Sentences with phrase «elaborate casuistry»

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.

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

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This is shown by its treatises on casuistry, its many Quaestiones disputatae and the principles it has elaborated for the indirect solution of cases of conscience by Probabilism etc..