Sentences with phrase «rationale for»

While leading a week - long seminar on deep secularization and its effects in Europe (and on the democratic project throughout the world), I met younger Israeli scholars, deeply immersed in their Judaism and keen students of political philosophy, who were trying to articulate a Jewish theological rationale for human rights, democracy, the rule of law, and so forth.

The service function of the theologian, therefore, may include the formulating of a rationale for theological positions that he would not personally hold.

In my mind, the article therefore lacked consistency — either the NT is dominant over all the OT; or the OT is dominant over all the NT; or, the author must clearly show extraordinary rationale for such an inconsistent approach.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

It is a modification of the picture of excellent theological schooling rooted in Schleiermacher's rationale for a school of theology in the University of Berlin.

Thus is explained the rationale for the pause during group prayer.

The rationale for defending truth is that its light shows us the way to freedom.

This simple syllogism provides the rationale for theological exegesis.

I find your rationale for Kosher foods very interesting, but I prefer to consider meat according to its nutritional values and ease of procurement.

But, of course, one must ask a basic theological question: What is the theological rationale for consciously and concertedly bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation with all its religio - cultural and socioeconomic dimensions into the realm of Christian theology?

He explicitly linked the rationale for assisted suicide to that for abortion, arguing that the Supreme Court's decisions in Roe and Casey effectively compelled him to do so.

It has become a question of giving an adequate rationale for what Protestant theology is all about in the global village.

These penal ties notwithstanding, once the Christian's rationale for war - tax refusal is accepted, such resistance becomes a necessary and continuing part of living the Christian life.

The latter consequence would follow because, logically, a solution which justifies all evils can not simultaneously offer a rationale for the elimination, diminution or avoidance of any evil.

Continuing our earlier discussion concerning the theological rationale for bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation into the realm of Christian theology, another related question arises.

That the law was held to be unconstitutional was less shocking than that the Court was unable to articulate a coherent rationale for its conclusion.

Adopting the style she did, enables the more thoughtful dissenters to reflect on the validity of their rationale for being anti Muslim or opposed to an interfaith center for the purpose of bringing people together.

He writes that even though «it would be furthest from Whitehead's mind to consider that such a metaphysical theodicy could readily serve as a rationale for the repressiveness of totalitarian regimes.»

Liberty and Sexuality is his account of how abortion on demand came to enjoy the protection of the United States Constitution and of why Harry Blackmun's rationale for individual autonomy (especially in matters sexual) should be retained and expanded.

The rationale for American support for Georgia in its Chihuahua vs. Rottweiler dispute with Russia was that energy pipelines could be run through Georgia.

This teaching is the basic rationale for war - tax resistance, which, as Karl Meyer points out (Catholic Worker, November - December, 1969), has had its place in history:

Drawing on his experience of nearly a half century of ministry — much of it connected with retreats — Raines gives a rationale for the offering of retreat experiences to clergy for purposes of sanctuary, nourishment, study, silence, healing and encouragement.

As it has been absorbed by liberalism, this victimhood argument is meant to put some steel in the liberals» appeal to compassion as a rationale for paying for the welfare state.

She also points to a lack of critical engagement with culture, saying that for her the ideal is «not just to take things on face value but to give a robust rationale for why we think like we do».

Still, we must notice that the way Obama told the story undercuts the protect - the - real - persons rationale for creating a composite, because we can now see that anyone who actually knew the young Obama and Cook might have read Dreams and thought «I didn't know Genevieve was so obtuse about black culture.»

The theological principle that a man, by his own strength, can not even sustain the basic ethical level of natural principles is the rationale for the misery that we are living through today.

The rationale for process theology evolved from philosophical critiques of Augustine's attempt to combine the living God of the Bible with the changeless being of neo-platonic metaphysics and reframed the doctrine of God in relation to a contemporary view of nature and the new historical consciousness.

The poor do not exist as a problem to be solved, or to provoke the guilt of the rich, or to provide a rationale for Great Society, welfare - state legislation.

For example, his theological rationale for why Canaanite woman and children were killed is terribly weak (p. 189).

He says that John Rawls, Charles Reich, and their like have failed to construct a persuasive new rationale for the welfare state.

It used the anti-semitism that had been prevalent in Europe for a long time as a rationale for fanaticism.

In the seminary the once obvious rationale for Bible, theology and history is no longer visible.

Moreover, religious teachings that warn believers against such temptations as greed and envy provide a strong rationale for believing that it is these moral failings more than anything else to which poverty and economic injustice must be attributed.

But have you been able to supply a reasonable, material, rationale for all of your personal beliefs?

The earlier rationale for tax exemption was that nonprofit organizations are simply not part of the tax base to begin with because their members already pay their own share of the costs of government as taxpayers in their own right.

Thus the student is subjected to a confusing amalgam of tradition and criticism, which also undercuts the tradition, as a rationale for the whole package of study.

In his conversation with Bill, the man quoted from the Gospel story of Jesus and the rich young man as a rationale for his actions.

Both the title and the rationale for the series «New Turns in Religious Thought» suggest that theology is passing through one of its most agonizing periods, as if it were trying to open a door with the wrong key.

Whatever the rationale for their formulation, however, the texts leave no room for maneuvering.

At the same time, they are trying to recover the rationale for the interim state in the first place.

After all, this state of affairs was built into the rationale for same - sex marriage when it was installed by the Supreme Judicial Council of Massachusetts back in 2003.

For Jews, strict separation became a convenient constitutional rationale for strict secularism.

Edward Holloway offered a particularly compelling theological rationale for these truths.

This is both the rationale for and the justification of the age - long practice of baptizing infants.

And herein lies the rationale for the exclusivity of marriage.

Let us, then, describe briefly what the clergy do and endeavor to fit these activities and experiences into the total rationale for their involvement.

The rationale for that is spelled out later in the Gospel in the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

And even if one can construct a theoretical rationale for doing so, as Romanus Cessario does, it was wildly imprudent of Pius IX to take Edgardo from his parents, given the scandal it brought upon the Catholic Church, a scandal that continues to this day.

And if the 1984 bombing is the rationale for extra checks on Sikh then by all means those checks should take place.

The editor gives the rationale for the series Makers of the Modern Theological Mind that includes this volume on the thinking of Reinhold Niebuhr.