How To Use Legalism In A Sentence
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Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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The legalism was too tough and the first empire that tried it, the Qin empire, which gave China its name lasted only two emperors, then got kicked out.
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These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism.
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There are the two extremes of legalism and antinomianism to avoid.
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I ask only because the ‘debate’ about the use of this horrible substance appears to be sliding into maze of legalism and moralism.
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It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
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Much as one might want to avoid an annual freshet of legalism, it is very hard to argue that there is not.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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Canadian science-based risk regulation has ample room to move away from closed-door bargaining and its lack of public accountability, without falling into the pitfalls of American pluralist legalism.
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To view it differently is to prefer brain-dead legalism to survival.
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Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability.
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Thus the pre-conciliar legalism reappears in a post-conciliar form.
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Thank you for your reply to my letter, which confirms your reliance on legalism-moralism rather than realpolitik to determine international policy.
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One might as well charge Jesus with legalism in adopting a term sanctioned by God
Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922
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Yet I think the continued presence of these wrong doctrines has a baleful and divisive influence in Adventism, causing large segments of the denomination to lurch towards legalism and works righteousness.
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Today, democracy is above all about formal legalism - the unconditional adherence to a set of formal rules that guarantee society's antagonisms are fully absorbed into the political arena.
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The resort to legalism has contributed to the present crisis.
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On nonproliferation, India believes that the vacuous legalism of the current nonproliferation regime will lead the world nowhere.
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The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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And none of these ancient writers has seemed to me to lead to any sort of legalism.
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There are the two extremes of legalism and antinomianism to avoid.
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The history of the Church, Coughlin notes, displays periods of both legalism and antinomianism.
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But in this legislation I see there is no freedom to choose; there is just legalism, which binds people.
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Theologian Keri Harvey writes, “Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and ac ceptance by God through my obedience to God.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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In this kingdom of strict and complete legalism, it was considered that the judge certainly never made new law himself, he had no democratic legitimacy to reform the law or to express views on what the law should be.
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It is equally clear from the objects section that the legalism of the Employment Contracts Act era is no longer a useful construction of the employment relationship.
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In this chapter, Jesus used the word woe eight times as a strong warning to those who, through legalism, were keeping people out of heaven.
Surviving in an Angry World
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I think a lot of people, especially in the emergent church movement, like that I took to task too much over literalization or legalism.
How to recover from a year of living Biblically « Dating Jesus
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The Essenes were not only greatly inclined to apocalyptic views and legalism, but they were frantically anti-Hellenistic.
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She recalled the hairsplitting legalisms of the Icelandic sagas.
Operation Luna
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It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
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Instead of careful legalisms, there was an easy flow of answers, even if some were too pat.
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For when primitive irrationalism allies itself to excessive legalism, we turn ourselves into wards of the state.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of careful legalisms, there was an easy flow of answers, even if some were too pat.
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They'll use a lot of legalisms and a lot of semantic language so that it won't be quite so black and white.
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I think we get into law and legalism, and we don't understand that it's really, really human to err.
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They are brutal and remorseless killers, undeserving of the legalism of international conventions, the U.S. government argues.
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It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
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The history of the Church, Coughlin notes, displays periods of both legalism and antinomianism.
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What it amounts to is the idea of moral legalism, that one should outlaw all wrongdoing.
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Christianity is not, as David implied, about escaping eternal damnation by following pages of strict legalism (which is another very common misconception).
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I've also been called a legalist and accused of thinking myself better than others (the true definition of legalism is believing that I must do certain things in order to be/stayed saved - which I don't, and wearing dresses wouldn't be one of those things!).
18th and 19th Century Country Women
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That would include sharp-tongued humor, strong observation, and surprising insights, not platitudes and legalisms.
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The only acceptable, pragmatic stance here is to seek to transform religion: to draw out its source code, remove its dead wood, and reconstruct it without its legalism.
