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.