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Exploring the hospitality of God, and its implications for human
thought and action, this book examines the concepts of hospitality
as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God, divine
action, and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined
as an interactive symbol, changing perspectives and encouraging
stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human
rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of
our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an
emergency measure, a response to evils as they are happening. The
authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to
bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions
and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and
yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It
will respect tradition but also openness to reform and
re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a
fluid stream of committed hospitalities.
Exploring the hospitality of God, and its implications for human
thought and action, this book examines the concepts of hospitality
as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God, divine
action, and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined
as an interactive symbol, changing perspectives and encouraging
stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human
rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of
our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an
emergency measure, a response to evils as they are happening. The
authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to
bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions
and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and
yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It
will respect tradition but also openness to reform and
re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a
fluid stream of committed hospitalities.
Excerpt: ...co-operation and support the party boss is indebted for
his continuance in power. 157 To accomplish these ends it is
necessary Pg 217 to give the party an internal organization adapted
to its real, though not avowed, purpose. The people must not be
allowed to use the party as a means of giving clear and definite
expression to public opinion concerning the questions wherein the
interests of the general public are opposed to the various private
interests which support the party machine. For a strong popular
sentiment well organized and unequivocally expressed could not be
lightly disregarded, even though without constitutional authority
to enforce its decrees. To ensure successful minority rule that
minority must control those agencies to which the people in all
free countries are accustomed to look for an authoritative
expression of the public will. The party machine can not serve the
purpose of those interests which give it financial support and at
the same time allow the people to nominate its candidates and
formulate its political creed. Nevertheless, the semblance of
popular control must be preserved. The outward appearance of the
party organization, the external forms which catch the popular eye,
must not reveal too clearly the secret methods and cunningly
devised arrangements by which an effective minority control is
maintained over the nomination of candidates and the framing of
party platforms. The test of fitness for office is not fidelity to
the rank and file of the Pg 218 people who vote the party ticket,
but subserviency to those interests which dominate the party
machine. The choice of candidates is largely made in the secret
councils of the ruling minority and the party conventions under
color of making a popular choice of candidates merely ratify the
minority choice already made. Popular elections under such a system
do not necessarily mean that the people have any real power of
selecting public officials. They merely have the...
For well over a century the Catholic Church has articulated clear
positions on many issues of public concern, particularly economics,
capital punishment, foreign affairs, sexual mortality, and
abortion. Yet the fact that some of the Church's positions do not
mesh well with the platforms of either of the two major political
parties in the United States may make it difficult for Americans to
look to Catholic doctrine for political guidance. Scholars of
religion and politics have long recognized the potential for clergy
to play an important role in shaping the voting decisions and
political attitudes of their congregations, yet these assumptions
of political influence have gone largely untested and
undemonstrated. Politics in the Parish is the first empirical
examination of the role Catholic clergy play in shaping the
political views of their congregations. Gregory Allen Smith draws
from recent scholarship on political communication, and the
comprehensive Notre Dame Study on Parish Life, as well as case
studies he conducted in nine parishes in the mid-Atlantic region,
to investigate the extent to which and the circumstances under
which Catholic priests are influential in shaping the politics of
their parishioners. Smith is able to verify that clergy do exercise
political influence, but he makes clear that such influence is
likely to be nuanced, limited in magnitude, and exercised
indirectly by shaping parishioner religious attitudes that in turn
affect political behavior. He shows that the messages that priests
deliver vary widely, even radically, from parish to parish and
priest to priest. Consequently, he warns that scholars should
exercise caution when making any global assumptionsabout the
political influence that Catholic clergy affect upon their
congregations.
This listing of several thousand nonbelievers include ancients such
as Euripides; French revolutionaries; and statements by or about
countless individuals including Sir Arthur C.Clarke, Hugh Hefner,
Jack Nicholson, Sally Jesse Raphael. This book makes a case not
only for the respectabilty of nonbelievers but also for their
positive outlooks and creativity.
Did you know there was a plane crash on the TCU campus? Or that TCU
once had an airport? Were you aware that TCU began integrating
during World War II? Discover these and other interesting tidbits
in Images and Stories of TCU’s First 100 Years, 1873–1973,
which offers a visual and anecdotal history of TCU’s evolution.
Images and Stories examines the university’s evolution as it
moved from location to location, uncovering stories about TCU’s
students and faculty and following the growth and expansion,
changes and challenges, and struggles and successes that led to the
TCU Centennial 1973. Some of the images and stories are well known,
but many will come as a surprise. Enjoy the ride!
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