a discussion of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven and other things. Therefore, to embody the above purpose, the author carries out a study of several Bible verses and the views of experts in approaching eschatological verses contained in the three Synoptic Gospels. With this approach, the results of this study explain, among them is that Luke composes his Gospel similar to Mark, only there is an addition to Luke's personal understanding to emphasize the different nuances of his writing. As for the terms of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven, if Mark and Luke consistently use the phrase Kingdom of God, instead Matthew replaces it with the term "Kingdom of Heaven," even though it has the same meaning, with the intention to provide an easier understanding for the original readers of the books that. In addition, the three authors also write about the coming of Jesus in the future as an important part of fulfilling the promise of God's perfect blessing, so that there is no doubt about the future about the second coming of Christ.

Presbyterians and Congregationalists in North America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Order ◽  
African Methodist Episcopal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Methodist Episcopal ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
The Church

John Wesley founded Methodism as an evangelical renewal movement within the Church of England. That structure encouraged both establishment impulses and Dissenting movements within Methodism in the North American context. In Canada, British missionaries planted a moderate, respectable form of Methodism, comfortable with the establishment. In Ontario, however, Methodism drew from a more democratized, enthusiastic revivalism that set itself apart from the establishment. After a couple of generations, however, these poorer outsiders had moved into the middle class, and Canadian Methodism grew into the largest denomination, with a sense of duty to nurture the social order. Methodism in the United States, however, embodied a paradox representative of a nation founded in a self-conscious act of Dissent against an existing British system. Methodism came to embrace the American cultural centre while simultaneously generating Dissenting movements. After the American Revolution, ordinary Americans challenged deference, hierarchy, patronage, patriarchy, and religious establishments. Methodism adopted this stance in the religious sphere, growing as an enthusiastic, anti-elitist evangelistic campaign that validated the spiritual experiences of ordinary people. Eventually, Methodists began moving towards middle-class respectability and the cultural establishment, particularly in the largest Methodist denomination, the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). However, democratized impulses of Dissent kept re-emerging to animate new movements and denominations. Republican Methodists and the Methodist Protestant Church formed in the early republic to protest the hierarchical structures of the MEC. African Americans created the African Methodist Episcopal Church and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in response to racism in the MEC. The Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Free Methodists emerged in protest against both slavery and hierarchy. The issue of slavery divided the MEC into northern and southern denominations. The split reflected a battle over which religious vision of slavery would be adopted by the cultural establishment. The denominations remained divided after the Civil War, but neither could gain support among newly freed blacks in the South. Freed from a racialized religious establishment embedded in slavery, former slaves flocked to independent black Methodist and Baptist churches. In the late nineteenth century, Methodism spawned another major evangelical Dissenting movement, the Holiness movement. Although they began with an effort to strengthen Wesleyan practices of sanctification within Methodism, Holiness advocates soon became convinced that most Methodists would not abandon what they viewed as complacency, ostentation, and worldliness. Eventually, Holiness critiques led to conflicts with Methodist officials, and ‘come-outer’ groups forged a score of new Holiness denominations, including the Church of God (Anderson), the Christian Missionary Alliance, and the Church of the Nazarene. Holiness zeal for evangelism and sanctification also spread through the missionary movement, forming networks that would give birth to another powerful, fragmented, democratized movement of world Christianity, Pentecostalism.

Digital Social Media Detox (DSMD)

2014 ◽  
pp. 1619-1635
Author(s):  
Theresa Renee White
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Activities ◽  
At Home

This chapter presents the findings of an empirical, qualitative, one-day intervention, in which 25 college students were invited to leave all digital technology at home and participate in ten hours of face-to-face communication. The project involved alternative activities providing an opportunity for students to socialize and interact without the distraction of digital technology, while affording the investigators an opportunity to observe patterns of social behavior and communication. Those findings are offered to illuminate the potential effects of overuse of digital social media, the pedagogical challenges in a contemporary educational environment, and the social problems we face as a result.

scholarly journals Revisiting justice in the first four Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6) and the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28): A postcolonial reading

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazare S. Rukundwa ◽  
Andries G. Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
Canaanite Woman

Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean redaction. From a this perspective, it can be argued that Matthew presents Jesus as a revolutionary leader whose divine mission was to challenge and overthrow the Roman empire and its local collaborators on behalf of the poor, the powerless, the afflicted, the hungry and the outcasts. His mission was to replace existing power structures with the universal, just and powerful kingdom of heaven on earth. The article argues that the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28) falls into this reality. She negotiates justice and righteousness on behalf of her demon-possessed daughter. Seen from the perspective of Jesus’ Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6), her encounter with Jesus helps him discover the wider scope of his healing mission, beyond geopolitical and cultural boundaries.

scholarly journals Mid-Career Faculty and High Levels of Community Engagement: Intentional Reshaping of Meaningful Careers

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. DeFelippo ◽  
◽  
Dwight E. Giles ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Comprehensive Universities ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Faculty Surveys ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between vital mid-career faculty and rates of participation in community engagement at three public comprehensive universities in New England. Specifically, midcareer faculty successfully taught, rendered service within their setting, and conducted some research, but in interviews they described additional meaning and career fulfillment derived from creating and maintaining niches of community engagement focusing on social problems and change. Data from 102 faculty surveys were analyzed in the form of descriptive statistics, correlations, and t-tests. Data from 30 face-to-face interviews with faculty—all of whom were selected for their high self-vitality ratings as well as gender, rank, and discipline—were coded and assigned themes. There appeared to be a positive correlation between mid-career faculty who chose to participate in community engagement and high levels of vitality that may be influenced and enhanced by the engagement itself.

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