Sentences with phrase «institutions in a pluralistic society»

The freedom to abide by religious convictions is not only a matter of individual liberty; it is also a freedom that ought to be encouraged for institutions in a pluralistic society.

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In a pluralistic and rapidly changing society, there are strong pressures on all institutions - especially churches - to maintain a broad common denominator on practical issues.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.