They form
the ideology of a new religion, and make up a relatively complete and internally, consistent explanation of humanity, the world, and human destiny, asserting that this vision is true and others are, at best, less true.
Not exact matches
The situation calls for the search for a
new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue
of religions and secular
ideologies.
That's their real motivation - to protect their primitive religious
ideology from a
new flood
of biological facts that are rapidly making
religion as outmoded as astrology.
Finally, Stanley I. Samartha
of India, who is director
of the WCC's program on Dialogue with People
of Living Faiths and
Ideologies, sums up the
new attitude toward other
religions by asserting:
Recently, several important studies have appeared that, in addition to contributing historical evidence on Puritanism, also offer some interesting
new ways
of thinking about the theoretical assumptions concerning
religion and
ideology in the Weberian tradition.
Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the
new and the old meanings
of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the
ideology of political
religion, which is the symbolic integration
of the beliefs
of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique
of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task
of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses
of political
religions.
Whether among the secularized masses
of industrial societies, the emerging
new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging
religions which people embrace, the movements
of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage
of the younger generation into a future both full
of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning
of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.
The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other
religions and with secular humanist
ideologies regarding the nature and rights
of the human person and the meaning
of social justice enabling to build together a
new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.
With the expression «Kingdom», we are related to all the dreams
of humankind it would be difficult to find a people whose
religion, or
ideology, does not expect a
new day in the future.
They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework
of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a
new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body
of insights about the nature
of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent
religions, secularist
ideologies including the philosophies
of the tragic dimension
of existence and disciplines
of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context
of their common sense
of historical responsibility and common human destiny.
Hindu, Secular and Christian who have contributed to the Christianization / Humanization
of Indian
religion,
ideology and philosophy in the light
of the Crucified Christ, but also the local Christian congregations which in their worship and sacramental life, demonstrated a pattern
of corporate life
of fellowship, transcending traditional caste division impelled by their
new sense
of being made brethren through the death
of Christ on the Cross.
So a
new holistic humanism integrating the mechanical - materialistic, the organic ecological and the spiritual personal dimensions
of human being has to emerge through dialogue between
religions and secular
ideologies and between
religions.
That is the issue
of a
new ideology or a
new religion.
A
new term that has emerged from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's
new Policy on Preventing Discrimination Based on Creed is that
of faithism, which it defines as: «any
ideology that ascribes to people values, beliefs and behaviours, and constructs people as fundamentally different and unequal — deserving or undeserving
of respect and dignity — based on their
religion or belief.»