Sentences with phrase «from religious bodies»

They sharply distinguish the state from religious bodies, deeming them to fall under the private sphere.

Moral force — the foundation on which to build — does not emanate from the religious bodies dependent on the state or from the state itself.

Not exact matches

So what separates the American Founding — a compromise throughout between Lockean (Cartesian) abstracted or isolated personalism and Christian or relational personalism — from the thoroughgoing «republicanism» of the French revolution is that our understanding of religious freedom is freedom of the church (meaning organized religious body).

The court is presently saying religious bodies are exempt from birth - control laws.

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

These quotations, including the statement by Bellows at the cornerstone laying, are from a description of the work of Turner in an article by Francis W. McPeek, «The Role of Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,» Alcohol, Science and Society, pp.413 - 14.

The value of the body is largely shared by people, whether from religious motives or not.

The result gave some indication of the numerical strength of various religious bodies, but the amazing statistic from a long - term point of view is that an astounding 96 per cent of the respondents expressed a religious preference of some kind!

This kind of mysticism abounds in all ages, in churches and in sects, and outside of any formal religious body — from medieval mystics to modern Quakers to contemporary college sophomores who talk about their personal «spirituality.»

In 1802, for instance, the Seventh Congress specifically exempted religious bodies from real estate taxes.

The divine was driven out of nature not to turn nature into a technological instrument, but rather to make it the habitation of the devil; the religious «man» should shun it and flee from it in order to save «his» soul for a higher spiritual realm outside of and against the body and the visible, created world.

Within the Christian body, for which repentance of sins has from the beginning been the critical religious act, healthy - mindedness has always come forward with its milder interpretation.

Invariably the principles of the canonical law in all of these ecclesiastical bodies are derived from basic theological formulations of religious insights, and invariably there is a considerable margin for the interpretation of these principles.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

One source is the «roll data» kept by religious bodies themselves, which vary in quality from the clearly defined, meticulously updated and publicly available membership records of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the much less reliable numbers put forth by many historically African - American denominations.

Are religious bodies addressing contemporary challenges to community - building, or are they relying too much on models from fifty or a hundred years ago?

Whoever has read about religious change almost anywhere in the world has to be impressed how this shift occurred in America with no dead bodies, no (to my knowledge) physical wounds from intergroup squabbles, and fewer psychic scars than one could have expected.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

Once the linchpins of the traditional party coalitions, these bodies will increasingly come under pressure from both the religious right and the secular left.

Yet another pathetic attempt to distract from the real issue — a global, decades long complicit relationship with pedophiles that the world's largest organized religious body has had.

It is only slight exaggeration to state that he feels the traditional Western religious and philosophical understanding of God to be such a mass of errors and inconsistencies as to require removal in toto from the body of metaphysical thought.

These strive to make themselves known in the media, file numerous grant applications, and recruit support from exitiong religious grant applications, and recruit support from existing religious bodies and other organizations.

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

The demand for immediate, powerful and deep religious experience, which was part of the turn away from future - oriented instrumentalism toward present meaning and fulfillment, could on the whole not be met by the religious bodies.

Isn't it Israel fighting all as a Jewish state her acts pushed every body to use her same weapon disguising crimes under religious covers depriving people from their rights, destructed their houses, cut their trees, took their lives and lands.

peppered with a great deal of regret and nostalgia.When I think of «the church» in the sense of a body of believers, for me, that is now a sense of uniiting with people that is no longer dependent on religious affliation.So, I can't really say, with serious convicton, «I love the church» That said, I strongly identify with reasons 1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 (well 10 from the audience / particpator position).

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

Assuming their position is correct, they still have to tell us why the bill has to apply only to NGOs (part of CSOs), and why religious bodies (also part of CSOs) have to be excluded from the scope and operation of the bill.

Scotland has repeatedly come under attack from international bodies, including the UN, for not giving older children the right to remove themselves from religious observation.

It is true that the Church and other religious bodies are no longer immune from public criticism or scrutiny, and that it is no longer considered acceptable for the religion of the majority to drown out dissenting voices.

Note that some have such view for religious reasons, some have such view for purely scientific ones (e.g., for a fetus in a stage late enough that it would have survived in nICU if delivered prematurely, it's hard to make an argument that merely being attached to a placenta and not to nICU life support somehow turns the fetus from a live human being to «perfectly fine to surgically excise part of mother's body».

This stems from the fact that already they made it obvious that the two gentleman ought to be deported to the USA where they came from and I believe strongly the clergy and other religious bodies as well as Think - tanks which have become Water - tanks are watching closely what the next step of the Commander - in - Chief of the GAF will be.»

Various speakers from labour unions, traditional councils, community development associations, professional bodies, marketers, youth and religious groups agreed on the unity of the country, independent candidacy, devolution of power and local government autonomy but rejected the idea of creating new states.

The currencies of the international partnership, trade and aid are at risk unless we stand together, with one voice, and demand that these systemic issues be addressed,» he told the gathering of leaders from civil society organisations (CSOs), businesses, religious bodies and diplomats.

In attendance were Representatives of the NDC and NPP, the Security Agencies, Religious Bodies, the NCCE and CHRAJ also well represented were Chiefs and others from Asunafo.

A council in Wales has withdrawn its decision to exclude a humanist representative from the local body responsible for overseeing religious education (RE), following a legal challenge by a local humanist parent.

Read Humanists UK's previous news item «Humanist parent in High Court challenge to exclusion from local religious education body»: https://humanism.org.uk/2017/07/19/humanist-parent-in-high-court-challenge-to-exclusion-from-local-religious-education-body/

Both Davis and Leigh serve on the Jewish Leadership Council, a body with representatives from community and religious groups.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

This follows on from the news in January that Fiona Bruce MP, who took over as chair of the APPG following the 2015 general election, has sacked the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC), the highly respected umbrella body for those who teach or have an interest in RE, as the secretariat to the group.

Instead, it increases geometrically with a torrent of it coming from respected religious organizations, socio - cultural bodies, ethnic / tribal organizations and talented Nigerians well educated to build a modern nation.

Sexual and Reproductive Justice is working for the right to choose who and how we love and use our bodies - without intrusion from the government, employers, harmful religious organizations, -LSB-...]

This constitution brought together leaders from each occupation and institution like the lawyers, doctors, the different religious bodies, drives, teachers, amongst others to help gathered and write laws which could govern every aspect the country, forming the legislature to the executive down to the judiciary arm of government.

This constitution brought together leaders from each occupation and institution like the lawyers, doctors, the different religious bodies, drives, teachers, amongst others to help gathered and write laws which could govern every aspect the country, forming the legislature to the executive down to...

The county - level data was acquired from the U.S. Census, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and consisted of three sets of factors.

Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things — at least from the standpoint of the brain.