Sentences with word «casuistry»

Although acknowledging its seamier side, Willimon discourses on its positive aspects: as «the moral casuistry of ordinary people» and as «a primary means of congregational bonding.»

Gossip, as a church activity without malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral data about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it means to be baptized.

Elisha does not plunge into casuistry, differentiating what would be legitimate for him from what would not.

This bred among them also an elaborate casuistry as they attempted to derive intelligible and practical guidance from rules that reflected an archaic, mythical mentality.

It is painful to watch otherwise intelligent people contort themselves, with such weak - minded casuistry, beyond all limits of reason to reconcile that which they know with that which they want to believe.

Casuistry aside, I find it very hard to understand how some Christians, perhaps most, fail to see the fundamental threat same - sex marriage poses to the biblical view of marriage.

This requires an impossible casuistry.

This duty can not be replaced by ever more subtle casuistry intended to regulate everything to the minutest detail.

This is casuistry at it's finest.

Of course, if such principles are to influence human life they need a certain casuistry which we can not develop here, but which is necessary and which both priests and laity must be able to apply.

The just war paradigm for decision, like much of the rest of ethical casuistry, assumes a punctual conception of legal - moral decision.

It defines the holy law, mediating principles and the application of these principles, and may include casuistry.

Simultaneously, casuistry adapted the universal norms to particular circumstances and difficult cases in such a way that principles were preserved and equity guaranteed.

For most priests, «moral theology» continued to mean probabilistic casuistry, with the very big difference that, after the Council, there was no limit to the number of «approved authors» offering probable opinions.

Let the law not reduce itself to letter - perfect casuistry that denies its own servanthood to humanity.

In ruling out formal cooperation and placing limits on material cooperation, the Pope is following traditional casuistry.

Then in a final frenzy of casuistry yelp that something must be done about «this shameful cycle.»

NYT editorial and quasi-legal casuistry is, to put it mildly, unconvincing.

Just before Vatican II there was a tremendous reaction away from legalism and casuistry which, it seems, some theologians even wanted the Council to condemn formally.

Gossip can be the moral casuistry of everyday life.

Their elaborate casuistry was the very opposite of Jesus» direct penetration to the basic spirit and principle of the law.

Predetermined principles would lead to casuistry, and besides, «the variety of situations and human circumstances is too vast» to be covered by them.

The participants represented a variety of educational and intellectual backgrounds, yet were able to avoid the ideological labeling (e.g., «sectarianism» vs. «Constantinianism,» «virtue ethics» vs. «casuistry») that often plagues older ethicists.

Hence, the solution is not to adopt a pseudo-truth about marriage or a falsely pastoral approach permeated with the casuistry of the Pharisees.

As John Paul II taught, Christ avoids the Pharisees» trap and does not fall into their casuistry, which ends up opposing God's law in the name of pastoral love and mercy for the human person.6 Instead, Jesus appeals to the truth about marriage revealed by God «from the beginning» and brought to fulfilment in the New Law.

Since manualist moralists sought to uphold universal norms even while exercising casuistry for difficult cases, it became fashionable to denounce casuistry and leave individual choices to the individual's informed conscience.

If one is thinking about the negative element only — that is, about the silence of Jesus concerning particular questions of political organization and strategy or of moral casuistry — his belief in the early end of history may well be urged as the explanation.

Likewise, Jesus did not concern himself with questions of casuistry or of political strategy because such questions would so soon be utterly irrelevant.

Jesus had no time for dividing inheritances between brothers; he quickly disposes of a question about the propriety of paying taxes to Caesar; he has no interest in moral casuistry.

In this conservative mood the oldline churches resurrect issues and alienations they thought they had put behind them: issues of creedal subscription, of science and evolution, biblical inerrancy, and moral casuistry.

As Hans Jonas, scholar of Gnosticism, points out, such a morality is a liberating release from the burdens of charity, prudence, and casuistry that always complicate moral choosing for the non-elite.

(Calvin himself adopted this casuistry.)

And yet — tellingly — both doubted that the democratic West was in any sense immune to the sort of casuistry, poisonous political thought, and systematic intellectual deceit that had destroyed Europe.