Sentences with phrase «deepest meaning of religion»

Malcolm Boyd, Episcopal priest and author, says, «The celebrity game is antithetical to the deepest meaning of religion.

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The earliest Hebrew petition, however, with its rootage deep in primitive religion, sought with unabashed desire the means of persuading or coercing God to do the bidding of a man.

Conflict, explicit or implicit, over the deeper meaning of the civil religion has been endemic from the beginning.

The festivities and liturgical celebrations of the religions could be the means of fostering a deeper personal and societal reflection on their deeper spiritual message.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Building upon the dramatic metaphor that supplied his title, he showed how the phrase «freedom of religion» often came to mean freedom from religion, and how an American self - understanding that excluded religion also excluded the deepest sources of its identity.

The word religion has the root meaning of binding together, which may be a deeper experience for the religious person than for others.

The indications are that many of them came to theological study with a religion so sentimental or so narrowly Christ - centered that it had left them without answers to their deepest questions about the reason for their existence, about the meaning of human tragedy, and the significance of mankind's history.

Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a profound faith such as the great religions make possible (and in our own part of the world, that means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination of existence, which is the result of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.