Sentences with phrase «rough justice in society»
Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of evil created by human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.
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A public of a society where reason is often reduced to sheer instrumentality, where technology is in danger of becoming technocracy — yet a public where the interest of a genuine public good is symbolically, legally and politically affirmed and where a «rough justice» can occasionally prevail.
God intended equality among men; but «private property, slavery, imperialism, the State itself, appear in post-Fall society as regulations of God to preserve nature, which is always being disrupted by sin».26 Justice thus appears as the rough, necessary, coerced order of human societies which is not wholly antithetical to love, since it serves the purpose of God in the creation and history.