Sentences with phrase «faith practices by»

Examples of bad faith practices by insurance companies in the context of personal injury claims include, but are not limited to:

If you have had an insurance claim denied or believe that you have been the victim of bad faith practices by your insurance company, contact the Gold Law firm today.

The plaintiffs accused Nationwide of engaging in bad faith practices by failing to fulfill their obligation to repair or replace their vehicle following a collision in 1996.

Not exact matches

Applying this test, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a Muslim prisoner was free to practice his faith by wearing a half - inch beard that posed no risk to prison security.

I can say without reservation that my faith and religious practices have never been dictated by any form of fear or other negative emotion.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

Professor Chung's speech resurrected the ancient debate over «syncretism» — the degree to which the Christian faith can and should accommodate other religious practices, and whether other faiths have sufficient truth without being troubled by the gospel of Christ.

Obviously posted by somebody who has absolutely no idea about the beliefs and practices of religious faiths not rooted in Ambrahamic tenets.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

I describe myself as a «former evangelical» for many reasons, not the least of which is I have an adult gay son who is not welcomed in lots of churches (neither is he welcomed by Muslims or those who practice B'hai Faith).

What I don't understand is why they feel that they need to force their religion on everyone by trying to force a theocracy on us all — cant you just practice your «faith» and leave the rest of us alone?

This twisted view by practicing Catholics is more damaging to our faith than ANYTHING Hussein Obama could ever say against us.

religion: 1: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe 2: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects 3: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

i truly don't mind the christian cross being there, just so long as they display each faith that was practiced by those lost on that day.

It is this conviction that Yahweh is recognized by his intervention on behalf of the poor that explains the denunciations in the Jeremiah traditions of the falsehood of Judaite faith.3 For prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.

In fact, the 29 - year - old Lumberton resident doesn't call himself by any of the 12 faiths he practiced for a month at a time last year.

Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and TradiFaith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and TradiFaith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and TradiFaith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradifaith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and TradiFaith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

Our first instinct in the legal battles spawned by the progressive excesses of the last few years is to reach for the free exercise clause, which after all exists to protect religious people's ability to live out their faiths in practice.

Supplemented it may be by other literature, but it stands apart, sacred, relatively inviolable, abiding, unchanged across the centuries as the basis of religious faith and practice, as do no other writings.

Yes, there are precise religious practices spanning many volumes in Judaism and in the statements of faith and conduct in Christianity, but at their fundamental core is the instance by God that they should bring life.»

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

Anybody who practices their faith untempered by time, history and human experience is a fool and is missing the point.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

Religion is the rules and practices governed by shared faith.

Such differences were denied by the participants in these parishes who, if they countenanced distinctions at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.

By allowing one faith to practice and threatening the priest with arrest for attempting to volunteer services, the base has discriminated on the basis of religion.

Thus faith is immutable divine law of the Church and also true and living practice, determined not only by abstract principles but also by concrete ideals.

Though early Christian exegesis may on first reading appear idiosyncratic and arbitrary, it arose within the life of the Church and was practiced within a tradition of shared beliefs and practices, guided by the Church's faith as expressed in the creed.

A recent study by the University of Chicago showed that seventy - six percent of physicians believe in God, and fifty - five percent say their faith influences their medical practice.

The practice of infant baptism is the visible acknowledgement that from birth the child is being shaped by his faith environment; and the practice of confirmation of baptism is the recognition that on reaching years of discretion a person must decide for himself between commitment and rejection.

He sought first of all to purge the faith in Allah of what he called polytheism, typified by the practice of venerating the tombs of prophets and saints in ways indistinguishable from worship.

But, of course, whether or not that is possible must be answered by those who credibly speak from the heart of Islamic faith and practice.

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

Latin American theology today lives by «hope against hope,» in the apparently absurd confidence that small and humble practices of faith such as singing together or remembering the stories about Jesus can work toward rekindling a viable praxis of structural change.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

The James O'Kelly Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage of the United Church of Christ, underscores other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation concerns by viewing the Scriptures as «the only creed, a sufficient rule of faith and practice.»

Why didn't the president himself stand up for the human rights of the Christian missionaries and medical team in Afghanistan, including six Americans, to practice medicine and their faith, even after they were murdered by Islamic extremists?

The body, described by Christian faith as an integral and permanent aspect of human being, must be explicitly cared for and enhanced by any ascetic practice that we accept as good for our souls.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

3:2 - 3), but he is determined that this error not be repeated in the interpretative practices of the new community of faith constituted by the trust of Jesus.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

For the Christian tradition, the answer is faith, hope, and charity, as embodied especially in the Church's liturgical practices and articulated by her theological tradition.

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

I am convinced that it is by opening its mind, and conforming its practice, to the truth which Buber has perceived and so powerfully set forth that the Church can recover a fresh understanding of its own faith, and regain a real connection with the actual life of our time.

The practices by themselves can be «works righteousness» as easily as expressions of faith through which faith is deepened.

All the books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, are the written Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.

The 3 main faiths are practiced by majority of the globe and surely we all deserve a day off?