Sentences with phrase «political judgments of»

He recognizes that the courts might be pressed again to defer to military decision - making («I would not lead people to rely on this Court for a review that seems to me wholly delusive») and proposes that the chief constraint against this unconstitutional action is the executive's «responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of history.»

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.

Not exact matches

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

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.»

Although some people are genuinely hungry for ideas and find encouragement in sharply drawn postings, I sometimes think of the general trend of punditry toward denunciation and harsh judgments as what I call political pornography — an excitement of the will, a stimulation of commitment, a thrilling feeling of entering the fray.

Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into political correctness, then justification becomes liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.

Such sweeping moral judgments and political exploitation of anachronistic stereotypes, however, have disappeared from serious scholarship.

Accurate judgments concerning the narrators of Traditions became difficult because the political feuds sometimes made the judgments far from objective.

Here is an excerpt from an article on Chantal Delsol I have forthcoming in Perspectives on Political Science: In the place of «true judgment» or prudence, the defenders of international justice satisfy their hunger for rational certitude and analytical specificity with mere....

Nor do Christians understand Jesus Christ as some kind of Ayatollah, communicating a blueprint of an ideal society and calling upon his believers to make laws, pronounce judgment, and execute his will in the political, economic, and social spheres.

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.

Insisting that Christians separate themselves from the «us» is, he contends, a way of allowing them to sit back in comfortable judgment of the wider political society.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

It would be the end, that is, unless the political branches were willing to ignore the judgment of the courts.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

But, again, here is what I am asking: can the category of sin effectively subsist without that of crime, without, that is, an authoritative moral culture (that is, a functional political community) that thinks enough of its own righteousness and judgment (that is, that sustains enough healthy hypocrisy) to... cast a stone now and then?

Unequivocally for them this temporal - historical - political event is divine judgment, the creation and establishment of justice, the rebalancing of the scales between Yahweh and Israel.

The act of judgment is political death, a figurative return to Egypt.

But such political judgment need not be translated into the view that there is no such thing as «the good life,» or that we are not ourselves to seek it and seek through a variety of institutional (though non-governmental) mechanisms to encourage and inculcate that moral and religious vision.

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

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

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Just war theory was expounded so that political leaders can discern when and how war can serve the greater end of peace; it is not a formula but a framework for judgment.

More recently, in 1996 when this journal pointedly addressed judicial usurpation in a way that raised the question of the legitimacy of the political order as it presently functions, Commentary reacted with alarm to the suggestion that all polities and parties are subject to transcendent moral judgment.

We always risk making bad judgments in the political mode of public theology.

There will always be differences of judgment in the Christian group on specific political and social issues.

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

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

They spoke to the conditions of their times from the standpoint of both the judgment and the proffered deliverance of Yahweh, and proclaimed their faith in a divine Ruler who moves within political events as in all other events of human history.

A hundred years later Jeremiah and then Ezekiel told of impending judgments; but now the prime political reality was a revived Babylon and its great king Nebuchadnezzar, famed to this day for his threefold deportation of Jewish people into Babylonian captivity.

The conclusion they draw is that the question needs to be returned to the judgment of the American people in the political arena.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

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

I am amazed at how faithful the Hebrew Scriptures are to this fact; judgment after judgment is piled up against the various political actions of the Jewish nation.

Hence we require a structure of moral and legal principles with the agencies of courts, legislatures, and political processes which establish laws in the light of the judgment of the people about their needs.

Yet natural law theory holds that the judgments of good and evil are not (or at least should not be) arbitrary judgments based on convenience or political utility, but are in fact located in the very nature of the behaviors (or behavers) themselves.

Further, so the indictment goes, the Lutheran accommodation to the Communists in East Germany is a confirmation of Troeltsch's judgment that Lutheranism will comply with any political establishment.

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.

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.

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

In business, in the entertainment field, in journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or else.

There is a continuing piety in the land that dictates the inclusion of a Lincoln quotation in every major political address — most commonly, if unintentionally, to justify a crude departure from the high standard of Lincoln's judgment.

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

Among the greatest merits of Eire's survey are its remarkable clarity in expounding difficult theological ideas and complex political changes, its calm comprehensiveness, and its sober judgments, expressed with an unemphatic evenhandedness.

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

He's not without his imperfections, and sometimes he reminds me of Solzhenitsyn in some of the political judgments that he makes, but he's pretty good and he's a solid biblical scholar.

This was no mean thing, and it's far more important than getting things right all the time, which isn't possible for anyone who risks serious political, moral, and theological judgments in times of upheaval and transformation, as Michael did.