Sentences with phrase «book about religious»

She is also a devoted fan of the celebrated British children's author Philip Pullman, and her book about the religious and ethical dimensions of his award - winning trilogy Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials (Jossey - Bass / Wiley) hit the bookshelves in the middle of a major, national controversy about the release of the trilogy's first movie installment.

Naomi Schaefer, a new contributor, is writing a book about religious higher education in America.

Not exact matches

How about we throw out Constantine and his pals excluding books from the Bible that teach how to develop a direct personal relationship with God, rather than submitting to religious authority?

Back during the (George W.) Bush Administration, I spent (or rather wasted) some time reading books and articles written by journalists who were suspicious (I hesitate to say paranoid) about those suspicious and paranoid fringe religious kooks (theonomists and theocrats) who threatened to take over....

If they're religious they're praying they won't die and the LAST thing on their mind is wasting their last moments on earth discussing something they've never personally seen, only read books about or heard lectures upon.

How about if you actually paid attention to the article it stated that religious or not he's books mimicked stories from the bible..

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the religious bubble.

about a religious matter, all they do is throw an unverified book in your face and tell you «That's why!»

If i was an atheist I would not worry about taking advantage of other people for my own benefit since I would have nothing to loose... Again I don't listen to what religious books say they all have been twisted, but some things are common sense.

just goes to show — a person can be smart enough to invent the calculus and write lucid books about optics — all the while maintaining delusional religious beliefs.

It's not a religious book, and the author uses quite a bit of profanity, but he makes some astute observations about religion and politics in the United States.

In my book «Religious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions oReligious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions oreligious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions of others.

Books and articles are still written about the major contributions of particular religious figures such as Jonathan Mayhew, the great Boston Puritan preacher, or the overall contributions of each of the particular denominations from the Baptists to the Roman Catholics.

Entitled The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography, the book includes interviews with the Mr Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence about the president's religious beliefs and his relationship with evangelicals during the 2016 election.

His latest book, «Bombing without Moonlight,» is about the religious meaning of suicide bombing.

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 book breaks new ground both in Jewish thought and in larger debates about the philosophical and religious grounding of political theory.

That distinction is a half - truth at best, and it misses two important points: the widespread reading of such books not only tells us something important about the overall religious temper of our times; it may also give us a clue to one possible theological expression of the future.

I had a chance to speak with Schwartz about the political and religious implications of his book.

In his second book, he talks about the politics, binding nature and religious slavery the VISION places upon both pastor and people in church culture.

The irony is I own several hundred books on religious theology yet you think I know nothing about it or didn't look far enough.

This is why there's fail - safes in our Nuclear / Biological weapons systems, keeps those religious nut jobs from trying to bring about the apocalypse with their own twisted beliefs, decry Islam, but the Book of Revelation is nothing to look forward to.

By the end of the book, I think your average reader will be brimming with anger toward the religious right and fired up mostly about progressive politics.

These statistics, though few and raw, tell us much about the plot of this book and of American religious life and indeed of American life in general.

How about a candidate that very correctly holds the Consti.tution as the authority of this nation (not any religious book) because our founding fathers very deliberately separated church from state in order to protect the beliefs of everyone?

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I loved Rob Bell's book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God — the unabashed science of wonder particularly in quantum physics that he connects to the complexity and even ambiguity of God is so rare in non-academic religious publishing or thought.

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

What is clear is that this compelling and provocative book has much to say to religious leaders concerned about the integrity of democracy in America and about the integrity of the church in its public commitments

Imagine that you pick up an ancient history book and it tells you about three men who were put to death around 33 BC for religious and political crimes.

One of the worst things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.

The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing about not so much a new diversity among American religions as diversity within America's majority religion.

Review of a book about American decline in religious, political and social life.

Bill has numerous questions about why the Bible might be true and other religious books not.

Last week I wrote a post about the inspiration of Scripture and the inspiration of other religious books which struck a cord with a lot of people.

Some of my friends from Islam get upset when I say I'm offended by their scriptural verses about killing, enslaving, or force conversion of all the people of the book (Jews and Christians) & general religious intolerance displayed.

But first a few facts about the movement and the type of religious faith which gave rise to the book.

There are more picture books about St. Francis of Assisi than any other religious figure, including Christ; Francis» love of animals is rich fodder for an artist.

Suddenly, I saw the Bible as NOT a «religious book» nor a «bunch of rules about how to please God»... but instead as a book of PRINCIPLES about how to live an abundant life.

What is most striking about these works is not that they are about religion on TV but that the books assume specifically religious forms in their own right.

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.

In this book, CS Lewis mixes autobiography with the religious / philosophical history of Western culture, and writes about it in the form of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

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

His book about the atrocities of ISIS, 2015's Defying ISIS, went a long way toward raising national and global awareness of ISIS's direct persecution Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities.

In consequence, we can now see that what we have in the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Bible.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

Most history books, not religious ones, give evidence about how down trodden and poor the Israelites were until the later part of the 20th century.

In his 2011 book Charles le Catholique, Gérard Bardy stresses that de Gaulle wanted to avoid being perceived as compromising the republic's commitment to laïcité — the notion that the state should be neutral about religion and free from religious influences — so much so that he usually refrained from receiving Communion when attending Mass in any official capacity.

Hey everyone... understand this... the Bible is not a book about being religious, and competing with other gods.