Sentences with phrase «from religious values»

As far as politicians interest in the environment is concerned it depends some come to the issue through an understanding of the impacts policies are having on their community, their country the world others come from a religious values perspective that we are custodians of the planet for God and then others through an interest in the issues themselves.

In addition, modern religion has become more internally differentiated such that religious knowledge has become more distinct from religious experience and meaning, religious techniques have become more distinct from religious values, and religious statements have become objectified over against the largely privatized meanings and interpretations they are given.

Our modern separation of secular values from religious values is therefore utterly foreign to the ontological facts of human nature and is «un-Lawful» or «a negation of the Law».

Not exact matches

1) Approval of Charter: «Quebec has proposed a Charter of Values to promote secularism, which would prohibit public servants from wearing religious clothing and symbols.

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

Far from fearing Islamic radicalism, the 68ers trust that consumer society will quickly vaporize the piety, virility, and patriarchal values of Muslim communities, leaving a harmless residue of ethno - religious kitsch.

Kaine started out with a version of the «personally opposed but publically supporting» argument based on the specious claim that the First Amendment of the Constitution prevents us from imposing our religious «values» on public life.

Then he faded from the scene for a couple of decades, only to be picked up by the left wing of the Democratic party after their electoral disaster of 2004 in order to certify their sympathy for «religious values.»

He comes from the background of a religious home; he is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life; he is sensitive to spiritual values; and he seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare in any way with the consequences which are visible in the destruction of our common religious and ethical values.

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

If all we had was the Book of Tobit, we might conclude that the religious value of almsgiving was conditioned by one's distance from the Temple.

Coupled with a distaste for the Religious Right's approach to «family values,» it has kept many churches from presenting a clear vision of what families should aspire to be.

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

The presence of such a nonrational element does not disqualify religious values from consideration in lawmaking, however.

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.

«it was only when religious belief was removed from the realm of «fact» to that of «value», about which individuals were free to differ, that a societal system could evolve in which a multiplicity of denominations could exist side by side and have equal rights.»

They find passages concerning the futility of seeking too much religious knowledge (5:1 - 6), the absurdity of constant effort to push oneself to religious asceticism, the value of not taking religion too seriously or not praying too much, of not straining oneself for any earthly goal, and of not trying to save the world from all the cruelty and injustice in it (3:16 - 21).

But whereas art is a movement from complexity to simplicity within the limits of a canvas, a musical score, a poem, a novel, or a play, the religious impulse seeks an unrestricted field of value whose harmony involves an ever - enlarging processive synthesis of complexity and intensity.

Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis of the categoreal feelings and subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis of an alternative value judgment.

The combination of communal and adumbrative subjective forms in transmuted physical feelings provides the foundation of the religious feeling of «the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals, and also necessary for the existence of each of these individuals» (JIM 59).

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

First, in every domain of teaching the following essentials of religious faith should be emphasized and demonstrated in the teacher's own outlook: That the world, man, and his culture are neither self - sufficient nor self - explanatory but are derived from given sources of being, meaning, and value.

In authentic religious faith the direction of concern is shifted from the striving, seeking self to the valued other.

Religious functionaries lose some of their unique claim to power as a result of competition from secular professionals and in conjunction with a more general rise in education and values stressing individual discretion.

We have noted how he valued solidarity with those whom he saw as potential members of the new Israel, however alienated they might be from the religious establishment.

It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.

My inbox is filled with messages from young evangelicals who feel angered and betrayed as they watch their religious community align itself with values they don't recognize.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

But from either angle, the people should check their own agenda, values, and morals before debating or voting whom should be president merely by that president's «claimed» religious status.

And the thing about religious value experiments, why they are different from others is, of course, that the payoff isn't even in this life.

Keener says this part of the Christmas story, «would have challenged the values of many religious people who despised shepherds, [whose] work kept them from participating in the religious activities of their communities.»

Why is it ok for millions to give week after week from their pew to promote their religious beliefs, but this guy donates money to promote secular values, and he is a THREAT?

Working with religious Americans from across the country, we will ensure that those values are a part of the political conversation heading into this critical election.

Let us not become the very sects that anger us — those who push their religious values and judgments upon us because it differs from their beliefs.

Though its terms were drawn from the vast world repertoire of religious and social imagination, they were particularized in a local language that expressed our own views, values, and actions.

In that dance we learn about the values and struggles we have in common with people from different religious, cultural and political systems.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

Gresh encourages young people to abstain from sex because of her religious values but also presented a neuroscientific case against casual sex:

Both Appleby and Juergensmeyer use the neutrality of religious - studies language to describe the complex structures of religious world views, but both also use value - laden language to distinguish bad religion from good.

Such disagreements were rooted in the distinctive values of religious traditions, arising from the reinforcing effects of believing, behaving, and belonging.

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.).

It is important to remember that non-relating or conflict in the spiritual area frequently occurs even between spouses from the same religious tradition, but who have basically different value systems and world - views derived from their respective families - of - origin.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

On the religious side he sees the need for the belief that the values achieved in the world are not simply lost as they fade from human memory.