Sentence examples for theological justification from inspiring English sources

Each is accompanied by an explanation, and a bit of theological justification for good measure.

Not 'Let's find the theological justification.' The priest is the sacramental representative of Christ as the High Priest, and..."...

Not 'Let's find the theological justification.' The priest is the sacramental representative of Christ as the High Priest, and......

The NGK until 1986 supported the government's policy of apartheid (separate development for the races) and had commissioned several studies to develop theological justification for it.

It would in fact be developmental grounds that provided a theological justification for the doctrines of Mary's Immaculate Conception (defined in 1854) and heavenly assumption (defined in 1950).

The Süddeutsche Zeitung said his university doctorate helped him rise to become Isis leader and enabled him to construct a "theological justification" for the organisation's brutality.

Sister Farley's book finds moral and theological justifications for same-sex marriage, which aside from abortion, has become the major galvanizing political and moral issue for American bishops.

But Muslims must also not deny there is an intolerant, sectarian strand of Islam that provides fake theological justifications for terrorism.

Ratzinger reinforced John Paul II's "Polish problem" — an understanding of the world skewed, perhaps, by too many years as a priest on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain — with theological justifications for silencing Catholicism's most progressive and socially active clergy.

But in the aftermath of the First World War it took an apocalyptic turn, and "new men" eager to embrace the future began generating theological justifications for the most repugnant — and godless — ideologies of the age, Nazism and Communism.

He greatly expanded the role of suicide bombings, with increasingly callous theological justifications, targeting not only the occupation forces and their Iraqi allies but also innocent Shia civilians and politically unfriendly Sunnis, earning for himself the well-deserved title of "the sheikh of the slaughterers".