Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as
necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.
Not exact matches
A structure of liberty,
necessary as it is to prevent liberation from destroying itself, nevertheless contains within it new forms of external constraint and new
bulwarks for private interest.
«Green» ideology has become the
bulwark of older agendas: The nations of the West must end their own prosperity, because that is only «fair» — and it
necessary to save the world from Capitalist greed.