Sentences with phrase «liberal religion»

Let's see how liberal your religion is.

Liberal religion owes its real growth to the Enlightenment of the 18th century, and the continuers of that movement are found throughout the modern university — not only in theological seminaries.

On a different note, Carson Holloway says the HHS mandate reveals the logic of liberalism as a creeping and creepy secularism: ``... for an older generation of liberals religion had to be kept private in the sense that it could not try to control the government for its own distinctively religious purposes.

What a reasonable and liberal religion we could have if Jesus had limited his remarks concerning the love of God to his lovely rain analogy.

Most mainline, liberal religion — of the sort preached from my limestone pulpit — has had as its goal adjustment to and satisfaction with the present order rather than speculation or concern about the future.

It was also the most helpful for one concerned with nature, science, philosophy, liberal religion, and good writing — all of which my wife had learned to appreciate before I met her.

Nonetheless, I believe with the right that public education is hostile to religion — not least to liberal religion.

But liberal religion has been more vibrant in the modern era than Hauerwas imagines.

In his article «Sex and the Religion of Me» (December), James Kalb pointed out several weaknesses of liberal religion, among them the tendency to falsify reality and the inability to strengthen the bonds of solidarity.

Since there is solid biblical and theological grounding for these same general interests, liberal religion should be able to relate to such constituencies as it has done in the past.

Nussbaum laments that Nehru neglected «the cultivation of liberal religion and the emotional bases of a respectful pluralistic society» - a failure that she thinks left the opportunity wide open for the HJP's «public culture of exclusion and hate.»

Citizens believe in God, but their liberal religion has few holds on duty (this is not a book to cheer liberals) and rigorous sectarian religion promotes few impulses toward the public good; rather, it stands off, supporting privatism beyond church, individualism in the public zone and incoherence overall.

Thus today citizens may believe in God, but their liberal religion has few holds on duty.

I don't see why the Government wouldn't support it — unless it wants to send a message that liberal religion isn't «real» religion.

He held a hearing in December that described the science around warming as a kind of liberal religion.