Again, the Reformation had drawn a line round the canon - sharply in Calvinism, less sharply in Lutheranism (which also gave a quasi normative position to its Confessions of Faith).
Also, you say that the use of various gifts shouldn't be considered normative to evangelism.
Chapter Two considers the normative syllogism, a formalization of the process of (deductively) applying law to facts.
For example, initiation of sexual intercourse and experimentation with alcohol and drugs are normative adolescent behaviors.
Hence, morality and patriotism cannot be meaningfully contrasted as distinct strands of normative thinking; patriotism cannot be meaningfully contrasted as distinct strands of normative thinking; patriotism is the precondition of moral functioning.
However, questions arise when it becomes normative for the life and ministry of the church in general.
However, the fact that I have promised to do something is intrinsically normative.
In Gombrich a normative logic must always drive representational convention in one direction.
Man's separation from God and his present condition are basically traced to God Himself and not to man, and are made normative.
Normative agents fled from known aggressive agents, forgoing social interaction but also forgoing the possibility of theft and a loss to their strength.
Normative influence does not have to involve physical coercion.
Normative tests or milestone scales should not be the major basis for the developmental assessment of infants and young children.
Normative theory in both cases is reduced to the shrunken form of applied ethics - moral principles unsuccessfully imposed on politics.
Norms-A fixed or ideal standard; a normative or mean score for a particular age group.
One can affirm metaethical theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic; one cannot affirm normative theological voluntarism while being a moral skeptic.
Recent debates about intellectual property rights have been marked by a spurt of critiques aimed at the very normative basis of intellectual property.
Subsidiary to metaphysics, as the central inquiry, stand the sciences of logic and ethics, to which may be added aesthetics, constituting three normative sciences - sciences, that is, which do not, primarily, describe facts, but rather prescribe ends or set forth ideals.
The English version of this specification is the only normative version.
The fact that some things are ultimate may be recognized by the synechist without abandoning his standpoint, since synechism is a normative or regulative principle, not a theory of existence.
The introduction of the term "regulative" or "normative" is intended to differentiate the science from psychology as the science of mental processes or events.
The view just described is a version of normative theological voluntarism.
There can be recourse, that is, to logical or conceptual relations of an essentially normative kind.
These models correspond in some part to actual societies, past or present, but are also normative in character.
Ueberweg's definition of it as "the science of the regulative laws of thought" (or "the normative science of thought") comes near enough to the traditional sense to enable us to compare profitably the usual subject-matter of the science with the definition and end of philosophy.
We appreciate your constant encouragement and your steadfast upholding of the value of celibate chastity as normative for the ordained priesthood.