prescinding

Going beyond, however, never means prescinding from the conclusions of reason, nor contradicting its results.

Archive 2009-08-01 John M 2009

After him, he who wants to continue to read Scripture prescinding from this act, would be like one who continues to read a musical score in the key of "F," after the composer has introduced the key of "G" into the passage: From that point on every single note would sound as a false and off-key note.

Archive 2008-03-09 papabear 2008

He confines his attention mainly to ideal theory, prescinding from questions such as those of criminal justice.

John Rawls Wenar, Leif 2008

The mistake I made was to use the word 'obscurantism' for the common tendency among Orthodox to hold, in my words, that "nothing can be well studied while prescinding from divine revelation."

Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

The mistake I made was to use the word 'obscurantism' for the common tendency among Orthodox to hold, in my words, that "nothing can be well studied while prescinding from divine revelation."

Ever ancient, ever new...arguments Mike L 2007

Accordingly, any theological investigation that purports to identify the full, unsullied deposit of faith while prescinding from the question what specific body is "the" Church is an exercise of private judgment in the end—not merely in the beginning, where we must all begin.

Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

Accordingly, any theological investigation that purports to identify the full, unsullied deposit of faith while prescinding from the question what specific body is "the" Church is an exercise of private judgment in the end—not merely in the beginning, where we must all begin.

Progressing to ecclesiological debate Mike L 2007

It is re­markable that the first and last specific elementary mineral sub­stance mentioned in Sacred Scripture is gold (see Genesis 2:11 and Revelation 21:21, prescinding from the subsequent more generic descriptors "glass" and "crystal"); thus, gold is "the Alpha and the Omega" of minerals representing God Himself (Revelation 22:13).

Why wheat? Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

It is re­markable that the first and last specific elementary mineral sub­stance mentioned in Sacred Scripture is gold (see Genesis 2:11 and Revelation 21:21, prescinding from the subsequent more generic descriptors "glass" and "crystal"); thus, gold is "the Alpha and the Omega" of minerals representing God Himself (Revelation 22:13).

Archive 2007-06-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

I say "within marriage" because the Church's teaching about contraception presupposes that the sexual act in question is morally licit, at least in itself and prescinding from contraception.

Why the condom debate is big for the Church Mike L 2006