| These abstract principles are then applied to particular cases through a complex process called, of course, casuistry. |
| It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner. |
| The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness. |
| In 1656 his Provincial Letters decried the abuse of casuistry by Jesuits in Paris. |
| That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry. |
| Yet casuistry was always controversial, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became thoroughly discredited. |
