Sentences with phrase «lives of adherents»

A religion that makes no difference in the lives of its adherents is not a religion at all.

The amount of control thatnthe church has over the daily lives of adherents is disturbing.

Not exact matches

Atheism has a long history of its adherents changing living people into dead ones by the millions.

The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

(8) Yet rarely has the church addressed this aspect of culture in a sustained and balanced way that helps its adherents live faithful lives within this particular culture.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

He leads adherents into arcane wisdom and superior knowledge about what the meaning of life truly is.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Adherents of TM claim benefits ranging from the shrinkage of ulcers to an improved sex life.

Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

while the most ardent adherents to nihilism might embrace the full ramifications of such belief, most folks aren't willing to follow it to its logical end: compassion is just a «feeling» but it's not real / people live & die / there is no such thing as good & evil / etc..

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

Critics of religion often claim that its adherents grovellingly obey moral laws, not for the sake of leading a good life or behaving altruistically, but for fear of eternal punishment at the hands of a vindictive God.

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

Conversation between adherents of naturalism and theism is basically an argument not between science and theology, but between two ultimate commitments, two metaphysical interpretations of the nature of the universe and the significance of human life.

Article I of the Statement of Belief, which must be signed by all who seek membership in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, the Mother Church, reads: «As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.»

The rejection of the corruption, the cruelty and all around sociopathy of its adherents has been a cornerstone of my life.

There is little basis in history for the promise that this religion sincerely followed will bring fullness of life to its adherents in the sense that theological utilitarianism intends.

Something of the fullness of the Christian heritage has been revealed and the vivid kaleidoscopic character of the lives and beliefs of its different adherents.

But in spite of all apparent failures, dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely in their long - lasting continuance contrasted with the always short - lived heresies which flourish and gain adherents for a while but then fade into obscurity.

They all worshiped very powerful beings — that, after all, is what gods and goddesses are — and the more recently imported cults were very much concerned to offer salvation, including the promise of eternal life, to their adherents.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

In response, these churches, temples, synagogues and mosques produce the cultural material that enables their members and adherents to locate themselves with respect to the places and time in which they currently live, to identify with others, to find their moral bearings, and to achieve some measure of efficacy with respect to their own needs and aspirations.

In the context of the life and work of other religious traditions it is incumbent on the Church in India to evolve more open ecclesial structures that do justice to its experience of an interrelatedness and mutual inclusiveness with other religious traditions and their adherents.

Therefore the adherents of all religions and no religion have the same status and rights of citizenship including freedom of religion / belief and freedom from discrimination in civic life on the basis of religion / belief.

Christ's perfect union of divinity and humanity is the central mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring of this paradox marked the heretics of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to live with the ultimate inscrutability of the God - Man.

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(ENTIRE BOOK) This book summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a reality.

Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.

What is important, according to this line of thinking, is to let the adherents of each religion speak for themselves about the nature of their own religious experiences, their views of the world and of life, and their own forms of beliefs and worship.

The denial of eternal life which is so common among modern Christians is not, as its adherents often claim, a nonegoistic, mature, realistic willingness to face the brutal limitations of finitude; rather, it amounts to a tragically unbelieving denial of God's honor — and thus of God's very existence.

It is a gathering place for spiritual seekers who are fulfilling their vision for a utopian society and imbibing and implementing a style of life that its adherents believe can change the world.

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

In a fascinating and potentially far - reaching judgement, the judges ruled: «Religion could be described as a belief system going beyond sensory perception or scientific data held by a group of adherents, which claims to explain mankind's place in the universe and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the belief system.»

As the authors of that paper put it: «Clumsy solutions are creative, flexible mixes of four ways of organizing, perceiving and justifying that satisfy the adherents to some ways of life more than other courses of actions, while leaving no actor worse off.

«Adherents of the faith should leverage this festive moment to foster unity and continue to live up to the tenets through the acts of charity, peaceful co-existence with our neighbours, obedience to the injunctions of the Holy Qura»n and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim whose spirit of obedience was demonstrated through his submission to the will of Allah even in very difficult situation.

An adherent of the «broken window» theory of policing — where police target quality - of - life crimes — Bratton focused on offenders including squeegemen who pestered motorists for pocket change.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has challenged adherents of Christian faith to evolve independent means of making their lives and society better and stop complaining...

He enjoined Muslims, Christians and adherents of other religions in the country to continue to live in peace and harmony adding that when all religions are preached and practised well the country will be the better for it.

As depression and anxiety can affect quality of life and can increase the risk of hospitalization, the ability of people to be adherent to their medication regimens is important.

We entertain people who are adherent of the finer things in life and they understand that good living is not a luxury.

Comment: Furst's latest story is inspired by a real - life group of Italian exiles, the giellisti (adherents to the anti-Fascist Giustizia e Liberta party) who fled Italy following the arrest of many of their group on the orders of Mussolini, and for a time, published an underground newspaper in Paris which was then smuggled back into Italy.

Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy - five «plural wives,» several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.

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Building on the languages of Pop Art, Minimalism and Op Art, Halley, like his fellow Neo-Geo adherents, sought to capture what he saw as the «geometricisation of modern life».

His preference for natural settings in his later paintings perhaps reflects the belated influence of the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, whose adherents — many of them still - life painters — followed influential English art critic John Ruskin's teachings of fidelity to nature.

Steven Kurutz of The New York Times gives good exposure to the small house movement, «whose adherents believe in minimizing one's footprint — structural as well as carbon — by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000 square feet and, in some cases, smaller than 100.