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According to the
Online Etymological Dictionary, the term and its
agent noun "
casuist",
appearing from
about 1600,
derive from the
Latin noun casus, meaning...
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Athenian Mercury, or The
Athenian Gazette, or The
Question Project, or The
Casuistical Mercury, was a
periodical written by The
Athenian Society and published...
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ruler Ur-Nammu had
formulated the
first law code,
which consisted of
casuistic statements ("if … then ...").
Around 1760 BC, King
Hammurabi further developed...
- term "pilpul" was
increasingly applied derogatorily to
novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.
Authors referred to
their own
commentaries as "al derekh...
- The
Society of
Jesus (Latin:
Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also
known as the
Jesuit Order or the
Jesuits (/ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-;...
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would have
treated me as
gently when I
refused to
revise the book on the
casuistical ground that the
copyright was in the
hands of my publishers.
There was...
- that
virtue may be taught.
Cicero shows that he was much
interested in
casuistical questions, as, for example,
whether a good man who
received a coin he...
- approach, the
Sephardim sought to
simplify the
Talmud and free it from
casuistical detail; see for
example Chananel Ben Chushiel.
Alfasi also left many...
- the gods "to
prevent the
strong from
oppressing the weak". The laws are
casuistic,
expressed as "if ... then"
conditional sentences.
Their scope is broad...
- gift to one another:
Jesus avoids entangling himself in
juridical or
casuistic controversies; instead, he
appeals twice to the "beginning". By doing...
