Sentences with phrase «liberal views on religion»

An eminent lawyer with liberal views on religion, slavery, and republicanism, Wythe saw little benefit in the drudgery of traditional legal training and preferred to have his students read law reports and foundational English legal writings, such as those by Sir Edward Coke.

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Neither would it resonate with those academics and so - called liberals who reduce religion to mere ethics or diversity, to some inner psychoanalytic conversation, or some Marxist egalitarian view of heaven on earth.
Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.
He went on to note: «The discomforting truth is that religions with views that many Canadians find incomprehensible or offensive abound in a liberal and multicultural society.
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