Sentences with phrase «informed conscience»

In particular, he appealed on behalf of those whose religiously informed conscience will not allow them to provide — or to «designate» others to provide for them — sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients.

Since manualist moralists sought to uphold universal norms even while exercising casuistry for difficult cases, it became fashionable to denounce casuistry and leave individual choices to the individual's informed conscience.

Evidence increasingly suggests that the violence of the modern game tests the limits of the biblically informed conscience.

So when we're looking at this idea of the asymptote, the goal is to actually help people form their consciences and, again, to in fact trust that the informed conscience of the individual will choose well.

Self - control is easier when a person is otherwise virtuous and in possession of an informed conscience.

As a Catholic, I would find it hard to believe that an informed conscience would produce the work she has written, but it is theoretically possible, I suppose.

Our discussion a couple weeks ago about Peter Enns and his interpretation of the genocide of the Canaanites got me thinking once again about how Scripture informs our conscience and how our conscience informs our interpretation of Scripture.

What seems to annoy so many, though, is that we inform our conscience with our faith so the teachings of the Church (teachings, not the sins of others) do have a part in shaping our life decisions!

I actually have to inform my conscience.»

There is a code divinely written into all of creation, which forms and informs our conscience, and places limits and consequences to actions regardless of culture.

The Church highlights the need to inform our consciences to enable us to make informed choices, namely, those based on Church teaching, in other words, «reason informed by faith».

Not exact matches

And most of the time if your conscience disagrees with the church, it means that your conscience is, as all of our consciences are, again this is part of church teaching, informed and infected by sin.

However, they must also develop a conscience which is fully informed.

In other words, Christians can not allow their instincts or conscience to inform their theology, only Scripture.

In an influential article, «Reluctance to Inform,» he defended the right of the sensitized conscience against forced informing.

[35] Their grounding in the social conscience of the Black Church and their participation in liberation movements of the sixties and seventies informed their interpretation and practice of New Thought.

Francis told a conference of Italian bishops in a video message that priests must inform Catholic consciences but not replace them.

They may see the hurt they cause, but their conscience informs them that they are fighting for a greater good.

Why would god give Muslims a conscience that informs them that Jesus is not the way to heaven, when according to god belief in Jesus is the only way to heaven?

The conscience informed by love must seek strategies which offer an alternative to wholesale destruction and lead to reconciliation.

Ministers trained in liberal seminaries usually have a more informed and sensitive conscience about the bearing of Christianity on major social problems.

Unfortunately, the synod's discussions reveal that a counterfeit sense of the conscience seems to inform the view of some ecclesial leaders, who feel they must support decisions made «in conscience,» even when those decisions contravene revealed truth.

A brilliant moral theologian, he had a great impact on Synod 2015, where his five - minute exposition of what conscience means taught a lesson to more than one confused or ill - informed bishop.

I know well whereof Peter Kreeft speaks, and in fact have a rather guilty conscience about purveying some of the errors of the Received Wisdom myself from time to time until my further reading informed me how deceived I (and my hapless students) had been.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

«You'd like to think that when Truman was deciding to use nuclear weapons and thinking about how many people would be killed and whether the decision would make the war even worse, some special voice of conscience was informing that decision,» Greene says.

RETURN OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN The argument still rages over Communists and informers, burnt - out careers and consciences, who informed and who didn't.

In effect, the NDSG has been a kind of informed democratic conscience of U.S. education, constantly reminding the mainstream of alternatives and possibilities, and offering a criticism of educational reform and practice in the light of its enduring concerns with democracy and the estate of childhood.

The Winston Service Learning Academy cultivates opportunities to engage with the community as informed and active citizens with strong social consciences and to perform a variety of important services to meet the needs of the community.

And as educators, citizens, and parents, we need to be sure we do our own research into all sides of the CCSS inclusions and the ongoing debate so that we can be sure to stay informed and do what is in our children's best interests according to our collective conscience.

All well informed people with a conscience have ample reason to oppose the coal industry and plenty of evidence to support their stance.

In this week's very brief Freedom Friday video, an outreach activist shows how easy it is to distribute literature that might one day save someone's life by fully informing someone of their right not to convict based on their conscience.

They address availability of physician - assisted dying to mature minors, conscience - based objections, timing between and number of assessments of informed consent, the impact of a loss of competence after giving informed consent, and other important issues.

Information provided to anyone who accepted a brochure simply informed them of all the options jurors have when judging a case before them, leaving what they do with that information completely up to them and their consciences.