Sentences with phrase «in a religious context in»

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

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To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

Although the religious communities of Judaism and Christianity can not legislate this minimal human morality (indeed, when they attempt to do so they most often retard its social impact, especially in a democratic setting), they can provide it with an overall ontological context, a continuing vision of its original grounds and its ultimate horizon.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

Over at Mirror of Justice, though, Thomas Berg sounds a bit more worried: «a possible lesson here for religious - liberty advocates (applicable in other contexts too) is to beware of pushing the envelope too much.»

So many religious people whine about «context, context», yet either never give what the context is in their mind, or the «context» is contradictory to other parts of the bible, and it merely turns into excuses and assertions.

Verses 5 - 8 describe more of this religious leader's pride in the context of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord God; because you have set your heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»

Hence, he didn't want to express the denial of the existence of God in the cultural context of his time and due to his sincere sensitivies to those around him who he loved and were religious, but he personally did not believe in a God and certainly had abandoned Christianity or any religion for that matter.

Several introductory chapters on the Court and its work, the historical background of the First Amendment and the American experiment in religious freedom, and a few of the leading themes help to put the (mercifully) heavily edited excerpts of the Court's opinions in context.

It should inquire into dangerousness only in the narrow context of religious use.

In the context of the Asian civilization, we discern various religious and cultural resources for such gardening, which have been rising among the peoples» movments.

It's less usual for these suits to happen in religious contexts, but it happened to a friend of mine, Julie Anne Smith, who along with four others were sued by their former pastor for defamation of character for $ 500,000.

(9) The researching and teaching of evolution has had a secular bias as well, since science has been carried on largely in a secular context as a secular enterprise, in relation to which religious affirmations (such as creation) are seen as quaint and superfluous.

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

Third, even when traditionally religious forms of human life seem to fade in some contexts, new and alternative forms of life often appear in their place that engage the sacred, spiritual, transcendent, and liturgical needs of human beings.

When Jefferson called himself a Christian this was in a philosophical, and not religious, context.

Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other traditions not only «listen in» on our conversations, but also are engaged in interpreting religious plurality in the context of their own traditions of faith.

However the nature of this site is that it is satirical primarily as you acknowledge and it is not surprise that hypoerbole be used in such context and did Jesus with religious authorities.

The dangerous trend in our Indian context is that religious fundamentalist forces have wedded themselves with corporate business forces.

In this context, Mendelssohn's religious cosmopolitanism, which unites a deep attachment to Judaism with a commitment to the humane ideals of the Enlightenment seems prescient and worthy of reconsideration.»

And then I've been the scapegoat a few times, in religious and non-religious contexts.

Lamennais and Gorres demonstrated how crucial religious concepts could operate in the context of social and national preoccupations.

Regardless of whether it is framed in its religious or its secular context, regardless of whether the object of one's energy is external or internal, America's understanding of her national character continues to place work at the forefront.

While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it is more enlightening in this context to stress the similarity of focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national character.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

Also, I should say that it seemingly puts Jesus is the company of other great philosophical and religious teachers who essentially say the same sorts of things, in their own contexts and in their own times as to how to find «eternal life» a phrase I think speaks of a qualitative type of life, a flourishing, if you will, both now and after death.

A. Pastoral Services: to facilitate traditional pastoral functions in the context of the relationship of religion to illness and health; these may include but not be limited to religious services, pastoral counseling and religious education.

And after my young friend leaves me and turns her back again on her family, once more to take refuge in the commands of her master, I rejoin that community of scholars and reflect on the religious context of what has gone on here, just as it has in a hundred other interviews.

Whenever sinners are mentioned, it is usually in the context of setting up a discussion between Jesus and the religious people.

Similarly, some religious cults have separated their converts from their familiar contexts and provided new ones in ways that have made them new persons for good or ill.

Although one can expect, to a certain extent, such an influence by revealed theology on the developments of metaphysics, especially in the context of Whitehead's theory of «religious intuition,» Whitehead appreciates the Alexandrian theology not for its specific content and «highly special form» (AI 167), but to the extent that it suggests «the solution of a fundamental metaphysical problem» (AI 167).

It is questionable whether Whitehead would have ever introduced «God» to his metaphysics if he had not been convinced of the religious, i.e., non-metaphysical, meaning of the notion of God.2 Whitehead consciously developed his cosmology in the context of an «immediate comparison with the deliverances of religious experience» (RM 87).

Theology and ethics are inseparable in the black religious experience; The context of the faith of black people is a situation of racist oppression.

An effective response requires a more profound change in our vision, developed in a religious context.

The context in which the spirit and intention of the present book are most clearly revealed is that of the religious traditions of mankind.

At the level of assumption, the historical consciousness is the awareness that every event or entity (including persons or religious traditions) possesses its own finite, historical context and can be explained exhaustively in terms of that context.

One concentrates on the characteristic structures of religious phenomena, i.e. the essence of religion and the other on their historical contexts in order to discover and communicate their history.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

We Americans, religious and secular both, have powerful fundamental views about religion that put radical Islam in a certain context, one that prevents us from understanding how unlike other American religious expressions it is — and how much of a threat it is to the civil order.

(I will not in this context elaborate the abstracting and generalizing contribution of the mental pole in the emergence of religious experience, although it is presupposed throughout that an occasion of experience is indissoluably dipolar.)

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

Smith and Denton can not answer this question because they did not study youth in the context of their religious communities.

It is this latter dimension that has continuously been thwarted in Christian religious history in favor of yet another apotheosis of the particular; and it is this same dimension that is most in need of being recovered in our present context.

(I got a 7/10) I haven't yet taken a religious course but what I've experienced so far in college is that it's not the place to understand Christianity as it's not given the context it deserves.

Other aspects of Christian teaching have checked the pursuit of justice in all these senses, but when one of its meanings, the ideal of equality, is separated from its religious context, it can have destructive consequences.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

In describing the essential events that have transformed the religious scene in Brazil, and by situating them in a broad historical context, the author offers a constructive and balanced vision of the Pentecostal movemenIn describing the essential events that have transformed the religious scene in Brazil, and by situating them in a broad historical context, the author offers a constructive and balanced vision of the Pentecostal movemenin Brazil, and by situating them in a broad historical context, the author offers a constructive and balanced vision of the Pentecostal movemenin a broad historical context, the author offers a constructive and balanced vision of the Pentecostal movement.

Yet mistakes must be avoided which may arise from the application of a technical term developed in a distinctive historical, social, cultural, or religious context to a wider range of phenomena.

The virtue of Zaret's approach is that it demonstrates the relevance of broad social conditions as effects on religious ideas, but instead of pinning these effects on hidden psychological states or vague generalities about interests and legitimation, it traces the factors actually involved in the specific contexts in which ideas were produced, modified, and disseminated.