Sentences with phrase «ethical value of religion»

For an ethical consciousness to take bold it must be a vital part of life; this truth is neatly expressed in Matthew Arnold's summary of the ethical value of religion as «morality lighted by emotion.»

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I wonder what that man would have said, could I have asked him whether he was concerned about our nation's need for a renewal of powerful, ethical religion that would re-establish faith in spiritual realities and values, and elevate the standards of personal and public integrity.

Its purpose, as described by Paul E. Johnson is to enable persons to «come for psychiatric help where ethical and religious values will not be overlooked and religion thus aids in the acceptance of psychiatry.»

In the second place, he proposes to the truly revolutionary societies an attention to what is of value in their own contexts, and a program for growth to world consciousness — education, religion, an ethical business community, and so on.

Thus, world consciousness is clearly related to Whitehead's idea of religion, which is essentially an ethical notion: «The movement of the religious consciousness starts from self valuation, but it broadens into the concept of world as a realm of adjusted values, mutually intensifying or mutually destructive» (RM 58f.).

Globalisation for the Common Good means the promotion of ethical, moral and spiritual values - which are shared by all religions - in the areas of economics, commerce, trade and international relations.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

Rather than leave a blathering comment on the useless nature of religion, you may want to consider the ultimate ends of holding on to a belief system (assuming atheism here) that can not sufficiently explain where meaning, purpose or value (ethical right and wrong) could come from.