Sentences with phrase «from religious traditions»

A number of comics, including some from religious traditions, express their views on whether religion is a legitimate target for comedy.

You can read more about what we've learned from religious traditions about breastfeeding and fasting over at KellyMom.

Based on his own practice and study going forward he became known as a wonderful leader, and his kingdom became home to people from all religious traditions, socio - economic positions, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

In one sense, their use constitutes one more form of accountability, as those politicians who like to draw their moral and rhetorical power from religious traditions must do so at the cost of being judged by those very traditions.

Understandably so, for seeing Jesus against the background of later first - century Judaism makes it easier to portray him as the hero of moderns alienated from religious traditions and structures.

Young Evangelicals distance themselves from all that — from religious traditions, including Christian traditions, which distract believers from what's really important.

What one can summarize from these religious traditions has to be broad - based and limited to the generic characteristics that undergirds each of these religious families, even though such an exercise is extremely presumptuous.

Rather, gaining explicit knowledge from religious traditions allows one to reflect on the earlier immediate experience and to conclude that therein lay an «unthematized knowledge» of God.

But, most atheists and agnostics (especially if they don't come from a religious tradition) don't really know anything about the Bible either.

The relation between Christian faith and the scientific way of understanding nature involves many complex and unresolved issues, but the plain fact is that scientific understanding had to grow largely under secular auspices, with too little encouragement and understanding from the religious tradition.

What metaphysics, what vision of reality, underpins a State completely cut off from any religious tradition?

Many young Evangelicals apparently wish to signal their distance from religious tradition, even their own.

Also useful are faculty seminars that encourage small groups to study a text from another religious tradition, or a current social issue, or a current American religious practice in such a way that transcends specialized fields.

The conclusion was that any given chaplain could technically see anyone from another religious tradition, or a non-believer, as a sinner as well, yet they couch their language so as not to be judgmental because creating tension and mistrust between corps members was counterproductive.

The counsel he gave was strongly rooted in a Saxon religion, five centuries old or more, itself stemming from a religious tradition of a millennium in the Mediterranean basin, the Roman and the Celtic lands.

- Teaching students to apply general moral principles from the religious tradition to different moral issues.

Not exact matches

In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».

Immigration shifts from the 1960s changed the ethnic and religious faces of the country so no tradition dominates today.

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

All in all, Gottlieb argues, «Mendelssohn's skill in showing how an enlightened, tolerant concept of Judaism can be drawn from Jewish sources provides an important model for how a premodern religious tradition can be brought into harmony with modern humanistic principles.»

One can of course not hide the fact that in the United States, too, the Christian heritage is decaying at an incessant pace, while at the same time the rapid increase in the Hispanic population and the presence of religious traditions from all over the world have changed the picture.

Over the past decade, more Christians have been admitted to the US as refugees than those of any other religious tradition, including many persecuted because of their faith from countries like Iraq and Burma.

Writing in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.

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.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

In 2012, when the Obama administration first proposed the so - called HHS mandate, requiring employers to provide insurance coverage that included free access to contraceptive and abortive drugs, it provided an exceedingly narrow religious exemption from the rule that echoed some of the distinctions first made in these earliest incarnations of the English tradition of toleration.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

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 place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

The most deceptive aspect is when one steals from already established religious traditions (like Hinduism / Yoga) and then pretends to teach.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

The SBNR most often simply steal from already established religious traditions and then go into business.

But as liberals learned more about those whom they were seeking to convert to Christianity from other religious traditions, they became less sure.

It evolved from constitutional traditions respecting private property and individual rights, it arose from religious teachings about human dignity, and it sprang from the mind of Kant.

«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.»

But we must make our case in publicly accessible terms that appeal to people of good will from a variety of religious traditions and those of no religious tradition.

Two researchers at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga found that atheists and agnostics run the range from vocally anti-religious activists to nonbelievers who still observe some religious traditions.

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.

(Footnotes specific to another religious tradition were dropped from the guidelines as I posted them here.)

Recently I've noticed that the religious traditions we tend to fight against the most are often the ones from which we came.

But it is so open to be all - inclusive, all - consuming, like a unifying theory that applies to everyone from atheist to believer in any religious or spiritual tradition, that most wouldn't accept me as a part of their club.

On the one hand our ties to tradition, whatever religious or ethnic group we come from, have been enormously eroded in the last century by the advance of modernization.

Our concern in this and the subsequent chapters is not, however, with the total Islamic culture but with the specifically religious culture which originates almost exclusively from the Qur» an, the Traditions of the Prophet of Islam, and the various interpretations of these two fundamental sources.

In Human Rights in Religious Traditions (Pilgrim Press, 1982), Rabbi Daniel Polish concludes that the idea of human rights «derives in the Jewish tradition from the basic theological affirmation of Jewish faith.»

We recognize that this mentality has from the beginning and ever since continually threatened the cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions of the native peoples.»

A second response to sexuality from various religious traditions, including our own, is moralising.

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.

Western religious traditions, however, are too distant from this new sense of the universe, he says.

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»