One occasion of uncertainty and hesitation, in those by whom this great rule has been commented and dilated, is the confusion of what the exacter casuists are careful to distinguish, debts of justice, and debts of charity.
I thought every man who loved me truly would act in the same manner; and, whether I am right or wrong in my conjectures, I leave wiser casuists to judge.
Take Asolo's Four Happiest Ones-- And let thy morning rain on that superb Great haughty Ottima; can rain disturb Her Sebald's homage?
Let me use the privilege You grant me: if I still command you,--stay!
They have had like other religious in the dark ages casuists who have treated the pro and con of questions that are evident today or have been relegated to oblivion.
It was presumably for the purpose of averting knowledge of such disgraceful occurrences that casuists discovered that pollution occurred only when the act was public and not occult.
It was admitted, however, that there were degrees of danger which would release the woman from the obligation, and casuists endeavored to define this with their usual acuteness and lack of unanimity.
The hesitation of the orthodox casuists on this interesting subject, betrays the perplexity of men, unwilling to approve an institution which they were compelled to tolerate.
A pope condemned the apology of the casuists that the Jesuits had risked.
The tale told more than once by the middle ages, and which casuists have examined so coldly, the violation of the dead, we here meet with again.
Let theological casuists argue as they will, Christian hearts will shrink from thinking of Jesus as surrendering a fugitive slave; or of any of his apostles, unless it be Judas.
Political casuists may exercise their skill in making the worse appear the better reason, still all honest minds have an intuitive perception that no human enactment which violates God's laws is worthy of respect.
From this principle you will easily see that if they had none but laxcasuists they would defeat their chief purpose, which is to include the whole world.
On the other hand, the vast number of their lax casuists are at the service of the innumerable multitude who seek the broad and easy way.
Therefore, having to do with people of all sorts and conditions, and of diverse nationalities, they need casuists suited to all this diversity.
The whole society of their casuists cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, and therefore it is important to choose safe guides.
Casuists submit the decision to corrupt reason, and the choice of decisions to corrupt will, so that all that is corrupt in the nature of man may help to rule his conduct.
If any such scruple had arisen in his mind, there was no want, under his roof, of casuists willing and competent to soothe his conscience with sophisms such as had corrupted the far nobler natures of Anthony Babington and Everard Digby.
These learned casuists pronounced the Declaration unobjectionable in a religious point of view.
It was not quite impossible that men whose minds had been nourished with the writings of such casuists might think themselves justified in denying a charge which, if acknowledged, would bring great scandal on the Church.
It was well known also that the most distinguished Catholic casuists had written largely in defence of regicide, of mental reservation, and of equivocation.
If the casuists in such cases should tell me this is what they mean by love, why then I am in love.
I have been casting about to send this superintendant of the cardinal virtues, this captain of casuists and caterpillars out of the way; and I think I have hit upon a tolerably bold and ingenious stratagem.
The Casuists also held to that idea: I count Grotius among the most eminent of them, and he was followed in this point by his commentators.
He quotes casuists who are somewhat lax, who say that a son can desire the death of his father, not in so far as it is an evil for himself but in so far as it is a good for his heirs (Reply to the Questions of a Provincial, ch.
In the preceding ages no more was given, as their casuists assure us, than the fortieth or thirtieth part; a custom which this singular nation still practise.
But as among the schoolmen and casuists there have been great men, the same happened to these Gemaraists.
Suppose, for instance, that some casuists held it wrong to dance on Sunday, while others held it perfectly lawful.
Probabiliorists maintained that the more general opinion ought to prevail, irrespectively of whether it was the stricter or the laxer; dancing on Sunday was perfectly lawful, if the majority of casuists approved it.
The Dominican and Franciscan casuists might have been equally charged; but, as Voltaire observed, it would not have answered the purpose.
This, I believe, is the triumphant list of casuists drawn up, rank and file, to confront and confound the whole society to which they are said to have belonged.
Some of their casuists taught doctrines, which, in their time, were the most usual in schools, but which were afterwards condemned or prohibited at Rome.
While the casuists thus increased the number of crimes which the Inquisition could prosecute, on the other hand, they shortened the judicial procedure then in vogue.
The casuists of the Inquisition, however, came to the rescue, and tried to defend the Church by another subterfuge.
The theologians and casuists soon began to defend the procedure of the Inquisition.
The subtlety of the casuists had full play when they came to discuss the torture of the prisoner who absolutely refused to confess.
But casuists were not wanting to prove that heresy was involved in such cases.
Modern Catholic casuistshave dealt with the subject in the same spirit.
The immortal pages of Pascal are sufficient to show to what extremes of immorality the doctrine that the end justifies the means has been pushed by the casuists of the Church of which Cardinal Newman was so great an ornament.
At popular elections the most rigorous casuists will remit a little of their severity.
The casuists submit the decision to the corrupt reason, and the choice of decisions to the corrupt will, in order that all that is corrupt in the nature of man may contribute to his conduct.
The whole society itself of their casuists cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, and that is why it is important to choose good guides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "casuists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
