Sentences with phrase «elaboration of moral principles»

But so long as we are not in this state of perfection we have to live by the rational elaboration of moral principles, and by specific moral and legal rules: «Thou shalt not kill.»

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The Reformers saw that the basis of moral responsibility and decision of the Christian does not lie in the elaboration of principles but in the concrete response of free men to the call of God, which is a call to action and service.