Sentences with phrase «deeper moral traditions»

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

Not exact matches

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

In hopes of a deeper understanding of God, we study such subjects as Jesus Christ and Israel, scripture in tradition, the history of practices of interpretation of scripture and practices of response to God in worship, moral responsibility and institution building.

I will return to these themes below, but for now my point is a simple one: Catholic moral theology needs to reestablish a connection with the broader and deeper just war tradition, and especially with the form given that tradition in the classic period of its development.

He fails to take into account the ongoing «legitimation crisis» of the dominant American tradition within the African - American community — a crisis that has spawned a deep resentment and contempt which undermines constructive moral choice.

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).