Sentences with phrase «claims of faith»

But what has gone wrong is lack of appreciation for the truth claims of faith organizations.

This concern for both particularity and encounter means that SR avoids philosophical attempts to resolve the conflicting claims of each faith.

Because these claims are NOT claims of faith.

But again, for Durkheim the resulting «anomie» was the inevitable result of reason seeing through the meaningless claims of faith.

But if it is no longer acceptable to make exclusive claims of faith («Islam is the only way; Only Jesus can save»), how does one maintain a distinctive religious identity?

I don't want to burden this post with all of the psychology behind that statement, but you should find a way to get used to that because claims of faith are always under assault of reality.

Although Morris readily grants that «process theology has issued some important correctives concerning the medieval conception of God,» he nonetheless holds that «process theologians, in a spirit of innovation, often have departed unnecessarily, and dangerously, from the traditional claims of the faith they most often purport to be preserving» (AE 150).

In a proper liberation theology there are certain emphases that resist such ideology, each of which is implicit in the claim of faith that in Jesus Christ God acts to liberate humankind.

«Many evidently felt that modern science somehow undermines the claims of the faith.

Still, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus is an excellent guide for the neophyte or advanced student who wonders how one might reconcile modern biblical scholarship with the claims of faith.

Finally, you might take what I call the Way of Aporia, that is, insist that there is a tension between some claims of faith and reason, that the two can not be separated, but that nevertheless there is not enough reason to give up beliefs on either end.

Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.

The claim of faith is that the being of God is prior to the being of man, that God is Creator and man is creature.

Worse than that, religiously sterilized schools actively spread the virus of autonomy and irreverence, for the absence of any reference to the claims of faith or to its historic expressions communicates the idea that they are unimportant or at least irrelevant to whatever is studied in school.

In recent generations the nonbelieving community has tended serenely to ignore the claims of faith.

Along with Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, he is one of the «four horsemen» of the New Atheism, the movement that advocates an aggressive, take - no - prisoners approach to the claims of faith.

Grounded in the deep things of faith, she writes in a vivid style and transposes the claims of faith into compelling concrete narrative.

In philosophical terms, one would say that the creationist is claiming the same ontological status for both the claims of science and the claims of faith.»