Sentences with phrase «christian moral judgment»

If he follows the latter course, he will sacrifice an established Christian meaning and morality, abandoning all those moral laws which the Christian Church has sanctioned, and perhaps even negating the possibility of an explicitly Christian moral judgment.

Christian moral judgment should be informed, H. Richard Niebuhr suggested, by three closely related but contrasting metaphors of God's reign.

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The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

(The unanimous moral judgment of a body of Christian theologians on most of these matters is stated in the report on «Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith» issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.)

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

This letter brought a Christian judgment to bear on the greatest moral threats to our national life and on our favorite self - deceptions.

We need an interpretation of the Christian faith which can guide moral effort and sustain the exercise of social intelligence while it strengthens our hold upon the reality of God's judgment and His mercy.

Its vastness, its diversity, on the whole, its lack of discriminating judgment as to what may be called sacred — so that it includes both the highly moral and the base — make it a literature difficult for peoples of Hebrew - Christian backgrounds to appreciate fully.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

Christians» moral judgments are informed by the teaching of the Bible and especially the New Testament, although decisions should not be made by merely quoting a text.

In other quarters it is the specifically ethical aspect which commands almost exclusive attention — conduct, moral judgments, philanthropy, the Christian social order, and the like, The advocates of the respective views are often severe with one another.

To Niebuhr, however, it was necessary for Christians to «take our moral responsibilities in this world seriously and [that requires] hazardous political judgments» (February II, 1959).

Indeed, the Christian who bets that God is dead must recognize that he himself has not yet passed through the death of God at whatever point he clings to moral law and judgment.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

Although the moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long been permeated by Christian teaching, there is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

Scripture interrogates Christians» lives; they are «formed in the kinds of moral judgment necessary for them to live faithfully as friends of God.»