It remains true, Pius declared, that error has no rights «objectively,» but «the duty to repress religious and moral deviation can not be
an ultimate norm for action.
Just as within the context of Whitehead's philosophy one can and must go beyond righteousness as
the ultimate norm for conduct, so also one can and must go beyond beauty and strength of beauty as the ultimate value.
We do not advocate accommodation to culture; we regard Scripture as the sole
ultimate norm for doctrine and practice.
Not exact matches
85 But characteristically he went on to praise America
for its democracy: «Democracy is an
ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»
Once fulfilled, this experience becomes the
norm according to which all human - divine relationships are evaluated and the
ultimate source from which the new possibilities
for the human - divine relationship are drawn.
He argues
for the «need to go beyond authorial motivation to theological relation,» i.e., to the Jesus Christ of sacred history who is our
ultimate norm in faith and conduct.
This tendency to look
for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation,
ultimate moral
norms, the truth, is finally the expression of our own insecurity with human relativity and a symbol of our desperate need
for security.
It is up to us as school administrators and teachers to ensure that good judgment extends beyond what might be considered current social
norm and take into account what is best
for our students» spirits, humanity and
ultimate sense of belonging.
The new Bugatti is out of the
norm for the company, as it generally builds cars
for the
ultimate automotive connoisseurs and not mass consumers.