Sentences with phrase «about religious experiences»

So he attended Group meetings and worked with alcoholics at the Calvary Mission, telling about his religious experiences and trying to induce it in them.

Paul of Tarsus was the first Christian theologian to write autobiographically about his religious experience and to name the power that held together two very diverse sides of that experience.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

Many people think catechesis is only about knowledge, others think it is only about a religious experience: the Church is always richer in her thinking than any one of us, and asks us to participate in this integral, objective and personal handing on.

This resource will help guide students by helping them show an understanding of religious experience by using scholars to help support different ideas about religious experience and to investigate the different factors that trigger religious experiences.

Not exact matches

He brings experience from his time as a Saskatchewan cabinet minister and a Calgary school trustee, but his religious connections and the accusations about allegedly politically - driven school announcements make him a lightening rod for opposition criticism.

I am not sure that a practicing believer of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality of humanity and human experience.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

But by shifting the emphasis to personal appropriation of the gospel message, they downplayed the importance of these supernatural claims about the Bible as such and reopened the issue of the value and importance of personal religious experience.

They resort to boasting about their ecstatic religious experiences to boost their image further.

The Obama administration's nominee to oversee international religious freedom returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in her second bid to charm senators who have doubts about her lack of experience.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

Sports superiority is obviously a light example, but on the deepest religious questions about life, we are bound to experience similar disagreements, aren't we?

My comments about whiny christians, laptop dogooders, etc... comes from the many negative comments my husband has towards tv evangilism, religious debates that he has listened to, articles in newspapers, & obviously his / our personal experiences.

(continued from 6/1/09) As little inclined as is Charles Taylor to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical, religious «experience» with cognitive assertions, he can not finally avoid making certain claims about the way things are, or at least the way human things are: We all see....

If we do not wish to speculate about this other world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension of the problem to which the doctrine of immortality is an attempted answer.

Scientific understanding, humane appreciation, existentialist self - awareness, history as cumulative experience, psychological insight, and respectful regard for what religious people have to tell us about their experience — all are needed for and capable of inclusion in this new perspective.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Specifically, it's far less common to hear about how a student who finds their way to or from Christianity, Islam, or Judaism (or even Atheism for that matter) while attending a university.Taking classes and sharing experiences alongside classmates from varying backgrounds can cause even the most religious or nonreligious person to inspect, analyze, and even question their beliefs.

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

This is what religion, as distinct from «spirituality» is all about: the physical machinery to induce religious experience or, at least, religious fun.

As to the theistic metaphysics, I'm agnostic about it taken literally, but see it as a superb intellectual construction that provides a fruitful context for understanding how our religious and moral experiences are tied to the ethics of love.

It is also of importance to Muslims and people of other religions and of none, as we think about the future of an American experience in which civil tolerance and religious devotion are not enemies but allies.

Finally, the fact that religion - at least in the West - learned something about human rights from democratic experience does not mean that «human rights is not a religious idea,» as Schlesinger dogmatically asserts.

The author explores these elements and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition and experience, raising questions about religious language: reality, analogy and metaphor.

And the religious experience of such a writer as the apostle Paul bears naïve yet eloquent personal witness to what we are discovering about the brain.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

Certainly, one whose religious experience is lacking does well to inquire whether one knows enough as yet of God's truth about spiritual life, just as one who knows that truth sufficiently does well to take note of how God confirms it in experience.

... ive been sick and tired of all the christian religious talk about mores and morality for a number of years... and in my experience, more they talk about how they are soo moral / christian... the bigger the a ********** they really are.

The hope and dream of every church school leader should be that his learners will push on beyond knowledge about religious truth to the pulsating reality of religious experience, and that many, as the years pass, will catch a vision of the depth dimension of the inner life — spiritual wisdom.

There has subsequently been much discussion about the nature of mystical or religious experience and many scholars would argue that there are varieties of spiritual experience.

This truth about God could also be integrated with the thinking of the social gospel and the findings of the students of religious experience.

Some of the deep religious experiences of conversion occur at about that time.

It could have been written about by William James in his book about spiritual and religious experiences or by Carl Jung.

Though Hartshorne has never given a great deal of attention in his writings to concrete religious phenomena, he has always been concerned about the religious significance of his work, He advocates the neoclassical conception of God partly because he believes it is more in keeping with religious experience than classical formulations of either theism or pantheism.

A page on cognitive mechanisms of the brain explains them all as hallucinations, and «that is really all that needs to be said about personal «experiences» of gods or other religious phenomena,» he airily concludes.

Nonetheless, the talk about the triune God began in a religious experience and is most adequately known in religious worship.

In spite of speaking openly about his Christian faith and conversion experience, his religious beliefs were often distorted for political purposes.

They are told that the experience of being born anew into «the Kingdom of Christ and God» will raise questions about their prior attempts to be religious, good, or moral people.

I make these general remarks about the two sorts of judgment, because there are many religious persons — some of you now present, possibly, are among them — who do not yet make a working use of the distinction, and who may therefore feel at first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the following lectures the phenomena of religious experience must be considered.

With religious organizations focusing their efforts on individual spirituality, on meaningful worship experiences, on music, youth pro grams and small groups, is it likely that reli gious commitment is going to challenge people to be con cerned about economic justice as well?

Nevertheless, as little inclined as he is to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical, the religious «experience» with cognitive assertions, Taylor can not avoid make certain claims about the way things are, or at least the way human things are.

At first glance, one might tend to classify the religious - affections scholars into Lindbeck's second category, in which he places the existentialists who speak about a universal «depth - dimension» uncovered in certain experiences of «authenticity.»

I have experienced «rebirth» and it is something I really didn't know was real... (I was religious) until It changed me... has changed everything about me... Itself.

So you can imagine my delight when I learned that Jason has written a book about his experience with religious doubt, which will be published by Zondervan in the summer of 2010.

I recognize that Henry Nelson Wieman, Bernard Meland, and Bernard Loomer sometimes each wrote as though he had developed his picture of God primarily through an evidentiary or inductive empiricism, establishing the truth about God by simply describing religious experience.

I decided there is no point in conversing with and writing about Luther unless one deals with his profound religious experience.

In a later chapter I shall have something to say about them, although I shall emphasize that they belong to the realm which our ancestors used to describe as «a religious hope» rather than to the realm of verifiable experience or the realm of concrete Christian existence as we are called to share it.

As anxious as many Christians are about religious freedom in America, nothing we've experienced» and God willing, never will» comes close to the brutal persecution of Christians abroad.