Sentences with phrase «for other religious traditions»

Appreciation for other religious traditions has grown dramatically among Christians, and this has already led to growing self - esteem among participants in these other traditions.

He also founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an organization that encourages acts of justice rooted in prayer and respect for other religious traditions.

«More so than for any other religious tradition, a person can become UU because of what he already believes rather than believing what he does because of becoming a UU,» said James Casebolt, coauthor of two papers on the regional survey read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in October.

Not exact matches

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of aReligious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

But in other cases, encounter with Buddhist - based meditation has led Christians and Jews to a newfound appreciation for the riches of their own traditions, including a revival of neglected meditation techniques from Western religious history.

Religious virtuosos, on the other hand, engage in ressourcement: they draw on the resources of profound traditions and project them into the future, calling for action in light of what the ancient texts themselves project.

Last year, the United States resettled more Christians than any other religious tradition primarily because Christians have been uniquely targeted for persecution in various parts of the world.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

The other is to follow that easy route of religious tradition, declaring that it is not for us to understand; we simply need to accept that it is so.

It should be emphasized that this position does not at all imply a lack of respect for or even theological interest in other religious traditions, but it follows the great majority of historic Christian theologies in denying the possibility of salvific revelations anywhere outside the biblical orbit.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

In public education, then, the initial aim of instruction in the religious heritage is to help adherents of each tradition — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Ethical Culturists, Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at religious heritage is to help adherents of each tradition — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Ethical Culturists, Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at religious faith available in their tradition at its best.

In raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violence.

This sense of alienation and longing is hinted at in other religious traditions: in Buddhism's attempt to escape the cycle of suffering, for example, or in Islam's description of paradise, where the righteous «shall have all that they desire.»

Then neither of us represents a religious tradition, and no dialogue ensues; in fact, we have both joined a common «secular» tradition, and all we can now discuss are methods for the study of the religion of others.

If the constitutive assertion of this witness, however expressed or implied, is specifically christological, in that it is the assertion, in some terms or other, of the decisive significance of Jesus for human existence, the metaphysical implications of this assertion are specifically theological in that they all either are or clearly imply assertions about the strictly ultimate reality that in theistic religious traditions is termed «God.»

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

And the determination of what is appropriate for Christian theology involves more than interpretation of «scripture and tradition»; it also involves consideration of how and in what direction the Spirit that animated Christian existence in the past will move in the new situational context, in which consideration insights are also drawn from other sources, religious and secular.

Apophatic or silent religion, exemplified by the Buddhist renunciation of clinging, and also by the hesychast strains of other religious traditions, is significant for its patient letting be of the world.

But it might not be idle or grotesque to suggest that there is a Buddhist ground for Whitehead's language about God, which is to say a religious ground which is far more meaningful in terms of the symbolic language of Buddhism than it is in that of any other religious tradition, including Christianity.

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

Christians can understand the distinctive religious truth of other religions as rooted in connections with real dimensions of the triune God, I am convinced, for instance, that the Theravadan Buddhist end is, in fact, as that tradition claims, a cessation of suffering.

Rauf would sometimes invite leaders from other religious traditions into his Tribeca mosque and would open the place up for the city's interfaith events.

For example, Christian dalits in India, who were earlier fighting for justice as Christians, basing themselves exclusively on biblical resources, now realize that there are resources in other religious traditions as well to undergird the struggle for justiFor example, Christian dalits in India, who were earlier fighting for justice as Christians, basing themselves exclusively on biblical resources, now realize that there are resources in other religious traditions as well to undergird the struggle for justifor justice as Christians, basing themselves exclusively on biblical resources, now realize that there are resources in other religious traditions as well to undergird the struggle for justifor justice.

The problem arises when religious practices and doctrines that are intended to bring life and health to the spirit and community become barriers to reaching out to others with the love, justice and mercy of God — or when «human traditions» are substituted for «the commandment of God.»

Others have argued for a «pluralist» approach, suggesting that no religion can claim a preferential position, but that the Divine Mystery, who is revealed in each religious tradition, is never fully apprehended and that each faith tradition witnesses to aspects of the divine glory.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

For the most part, however, the world's religious traditions still remain considerably out of touch with each other.

We all use the figures 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 as handy approximations for particular periods of time and these all occur frequently in the Bible, as they do in other religious traditions.

The Christian message interwove with the local religious traditions so as to give the people a deeper sense of local identity (a sense of rootedness), while, at the same time, breaking down the psycho - sociological barriers that kept nationalities separate and apart from each other so as to allow for a truly universal fellowship (a sense of universality).

If dialogue partners argue for violence for other than justifiable defense the Christian criteria of agape will incline Christians to argue that the other religious tradition be amended.

To be sure, the world I inhabited for decades led me to develop most of my closest personal and professional relationships with secularized persons and with faithful adherents of other religious traditions.

Instead of just having Christians talk about other religious traditions, chapter 9 allows some Buddhists to speak for themselves.

David Campbell's research piece finds reason to praise the nation's largest private system of schools, the Catholic schools, for their ability to graduate students with a healthy regard for our political traditions and a commitment to social action, but he also finds signs that private schools with other religious affiliations may not have such excellent records.

The tradition dates back to at least medieval times when it was common for devoutly religious women to abstain from food, among other essentials.

Where others might see a busy religious institution, the Bhutanese director Khyentse Norbu — who is also a high lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition — saw the raw material for his first feature, The Cup.

Gates was selected for his installation A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, or When We Believe (2014), which seeks to challenge a Western - centric ideology of Christianity by looking at other religious objects and traditions from diverse cultures across the globe.

I find it particularly sad and enraging that people, for so very long now, are all so terribly, horribly imprinted with the wrong - hearted, wrong - headed notion that Earth, once a Paradise (and could be still) is now a place that good Christian and other religious / spiritual traditions feel that we need to escape in order to be «happy» -LRB-!??!!!).

The American tradition, enshrined in the constitutions of 36 states including Florida for 140 years, is that tax dollars are to be used for public education, while churches and other houses of worship, provide religious education funded by tuition from parents and the generous donations of parishioners.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,