The Our Whole Lives program can be put into
the context of religious values with the addition of the Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ companion publication, Sexuality and Our Faith.
Not exact matches
Guiding Principles
Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of a
Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to
religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of a
religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness
of quality academic work; A well - educated student
of religion must have a deep and broad understanding
of more than a single
religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of a
religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical
context as well as that
of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity
of all kinds.
His own position
of seeing the economy as «embedded» in sociopolitical
contexts and social
values opens the door for dialogue about the cultural -
religious ethos and ethical, even explicitly theological, assessment
of global processes.
Presently we are moving beyond any
religious expression so far known to the human into a meta -
religious age, that seems to be a new comprehensive
context for all religions... The natural world itself is the primary economic reality, the primary educator, the primary governance, the primary technologist, the primary healer, the primary presence
of the sacred, the primary moral
value... The primary sacred community is the earth community.
For Christians whose abuse occurs at the hands
of a pastor or in the
context of a
religious environment, getting out and getting help can be complicated by appeals from the abuser (and his or her supporters) to Christian
values like unity, grace, and forgiveness.
Prescribing to a Catholic school how to explain Catholicism to its students seriously interferes with freedom
of religion, while representing no significant benefit to the Ethics &
Religious Culture Program's objectives; and in the Québec
context, where private denominational schools are legal, represents a disproportionate, and therefore unreasonable interference with the
values underlying freedom
of religion
of those individuals who seek to offer and who wish to receive a Catholic education.