Sentences with phrase «covenantal rights»

Covenantal Rights is a learned and tightly reasoned argument that should elicit critical responses from Christian and secularist thinkers.

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And I reminded myself that this is part of the work of resurrection, the making things right, the covenantal partnership of shalom, the work Jesus has invited us into alongside of him: these moments of quiet #MeToo far from social media and attention of celebrities, the ones uncelebrated and unacknowledged.

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

But Rabbi David Novak of the University of Toronto, a frequent contributor to these pages, makes a convincing argument that the mutual dependence of rights and duties can best be conceived in terms of covenantal fidelity.

Natural law is the bridge, so to speak, for Jews who want to leave the ghetto without becoming so assimilated that they abandon their religion: «What a natural law perspective does for Jews at this level is to enable them to make rights claims, but without having to adopt the type of all «embracing secularism that is antithetical to the covenantal basis of traditional Jewish life and thought.»

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.