Sentences with phrase «first precepts»

One of the first precepts of permaculture is «prolonged observation» of the land, and this applies as well to green building.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

Not exact matches

First, one may attend a church without necessarily having come even close to following the precepts of the Church, let alone obtaining holiness.

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

The first thing is this: it's pretty hard to deny the precepts of the «in the image of God» apologetic for the sanctity of life, and the Genesis / Ephesians apologetic for the presuppositional category of marriage standing prior to any legal sanction of the thing.

More recently, the Vaughan Parents Action Group (VPAG) argued that «practising Catholic» also involves following the Precepts of the Church, such as bringing one's child for First Communion.

Just as metaphysical first principles are discovered in a mode of enquiry, so the precepts of natural law are those «presupposed in any situation in which learning and enquiry between rational individuals about their individual and common goods can be advanced and by any relationship in which individuals can conduct themselves with rational integrity.»

The first part deals with specifically religious themes — deals with them, in the main, in the reflective manner which constitutes theology and the second part consists mainly of ethical precepts and admonitions.

However, when a child begins questioning illogical, contradicting precepts, the first thing they do is ask the adults in their life whom they have trust in why that is so.

This guidance seems like a first rough draft of the present Catholic practice of excusing ourselves from most disciplinary precepts, including those pertaining to fasting and abstinence.

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My work as the Director of African Centre for Community and Development is founded on precepts and duties to man and community that happen to be the very basis of my organization in the first place.

In 1944, he first used the names of astronomical phenomena, Zen precepts, and Jungian terms, suggesting evocative, often cosmic, allusions.