Not exact matches
There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the
article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary
of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their
faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their
strong prohibitions
of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression
of God's law.»
So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an
article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense
of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful,
strong, efficient, and competent form
of power or control.
At the end
of his
article Wilken writes: «The question to be asked, then, is whether, face to face with Islam, Christians will be able to sustain, rebuild, and create
strong and resilient communities that provide institutional anchorage for the
faith to endure and flourish.
It can readily be seen that there are
strong reasons for the fact that Bultmann's
article on
Faith, in Kittel's TWNT, in many ways a classic, did not include a discussion
of the teaching
of Jesus.
As I have written in a recent
article on the topic
of shoplifting demand letters, when lawyers send letters that mislead the public as to their legal obligations, there is a
strong case that these lawyers are breaching rules
of professional misconduct by, among other things, knowingly assisting their clients in dishonest conduct and violating their obligations to act in good
faith and practice law with integrity.