Sentences with phrase «moral meaning»

He answers that the latter carries a vastly different moral meaning, because the particular kind of struggle faced by the women is identified.

Without a higher power there to judge and ultimately punish, morals mean nothing.

All the criticisms of it are dwarfed into pettiness in comparison with the majestic moral meaning of this enterprise of building a Christian world.

El - Naggar even sees moral meaning in the earthquake that triggered the 2005 tsunami and washed away nearly a quarter of a million lives.

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

The meaning» including moral meaning» of sexual relationships «is as varied as the people in them.»

A conspiracy of silence has smothered the public teaching of any specific moral meaning concerning sex.

That is why the true role of moral meaning comes after allegory.

The distinction between them «breaks down in the arena of the public search for moral meaning.»

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

As the curtain rises, the performance commences and various players fall in and out of love — with little moral meaning.

Still lifes were favoured at this time for their ability to convey moral meaning without committing idolatry: a sin heavily warned against in Protestantism.

This infuses the most banal acts with a deep moral meaning».

Thus, insofar as I'm aware, Greeley never took the measure of John Paul II's Theology of the Body, although the Polish pope's creative wrestling with the theological and moral meaning of our being made male and female would seem to be of a piece with Greeley's insistence on the sacramental goodness of sex within the bond of marriage.

We oppose the Gnosticism that says our bodies have no intrinsic moral meaning and are mere instruments in the service of our fine inner feelings.

The use of a condom in the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman has a different moral meaning than the intercourse of a man with a man.

You said (paraphrasing), that in the atheists mindset, morals mean nothing to anything in the universe other than people.

Even more important, the dynamism and authority that Kant assigned to practical reason gives moral meaning to the increasingly rapid and violent pace of modern cultural change.

To be moral means that you do the right honorable honest thing and that includes giving gays their EQUAL civil rights.

To be moral means that you will not bring harm to any other individual with your belief system, that is not true when it comes to some Christians and the gay issue.

If the Feast of the Holy Innocents has a moral meaning, then, it must be this: God's election of our suffering is always enfolded within the greater election of our ultimate joy.

Astronomy makes us think about the size of the universe, geology about its age, physics about its atomic structure, but religion makes us think about the moral meaning of the universe.

We may, that is, be «living beyond our moral means» in trying to retain such demanding, universal standards of morality without the metaphysical and religious substance that once underlay those standards.

If the Feast of the Holy Innocents has a moral meaning, it is this: God's election of our suffering is always enfolded within the greater election of our ultimate joy.

But if a choice between evils is to have any moral meaning at all, one evil will be judged less than another because it involves less destruction of some real good.

Archbishop Longley dismissively tells us that «The Church does not, as it were, have a moral means testing».

The «moral meaning» shows that hermeneutics is much more than exegesis in the narrow sense.

Thus Toomer is able to give moral meaning to their lives amid the horrors of Jim Crow.

Now among the «four meanings» of Scripture, the Middle Ages made a place for the «moral meaning,» which marks the application of the allegorical meaning to ourselves and our morals.

Secondly I want to emphasize the moral necessity of shifting the emphasis from the fear of being destroyed to awareness of the moral meaning of our being destroyers.

There is a moral necessity of shifting the emphasis from the fear of being destroyed to awareness of the moral meaning of our being destroyers.

The moral meaning of sex is found in its biological consequences?

It must bring these ideals to bear on particular issues, illuminating their moral meaning in the light of Scriptures, the life of Jesus, the laws of nature and the Kingdom of God.

Emphatic that «faith is personal and honorable and uncorrupted by political influence,» Mondale is less clear about how religious and moral meaning should enter into the public forum.

Despite many questions in detail, however, such contributions as we have ascribed to him — selective attention in dealing with his religious heritage, profound insight into the moral meanings of monotheism, and contagious reality in his experience of God as a towering and penetrating fact — seem assured.

If conception is prevented, this will be an — unintentional — side effect and will not therefore shape the moral meaning of the act as a contraceptive act.

Just because I am Christian and have morals means my intimate relationship with my husband sucks?

«If the moral meaning given to our bodies starts and ends with God, then perhaps we need to call a timeout on these trespasses against bodily dignity, and we need to consider carefully whether we rationalize a form of entertainment that devalues human bodies.»

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

There are many set pieces spoken by Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley) which convey either a philosophical or a moral meaning.

In each case, the resistance of teachers to discussing the moral meaning of the incident with students was palpable.