Wouldn't it be nice if just one programme, apart from Songs of Praise, didn't rely on risqué banter to cover up its creative, moral and spiritual bankruptcy?
But because the values that I gather from my experience of Christianity in the Orthodox Church embrace the kingdom of God as an eschatological reality that is present with us now, and includes creative moral freedom coupled with human responsibility, I do not see any conflict in seeking social progress as an objective of being a human being in the world, especially when it leads to justice.
Our continued creative and moral over-reliance on his plays is, at best, unimaginative and, at worst, dangerous.
Hopkins, to be fair, has long seemed to pride himself on his philistine tendencies, and his abrupt creative and moral U-turns.
As Denby notes, this is an idea that has been kicking around since the early Renaissance, when Dante Alighieri frantically sought salvation through the ministrations of his beloved Beatrice: men need women to inspire them to the loftiest creative and moral heights; otherwise they will fail miserably.
Some of the most creative contemporary moral theologians -- Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University, for instance -- are pacifists, while those who remain adherents of just-war theory are highly sensitive to its misuses and therefore typically emphasize the tight constraints it puts on the use of military force.
Any discernment, any question of purpose or meaning, anything creative, all moral dilemmas — any thought process that I want God to be involved in, it's gotta happen in the morning.
And, as underground and "adult" comics have proven, when the medium is totally released from any creative or moral restrictions, it's able to explore the entirety of the human experience and illuminate parts of life that are not always so clearly visible to us otherwise.
We need to see enlighten goals for a moral, creative and highly commercial 21st-century Britain.
The article, a scathing indictment that circulated far and wide, including in Iraq, accused the Army's generals of lacking "professional character," "creative intelligence" and "moral courage".
"Hauser has been particularly creative in studying moral psychology in diverse populations, including small-scale societies, patients with brain damage, psychopaths and people with rare genetic disorders that affect their judgments," he said.
