Sentences with phrase «questions of justification»

Despite this basic divergence, however, the two philosophers face similar questions of justification.

But further clarification is needed, and the question is closely connected with the question of justification.

Thus, for example, the very important Lutheran - Roman Catholic Common Statement on «Church and Justification» (1994) reaches a fundamental agreement on the question of justification; and yet a section entitled «Areas of Controversy» lists a series of remaining disagreements.

This raises acutely the question of the justification of the hegemony of one culture in the unity that is to emerge out of the many.

The Court noted that the nature of the constitutional protection afforded by s. 35 (1) «demands that there be a link between the question of justification and the allocation of priorities in the fishery».24 According to the Court, any allocation of fishing priorities after valid and justified conservation measures have been taken must give top priority to Aboriginal food fishing with sport fishing and commercial fishing bearing the «brunt of conservation measures».25

Not exact matches

In the absence of any justification or specifics, a key question is why would the Government want to introduce such legislation?

To be sure, valid questions may be raised about whether Enlightenment justifications based on insecurity in the state of nature can truly ground human rights.

Quite apart from the proof this ought to offer the Republicans that even the pro-abortion chorus recognizes which way the wind is blowing, we are still left with the question of why liberals seem suddenly to recognize the need for new justifications — especially since they got such mileage from their old ones.

Now my question... why would a Black person want to adopt the very religion that was the religion of his or her owner, and was used as justification for their bondage?

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.

In a second article about the practical implications of the justification debate, this question was asked:

I also must leave aside the question why theologians on both sides could not agree, or at least thought they could not agree, about the subject of justification.

I have seen the good and bad of christianity and in viewpoint after much questioning, I see no justification for it - simply no need.

Lutheranism's one - sided emphasis on the doctrine and experience of justification (though it is not a uniquely Lutheran flaw) has led Lutherans to think they can evade the question ecumenism and modernity have forced to the fore.

As William A. Christian recognized, however, Whitehead abandoned the notion of «realm» for a mere «multiplicity» of eternal objects.20 Yet we must recognize that the question occasioning this shift was not whether the eternal objects were ordered, but what was the justification of that ordering, given the ontological principle.

On the other hand, salvation is not a question of knowing; justification, or coming to trust God utterly, does not depend on what a person knows theologically or any other way.

Questions about justification are certainly in order, but for a number of reasons I think these are not the right ones.

The former would relate to the question of the completeness of Whitehead's system, and the latter would concern the justification of Whitehead's particular delineation of these kinds vis - à - vis that of other systems.

It clearly affects the question of whether justification will occur and how far one will go on to perfection in love.

It's that covenant part that raises questions, particularly since Wright's definition of justification does away with the doctrine of imputed righteousness.

Paul's doctrine of justification, therefore, had far more to do with Jewish - Gentile issues than with questions of the individual's status before God.»

So, Collingwood takes the counteroffensive: from now on he concentrates on the question of a transcendental - epistemological justification of metaphysics.

The work of Evangelicals and Catholics Together has continued unabated over the last twenty years, issuing documents pertaining to theological questions (such as the nature of justification) as well as those affecting the proper ordering of society (such as the rights of the unborn).

Unless one bleaches the debate of its living doctrinal substance — and the Rav explicitly states that requiring men of faith to bracket their deepest experiences constitutes unacceptable censorship — it inevitably raises questions about atonement, justification, faith and works, and so on.

Of the many issues yet to be adequately investigated in this area is the principal question concerning the metaphysical foundation, and thereby justification, for civilized society according to Whitehead's organic cosmology.

But the hope and justification of the reflections offered in the third section is, that even a small advance towards an answer, and the clearer recognition of what exactly must still be open to question, is useful and important.

He says: «All that can be said from the standpoint of divine justification on the question (and the questions) of human law is summed up in this one statement: «the Church must have freedom to proclaim divine justification.»»

The question under debate is whether the character of Job is here intentionally represented as affirming faith that he will achieve his justification with God in life beyond death; or whether the redeemer is in the original sense of the word (in Hebrew, go'el), the kinsman who, in this case, succeeds in ultimately exonerating Job.

Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

Apart from those justifications, no solution could be found for the most obvious question that occurs to one at once on examining any historical event; that is, How did millions of men combine to commit crimes, murders, wars, and so on?

We may recall (as stated in Chapter 3) how our limit - questions place all the disciplines in question and demand a justification that lies outside the boundaries of the disciplines themselves.

True to process thought, Screwtape implies that the world is a process of becoming in which transience and activity are fundamental; he further indicates that the only eternal aspect of the Future is the question of potentialities which may or may not be actualized; and he indirectly supports Whitehead's supposition that the justification of any system of thought lies in its ability to organize and elucidate immediate experience.

It is asked, «Who today cares about those musty doctrinal disputes of the sixteenth century over questions such as justification?»

Leave aside the question of whether or not it's true that justification is by grace alone through faith alone.

And it is precisely these two beliefs that are compromised by Ford's genetic approach; but they are compromised without ever bringing into question the justification of the traditional interpretations.

Foundational questions can, of course, be so formalized that we fail to get to the substantive, practical questions of day - to - day living, but unless we are somehow willing to cope with the basic assumptions and beliefs which serve as the justifications for what we think and do, we are virtually certain to become the victims of whatever forces happen to be dominant at any given moment of our lives.

Unless this question is answered satisfactorily, black theologians» distinction between white theology and Black Theology is vulnerable to the white contention that the latter is merely the ideological justification of radical black politics.

Because of its basis in Plato, Epicurus, Aristotle, Leibniz, and nearly all so - called «idealists» (so far as the question of mind - and - matter is concerned), my term «neoclassical» has some justification.

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely, for the number involved is large and the stand of many of them based on the distinction between the spiritual fellowship of faith and the Christian communality, have theological justification.

There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.

Duméry makes much of this, whether it be a question of descriptive analogies like those of Otto in The Idea of the Holy or of a justification of these analyses by a critique of knowledge such as is suggested by the works of Husserl, Scheler, or Gabriel Marcel.

Though written from the bias of a patriarchal society, this passage clearly sanctions acts of divorce, leaving the question of grounds to the elusive justification that the wife possesses «some uncleanness» or that «she find no favor in his eyes.»

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

The question was that of the compatibility of the two sets of assertions, or of the justification of one or another statement.

More recognized that some of Luther's complaints were just, but an entirely different threat to the faith came when Luther went further and questioned the validity of sacraments and later developed his doctrine of justification by faith alone.

We question whether Assembly Speaker Silver has absorbed the lessons of any of the various sexual harassment / abuse scandals, and call on him to provide justification for why he should continue to lead the conference.

The Empire Center, a conservative government watchdog, said the proposal «raises a boatload of questions» about cost, eligibility and justification.

And Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York State Restaurant Association, questioned the justification for treating low - wage workers differently.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's free college tuition proposal raises a boatload of questions about cost, eligibility and justification — although it isn't too difficult to guess at winners and losers.

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.