Sentences with phrase «ethical terms»

The problem, therefore, was not to justify the gods ethically; they were not conceived in ethical terms so as to make that need apparent.
When the question was put in expressly ethical terms, however, a similarly slight majority expressed opposition to embryo research.
In direct ethical terms God created the earth, and in distributive - justice terms it belongs to him: «The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof» (Ps.
Berrigan understands his Christian faith in strictly ethical terms (though Christianity is not really a religion of ethics).
Reinhold Niebuhr was not centrally interested in exact definitions of ethical terms.
From the very beginning of his theological career, Bonhoeffer interpreted transcendence in socio - ethical terms.
In ethical terms, God saw that the world was «very good» (Gen. 1:31).
In no other source, Jewish or non-Jewish, do we find religion interpreted so exclusively and so richly in ethical terms.
We are so conditioned to think of value in moral or ethical terms that we may be bewildered by any attempt to express ultimate value in terms of criteria of beauty.6
And I shall propose that the caring aspect of the cosmic process can be better expressed in aesthetic than in ethical terms.
It is partly because Christians have portrayed Jesus too dominantly in ethical terms that they leave themselves open to the suspicion of modern critics of religion.
As Matthew points out, in the vast majority of cases, the word «abomination» (typically the Hebrew, toevah, which is used in Leviticus 18 and 20) refers to what the Israelites associated with the idolatrous practices of the Gentiles, leading Old Testament scholar Phyllis Bird to conclude that «it is not an ethical term, but a term for boundary making,» with «a basic sense of taboo.»
Like other religious opponents of same - sex marriage, he goes on to argue that civil partnership is «in every respect in ethical terms an honourable contract of a committed relationship».
When a conflict arises between authors, the aggrieved often cast it in ethical terms.
«Conflicts of interest» may still be questioned in ethical terms — but it's easily countered that, for some, it's mere survival.
Because fairness is an ethical term, not a scientific one, there are all sorts of ways to define it.
In ethical terms we see another example of a climate scientist who holds a strong ethical commitment to the policy dimension of climate change and its associated end of shaping public opinion and behaviour, appearing to prioritise the pursuit of those ends above the narrower moral codes of scientific discovery.
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