Sentences with phrase «christian moral tradition»

Naples, FL About Blog The American Orthodox Institute is a research and educational organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian moral tradition.

The locus of the controversy is the contrast between those who adhere to the western Christian moral tradition and those committed to the «sexual revolution» wishing to further the revolution using school children as a captive audience.

While the extent to which homosexuality is a genetic trait is often overstated, nothing in the Christian moral tradition hinges on this question.

More likely, the resurgence is simply giving public expression to what has been there all along in an overwhelmingly Christian nation rooted, albeit sometimes tenuously, in the Judeo - Christian moral tradition.

But no one reasons in a vacuum, and part of the goal of a moral tradition» certainly a goal of the Christian moral tradition» is to order and elucidate people's experiences towards understanding and flourishing.

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

The organization describes itself as «D.C.'s premier institute dedicated to applying the Judeo - Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.»

Not exact matches

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

Here Garff is following Freud, of course, whereas Kierkegaard and his father belonged to the classic Christian tradition of moral reflection.

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.

@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etMORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etmoral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

Hmmm, I believe the Catholic Church may not be the only Christian tradition where there is confusion between dogmatic theology, moral theology and pastoral theology.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

The same slave owners evangelized the slaves into Christian moral codes and dogmas that insisted slaves renounce their native spiritual traditions.

I wrote the book out of love for and loyalty to the Christian tradition in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular, and out of a desire to support the church's moral authority.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

Drawing upon the Western, Judeo - Christian tradition, the authors remind us that work not only defines who we are, but that it is a moral imperative as well.

The country wasn't founded as a Christian nation, it was founded by Christian's with a strong tradition of using Christian morals and ethics as the basis of government.

As a working hypothesis, «infallibility» is kept in order to affirm with the Christian tradition that the Bible as «Godbreathed» has full doctrinal and moral teaching authority.29»

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.

In Christian Scripture and tradition, then, we find an ethic of care for strangers that renders precarious the protection of daughters; an ethic of chastity — laden with innuendos of pleasure, lust and pride — that renders precarious the moral standing and human rights of women; and an ethic of Christian duty that renders precarious the basic safety of wives.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moTradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian motradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

I have always been drawn to Alasdair MacIntyre's prediction that we need «a new, doubtless very different Saint Benedict» that enables the great Christian tradition to be passed on, preserving the seeds for a new civilization to emerge after the moral poverty of today's liberalism leads us into dark, chaotic valleys.

To say that nothing whatever has come out of that discussion is to make nonsense out of all the great moral traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, humanistic, or democratic, as well as Christian.

The moral tradition that shaped the West is an amalgam of classical and Christian sources.

Worship, we have seen, is an indestructible element in human experience; and in the Christian tradition it is inextricably associated with the faith and the moral life of the believers in the community that responds to the action of the living God in Christ.

From the fact that Christians took a long time to come to favor religious freedom, it does not follow that a moral obligation to respect such freedom can not be extracted from the sources of revelation, i.e. Scripture and Tradition.

If Pope Francis is right that contextualizing our moral discourse is a necessary prerequisite to being found convincing — or even intelligible — by our interlocutors, then abandoning heteronormativity and resurrecting our own tradition of familial - teleological chastity is the only way to adequately explain Christian sexual ethics.

The swift undercurrent of moral decay continues to take most Christians by surprise while our pragmatic approach to morality rooted in tradition and....

When faculty realized that this course would include the Judeo - Christian tradition as a source of religious and moral values along with other perspectives, many grew suspicious.

So in this attempt to explicate Christian ethics love is related to a particular tradition of moral norms understood as both revelation and natural law in a particular communal context.

In the Christian tradition, the Holy Spirit descended explicitly to crown our lives with tongues of flame, and to play the role of moral guide (what Socrates called his daimon) for both Christians and their Church.

Contrastingly, Peter Bristow's analysis of postconciliar moral thought in Christian Ethics and the Human Person exemplifies the theologian's responsibility to gain «an ever deeper understanding of the Word of God... handed on faithfully by the Church's living Tradition under the guidance of the Magisterium» (CDF 1990, no. 21).

«I am in fear and trepidation in her run for mayor, she will put the jackboot to Christians in the city and stomp on our necks for us to cry uncle and to shutdown millennial old moral underpinnings and traditions,» he added.

ACARA is reviewing the report on the Australian national curriculum finalised last year that recommends a greater focus on moral and spiritual beliefs, especially Australia's Judeo - Christian heritage and traditions.