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…church and religion; the state; business and property ownership; and manners, customs, and languages [and there will be a section for stuff that doesn’t fit into that]. So, your comments…
…church and religion; the state; business and property ownership; and manners, customs, and languages [and there will be a section for stuff that doesn’t fit into that]. So, your comments…
…gospel, that I may share in its blessings. Maybe someone else can find a better passage to be the ‘Romans 13’ of manners and customs. I can’t. Manners and customs…
…I believe that the church has the right to adopt ‘customs’ in a given situation that are not God’s Law. For example, I think the Baptist Church had the right…
…It ordains manners, customs, and languages. By ‘manners’ I mean those customs we share that we believe to be binding on our cultural group but not on everyone on the…
…regulate the responses to attacks on honour with such customs as the duel. From our judgment seat of the here and now, most would consider duels and gunfights irrational barbarism….
…observe the Christian Year; but it will be yet another way in which believing Christians stand against the culture, in addition to our sexual practices and our Holy Matrimony customs….
…manners, customs, and the rules of languages. And its units are ethnic and cultural groups, not state. [The attempt, early in the 20th century, to try to make ethnicity and…
…society,” but society does not ordain our morals, our governments, or our family structure – it only ordains, in my view, our manners, customs, and languages. These really are relative….
…daily friction with groups of different customs had worn away still more of their custom-made morality. [Caesar and Christ, p. 366] This sort of multiculturalism, however, had nothing to do…
…God-ordained sphere of authority. I speak of customs, cultures, and manners, including languages and their rules. We do not think of these, usually, as moral absolutes, but we try to…