Sentences with phrase «in a religious tradition»

For the first time in our religious tradition, this prophet stated the doctrine of salvation by a minority.

For people whose ethical views are based in a religious tradition, that choice seems monstrous.

Deep in the religious tradition is the custom of using alcohol as a symbol and a vehicle for divine inspiration.

The modern world has underestimated the wisdom about the inner life gained by human beings over the centuries and embodied in the religious traditions.

So much of the abuse language and behaviors common in some religious traditions and churches is exactly the same as in relationships of domestic, partner, and child abuse situations.

Mindfulness started out as a practice in some religious traditions, and is now used to promote a calm awareness of our feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and consciousness.

This week's posts challenge the fundamentalists position of exclusivism - the theology that salvation is available only to those who explicitly confess faith in Jesus Christ, leaving out the billions of people throughout history who either never heard of Jesus or who were raised in religious traditions other than Christianity.

As Alexis de Tocqueville saw, moral ideas and sentiments rooted in religious traditions and institutions are necessary to sustain the ethical argument and civic friendship of public life in a republic such as ours, whose fate finally rests on the habits of the heart of its citizens.

Dione seems under a compulsion to translate everything in our religious tradition which hints of the supernatural into naturalistic terms.

In either case, everything in these religious traditions that is in tension with this universalistic teaching is to be set aside.

I had spent years in religious traditions such as Charismatic, Pentecostal and Vineyard that strongly believe God is speaking all the time, which is why prophecy is such a prevalent activity among these groups.

«By way of background, the basic idea behind the sin of omission, whether as featured in religious traditions or in its secular, metaphorical form, is that, just as it is wrong to do intentional harm, it is also sometimes wrong to do nothing — that is, it is wrong to fail to act or speak,» said Ryan.

@Tom Tom — I rather like professor Daniel Dennett's proposal that instruction in ALL religious traditions should be started in primary grades.

Lisa, I agree that it is one thing to say that you have found the fullest Divine Revelation in your Religious Tradition and claiming that your religion is the only Source of Divine Revelation.

There are severe limitations in their religious traditions, and both Easterners and Westerners have largely rejected their heritage.

For centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against women.

For Hart, the ancients in every religious tradition got philosophy so right that there is little left to be said about the intellectual foundation of theism.

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.»

It did not occur to many people in the 19th century that there might be truth, integrity or value in a religious tradition other than Christianity.

It was encouraging to know I wasn't alone, but disheartening to realize that there were churches across the country that hadn't quite figured out diversity in religious traditions.

Be that as it may, the crippled man found nothing in his religious tradition to cure him until Jesus came along and restored strength and action to his impotent limbs.

And wrestling with god - healers exist in every religious tradition.

In the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious tradition.

If we find a commonality in the religious traditions, it seems to me, that adds to the truth and the validity of the religious traditions rather than somehow threatening the truth of our own.

Atheist here... If marriage is «God's Law» and you, deviated humans... want to engage in that tradition, why do you want to engage in a religious tradition?

«So moderate people of faith, those of you who can endure the cognitive dissonance of espousing progressive politics while gleaning support in religious traditions that are thousands of years old — I ask you to please speak up.

Others have argued for a «pluralist» approach, suggesting that no religion can claim a preferential position, but that the Divine Mystery, who is revealed in each religious tradition, is never fully apprehended and that each faith tradition witnesses to aspects of the divine glory.

Indeed, people in any religious tradition who are committed to dialogue often find themselves upbraided as turncoats by their own brothers and sisters.

Above all, we believed that we had unearthed a long - buried conspiracy in our religious tradition — a conspiracy that blurred the lines between faith and politics.

Some anthropologists have in fact maintained that ritual was the earliest form in all religious traditions, and that myth was developed later to justify and explain ritual.

We are fairly clear concerning the nature of this new spirit, since it has been tested repeatedly in the religious tradition out of which our highest moral standards have come, even though it is now so largely ignored.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslims arrive to participate in religious traditions.

Glitter itself embodies the reflective nature of the mirrored surface, a popular element in religious traditions across the world.

Again, much like prophets in religious traditions, he proposed that the «group» was the primary source of treatment and that action methods (for example: role play, role training, role reversal, social atom enactments, current events, and surplus reality) were formidable avenues for individuals and groups to embrace growth and healing.

Such reining in of curiosity can be found in every religious tradition; but we should not mistake it for skepticism or indifference to the reality of heaven.

Or, if we rightly recognized that the motivation and values had roots in religious traditions, in many cases Christian, we might decide that it is more important to engage in the actions for which Christian values call than worrying about whether we ar following Jesus.