| Yet casuistry was always controversial, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became thoroughly discredited. |
| That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry. |
| And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents. |
| In 1656 his Provincial Letters decried the abuse of casuistry by Jesuits in Paris. |
| The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness. |
| Medieval scholasticism has continued to fuel contemporary debates on euthanasia and abortion and it has helped revive casuistry. |
