Sentences with phrase «in political judgments»

But as a rule, the discipline of moral theology, when it's not hectoring us for failing to be sufficiently progressive in our political judgments, has for many decades specialized in permission.

Christians should readily recognize that they may be mistaken in political judgments.

The prophets were not infallible on matters of fact, or in political judgment, or even in religious insight.

It is in practice, in political judgment, through struggle and negotiation, that politics is able to identify and realise values.

Not exact matches

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcemenPolitical values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcemenpolitical pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

Although some people are genuinely hungry for ideas and find encouragement in sharply drawn postings, I sometimes think of the general trend of punditry toward denunciation and harsh judgments as what I call political pornography — an excitement of the will, a stimulation of commitment, a thrilling feeling of entering the fray.

Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into political correctness, then justification becomes liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.

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Nor do Christians understand Jesus Christ as some kind of Ayatollah, communicating a blueprint of an ideal society and calling upon his believers to make laws, pronounce judgment, and execute his will in the political, economic, and social spheres.

Insisting that Christians separate themselves from the «us» is, he contends, a way of allowing them to sit back in comfortable judgment of the wider political society.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

Perhaps that's a pittance, but the point is that if Jesus was more interested in being politicized, and just being a political ruler — he had his opportunity and knew it, still choosing to die to take our place in judgment, to bring God to us first.

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

More recently, in 1996 when this journal pointedly addressed judicial usurpation in a way that raised the question of the legitimacy of the political order as it presently functions, Commentary reacted with alarm to the suggestion that all polities and parties are subject to transcendent moral judgment.

We always risk making bad judgments in the political mode of public theology.

There will always be differences of judgment in the Christian group on specific political and social issues.

They spoke to the conditions of their times from the standpoint of both the judgment and the proffered deliverance of Yahweh, and proclaimed their faith in a divine Ruler who moves within political events as in all other events of human history.

The conclusion they draw is that the question needs to be returned to the judgment of the American people in the political arena.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionIn political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionin human individuals and institutions.

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

We no longer put them together in extended argument in order to catch all the factors that count in a complex political judgment.

Hence we require a structure of moral and legal principles with the agencies of courts, legislatures, and political processes which establish laws in the light of the judgment of the people about their needs.

Yet natural law theory holds that the judgments of good and evil are not (or at least should not be) arbitrary judgments based on convenience or political utility, but are in fact located in the very nature of the behaviors (or behavers) themselves.

Further, so the indictment goes, the Lutheran accommodation to the Communists in East Germany is a confirmation of Troeltsch's judgment that Lutheranism will comply with any political establishment.

To Niebuhr, however, it was necessary for Christians to «take our moral responsibilities in this world seriously and [that requires] hazardous political judgments» (February II, 1959).

The New Testament puts less emphasis on direct political judgments, both because of its eschatological setting and because Jesus and his disciples were not even citizens of the political empire in which they lived.

In business, in the entertainment field, in journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or elsIn business, in the entertainment field, in journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or elsin the entertainment field, in journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or elsin journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or else.

There is a continuing piety in the land that dictates the inclusion of a Lincoln quotation in every major political address — most commonly, if unintentionally, to justify a crude departure from the high standard of Lincoln's judgment.

Among the greatest merits of Eire's survey are its remarkable clarity in expounding difficult theological ideas and complex political changes, its calm comprehensiveness, and its sober judgments, expressed with an unemphatic evenhandedness.

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

He's not without his imperfections, and sometimes he reminds me of Solzhenitsyn in some of the political judgments that he makes, but he's pretty good and he's a solid biblical scholar.

My own judgment is that the modern world, so far as political economy is concerned, is the economized world, that is, the world in which economic values dominated over all others.

This was no mean thing, and it's far more important than getting things right all the time, which isn't possible for anyone who risks serious political, moral, and theological judgments in times of upheaval and transformation, as Michael did.

It is not «un-Christian» to make political judgments — judgments that are fallible and invariably implicate us in worldly affairs touched by greed and the lust for power.

Christian faith sits in judgment on all political striving.

I myself can not find in that analysis the mature political judgment for which Bishop Wright calls.

In theory a judge should just decide based on the law as written, but in practice their political leanings will always affect their judgmenIn theory a judge should just decide based on the law as written, but in practice their political leanings will always affect their judgmenin practice their political leanings will always affect their judgment.

CSEA, the state's largest public - workers union, announced it would suspend its backing of state lawmakers in order to «re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria.»

We should also bear in mind that Corbyn (like Bernie Sanders) is a political survivor, whose character and judgment has been tested over a lifetime.

It is, in other words, a political judgment and, as with all things political, is extraordinarily subjective and vulnerable to all sorts of manipulations.

I share the view expressed by objective and reasonable members of the public that because the government was the 1st defendant / respondent against whom the Supreme Court made declarations of unconstitutional conduct in paying the judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the government has been pretending for purely political reasons at each turn to take steps to enforce the judgment and orders of the court only to deliberately abort them.

Again, Ed Miliband showed perfectly reasonable political judgment in refusing to back the strikers.

This action is necessary to give our union the opportunity to re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria we use in determining who has earned and deserves our support.

Addressing House of Representatives correspondents shortly after leaving the chambers, the PDP caucus in solidarity with members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Labour Party, LP said they were heading back to court to seek reinterpretation of the Supreme Court judgment on member's defection especially when there is no division in his or her political party.

But lord chief justice Lord Bingham said: «The democratic process is liable to be subverted if, on a question of moral and political judgment, opponents of the act achieve through the courts what they could not achieve in parliament.»

The prime minister had always held out the right to exercise his own judgment and keep Fox in his post even if the report were critical, but the defence secretary decided to bypass the process and limit the personal and political damage.