Sentences with phrase «different religious traditions»

Today we live in a different world, where people of different religious traditions live together side by side.

I do like to see how similar issues arise in different religious traditions.

I belong to a wonderful church where we welcome (encourage) diverse points of view and seek to learn all we can about different religious traditions.

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

Could the continuous dialogue on ethical issues between people of different religious traditions building new communities bring about a sustainable world?

I could have chosen different religious traditions, but in the Christian tradition there are some well - articulated depictions about what life eternal might look like.

Different religious traditions give various responses to the ecological crises.

Yet because members of different religious traditions can appeal to areas of shared experience, communication is possible.

Working to bring together students and faculty who come from different religious traditions and a range of secular perspectives is completely consistent with the institutional values of the IB.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

Here the diversity of perceptions about God makes us into different religious traditions.

Through the history of the people of Israel, two slightly different religious traditions had emerged.

In the previous sections I noted how in China different religious traditions could function in a complementary fashion, in a context that was determined by a more inclusive horizon, that of being Chinese.

The conflicting claims among different religious traditions necessarily relativize all such claims and underscore his central thesis that «afterlife notions are mirrors of our cultural and social needs.»

Surely the images of different religious traditions lead to incompatible affirmations.

Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, has focused on the tendency of people from different religious traditions to report similar mystical experiences, which typically involve sensations of self - transcendence and «oneness.»

The difficulty of fitting Buddhism into broad generalizations about «authentic and lasting religious experiences» raises a broader question about the coherence of positing a mutual normativity of different religious traditions.

Placher stands between these two extremes in a middle ground which allows for genuine dialogue between science and religion and among different religious traditions.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Agape is expressed in different religious traditions and societies as a means of social change as well as a religious reality.

Our ideas about worship space come from our different religious traditions, our social enclaves, our sense of history (or lack of it), and our personal worship experiences and desires.

But the basic point is that people are not all looking for the same thing, and different religious traditions have responded to and shaped different paths to different ends.»

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

People of different religious traditions are today experiencing a changed world, where they discover the interconnectedness between religions.

There are, in the midst of fragmentation, signs of a changing society in the context of religious plurality, where people of different religious traditions are instrumental in building new communities and where interreligious dialogue promotes a new understanding of the other.

In fact, we are different because even though we worship one God, different religious traditions have different visions of who this God is, how God relates to humankind and what God requires of us.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

The fact that Christians addressed in the New Testament came from two different religious traditions has considerable bearing on the persistent tendency to favor dualistic views of human nature and God's relationship with the world.

Just as there are parties today, writers of New Testament books had to think how to describe Christian faith to people from two different religious traditions.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

Mystical movements within the different religious traditions may have been.

What «further can be said,» however — i.e., whether the Principle of Limitation should be conceived as «Allah, Brahman, Yahweh or Father in Heaven» — is left to be decided on the basis of particular experiences of the different religious traditions.

As a student of Religions, I want to note that various responses to the ecological crisis are already given from the perspective of different religious traditions.

A Baha'i student recalled her earlier sense of fear that people would attack her for following a different religious tradition; she appreciates the atmosphere at Georgetown, in which students can talk openly about different religions.

Adherents of different religious traditions may be able to recognize the reality of both ends, though they are not able to agree on the explanation of how and why the two ends exist or on the priority they should be given.

The BMA presents Documenting the Spirit, a panel of practitioners, scholars, and observers of different religious traditions.

«Because parents from different religious traditions and with differing levels of religious service attendance are more likely to divorce, and because having these types of parents is associated with lower religiosity later in life, it could be that we've been attributing the effect of parental religious differences to parental divorce.»