Sentences with phrase «in a religious context»

Don't believe that the words hope and faith can only be used in a religious context.

Given that the law had been first changed in a religious context in favour of purity, it was a steep mountain to climb.

And this is the kind of human nature that finds fullest expression in religious contexts.

He was speaking in a religious context but nevertheless, his basic premise — that meditation can protect against the pressures of modern life — is one many secular experts would happily endorse.

Therefore it is appropriate for news outlets to address this issue in a religious context.

At the time, these methods were taught almost exclusively in religious contexts.

And even in religious contexts, «brothers» is generally fine.

Some people choose Christian counseling over other types of counseling and mental health treatment because they are more comfortable with managing mental health issues or personal problems in a religious context.

In addition, between 20 and 30 percent of respondents reported stigmatizing experiences because of being a gay father, primarily from family members, friend, and some people in religious contexts.

To deal with numbers in a religious context as an actual numbering of days, or eons, is an instance of the way in which a literal reading loses the symbolic richness of the text.

As the Harvard report acknowledges, the humanities are based on a synthesis of classical and Christian sources, and were practiced in a religious context into the nineteenth century.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's proven WHY people believe in God in religious contexts.

Undoubtedly my views on discussing politics, especially in a religious context, hark back to that gray Sunday afternoon in November of 1960.

Feminine theology, like other theological movements of the 20th century, raises questions concerning the use of language and symbols in a religious context and the worship of that which we call divine.

Research into «spiritual abuse», often defined as coercion or manipulation in a religious context, says... More

As you point out, many English words in a religious context do not mean the same thing in their original context... and sometimes not even in a modern non-religious context!

However in a religious context, it is primarily a technique for seeking proximity to God and the divine.

In 2014, we embarked upon a bold vision: to create the first international certification for Fertility Awareness Educators not based in a religious context.

A tiny church in Northumberland has beaten Antony Gormley and Canterbury Cathedral for this year's Art in a Religious Context award The biennial prize run by the charity Art & Christian Enquiry worth # 4,000, with # 1,500 each going to the artists and # 1,000 to the church.

The artist's friends publicly defended the work, while art critic Basilius von Ramdohr published a long article challenging Friedrich's use of landscape in a religious context.

Her research interests include well - being of LGBTQ youth and young adults, sex positive sex education, and sex education in religious contexts.

In some cases, laws regarding the provision of counseling and therapy services provide loopholes for clergy who offer counseling in a religious context.

On the offchance any non-native speakers read this... «Brethren» is (in current usage) almost solely used in religious contexts.

Jaque — In religious context, wasn't Jesus supposed to be the Jewish Messiah?

in a religious context, it means to cover up the light within your heart, to hide the truth [after you know it]

And I still don't think of them in any religious context, just adventure stories with talking animals.

Used in a religious context it meant the care of the gods, and there were many gods in their pantheon.

I have had it many times both in religious contexts and out of religious context.

A sin, in a religious context, usually refers to any action that contrary to the will of god.

For it takes the story of whoredom and places it in a religious context, so that we are enabled to look on Israel (and ourselves) as a faithless wife forgiven by the Lord.

When one of them asked him, in a religious context, what he believed, the conscientious scientist realized that he could only answer this question definitively with research (via books) and careful consideration.

Satya is used in a religious context to denote being honest and truthful in actions, speech and thought.

Its development since the Muslims brought down the secularist regime of the Shah in 1979 shows that fundamentalism may well be a means of enabling people to make the painful rite of passage to modernity on their own terms and in a religious context that makes it acceptable to the mass of the people.