Sentences with phrase «theological arguments against it»

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

Though it is entirely legitimate for a scientist, or anyone else, to present philosophical or theological arguments against naturalistic evolution, it can not properly be claimed that such arguments are themselves scientific ones.

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

His theological argument against religious freedom, widely held in the Roman universities of the day, rested on the proposition that «error has no rights.»

The most sophisticated theological argument against the conviction that some human beings in fact go to hell has been proposed by Hans Urs von Balthasar in his book Dare We Hope «That All Men Be Saved?»

A decade ago, Michael Novak observed in the pages of this journal that «one scarcely ever encounters a theological argument against the proposition that women should be ordained priests» («Women, Ordination, and Angels,» April 1993)....

This objection brings us near the heart of the theological argument against pacifism.

Not exact matches

The Civil War as Theological Crisis by Mark Noll: This book is a stunning eye - opener that details the religious - based arguments for and against slavery in the buildup to the U.S. Civil War.

And that is the point of my argument; the standard theological version of process philosophy — Whitehead with God — leads me to ask such questions, leads me to wonder why such senseless, absurd disasters have plagued us at every step of our history, and this counts strongly against the centered version of process metaphysics.

Perhaps if you knew a little more about what the Church was about, then you would at least be in a position to throw actual stones (i.e., reasoned theological or sociological arguments against the Church).

Saltzman takes issue with what he imagines to be an argument against the authority of St. Paul's theological views on the morality of homosexuality....

I can understand and affirm all the arguments against the monarchy with my reasonable brain and my theological education, absolutely.

«It seems to me that there is a persuasive case for believing that the doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless of the pastoral difficulty it causes, regardless of the philosophical and theological arguments thrown against it, regardless of the historical conditioning of its neo-scholastic framework, has been, and is being taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and without error, by the Church's ordinary universal magisterium.»

Secular arguments against same - sex marriage are important, but far more vital are the Scriptural and theological arguments.

All that would be claimed is this: If we engage in the practice of theological education, then we commit ourselves to the view that it is possible to make truth claims about God and to weigh arguments in favor of and against them, even if they never are and perhaps never can be «knock down» decisive arguments.