Sentences with phrase «idea of justice in»

In an earlier column I noted that we use the idea of justice in two different ways.

Not exact matches

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.

As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

His greatest gift, so it was said, was his espousal of the idea of a «living Constitution,» whereby (in his words) Justices would adapt the Constitution «to cope with current problems and current needs.»

In this statement, the prologue to the Gospel of John, Gadamer discovered «an idea that is not Greek and does more justice [than Greek ideas] to the being of language.»

Although the argument is a mere two sentences, it aptly summarizes why many Christians are no help in the pursuit of racial justice, and it is loaded with a myriad of bad ideas — an impressive accomplishment for 11 words.

Again, no one is claiming that Thomas's position is identical with Scalia's, but, given what the great Catholic theologian had to say about the limits of judicial authority in reference to the written law, his position is far closer to that of the late justice than to the idea of a «living» or «evolving» Constitution so ubiquitous today.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

I have needed men and women to walk with me as I move on this made - up idea of the justice alphabet, they are the ones who have created bridges for me to cross, space for me to grow in real and meaningful ways.

After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

His argument seems to hinge on the idea that capital punishment is so extreme and so different from all other punishments that it necessarily falls in the category of «high justice»» an attempt to «balance the cosmic books»» an authority which the state can not rightly wield.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

But modern ideas of justice to the individual were not in the background of the Old Testament's thought, and nowhere in the Bible does «atonement» mean what modern theologies, presupposing modern legal systems, have made it mean.

This country was built on the ideas of freedom and justice and we should never abandon our principles in the name of fear or hate.

Taking the Darwinian revolution into the law, Holmes rejected the antebellum idea of natural justice in favor of a supposedly scientific legal positivism that identified law only with power.

In fact, I'll give Beck the benefit of the doubt and assume he has no idea what «social justice» means and is simply ignorant of the fact that it's been a part of the Church's identity for over 2,000 years.

The hijacking that's taken place means I absolutely have to identify with dems in order for my idea of social justice to stand a fighting chance.

The truth is that, as, for instance, in Rawls» A Theory of Justice, contract thinking engages ideas of promise and obligation that take on at least the appearance of being covenantal.

The biblical concept of holiness is equivalent to the idea of being whole, and so should our understanding of ways we can participate in God's work of justice, both in our local communities and in the global community.

Or, in the case of John Rawls, they are behind a pre-social «veil of ignorance» making deals with one another according to their calculated self - interest and thus bringing «society,» with its key idea of justice, into being.

Insofar as a Christian theology, with its inherent theodicy, can do justice to the more neutral facts in a more coherently adequate way than theologies (including a / theologies) starting from a different vision of reality, the idea of the perfectly good, loving nature of God is warranted.

William Austin has developed Bohr's proposal mentioned earlier that the idea of complementarity may be applied to divine love and divine justice in biblical thought.

Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist — in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless — I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality — namely my idea of justice — was full of sense.

Christena Cleveland offers some really helpful ideas for both action and healing in her post «Wellness in the Age of Trump and Terror,» as well as some excellent reading suggests in «15 Books for Fighting for Justice in the Trump Era.»

Similarly the idea of fairness or justice plays no role in economic theory.

Many of these ideas were episcopally appropriated in the documents of the conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín in 1968, three years before Gutiérrez's landmark book appeared — especially those on «Justice» and «Peace,» in the composition of which Gutiérrez played a part as one of the official periti at the conference.

In the Gospel of John we have the most forthright and vivid use of the term, for its author, who was probably a Gentile Christian familiar with the Greek idea of the Logos, (The word Logos which holds a central place in Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaninIn the Gospel of John we have the most forthright and vivid use of the term, for its author, who was probably a Gentile Christian familiar with the Greek idea of the Logos, (The word Logos which holds a central place in Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaninin Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaning.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

I want to contend that feminist theology both requires and contributes a process of education that is a training in justice, dialogue and imagination, even as it is an implantation of ideas from the past.

That's a far cry from religious dictates that often present a god whose idea of justice is eternal torture for those who aren't in the club..

But of course this faith in providence is assailed by quite another question, with which the idea of law could adequately deal in its own way — the question of suffering, of the justice of God, of His righteousness in the ordering of the world.

Likewise the idea of the grace of God is not radically conceived; for God's grace appears here as a kindly overlooking of sins, standing in opposition to His justice, as it were overcoming His justice.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

We have seen that Jesus does not use the idea of reward in connection with divine justice.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.&raquIn the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.&raquin their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.&raquIn the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

Emboldened by the pope's overt approval of his regime, made manifest in their meeting in Rome this past spring, the octogenarian dictator boasted: «We have founded an equitable society with social justice and extensive access to culture, attached to traditions and to the most advanced ideas of Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.»

In order to do justice to the idea of a divine Torah, it does not even suffice to say that the Hebrew Torah has a greater extension than what we call a moral commandment and that it is applied to the whole legislative system that the Old Testament tradition connected with Moses.

«The idea that a child might be punished because he does not live with his two biologic parents is antithetical to notions of Christian charity and Catholic social justice,» said Patrick Whelan, president of Catholic Democrats, in a statement Friday.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

The distinctiveness of black theology is the bringing together of Martin and Malcolm in creative tension — their ideas about Christianity and justice and blackness and self.

It should in fairness be said, however, that the reason for this contrast does not lie in the superiority of the modern mind but rather in the long - accumulated presuppositions with which we start and the area of human relationships within which our ideas of justice move.

For how else are we to carry a certain idea of justice or goodness to extremes if not by conforming our judgment of eminence to the testimony given outside of us in history by the words, the deeds, and the lives of certain exceptional people who are not necessarily famous, but who testify by their excellence to that very way of eminence that reflection attempts to reproduce in itself and for itself?

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave voice to the «modern» project in law: It would be a gain, he said, «if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted which should convey legal ideas uncolored by anything outside the law.»

In the process, it has relentlessly assaulted and nearly subverted the democratic ethos — the idea of universal standards, of equal opportunity, and of competitive justice.

The concept of the common good is at the center of its definition, and the idea of a social body, of a social universal, really existing by itself, contrary to all nominalist or individualist theory, is implicit in the descriptions which the popes give of social justice.

The mode of causal efficacy does justice to the consideration that Kant only half - acknowledged in the idea of noumena: there must be «external influences» that condition «inner» imaginative processes.

Believers are emotional weaklings, unequipped to deal with the reality of the mortal world we exist in, so they bury their heads in a fallacy world where there exists order and «justice», but such things are the trivial vices of petty man who would lose their minds if they were ever made to accept the idea that in the grand scheme, nothing matters.