Sentences with phrase «questions moral authorities»

In this work, Geers effectively questions moral authorities, investigating how concepts of vice and virtue have been inscribed into our cultural code.

Most recently, on May 20, the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Lahore High Court Bar Association issued a joint statement: «Both bar associations are of the view that in light of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Panama Papers case (that questioned the moral authority of the premier to rule), PM Nawaz Sharif should no longer hold his office and should therefore resign.»

Not exact matches

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Where do you get the moral authority to question his decisions?

When the Church speaks with clear magisterial authority on questions undoubtedly within the compass of «faith and morals»» sexual ethics and the meaning of marriage and procreation» the Catholic house divides one way.

Wayne Grudem's moral authority is in question after the well known evangelical theologian endorsed Donald Trump, says Joshua Parikh More

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

But for leaders such as Wilson that begs the question of whether scripture or personal experience is the final authority on moral conduct.

It is wrongly assumed that if the Pope is not to compromise his authority he ought to decide every dogmatic or moral question that comes up, preferably at once.

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).

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral community.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

The question for the future is not whether Hollywood will again support the status quo or support authority but whether its offerings will continue to reflect and advance the moral shallowness — indeed the emptiness — of yuppie liberalism.

Catholics acknowledge an infallible authority in questions of both dogma and morals, whereas Protestants possess no objective rule for either but are buffeted to and fro by the winds of subjectivism and error.

Unfortunately there are many scientists who use their scientific authority to lend weight to their views on political or moral questions.

The period which spawns a Great Awakening is a time when the realities of life in society have deviated so far from their moral and religious understandings that the authority of the old institutions are questioned.

Young people tend to think out religious and moral questions for themselves, with less reliance on churchly authority.

The foundational question (and Holben's first) is, «What is the ultimate authority upon which any moral judgment regarding homosexuals and / or homosexual acts is to be based?»

One area of overlap and potential conflict is what sociologists call the problem of legitimacy, which includes among other things the question whether existing political authority is moral and right or whether it violates higher religious duties.

However, given that there has been a change in recognised moral authority away from religion and towards secular influences, the question arises as to when a government is going to realise this change and accept the implications for public policy.

His experience gives him a peerless moral authority on the death penalty, and he raises powerful questions about the practice.

Originally established to uphold moral authority and political - religious power, this venue offers a new context for Maclean's work, to question notions of truth, conscience and power in the 21st century.

This is a question Garvey does not seem to ask nor answer, yet wants to draw moral authority from, as though it had been answered.

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