Sentences with phrase «moral exhortations»

Reviewing Whiteheads book in the New Republic (April 14), Margaret Talbot retorts that such moral exhortations for commitment will simply fall flat since they fly in the face of the American ideal of marriage as an enduringly affectional relationship.

He hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a sermon which gives great comfort and support to the inner life.

Michael J. Perry, a leading legal scholar, argues that judicial review should serve the role of «prophecy,» calling us to a deeper understanding of ourselves through moral exhortation by the Supreme Court.

All too much of the time we consider our preaching to be an exercise in theological teaching, in moral exhortation, or in pious meditation.

Seneca and Pliny wrote with the purposes of moral exhortation and instruction in view.

Neither is it moral exhortation.

But what the minister preaches is not an objective fact, a moral exhortation or an intellectual doctrine.

Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the other side», a reference for those with ears to hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those without.

It means reformers need to sweat things like perverse incentives and whether a policy is likely to actually, you know, work as intended, even when they'd rather focus on moral exhortation or larger causes.

Not exact matches

Like (Episcopalian) Joseph Fletcher, who taught Situation Ethics in the 1960s, the exhortation suggests that there are exceptions to every moral rule and that there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act.

The pope's apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia is «intentionally ambiguous» on grave moral and doctrinal matters.

It was easy to recognize, in the words of this latest exhortation to more faithfully follow the gospel in the economic and global - political realm, the voice of our dear shepherd» to see the sharp intellectual and moral challenge of his mind, coupled with the loving understanding of his heart, so passionate to bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ.

First of all, the gospel is not simply the teaching of Jesus, particularly when this is understood as denoting his religious and moral admonitions and exhortations.

-- James is a sermon — an excellent sermon — full of Christian moral advice and exhortation.

Laudato Si is a pastoral piece, quite substantial as a work of moral instruction and spiritual exhortation, but not a treatise in the way that, say, Spe Salvi was.

Matthew reports next (5:16) a sentence of exhortation, which points the moral of the saying about salt and light: «Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.»

The idea comes in part from St John Paul's apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, in which the pope indicated that as human persons we know, love and accomplish moral goodness in stages of growth.

During the primaries Mondale steered clear of explicitly biblical moral language, leaving to Jesse Jackson prophetic exhortations to «feed the hungry, save the children,» pursue peace, and «restore the conscience of this nation,» lest we be punished by a just God.

We have sharp rhetoric about social justice, but the preferential option for the poor is an open - ended exhortation, not a precise moral demand like the condemnation of taking innocent life as an intrinsically evil act.

Having arrived at what sounds like a surreal moral — an exhortation to remember the Sixth Commandment as part of the «Let's Whip Choriocarcinoma by the Year 3000» campaign — it's time to take a step back.

The Vatican campaign could reframe it as a religious and moral imperative, boosted by blanket coverage of the pope's visit and exhortations in church.