Sentences with phrase «anglican religious»

David Cameron's description of a «broken Britain» plays perfectly with the description offered by the Anglican religious leaders this Christmas.

Each of these countries has a strong Anglican religious tradition, though not necessarily as an overwhelming majority.

Not exact matches

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

Not all the authors who make the list have a clear religious identity, but, of those who do, there are six Roman Catholics, five Anglicans, one Orthodox, and five mainline Protestants.

This constitutional disestablishment of all churches embodied the wisdom of Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson — the one from his experience with the Massachusetts theocracy and the other from his experience with the less dangerous Anglican establishment in Virginia — which knew that a combination of religious sanctity and political power represents a heady mixture for status quo conservatism.

They remembered also what had happened in this country to religious dissenters in the Puritan theocracy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and under the Anglican establishment in Virginia.

At the beginning of the long period of Anglo - American dominance, Britain resolved the religious controversies that drove it into civil war by adopting what Mead calls «anglican ethics.»

Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to give it as freely as they have received it....

Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire,?

Winthrop was a deeply religious man, and he believed that the Anglican Church needed to rid itself of Catholic ceremonies.

Many of the early colonies were founded on religious grounds: Virginia: Anglican Massachusetts: Puritan Rhode Island: religious tolerance Connecticut, New York, New Jersey: Dutch Reformed Calvinists Maryland: Catholics Pennsylvania: religious tolerance (managed by Quakers)

Suppose, to make this abstraction concrete, that I, as a member of a particular religious community — in my case, as I have said, the communion of Anglican Christians — find myself in contact with a Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhist who, so far as I can tell, believes and teaches things that I think are incompatible with what I believe and teach.

An earlier version of chapter two appeared in Interpretation 26/2 (April 1972), 198 - 209, while chapter four has drawn on materials originally appearing in «Lionel S. Thornton and Process Christology,» Anglican Theological Review 55/4 (October 1973), 479 - 83; «The Incarnation as a Contingent Reality: A Reply to Dr. Pailin,» Religious Studies 8/2 (June 1972), 169 - 73; «The Possibilities for Process Christology,» Encounter 35/4 (Winter 1974), 281 - 94; and «Theological Reflections on Extra-Terrestrial Life,» originally given as the Faculty Research Lecture for the Spring of 1968 at Raymond College of the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, and published in The Raymond Review 2/2 (Fall 1968), 1 - 14.

And it is even more natural and reasonable for someone in religious community A to invite people in religious community B who do not believe the teachings of B but do believe the teachings of A to leave B and join A. That, it seems to me, is precisely what Pope Benedict did in establishing the ordinariate for Anglicans who wish to join the Catholic Church while retaining certain aspects of their Anglican heritage.

The new religious identities and communities which emerged from these conflicts — Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and the more radical groupings often lumped together under the name «Anabaptist» — did indeed share some beliefs and attitudes in common.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

21 Peter F. Anson, The Call of the Cloister, Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion (London, 1955), 217 - 18, 542.

By contrast, and when analysed by attendance, «frequent - attenders» (many of whom will, of course, be Anglicans) have been consistently and significantly more opposed to the death penalty over the last ten years than people who never attend a religious service.

David Cameron has declared «Christians around the world» should be inspired by Anglican and Catholic reforms underway this year, in an unusually religious Christmas message.

The parties acknowledge that creationism, in this sense, is rejected by most mainstream churches and religious traditions, including the major providers of state funded schools such as the [Anglican][Catholic] Churches, as well as the scientific community.

The parties acknowledge that Creationism, in this sense, is rejected by most mainstream Churches and religious traditions, including the major providers of state funded schools such as the [Anglican][Catholic] Churches, as well as the scientific community.

Sunder: religious organizations, acting as employers, have had certain exemptions from anti-discrimination law for some time, and I think I'm right in saying that the Anglican bishops acted to secure some version of these in the recent debates over the Equality Bill...?

The archbishops of Canterbury and York came out in support of the cardinal, despite a general policy among Anglican agencies to help same - sex couples adopt, and Mr Blair was said to be seriously considering an exemption for religious adoption services.

You can use the regional route or the religious route in which case Adisco is for the Anglicans, Aquinas for the Roman Catholics and Prempeh College for the Presbyterians and Methodists.

Scientists and religious believers share a «spirit of inquiry,» she said, quoting behavioral geneticist Lindon J. Eaves, an Anglican priest.

The Catholic Church also features heavily in this decent enough serial killer yarn — the Anglicans are obviously too busy organising whist drives and making cucumber sandwiches to be dealing with demons and religious nutjobs — in which a link is made between a sequence of gruesome murders taking place across small towns in Southern Ontario.

The siblings playfully call themselves «heathens» and «sinners,» but underneath their mischievous patter lie deep wells of familial and religious guilt that Charles — an only child, a lapsed Anglican, and a self - proclaimed atheist — can barely fathom.

The booklets are based on the Anglican and Catholic religious traditions, but are easily adaptable for any combination of religions

Belize has a wide variety of religious denominations including: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, Faith Assembly of God, Jehovah's Witness, Baptist, Mormon, Mennonite and Hindu.

In addition, by requiring that future monarchs be Anglican the British law contravenes the Canadian Charter of Rights, since it enshrines religious discrimination.

In 1890 all religious restrictions on Jews (or indeed on anyone of any given faith) were lifted for all offices in Britain except the monarch, The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (abolished 1922), which, as ecclesiastical positions within the Anglican church still require the office holder to be of that faith.

I am inclined to agree with the Alberta blogger that the courts are better able to deal with property disputes (like the BC Anglicans case) or separation contract disputes (like the «get» case in the SCC last year) than on the importance of any particular religious doctrine within a faith.

Anglican mission established in 1885 to provide food, shelter, education and religious instruction to the Aboriginal community already living in the area.