Sentences with phrase «law as»

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

When that happens, there is absolute conflict between them or they join hands in defending ethics of reaction against all new conceptions of justice in law as shariat and natural law did in the recent Cairo World Conference on Population.

Such equality in politics or before the law as man has attained began in the ideal of all men as equal before God, who is «no respecter of persons.»

In Jewish law as given in the Old Testament / Tanakh, if a man's brother died without issue to carry on his line, the man was to take the widow as a second wife, and the child (ren) would be considered those of his late brother and would inherit.

From now on, men must not strive to fulfill this law as law, but, rather, to accept God's life freely as a gift.

I regard the minimum wage law as a protection against robbing a human life of its value, time, and dignity.

The trend poses a grave threat to American democracy: as Sarat quotes from Thurgood Marshall in his dissenting opinion in Payne, this return of revenge signals «one major step toward the demise of a conception of law as a «source of impersonal and reasoned judgments.»»

Because they are NOT a God made law as the Ten Commandments were.

As a people we do not wish to see the law as holy.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

Legal positivism has insisted on the separation of law as it is and law as it ought to be.

Trump, the greatest Planned Parenthood enthusiast among the Republican contenders, has always treated the law as either an obstacle to be overcome or another public institution to be suborned in the pursuit of his personal interests.

As a people, we do not wish to suffer under the law as institutionalized injustice that stands in the way of justice and decency.

He prefaced his thoughts — as many people do when they discuss police brutality — with the caveat that there are good police officers, those who honor the law as they work diligently to enforce it in neighborhoods like Sandtown - Winchester, where Gray was injured.

«Why we should infer... that law sprang from religion rather than that religion sprang from law, it is hard to see» (p. 3) Daube does agree, however, that in its present form the Old Testament represents all law as of divine origin; so pp.

I believe it isn't Paul's mere instructions but law as he states.

The only law that matters is the law as created within our system and only insofar as it comports with the Consti.tution.

I wanted to perceive the heart of the law as the creator of wholeness rather than as the moralistic arbiter of goodness.

God is a good God and we are no longer in bondage to the law as He freed us from it through His Son.

Given the debt that all three traditions owe to Aristotle, it might seem that the Stagirite's views on natural law as the foundation for morality would point the way to greater comity, if not outright amity; but Rubenstein's history of that debt does not leave much room for hope either.

Paul's rejection of the law as the source of righteousness before God (Gal.

The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market - oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law as the means to the common good.

But the pope did not declare Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union illegitimate, despite the genocide and mass murders, which were surely as much violations of the moral law as abortion.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Much of the Thomism criticized by Barth did appear to treat reason and natural law as though they were independent of a Christian doctrine of God.

Whereas you suggest that it is the Jesuit tendency, as demonstrated in Pope Francis, to subordinate human and divine law to a missionary end, St. Ignatius understands the subversion of divine law as leading not to salvation, but to damnation.

To argue that the corporation's defining objective is «enhancing corporate profit and shareholder gain» leads, in his opinion, to unacceptable conclusions: «To say that a corporation's only goal is to make money would be to define the business corporation — for the first time in American or English law as I understand it — as a kind of shark that lives off of the community rather than as an important agency in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of our shared lives.»

This is their religious practice, and they followed the law as it has been set up.

From 60 % +, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in: Albania — 70 %; Malaysia — 60.4 %; Qatar — 77.5 %; Sudan — 70 %.

The SCOTUS can change the law as it pleases, but the SCOTUS can not amend the Bible.

Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

But Christians no longer need to follow Jewish law as Christ is the ransom.He did not come to change the law but Christians aren't Jews and we don't have the same life style.

Thus, in spite of its divine origin, Paul could think of the law as one of the three great enemies from which man needs to be delivered: «The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.»

It is not even trusted in a court of law as conclusive evidence.

One could shrug off Bhutan's law as a consequence of the altitude.

Paganism, at least, believes in a natural law, and it is an easy jump from there, says C. S. Lewis, to teach people the divine law as recorded in Scripture and revealed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Or you are performing it and which why you do not like this law as a driver does not like the speed laws while driving out of speed limit...

He educated a large number of people who collected his teachings in book form and laid the basis for Islamic law as interpreted by Shi`a.

He is pointing our the the Jews think the Gentile Christians are unclean as a people and that they are trying to make them follow Jewish law as a result.

The Law as found in the Bible is to define the line between spirituality and carnality rather than for punishment

Such people use the law as a club, condemn their fellow human beings, and themselves commit the sins which they judge.

Some see the change in the law as a worrying redefinition of marriage.

Interestingly, among the hostile powers defeated by Christ the Victor is the law, not the law as Torah, gracious instruction for the establishment and maintenance of shalom, but the law as command merits and ordinances, as a damning bill of particulars posted against us.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Finally, Mr. White puts his faith in an order of law as the substitute for rule by conflict of powers.

There is no genuine conflict between law and love for those who see the true nature of love as holy and the law as an instrument for facilitating love.

And in the radical animal rights activists mind Pan should be seen as, treated as and protected in law as a person.

I have not studied the law as a specific topic as I did the human soul, but had to deal with it in the course of my thesis and book on the soul topic.

To survive what is bearing down on us, we must learn four hard lessons: to acknowledge the natural law as a true and universal morality; to be on guard against our own attempts to overwrite it with new laws that are really rationalizations for wrong; to fear the natural consequences of its violation, recognizing their inexorability; and to forbear from all further attempts to compensate for immorality, returning on the path that brought us to this place.

We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective moral order reflected in a Constitution to which we are obliged; one given to private satisfaction, the other to familial responsibility; one typically secular, the other typically religious; one elitist, the other populist.