Sentences with phrase «distinguish religious traditions»

True, one might distinguish religious traditions from other sorts.

Not exact matches

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

Hart distinguishes between God as defined by the classical religious traditions and the gods who decorate the pantheons of most of the world's religions.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.