Sentences with phrase «religious pluralism»

The essays in the Sigmund volume address both the challenge of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux volume is an essay by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness of the martyrs.

This chapter addresses the latter question by looking at the role played by religious pluralism and law in the formation of America's civil religion.

People from my generation are asking very similar questions about religious pluralism, salvation, justification, inerrancy, and faith.

The author identifies a crisis in christology, stemming from religious pluralism and the quest for the historical Jesus.

Finally, allowing shopping on Sundays could be seen as a gesture toward religious pluralism.

Dr. Cobb suggests implications for religious pluralism, the relationship of science and religion, the character of postmodern thought, and the construction of a postmodern theology.

The accommodation of American religious pluralism takes very local form, for instance.

I wrote that Sisi's speech was a hopeful gesture, even a brave one — but that only time will tell how serious Sisi is about honoring religious pluralism.

But the fact that their faiths don't seem to be hampering their chances shows «real growth in the acceptance of religious pluralism since World War II.»

The professors endorse religious pluralism, though their personal attention to ecumenical matters wavers; yet they find few good rationales for denominational separatism.

In 1989 Marty was speaking on religious pluralism at the University of New Mexico.

Like Olson, the justices had to make their arguments in light of U.S. legal history, past and present religious pluralism, and variegated religio - political support of the God - phrase in the pledge.

«It also represents a further, and severe, erosion of Indonesia's values of religious pluralism as set out in the Pancasila, the state ideology.

At least we can expect no positive relationship between religious pluralism and societal complexity.

Justice P. Chenchia in his «Religious Toleration - An Essay at Understanding», said, that the toleration by religions of religious pluralism within the family is the key to the practice of religious freedom for conversion in India.

Thus religious plurality has moved to religious pluralism which has its own dynamics.

The world has learned through very hard experience that religious pluralism encourages and enables contributions from all; while religious discrimination is often the source of conflicts that endanger all.

Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no more than 5 per cent claiming other religions.

Since then, I have found that there are more than two ways of approaching religious pluralism.

Some will doubtless see this development as the beginning of the end of all that is good and godly in Christian America, while others will read it as a reason to rejoice in U.S. religious pluralism.

It solved two problems: (1) it prevented the conservative bent of established religion from defending any status quo uncritically, and (2) it made our high degree of religious pluralism compatible with our national unity.

They have also been able to grow more rapidly, it appears, in democratic societies that protect religious pluralism and freedom of speech than under authoritarian regimes.

While the authors report having «found little evidence that the strong tendencies toward religious freedom and religious pluralism led to any lack of religious vitality» in the campuses they visited, their account suggests otherwise: faculty and administrators are afraid to offend students by supporting religious «rules and regulations» or by teaching Christian doctrine.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»

One of the wisest statements about our present situation of religious pluralism comes from Herbert Fingarette in his book The Self in Transformation:

We can imagine a Russia in which an authoritarian government accepts religious pluralism and economic oligarchy in exchange for a free hand with the media and political power.

Or does religious pluralism necessarily imply a religious relativism, in which what is good and true for us may not be good and true for everyone?

Rather than appreciating the benefits that religious pluralism offers to the larger society, some of our guests were clearly puzzled.

In fact, when I've actually taken the time to study the issues that trigger my doubts — issues like religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, biblical interpretation, evolution, predestination and free will — I come out with a stronger, more resilient faith.

Nord is proposing not so much a restoration as the creation of something new in response to a shift from an enforced Protestant culture to de facto religious pluralism and de jure secularism.

Briefly put, my argument is (1) the condition of religious pluralism prevents any one religion from being used by all people as a source of generalized meaning, but (2) people nevertheless need to invest their activity with meaning, especially when that activity brings together persons of diverse religious background.

«10 In other words, though religious pluralism can mean the existence simply of religious differences, it can also refer to a situation qualitatively different from other pluralisms: When one meaning system confronts another meaning system, the very meaning of «meaning system» changes.

Protestantism enhanced the development of the concept of religious liberty and thus religious pluralism.

What is underplayed in this approach, however, is the additional role Puritan theology played in legitimizing religious pluralism.

Not surprisingly, without many of the traditional encumbrances the emerging American society was freer than old societies to manifest religious pluralism and its consequences.

Jews have never understood (to their credit) why indeed we can not enjoy religious pluralism» why, that is, we can not be respectful adversaries without resort to the rack and the stake.