This inspiration occurs not through individuals but through the whole church, through whose total life and particular decisions dogma are formulated. (religion-online.org)
A rectilinear form can have a variety of proportions; it represents a series of particular decisions and consequently it is more specific visually and more personal (both in terms of our involvement and our sense of Judd's involvement). (lissongallery.com)
Ethicists as different as Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert Meilaender and James McClendon (as well as philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre) propose that ethics is not primarily a matter of making particular decisions in isolation — what Hauerwas calls «quandary ethics.» (religion-online.org)