Sentences with phrase «many different religious traditions»

I belong to a wonderful church where we welcome (encourage) diverse points of view and seek to learn all we can about different religious traditions.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

and the attempts to make intertextuality between different religious traditions and scriptures.

But the basic point is that people are not all looking for the same thing, and different religious traditions have responded to and shaped different paths to different ends.»

Today we live in a different world, where people of different religious traditions live together side by side.

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

There are, in the midst of fragmentation, signs of a changing society in the context of religious plurality, where people of different religious traditions are instrumental in building new communities and where interreligious dialogue promotes a new understanding of the other.

People of different religious traditions are today experiencing a changed world, where they discover the interconnectedness between religions.

Could the continuous dialogue on ethical issues between people of different religious traditions building new communities bring about a sustainable world?

I could have chosen different religious traditions, but in the Christian tradition there are some well - articulated depictions about what life eternal might look like.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Just as there are parties today, writers of New Testament books had to think how to describe Christian faith to people from two different religious traditions.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

This understanding happens in the combination of intra-religious and inter-religious dialogue, that is, in the dialogue between different religions and among different religious traditions within one human person.

Mystical movements within the different religious traditions may have been.

What «further can be said,» however — i.e., whether the Principle of Limitation should be conceived as «Allah, Brahman, Yahweh or Father in Heaven» — is left to be decided on the basis of particular experiences of the different religious traditions.

The difficulty of fitting Buddhism into broad generalizations about «authentic and lasting religious experiences» raises a broader question about the coherence of positing a mutual normativity of different religious traditions.

Different religious traditions give various responses to the ecological crises.

As a student of Religions, I want to note that various responses to the ecological crisis are already given from the perspective of different religious traditions.

Placher stands between these two extremes in a middle ground which allows for genuine dialogue between science and religion and among different religious traditions.

In the previous sections I noted how in China different religious traditions could function in a complementary fashion, in a context that was determined by a more inclusive horizon, that of being Chinese.

The conflicting claims among different religious traditions necessarily relativize all such claims and underscore his central thesis that «afterlife notions are mirrors of our cultural and social needs.»

Adherents of different religious traditions may be able to recognize the reality of both ends, though they are not able to agree on the explanation of how and why the two ends exist or on the priority they should be given.

Working to bring together students and faculty who come from different religious traditions and a range of secular perspectives is completely consistent with the institutional values of the IB.

Some of these sessions discussed the souls of animals and different religious traditions, historic views of animals and the existence of their souls.

The BMA presents Documenting the Spirit, a panel of practitioners, scholars, and observers of different religious traditions.

«Because parents from different religious traditions and with differing levels of religious service attendance are more likely to divorce, and because having these types of parents is associated with lower religiosity later in life, it could be that we've been attributing the effect of parental religious differences to parental divorce.»

Not exact matches

Are you saying that I need to learn about every religious sect within each religion and I need to memorize every tiny nuance and «tradition» of these thousands of different forms of religious expression?

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

The problem with trying to reconcile these two conceptions of Catholic ethics regarding war — the «peace tradition» of the religious life and the just war tradition of secular life — is precisely that they are so fundamentally different.

Several factor analyses of the responses revealed some clustering around religious, social, and individualistic ideas, but the results also suggested a high degree of «mixing» among different thematic traditions.

«The metaphysical content of the religious tradition of the Bible, both Jewish and Christian, is utterly different from the metaphysical content or structure of the religious traditions of India, Africa, Oceania or Greece.»

People from different cultures, societies, religious traditions and regions often use speech that is common to them, so what?

Descriptions of unity in the church are usually addressed to readers with different perspectives on religious tradition.

It is important to remember that non-relating or conflict in the spiritual area frequently occurs even between spouses from the same religious tradition, but who have basically different value systems and world - views derived from their respective families - of - origin.

Examples of intermittent persecutions of groups belonging to different traditions — there must be many such — do not illustrate religious intolerance in India.

«In Britain we have a long tradition of freedom of worship and religious tolerance, where many people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit from their guidance.

within virtually all modern nations - between people who are prepared to live with others who are different, on terms of equal respect, and those who seek the... domination of a single religious and ethnic tradition.

To respond to the ecological crisis it may help us to go deeper into our own religious tradition to see different bases other than what we already found.

They try to see a religious community in the organic wholeness of its life, action and thought before generalizing about similarities between different traditions.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

Given the distinct religious traditions of Christianity and Judaism, it is no wonder that the revival of religion takes different forms in the two religious communities, exemplified by «born - again Christians» and the ba «alei teshuvah, «penitents» or «returnees,» in Judaism.

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

More frequently, however, the Christian participants have tried to base the dialogue on completely different facets of religious tradition..

The Christian theology that engages us in Asia must have must have room, yes, plenty of room, for people of different walks of life and of diverse religious traditions and cultural backgrounds.

The method of the Indian religious traditions is somewhat different.

My experience is that Roman Catholics and Protestant evangelicals both share many traditions of Christian education and many subdivisions of religious experience, although they may view these through different lenses and historical perspectives.

If different religious practices and beliefs aim at and constitute distinct conditions of human fulfillment, then a very high proportion of what each tradition affirms may be true and valid in very much the terms that the tradition claims.