Sentences with phrase «in moral»

Although the Black churches led the nation in a moral crusade and the white churches gave significant support, the church has not led in thinking through to a new vision of our life together in a multi-ethnic society.

Christians do not have the last word in the moral and ethical right of the state to engage in premeditated murder.

To recognize the differences among different moral communities and take them seriously in moral education is to enter a pluralistic quagmire in which disagreements arise, one's impartiality is challenged, and feelings are hurt.

In a very fine article in the American Conservative,» Sex After Christianity,» Rod Dreher explains how the growing support for gay marriage reflect deep and profound changes in our moral imaginations.

Over against this disparagement of earthly loves it is also characteristic of Augustine's teaching that he declares the constructive power of love in the moral life.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

Seeing an urban slum, being exposed to the vice, crime, disease, and poverty of the city, becoming aware of the plight of an underpaid or unemployed worker, the wideawake minister felt that something was wrong and expressed his feeling in moral protest.

He knew that it is an experiment that can not be sustained without a public philosophy, and that such a public philosophy must be grounded in moral truth.

And there is no reason for us to take a superior position regarding our ancestors in the faith, as if we ourselves did not suffer from limitations of perspective and from a keen ability to disguise our self - interest in moral respectability.

Kant's divorce of the «ought» from the «is» stands as one of the most profound insights in moral philosophy.

We wander in the moral wilderness with him.

Not quite so simple, although it is essentially correct in the moral sense.

@ Observer: I was just trying to see if he is one of those ppl that don't believe in any moral code at all.

Maybe our very ways of working, playing, and relating contribute to a breakdown in moral community.

It is the universality of moral dispositions that gives us hope; because radical differences in moral outlook are not inherent, people may eventually bring their moral rules and moral behavior in line with their moral dispositions.

Similarly, Madden and Hare suggest that Whitehead's God is willing to pay any amount in moral and physical evil to gain aesthetic value...» (ECG 124).

What makes moral feelings peculiar is the logical point behind Kant's thrust — we owe dignity and respect to other persons as persons regardless of our other feelings about them, and in a moral crisis we may feel urgently the not always so gentle persuasion of God in the form of conscience.

The socialization process is exceedingly important in moral development.

Seldom are the complexities of energy issues seen in moral terms, and seldom does energy appear high on the church's ethical agenda, especially within the local congregation.

It is easier to talk about what Christians do, life as performance, the behavior appropriate to followers of Jesus codified in moral commandments and formulated in vision statements and mission strategies.

Whether or not we favor stepped - up prosecution of obscene materials, those of us in religious communities have a special interest in the formation of character and dispositions — in the moral atmosphere of our society and in a whole range of symbolic concerns.

Taylor's attention to the «inescapable frameworks» that define our identity will remind many readers of Alasdair MacIntyre's emphasis on the role of traditions in the moral life in After Virtue (1981) and, recently, in Whose Justice?

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

The men and women called by God to do his work would never have passed a test in moral virtues.

Faith in a moral God, who sets the moral standards, has never kept countless believers from behaving immorally.

Despite widespread agreement that faith by its very nature inevitably finds expression in moral action, whether or to what extent faith also demands to be expressed through specifically political action continues to be disputed.

Nineteenth - century college courses in moral philosophy were part of the effort to set such nonsectarian Protestant standards for the nation.

But if you, your tribe or mindless mother nature is the ultimate ground of your values, why does your sense of tightness function with such assuredness in your moral indictment of all people of faith?

As the older moral pattern declines in persuasiveness, the only remaining category for the analysis and evaluation of human motives is interest, which by now has replaced both virtue and conscience in our moral vocabulary.

Cairns's early poems attracted attention for their conversational tone and unpretentious but searching interest in moral issues.

The inclusion of isolated population segments into the dominant economy created permanent disruptions in the moral economy of rural life — social upheavals that generated potential recruits for sectarian movements.

That is not to say that you need religion to behave in a moral way, it is just saying that without religion, your «morality» is nothing but self - defined rules, which may end up being very very bad for the world around you.

People of amassed and sometimes massive socialistic gatherings within and around harborages upon religiously endorsed sanctimonies are creating and establishing fruitions of ethnicities around redundantly articulated socialisms toward morally persuasive narcissisms keeping in line those who tend to believe unquestionably their fatherly figures; the Pastors of doom and gloom fortuities berating those of lesser mindives in moral weaknesses around socially divided consecrations bemoaning the common secularist's motifs.

The capstone of the program was a senior course in moral philosophy, taught by the clergyman president.

Still, it is certainly possible to engage in moral reflection about these institutions without either romanticizing or anathematizing them.

In a word, I think most people (except, perhaps, we academics) will understand that our use of physical metaphors in moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normative.

What our experience tells us is that change is not necessarily improvement, and that in the moral order every new possibility for good is simultaneously a possibility for evil.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

Just at the moment of history when the technical conditions for the oneness of the globe have finally appeared, we are woefully lacking in the moral conditions that are required if this situation is to be a blessing.

By human standards, scientific and technological advances can probably be called progress, and yet there do not seem to be any similar advances in moral living.

God reveals himself in weakness — in physical and social weakness, in moral weakness, and also in intellectual weakness.

«Indeed, the reality of the human being for the entire span of life, both before and after birth, does not allow us to posit either a change in nature or a gradation in moral value, since it possesses full anthropological and ethical status.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

I would argue johnutah that there is no place for this in this moral and decent society for an idiotic opinion like that.

A professor at Ohio University, Jeffrey Herf has written a thoughtful exercise in moral, cultural, and political analysis.

Thus there are reasons for thinking that the shift in attitudes toward the right to die is to some extent attributable not to a direct change in moral views but to a change in people's tolerance for others» moral views or moral situations.

$ 12.99 We are badly in need of books that will help us engage in moral and religious reflection upon recent mind - boggling advances in genetics.

In the course of making a number of effective criticisms, Flannery and Koterski suggest, in passing, that a couple who use Natural Family Planning (NFP) to avoid conception throughout their fertile years would be in a moral position comparable to that of a couple who used artificial contraception.

Even his nascent skills as a wizard come to fruition at key moments only through some new and immediately prior leap in his moral and emotional development.

The Christian is called to engage actively in political decision - making, asserting his or her religious perspective while recognizing that all human groups are limited in their moral goodness.