Sentences with phrase «ethical exhortations»

Followers are not indifferent to Jackson's failings or ignorant of the crevasse between his ethical exhortations and his own deeds, but they are able to locate him in a religious tradition that has long taught that God can and does act through the most imperfect of servants.

The themes is sounded again and again in books, articles, Bible studies, meditations and ethical exhortations.

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[4] Furnish showed that Paul was a critical and selective user of contemporary material, that his exhortations are significantly different from classical paraenesis, and that his specific ethical teaching is inseparably linked to his theological teaching.

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

My hunch is that that account of the prosecutor's role, if coupled with consideration of unique prosecutorial challenges such as the absence of clients, provides a better and richer ethical account of the lawyer's role than does an empty exhortation to do justice.