Sentences with phrase «far as justice»

As far as justice for the victims, society failed them rather than a University.

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The president was widely accused of obstruction of justice in the wake of Comey's firing, and some members of Congress went as far to call for his impeachment.

That prompted Lauer to cite the timeline laid out by the Post; that the Justice Department last month raised concerns about Flynn's truthfulness, going as far as to say the general could be blackmailed by Russians.

The airline industry is one that wants to consolidate further but views the likelihood of a Department of Justice approval as low so has largely written off the idea in recent years, the analyst contended.

I just fear very deeply for the safety of men in today's justice system as it looks like it is getting far too easy to exploit or even falsely accuse them of terrible things.

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

New resolutions can act as a rallying cry for further work on racial justice and racial unity, allowing SBC entities, churches and organizations to point to this resolution as a reason for continuing to preach, teach and speak out.

There is, so far as I can see, no reason why Whitehead's philosophy would not be enriched by adding Justice to its cultural aims.

Far too often, Christians talk about self - control as it relates to sex, but remain silent when it comes to self - control as it relates to justice.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

If one is persuaded that Whitehead's account is indeed the most penetrating that now exists, that it does justice to the complexity of the phenomena of science and of history alike, then the fact that it too leads, almost in spite of the author's apparent intention, to a doctrine of God as the source and ground of order is an important further confirmation of the inescapability for speculative reason of some kind of belief in God.

So far as they act like the others — even to forward social justice, equality, etc. — I say that there is no sense and nothing specifically Christian in acting like the others.

Ezekiel's extreme doctrine of individualism, therefore, far from settling the question, started a controversy which Judaism never finished, as is plain in Job's unconquerable doubt of divine justice to individuals, and Ecclesiastes» scornful denial of it.

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

As far as political philosophy was concerned, justice for the Greeks was the proper, harmonious functioning of all humanAs far as political philosophy was concerned, justice for the Greeks was the proper, harmonious functioning of all humanas political philosophy was concerned, justice for the Greeks was the proper, harmonious functioning of all humans.

As a result, U.S. Supreme Court justices are left in many cases to intuit whether a particular practice leans too far toward either extreme to be acceptable.

And as far as social justice....

God, then, in Dr. Cumming's conception, is a being who has no pleasure in the exercise of love and truthfulness and justice, considered as effecting the well - being of His creatures; He has satisfaction in us only in so far as we exhaust our motives and dispositions of all relation to our fellow - beings, and replace sympathy with men by anxiety for the «glory of God.»

Further, as the astute Jeremy Kessler notes, Justice Kennedy's dissent can be seen as a decisive rejection of his image as the Court's careful moderate.

Seeking God's justice should include trying to promote justice in social and civic as well as personal relations, though how far Jesus had this in mind, if he used these words, is open to question.

I would go so far as to suggest that the capacity to celebrate sexuality is linked inextricably with the capacity to court peace, instead of war; justice, instead of oppression; life, instead of hunger, torture, fear, crime, and death.

When considered in light of the substantive moral basis of democratic governance, Roe v. Wade and similar decisions stand out as «undemocratic» in a far more radical sense than the one Justice Scalia has in mind.

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justicAs far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justicas creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

As far as I can tell, she means opinions that contradict fundamentally what the late Harvard professor John Rawls described in A Theory of JusticAs far as I can tell, she means opinions that contradict fundamentally what the late Harvard professor John Rawls described in A Theory of Justicas I can tell, she means opinions that contradict fundamentally what the late Harvard professor John Rawls described in A Theory of Justice.

Further, Paul's paradoxical point is heard more sharply in English if we translate dikaiosyne as «justice.»

A High Court judge is set to oversee a further hearing on Alfie's case on Tuesday afternoon as Mr Justice Hayden is scheduled to hear more discussion at a hearing in Manchester.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

With a certain glee the existentialists turn their back on science, on l`esprit de geometrie, and letting the chips fall where they may as far as the scientific enterprise is concerned, they work to articulate the structures of human being, to do justice to human being.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

Even with the present democratic and Christian emphasis on the dignity of personality and concern for «liberty and justice for all,» we are still far from agreement as to what constitutes for every man «his due.»

The latter, which often poses as justice, is far more often its antithesis.

It has been prepared to say, and to find varying kinds of theological support for saying, what their Christian insight should have compelled it to say in any case: that any human being, anywhere, who has shared in love, sought for truth, created or admired beauty, lived bravely, served goodness, stood for justice, and has thus responded, as far as was possible under the circumstances in which he or she lived, to whatever of divine reality has been made known, must somehow be included in the company of the faithful.

As Jones says, even while the Church must make use of coercion, it does so with far greater caution than the secular state, and always with the aim of surpassing and fulfilling justice as reconciliatioAs Jones says, even while the Church must make use of coercion, it does so with far greater caution than the secular state, and always with the aim of surpassing and fulfilling justice as reconciliatioas reconciliation.

If we lose it, then the human forgiveness becomes either an echo of the divine, and while this would be true so far as it goes it would do less than justice to the dynamic of the teaching of Jesus, or it tends to become a means whereby we earn God's forgiveness, as is happening in Matt.

A naïve theory of the justice of God developed so far as to assert that what a man deserves happens to him; God rewards the good and punishes the wicked.

To many, who go so far as to agree with the observation that religion finds itself in a state of crisis (and there are, indeed, many who will not even admit the justice of such an observation) a new theological movement, which has attracted the attention of the whole Christian world, appears to be the only savior.

They admit its justice and even go so far as to agree with the modern critics of religion.

Justice Alito has gone so far as to note that those arguments, moral and empirical, have been made.

Those who offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression of the life of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit of agape to bring reconciliation among men.

We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.

The difference between the two codes may be summarized as follows: (1) Justice is further tempered in behalf of the offender.

Nonetheless, we may also hold that so far as public policy is concerned in a pluralistic society, justice is best served by a Madisonian approach that thwarts the tyranny of the majority.

But Justice O'Connor's prior abortion opinions did not prevent her from adhering in Stenberg to all that she had previously criticized, and now in a context far more explicit as to the underlying horror of late «term abortion.

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

Yet this drive toward mutual love and justice, so far as it is guided by man's rational estimate of his good, must always stop at the ideal of the mutual fulfilment of all.

If and in so far as socialism... means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty.

The further extension of this to justice as a work of love is considered elsewhere in this volume.

Indeed, Justice Kennedy recently has gone so far as to maintain that the belief that «there is an ethic and a morality which transcend human invention» is itself religious.

By criticizing a premature absolute, such as communism, the Christian intends not to dampen human aspiration, but rather to avoid the petrifaction which hinders further development of love, justice and personal expression.