t is the same to me if what we have on one side of the equation are a set of abstract concepts or principles
For us it is not an abstract set of concepts of principles. It is a very concrete philosophy that bears on the whole human person, body and soul. For us, those principles bear directly on flesh and blood people. To turn them into abstract principles at odds with flesh and blood is to accept a body soul dichotomy that, while many Catholics, including theologians, have fallen into, is not a part of Catholic cosmology.
I can think of two offhand
The former was not a moral teaching. And in the latter, we can't forget that he told her to go forth and sin no more. He was not compromising about her sin, but was attacking the infidelity of the crowd to the principles of righteousness .. as your quote demonstrates that they were doing.
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Date: 2006-03-13 08:49 pm (UTC)For us it is not an abstract set of concepts of principles. It is a very concrete philosophy that bears on the whole human person, body and soul. For us, those principles bear directly on flesh and blood people. To turn them into abstract principles at odds with flesh and blood is to accept a body soul dichotomy that, while many Catholics, including theologians, have fallen into, is not a part of Catholic cosmology.
I can think of two offhand
The former was not a moral teaching. And in the latter, we can't forget that he told her to go forth and sin no more. He was not compromising about her sin, but was attacking the infidelity of the crowd to the principles of righteousness .. as your quote demonstrates that they were doing.