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  • Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy by Theodore Beale, is a fantasy in which it must be determined whether or not elves, orcs and such have souls and must be evangelized.

    A Somewhat Medicated look at Marcher Lord Press nissa_amas_katoj 2008

  • Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy by Theodore Beale, is a fantasy in which it must be determined whether or not elves, orcs and such have souls and must be evangelized.

    Archive 2008-09-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2008

  • Casuistry suffuses the thinking of religious intellectuals.

    What Is This “Secular Ethics” Of Which You Speak? 2007

  • Casuistry, thus understood, is an indispensable aid to moral reasoning.

    Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

  • An old treatise on Casuistry lay on the top shelf.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Casuistry dismissed, however, the author throws himself on the indulgent consideration of all who may conceive themselves aggrieved by his delay, in the following account of his own condition from the end of last year, when the engagement was made, up nearly to the present time.

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

  • Kalam literally means "speech" or "word," and in philosophy is used for the Greek logos, but it primarily refers to theology in contradistinction to fiqh or jurisprudence and in distinction to philosophical argumentation, Casuistry means "that part of ethics which resolves cases of conscience, applying the general rules of religion and morality to particular instances in which 'circumstances alter cases' or in which there appears to be a conflict of duties" (OED).

    What Happened in Iran? Fischer, Michael M.J. 1980

  • Casuistry is liable to abuse, and has often been abused.

    Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965

  • Casuistry — the science and doctrine of conscience — is designed, as the name denotes, to resolve cases of doubt and uncertainty in regard to points of subjective morality.

    Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965

  • Lutheran Church (1650 – 1712), in his “Bibliotheca Biblica,” has a list of the authors on Casuistry under three divisions, comprehending the Calvinistic,

    Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965

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