moralism

mor·al·ism

moral teaching; moralizing
a moral maxim
belief in or practice of a system of ethics apart from religion

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moralism

noun

A conventional moral maxim or attitude.
The act or practice of moralizing.
Often undue concern for morality.

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Noun

(usually uncountable, plural moralisms)

The act or practice of moralizing.
A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.

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Thus the " moralism " sometimes traced in Hermas is apparent rather than real, for he has a deep sense of the enabling grace of God.
Hence a new sort of legalism, known to recent writers as Moralism, underlies much of the piety of the Apostolic Fathers, though Ignatius is quite free from it, while Polycarp and "Barnabas" are less under its influence than are the Didache, Clement, the Homilist and Hermas.

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