The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and
Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.
Not exact matches
The
ethical framework for biological science must be based on the same
principles of truth and meaning by which we as
Christians judge all things, material and spiritual.
And it is of special interest for
Christians that these
principles of right and wrong at which one arrives include the Golden Rule (which is stated by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew, as well as in most other major world religions) and the middle
ethical requirements of the Ten Commandments (thou shalt not kill, lie, steal, cheat, etc.).
These members were then instructed in the
ethical principles and obligations of the
Christian life.
Despite its demonization as a right wing
Christian rejection of modern science if not modernity as a whole, the language of Bush's order manages to acknowledge the serious and profound
ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research and to clearly articulate both the scientific and moral
principles that ground its decisions.
But
Christians have also tried to guard against the identification of the
Christian life with the
ethical life as that can be defined by rational
ethical principles.
A former National Lateral Hire Recruiter of the Year for 2003 for another national legal executive search firm, Mr. Milby formed Milby & Oliver with the deep conviction that a lateral hire executive search firm can in fact operate very successfully while at the same time adhering to the highest moral,
ethical, and Judeo -
Christian principles.