Sentences with phrase «moral authority of these traditions»

They started rummaging through the Confucianism and Buddhism they had tossed out, hoping to reclaim the former moral authority of these traditions for the party.

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I wrote the book out of love for and loyalty to the Christian tradition in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular, and out of a desire to support the church's moral authority.

It is therefore possible to say that, within the common tradition, the notions of authority, power, and liberty are linked by moral as well as logical and practical bonds.

Thus, within the common tradition, moral education is supposed not only to prepare people to rule but to prepare them as well to recognize in their fellows the virtues necessary for the exercise of authority.

By and large Lutheranism has dissipated the authority of the ministry, ceased serious discipline, compromised the sacraments, relativized the moral tradition, and eschewed magisterial continuity.

This authority of the electronic image poses ethical and moral problems of profound dimension because of its divorce from the language base of all ethical traditions, which flow from spoken oral traditions and written canons, from the Pentateuch to the Analects..

He concluded that among «inclusive displays on places like the courthouse lawns, the Ten Commandments can convey a «secular moral message» about the primacy and authority of law, as well as the «history and moral ideals» of our society and legal tradition.»

Ancient artifacts such as the Rosetta Stone and the Code of Hammurabi demonstrate the long - standing role of texts in commanding political and moral authority, a tradition that continued, for instance, with the use of inscriptions on Roman monuments.

Thirty - four faith groups from traditions as diverse as Catholicism, Judaism and the Quakers released a letter yesterday asking members of Congress to consider co-signing Gibson's resolution «as a statement of our shared moral authority.»