Sentences with phrase «as religious ideals»

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What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

Anatoly Koval, the head of a government commission charged with easing the frictions among the more than seventy religious sects that have sprouted in Ukraine since the collapse of communism, sees the sarcophagus as an ideal compromise.

«Even our religious culture tends to focus on success and stability as ideals for religious growth.»

Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

The religious aspects of the Jesuit missions were inimical to Enlightenment philosophes, but the story of the reducciones nevertheless helped thinkers such as Montesquieu to articulate new ideals as, in Imbruglia's words, «the creation of a utopian society became the mission of European civilisation.»

The question we concluded the previous post with, however, was that if Jesus fulfills the hopes and dreams and ideals of other religious writings as well, why did Jesus come specifically in fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Changing political circumstances altered political ideals over the next seventy years, such that pro-Catholic thinkers such as Félicité de Lamennais gradually began to endorse liberalism's doctrine of religious liberty as a way of providing safe harbor for the Church's social influence within a French state that was no longer officially Catholic.

In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of love as action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).

Although it might be claimed that Dewey was simply giving democracy a religious dimension and seeing it as some kind of final spiritual community, the point I want to emphasize is that for Dewey democracy is a moral ideal for this life, an ideal that we are still far from attaining.

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

The premium placed on marriage as the ideal site for lifelong love and childbearing by most of the world's major religious traditions, the social value attached to the wedding rite, and the support accorded a wide range of marriage - friendly norms by most religious traditions all probably help to explain the religion - marriage connection found across much of the globe.

The higher Presence, namely, need not be the absolute whole of things, it is quite sufficient for the life of religious experience to regard it as a part, if only it be the most ideal part.)

The American ideal, as it increasingly came to be stated in the 19th century as a tensionless harmony of moral and religious idealism and the quest for economic success, required a peculiarly innocent conception of human life.

Ms. McNamara invokes syneisactism and an «ungendered» population of religious as the apparent ideal, but she does it against her own well - rendered backdrop of passion, intensity, devotion, transcendence, and spiritual and physical heroism of every kind.

Applied to religious questions, as Schmidt suggests, humor proved inherently «desacralizing,» since it deflated ideals and substituted vulgar materiality.

They gave me tools to interpret every religious, altruistic, and in any way ideal assertion or action by others as merely a tactic of ego.

Professor Dewey supposes that by appealing to the imagination as the source of ideal ends he has suggested a religious attitude capable of supplying mankind with a common faith.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

In the next century, as increasing ethnic and religious diversity became impossible to ignore, the ideal became more vaguely Christian or Judeo - Christian and was referred to simply as «democratic.»

Thus fidelity to our religious traditions demands that we embrace the traditional ideal of religious homelessness as the point of departure for self - transcendence.

It must be emphasized that «religious intuition» as Hall uses the term is a kind of mystical sense of oneness with nature, closely associated with the Taoist ideal of wu - chih or knowledge in accordance with the natures of things, a sense of «human participation in» or «constatic unity» with nature (UP 400).

To the extent that we are committed to the ideal of a secular society free of ecclesiastical influence and governed by toleration, liberty, and a conception of civic virtue; and insofar as we think of true religious piety as consisting in treating other human beings with dignity and respect, and regard the Bible simply as a profound work of human literature with a universal moral message, we are the heirs of Spinoza's scandalous treatise.

Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

Croce contrasted the «democracy of the eighteenth century as mechanical, intellectualist, and abstractly egalitarian, whereas the «liberalism» of the early nineteenth century was personal, idealistic, and historically organic: «The democrats in their political ideal postulated a religion of quantity, of mechanics, of calculating reason or of nature, like that of the eighteenth century; the liberals, a religion of quality, of activity, of spirituality, such as that which had risen in the beginning of the nineteenth century: so that even in this case, the conflict was one of religious faiths.

We turn also to the power of a religious naturalism that emphasizes both the continuing transcendence of challenging ideals and the relative transcendence of surpassing resources to give us the challenge and the empowerment to undergo the drastic paradigm shifts which may be needed as we face our exponentially worsening ecological crisis.

Thus the university ideal is a religious ideal, as Protestant reformers insisted in attempting to establish its relative autonomy from church authority.

The vandalism that has been reported on sacred religious ground as of late is appalling and runs contrary to the values and ideals of our state and our country.

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Despite a few promising creative bursts («Love,» «Black Sweat»), it's another case of dashed expectations, as the disc dissolves into a bloodless puddle of smooth - jazz grooves and lyrics that wither at the hands of the singer's recent religious ideals.

It is an ideal way to provide your students with additional perspectives for 12/15 mark answers: as all specifications now allow students to compare religious worldviews with non-religious ones.

And in her address to the Alfred E. Smith Foundation on Wednesday morning, she appeared to hold private religious education up as the ideal.

Despite this gradual tilt to a more privatized institution, many positive aspects of the socialist ideal, such as partnership in the overall community, a democratic leadership and decision - making process and full access to the various educational, cultural / religious, health and welfare services, are still preserved.

The objects in the exhibition highlight key areas of Gill's life as an artist and attempt to explain his unique and complex political and religious ideals.

But with Dorfman's unique combination of skills — as a former rabbi and commercial litigator — it seems that he might have an ideal niche in representing religious organizations in a variety of matters, from forming non-profits to litigating First Amendment issues.

Inconsistent adherence to religious practice does not necessarily suggest a lack of sincerity as the claimant's belief may change over time, may permit situational exceptions, or the claimant may not always live up to an ideal.

In two studies of women, aged 18 - 25 and 30 - 40, respectively, researchers assessed the characteristics women value when selecting males as long - term relationship partners versus selecting males as sperm donors.1 The women were randomly assigned to rate a series of characteristics desired in their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliations).