Sentences with phrase «ethical reflection»

While such moral leadership is crucial, especially in acute situations marked by violence, deeper theological and ethical reflection on these issues is just as crucial for the long term.

Never has this task been more crucial than it is today, and few subjects are more in need of ethical reflection.

This, he rightly insists, is the governing criterion for all Christian ethical reflection.

* How can a process of theological and ethical reflection begin or continue to take place in your congregation on an ongoing basis?

The issues and controversies that have dominated recent ethical reflection, however, provide poor fare for pursuing this kind of interest.

The process of informed and critical ethical reflection must be joined to the process of political action.

Second, we believe ethical reflection emerges from pastoral experience.

To some, for example, his specific analyses of moral acts and habits (the «virtues») remain an invaluable resource for contemporary ethical reflection once these are rescued from their place in the neo-Platonic structure of the Summa.

A framework for integrating intellectual rigor, emotional engagement, and ethical reflection into social studies, history, and English language arts (ELA) classrooms

I emphasize that this translation is effected simply in order to facilitate ethical reflection and choice.

(It is because of specific difficulty attached to learning how to use the moral expressions of a language that we find novels more helpful than explicit ethical reflection in teaching us how to live morally.)

Medicine is an important area for Christian ethical reflection because it is one of the areas of our lives that dramatically display how we allocate human values under the conditions of finitude.

In an essay titled «Religio - Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1973), I have sought to establish these aspects of the psychology of black religious thought.

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

In their brilliant ethical reflections, the Greeks always explained failure to do the good in such a way that from our point of view no real responsibility therefor can be attributed to the wrongdoer.

Although from one point of view this exaltation of the taboos into the will of the personal deity was an impediment to rationality, in another respect it created the context in which rationality could enter into genuinely ethical reflection.

That the two Niebuhrs could each interpret the Manchurian situation in 1932 as tragic and yet come to differing conclusions about the proper American response shows that using the concept of tragedy in ethical reflection hardly resolves disagreements, but may simply shift them to a deeper level.

The latter three are illumined by the human sciences, though they play a role in ethical reflection as well.

But McCall Smith is writing a series in which ethical reflection is put in the foreground, becoming part of the action, so to speak.

The aim is to stimulate ethical reflection on normative aspects of relevant developments in the clinic and the lab, in order to contribute to adequate guidance, both in the clinic and at the level of society.

The center seeks to promote serious ethical reflection and discourse in pursuit of a just society and health care that affirms the dignity and social nature of all persons.

We need ethical reflection on the situations.

Germany has a long history of ethical reflection on euthanasia.

«The Method and Direction of Christian Ethical Reflection» in Ban galore Theological Forum, Vol.

(For a more developed account of self - deception see «Self - Deception and Autobiography: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich,» by David Burrell and myself; Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol.

We hope to show that the church is much more than an abstraction for Christian theological and ethical reflection: it is the source and purpose of that reflection.

«An Ethical Reflection on the Political Process in a Multi-religious Context» in Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context; ed.

For many years Stanley Hauerwas has been attempting to return the church to the center of Christian theological and ethical reflection.

On the other hand, he was concerned that hard research should be subjected to rigorous theological and ethical reflection.

This phenomenon, along with the development of weapons and technologies capable of inflicting omnicide, buttressed by the monism of modernist liberalism, is the context for contemporary Christian ethical reflection.

Ethical reflection is dependent upon a range of ordinary and specific examples.

He is the author of Tragedy as a Critique of Virtue: The Novel and Ethical Reflection (Scholars Press 1984).

Furthermore, the proposals of deep ecologists illustrate the far too direct move from a new sensibility to policy recommendations that results from the depreciation of ethical reflection.

They alert us to constraints upon congregational practices, and they help us identify certain nonmoral goods relevant to theological and ethical reflection.