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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.
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
On nonproliferation, India believes that the vacuous legalism of the current nonproliferation regime will lead the world nowhere.
They are brutal and remorseless killers, undeserving of the legalism of international conventions, the U.S. government argues.
These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism.
Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability.
A commitment to legalism can never substitute for a commitment to the ideals law distortedly symbolizes.
What it amounts to is the idea of moral legalism, that one should outlaw all wrongdoing.
As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
The history of the Church, Coughlin notes, displays periods of both legalism and antinomianism.
And none of these ancient writers has seemed to me to lead to any sort of legalism.
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.
There are the two extremes of legalism and antinomianism to avoid.
This applies as much to adultery and covetousness as to legalism, pride and unwillingness to forgive.
There « Pharisee » becomes a term expressive of typical hypocrisy, the dead letter, legalism, hardness.
The leaven of bad teaching the apostle wished to correct in Galatia happened to be legalism propagated by the circumcision group.
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.
Thus the pre-conciliar legalism reappears in a post-conciliar form.
Rigid legalism sits alongside rampant illegality, and a vibrant private sector coexists with a sclerotic state.
The narrowness of Germany's approach is reinforced by its emphasis on legalism rather than economics.
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The struggle with legalism was now over and past, at least in its critical phase.
If legalism gets its answer in the character of the restoration, antinomianism gets its answer in the effect thereof.
When taken together, they furnish a triumphant answer to the legalism and antinomianism of the human heart.
It is also easy to discern how legalism helped to create and sustain the current crisis in terms of episcopal decisions over the last decade.
In those circumstances, a story of radical forgiveness was a useful antidote to the prevailing legalism.
The tendency of legalism to externalise life has another aspect.
Those who resort to legalism, he has said, ensure their own condemnation.
In the view of legalism, this is the natural outcome of Pauline teaching.
This was the condition to which legalism would reduce the Galatians.
Was it by stumbling up the ladder of self-righteousness and legalism?
It established legalism over justice, so a known, convicted murderer could spend up to 10 years in the court system before being executed.
But the case of Prince Michael, as it happened, was complicated by legalism as well as lawlessness.
This project involved four studies considering the conceptualization and measurement of grace and legalism orientations.
Legalism replaces the direct action of strikes or other challenges to the rule of capital.
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