Sentences with phrase «moral perplexity»

This situation in which moral perplexity and reflection arises is rooted in fundamental metaphysical categories.

The other is that we can find some way of life which involves no moral perplexities, and in which we can regard ourselves as free from sin.

And one of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

One of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.

Not exact matches

In proving this sweeping statement we need not single out some one example of our moral plight, such as our perplexity of conscience in the killing and destruction of war, and treat it as an isolated problem.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

The concept of tragedy seems indispensable to refer to certain fundamental aspects of human moral experience, and yet it poses many perplexities for theological and ethical thought.