Sentences with phrase «ethic of love»

The appropriate answer is a sexual ethics of love.

Theologians refer to the Christian ethic of love of God and neighbor as a law of love that signifies the sacrificial quality required of those who, in the name of Jesus Christ, seek the good of their neighbors.

But the idea of two distinct and interrelated levels of morality, the ultimate ethic of love and the relative ethic of law, are clearly laid down in the Christian system of ethics.

The New Testament ethic of love has its foundation in the Old Testament.

These, the authors proposed, are marks of a gospel ethic of love (Anthony Kosnick et al., Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought [Paulist / Newman, 1977]-RRB-.

Likewise in the Greco - Roman world the pure ethic of love faced a desperate trial, and the marvel is not that the New Testament contains contradictions and qualifications of it, but that such elevated and triumphant faith in it was voiced at all and has remained to chasten and guide the conscience of the world.

The Society of Friends offered a congenial environment for both women's equality and nonviolence through a common understanding of a radical Christian ethic of love.

But the idea of two distinct and inter-related levels of morality, the ultimate ethic of Love and the relative ethic of Law, are clearly laid down in the Christian system of ethics.

[His] close friendships with women... lived in an intimacy that was not sexual but was quite real,... helped Karol Wojtyła / JP II give a fresh new articulation to the ethics of love and responsibility (to borrow 1 of his book's titles).

The ethics of love I revere as the inspiration for so many (Catholics and others) who have led exemplary moral lives....

We have to consider as part of the explanation the situation in which the ethic of love had to be appropriated.

The ethic of love did not create a wholly new pattern for human living.

But if Catholicism is nothing more than one manifestation of an «ethics of love,» then there is no non-arbitrary reason to be Catholic (rather than, say, a secular humanist).

The ethic of love is not formless.

As to the theistic metaphysics, I'm agnostic about it taken literally, but see it as a superb intellectual construction that provides a fruitful context for understanding how our religious and moral experiences are tied to the ethics of love.

A colleague of mine, Gary Gutting, published an article in the New York Times this past Easter arguing that the core of the Catholic faith is a commitment to an ethics of love, and that the historical teachings of the faith are best taken as useful parables.

In Canada, evangelical pastors have been assessed heavy monetary fines for preaching the Gospel truth about the ethics of love and marriage.

The ethic of love presupposes that in some measure what ought to be can come to be.

We have already pointed out that the existence of the power factor does not make the ethic of love irrelevant.

Can there be any answer of an ethic of love to this situation other than to press for the total renunciation, unilaterally if necessary, of the use of such weapons?

This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

The range of those positions is as broad as the distance between the Confucian ethic of propriety and the Christian ethic of love.

And it means that faithful Catholics who believe in colorblind equality before the law, the dignity and value of every human life at all stages and in all conditions, marriage rightly understood, and an ethic of love that recognizes the truths built into us by the Creator and confirmed by reason will be considered... well, deplorable.

On its negative side such an ethics of love mandates against selfish sexual expression, cruelty, impersonal sex, obsession with sex, and against actions done without willingness to take responsibility for their consequences.

«Just Love» surveys sexual ethics from various philosophical, historical, religious and anthropological perspectives before turning to its central topic: the ethics of love and sex.

It has been suggested that his personal philosophy was probably a combination of Stoicism and the virtue of benevolence which Francis Hutcheson, his predecessor at the University of Glasgow, had demonstrated to be a philosophic version of the Christian ethic of love.