After a nod in the direction of a moderate amount of ceremony and of the need for an architecture that witnesses to the presence of the Divine, Niebuhr continues: «Without an adequate sermon no clue is given to the moral purpose at the heart of the mystery, and reverence remains
without ethical content (p. 55)
When it is possible to place a school or a system on a shared and pronounced ethical structure, religious or otherwise, then it is possible to place the educational process and product firmly within such a structure, and thereby, provide direction and
substantive ethical content.
«We designers use to anesthetize ourselves with aesthetics
without ethical content and forget that our goal is to solve people's problems.
For that reason, organizations should give as much thought to
the ethical content of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.
Lutheran identity counts, and that identity for most Lutherans still includes clear doctrinal and
ethical content.
The ethical content of the moral code of a people varies widely from civilization to civilization, from society to society.
The ethical content of evangelism appeared in all seven stages.
The ethical content of «faith working through love» must thus have been considerably influenced.
However rationalized and sublimated they were in later usage, circumcision, laws of clean and unclean foods, various types of human and animal sacrifice, and all manner of prohibitory taboos, had in their primitive background the belief that disaster could be avoided only through Yahweh's favor, and that Yahweh's favor depended on a multitude of actions which had
no ethical content whatever.
To make Jesus» conception of the Kingdom solely into a better society on earth is to lose its great overtones and foreshorten its vista; to deprive it of
ethical content is to emasculate it into something Jesus himself would never have recognized.
If the deity is mentioned it is only by the general name for God («Elohim,» as in verses 8 and 9); any theological or
ethical content is extremely weak.
In this article David Miliband has nothing to say about families, charities, social entrepreneurs and religious institutions, other than citing Tony Blair's notion of «interdependence», which, unlike David Cameron's idea of «social responsibility», is devoid of
ethical content.
The single textbook filed in the record may cause some confusion in terms of the way it presents the connection between the program's religious content and
its ethical content.
The second exam measures not only
the ethical content of the practitioner but everything a management professional needs to know to manage a collection of investments in their portfolio.