This article analyzes how the metaphorical identification of a human community with a living, functional organism is a key factor in transmitting the mode of operation into its unity and harmony. The metaphors of the “family” and “body,” some of which identified the primary church, helped to strengthen the internal and external perception of the church as a well-woven body and ensured its historical survival.

This paper presents a case of culture-led urban regeneration involving the Hats Factory in Timi?oara. Created at the end of the XIX century, the factory was nationalized by the Communists 1948 and managed to survive during those times, only to face the harsh post socialist transition of Romania to the market economy. Facing obscure economic interests, once a successful factory, with buildings belonging to the historical heritage of Timisoara, was turned into a ruin. It managed to come to life again following a project of culture-led urban regeneration, who mixed well different goals: saving industrial heritage, promoting social economy and community building. This example is inspiring for other projects to be produced in Timisoara, in preparation for the European Capital of Culture title, in 2021.

The concept of the aesthetic: I. Kant dived the kind of aesthetic response in response to beautiful and sublime. Kant thought that for aesthetic judgments to be both subjective and universal, they had to be about from. Beauty should be a question of only the. Thus a work of art, or a beautiful natural object, displays a kind of free play of forms, consistent with the presence of a purpose to which we do not have access.

The increased interaction of technological processes with production processes, with those of economic, political, social and cultural nature, along with the value ones, configures a deeper and more complex integration of social life, in which all the changes occurring in one of the processes mentioned above are felt rapidly. The socialization of nature, found in its defense according to ecological projects and a sustainable social development for present and future generations, the internationalization of social life, starting from economy to ecology and various cultural models, globalization as a final expression of it, impose and push the specialists in these areas to professional collaborations and interdisciplinary alliances.

This paper presents a case of culture-led urban regeneration involving the Hats Factory in Timi?oara. Created at the end of the XIX century, the factory was nationalized by the Communists 1948 and managed to survive during those times, only to face the harsh post-socialist transition of Romania to the market economy. Facing obscure economic interests, once a successful factory, with buildings belonging to the historical heritage of Timisoara, was turned into a ruin. It managed to come to life again following a project of culture-led urban regeneration, who mixed well different goals: saving industrial heritage, promoting social economy and community building. This example is inspiring for other projects to be produced in Timisoara, in preparation for the European Capital of Culture title, in 2021.

Family represents a superior form of comunity.- mainly the husband`s, the wife`s and children`s – which is based on social and biological relationships, having the supreme purpose to prepare the future generation healthy and thoroughly educated in order to participate in developing the society. The family, as a closed group has a special social-psychological structure of interpersonal relationships. In its study, first are the functional connexions between individuals who have specific roles, meaning that they follow certain norms and behaviors of the culture they belong to. The center of the family relationships, as in any other social group is the joint activity towards solving the family`s problems.

Recently there have been cases of challenging encounters of enthusiastic Christians with government authorities which severed evangelistic and open discourse about Christian values in Western Europe and North America. After failing with her function as priest and king, the church has the opportunity as well as the responsibility to be the voice of God in a tumultuous contemporary market. Following the profile of a biblical prophet, the church is called to be a prophet as God still wants to talk to his world; also as the community and the sign of the kingdom of God, the church is a herald and a prophet in the contemporary market. Although for various reasons the church has not been very active in fulfilling this role, it can be prophetic by proclaiming the word from God and being a transformed community.

Public opprobrium is a relatively little-discussed factor in the social sphere and in the sphere of law, due to its relativity, the concept of shame and social contempt being variable from one society to another. One of the conclusions reached has been that „the positive evolution and prosperity of society depend on how the legal system is harmonizing with the moral system” (Hotca 2017). In this approach to the application of the law in society, besides specialized and institutionalized means, the social reaction to deviant behaviors in relation to the most important social values, a reaction described by the concept of public opprobrium or moral opprobrium, plays an important role. In this article, we will argue for the importance and utility of public opprobrium in relation to legal norms and social values.