Sentences with phrase «theological legitimization»

In all the situations cited, a section of the Church was in itself directly involved in provoking and participating in the violence — often giving theological legitimization for the conflicts or for the oppression of «the other.»

«This was an attempt to give theological legitimization to the papal grant of the New World to the Castilian sovereigns for the purpose of evangelizing it.»

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral community.