Sentences with phrase «political judgment»

There are good reasons for Christian restraint in political judgments.

So for political judgment, the numbers from the copied table should maybe be corrected by including the percentage of adults who are taxed at 0 $.

We no longer put them together in extended argument in order to catch all the factors that count in a complex political judgment.

It is in practice, in political judgment, through struggle and negotiation, that politics is able to identify and realise values.

Yet the biblical story repeatedly tells of the nation's turn away from God's rule to other gods or to the misguided political judgments of the kings and rulers who did not heed...

During the past forty years, voters have been taught by TV to make political judgments based on how they feel about a particular candidate, rather than how to evaluate a candidate's actual positions and actions.

Simply put, there is no neutral ground from which humans form moral and political judgments because such decisions embody an embrace of this authority or that authority.

Political judgments require prudence, and can not be collapsed into general moral principles.

Yet the biblical story repeatedly tells of the nation's turn away from God's rule to other gods or to the misguided political judgments of the kings and rulers who did not heed God's true prophets.

Bishops must allow room for and respect believers» own specific political judgments.

'» And we are - evidently to take this as an example of mature political judgment.

Deciding where to draw this line involves political judgments as much as a scientific ones.

Classically, it was not just that one needed to own property to be considered adequately independent to exercise one's own political judgment, but there was a hierarchy of occupations.

«We hope the US and North Korean politicians have sufficient political judgment to realize that resorting to military force will never be a viable way to resolve the peninsula issue and their own concerns,» Lu told a daily news briefing.

Around this religious core has grown a fuzzy but important political judgment: France is dead or dying, and only the Church can revive it.

In the United States, more than in any other country, judicially created rights have displaced political judgments that could and should have been left to the ordinary processes of bargaining, education, persuasion, and voting.

Here we have a cultural analogue to the familiar political judgments concerning a working class which is presumed to be «stultified» and incapable of any kind of self - determination.

Trump's candidacy revealed three main groups of white evangelicals, each distinguished by prudential political judgments.

They recognize that the Gospel transcends the always uncertain, always fallible political judgments that govern the city of man.

To Niebuhr, however, it was necessary for Christians to «take our moral responsibilities in this world seriously and [that requires] hazardous political judgments» (February II, 1959).

The New Testament puts less emphasis on direct political judgments, both because of its eschatological setting and because Jesus and his disciples were not even citizens of the political empire in which they lived.

The mature Sol zhenitsyn, Mahoney demonstrates, is a man capable of prudent political judgment who clearly recognizes that political freedom is indispensable for survival as well as for spiritual renewal.

Again, Ed Miliband showed perfectly reasonable political judgment in refusing to back the strikers.

But Sestak's allies counter that those leaders are letting their personal feelings of the former Navy admiral cloud their clear - eyed political judgment, pointing to the fact that he narrowly lost to Toomey in 2010 despite that year's heavy Republican tilt.

And Hague is once again proving that he has awful political judgment.

Former Cabinet Minister Peter Lilley said that it was wrong that political judgments now were resting with the courts:

Maryland governor Larry Hogan has excellent political judgment.

We have no business making political judgments about those kinds of issues.»

This already radical position is made even more so by the fact that it ignores the highly technical nature of some regulatory measures, regarding this distinction as an excuse in order to diminish the powers of the Commission, since in a postindustrial world all legislation is necessarily technical in nature but involves for the legislature wide margins for political judgment and discretionary power.

They imply that specific political judgments are matters of Church teaching, when by Catholic tradition, the more they descend into the details of policy, the less certain their judgments become.

I myself can not find in that analysis the mature political judgment for which Bishop Wright calls.

They argue that the major green groups» unwillingness to draw bright lines derives from self - interest, bad political judgment, and a failure of will.

It involves political judgments.

We should not reduce the often complex theological, moral, and political judgments of church leaders to narrow ideological terms, for to do so implies that they are deliberately perverting the apostolic faith to serve political ends.

Christians should readily recognize that they may be mistaken in political judgments.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Austan Goolsbee, an economic advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, said «what the S&P is doing is making a political judgment and it is one that we don't agree with.»

The answer is that Niebuhr's realism «chastens all political judgments,» which gives Lemert the opening to chasten Niebuhr himself for «denouncing not only Soviet Communism but communism of all brands.»

Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her trenchant critiques of peculiarly American pathologies, and for the wisdom of her political judgment.

That's why he didn't realize that WORLD GOVERNMENT is an oxymoron and more generally why his political judgment was less astute than, as Beneton explained with charm and depth, the more erotic (and more screwed up and more Pascalian) Mauriac.

But prudence also requires political judgment.

We, too, are doomed to make mistakes of political judgment, not of such terrible consequences, we hope, but mistakes nonetheless.

Kirk's political judgments are very uneven, and that's not why anyone serious would read him.

The difference is that while supernatural truths of faith leaven the political judgments of the city of man, human rights override and void those judgments.

The prophets were not infallible on matters of fact, or in political judgment, or even in religious insight.

Jews should understand that Christian disagreement with certain political policies of the state of Israel entails a theological as well as a political judgment.

The legal and political judgment that all churches are equal could lead to a similar theological judgment.

To ensure that «scientific data is never distorted» and that «scientific decisions are based on facts, not ideology» Obama effectively denies that there are any political judgments that can't be settled by scientific investigation.

Second, a greater awareness of the complexity of political judgments and a more honest effort to locate the precise areas of disagreement.