Sentences with phrase «moral fervor»
"Moral fervor" refers to a strong passion or intensity about doing what is right or adhering to one's principles and values. It means deeply caring about morals and being motivated to act in accordance with them. Full definition
These myths include the notion that fanatical inquisitors were responsible for the execution of millions of alleged witches; that benighted medieval churchmen suppressed scientific knowledge; and that plantation economics, not Christian moral fervor, brought an end to slavery.
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It won millions for the Churches and imbued all with a new moral fervor.
It sum, it would seem that the civil rights movement made a massive error in investing so much time, energy, and moral fervor in such a dubious cause as mandatory school busing.
I was surprised by how much moral fervor there was surrounding breastfeeding.
Both, according to Shaikh Ahmad, had lost the moral fervor of Islam.
I also find Rorty's notion of irony a refreshing antidote to some of the moral fervor that accompanies so many proposals that we go back to the basics.
The irony is that while Christianity inspired a moral fervor for things unseen but possible, its achievements are now so embedded in the culture as to be practically invisible.
It even attempted to put a check on the selfish accumulations of huge private fortunes by the first income tax law: what would the age of «Teddy» Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have been like without the moral fervor of the social gospel?
It is often full of moral fervor and piety, but it is usually absent in the clarity of ideas that thread against the accepted norms and offer new possibilities for reflection.
They may not have been large in numbers or influence, but they did represent one concern of American religious life — the need for moral fervor and reform.
I just assumed the medical research was what it was and that I would focus on the question about the moral fervor.
In the October 16, 2015 opinion article in the New York Times by Courtney Jung entitled «Overselling Breast - Feeding,» Ms. Jung asserts that encouragement to breastfeed has reached a «moral fervor» inconsistent with the true value of breastfeeding.
I think a lot of the moral fervor that followers kick up centers on that instead.