Sentences with phrase «more traditional beliefs»

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism appears to mix with more traditional beliefs and practices in different ways for conservative Protestants, mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, Mormons and the nonreligious.

Not exact matches

Bogle has always adhered to the belief that one of the greatest determinants of investing success is keeping it simple — he has even criticized Vanguard Group on select occasions since retiring for launching more funds (both traditional index and ETF) than he thinks are necessary.

students in the traditional lecture became more novice - like in their attitudes and beliefs about physics over the course of a semester

More specifically, he voiced his belief that regulation in the US will not adversely affect BitFury as it does not perform the functions of a traditional financial services provider, instead only mining bitcoin and selling computer hardware for such operations.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

There seems to be fewer responses from those holding more Traditional / Conservative beliefs which often served as a catalyst to evoke Progressive / Liberal responses.

Certainly the universe has more to offer by way of guaranteeing their traditional beliefs than what Schweitzer proffers, they contend.

No portrait is more radical and disturbing to traditional Christian belief than that put forth by the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who regularly meet to sort out the historically valid from the invalid in the New Testament narratives.

Nevertheless, at specific points such as the time and manner of creation and the expectancy of divine intervention in an established order, the defenders of traditional Christian belief have had to make more adjustments than have the exponents of the scientific spirit.

Trinity does not believe traditional protestant beliefs, and is more rightly termed as a Liberation Theology Church, than a protestant church.

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

For me I would honestly gravitate more towards traditional Native American beliefs but I can't say that was a result of my family because it wasn't.

The student is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality are no longer relevant.

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

By comparing the six campuses that required statements of faith from all entering students with the three campuses that did not, the study was able to test whether a more «insular» setting actually served better to protect the plausibility of traditional beliefs.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Yet so entrenched is the concept of religion as belief in authoritative, ready - made doctrines that when that notion is challenged the whole edifice of religion may be rejected, as in traditional naturalistic humanism or the more bizarre «radical theologies» currently in vogue.

We should use it to challenge, not humiliate, those whose theological beliefs are more traditional than ours.

The reason for this transition, Luke indicates, is not because God has now «chosen» the Gentiles instead of His other «chosen» people, the Jews, but because the Gentiles were more open to hearing, considering, examining, and accepting the things Paul preached to them, while the Jews are more set in their traditional ways and beliefs, and so are less willing to consider that they might be wrong.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

It might have been less harmful to him to just flat out say he looks to his God for guidance, because that is a more traditional approach to affirming a candidates belief and doesn't suggestion a possible confusion or conflict or undermining that some might have read into his statement.

In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripture.

More misguided even is the belief — perhaps not truly traditional — that the entire system can be found in the book's now fabled third part.

Let it suffice to note that the traditional body - soul distinction generally associated with Christian belief is more a Hellenic distinction than a biblical one.

However, Mahoney's method is the reverse: he applies the «doctrine» and «truth» of evolution to «aspects of some traditional Christian beliefs» and «where necessary» puts traditional Christian beliefs «aside» in order to «make room for his own more contemporary evolutionary theology» (p14).

On the other hand, process theology can also assist one who is committed to a more literal belief in the traditional teachings.

More than any particular objections, this assumption that the traditional mythos can no longer speak to us weighs heavily against belief in immortality.

Within the more traditional framework, fundamentalism has been described as a «world - view,» a rather tight (or narrow, or simplistic) view of the world — an orientation that is perhaps hierarchically organized around the ultimate value of otherworldly salvation, an orientation that supplies totally encompassing normative expectations for how people should behave, a set of beliefs and assumptions that are deeply meaningful to the people who hold them and that give meaning to these people's lives.

De Blasio can't make a traditional outer - borough white - ethnic - resentment play: He lives in Park Slope, worked for David Dinkins and Hillary Clinton, and, despite his last name, is more Upper West Side than Bensonhurst in his political beliefs.

• For both men and women, the role of a family member or caregiver does not come at a cost to the investment in a work identity • Because women are more likely to occupy lower quality jobs, they are more likely to have lower career centrality • Traditional gender beliefs lead both men and women to be less career centric, but the impact is stronger for women.

A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain.

When I first started eating one meal per day, I had this weird belief that eating once per day gave me the power to lose more weight than traditional diets.

They needed a discreet approach to dating, which is why Seventy Thirty offered a more traditional method, where a team of psychologists, matchmakers and relationship experts, met prominent members in person, consulted with them about their values, beliefs, personality, lifestyle and goals before carefully selecting and introducing potential partners.

It is possible that parents whose children are at risk of dropping out are more likely to choose charter high schools in a belief that the traditional public school environment would make it more likely that their child leaves school early.

For information on more of the traditional beliefs that influence Chinese New Year celebrations, visit Chinese New Year, from the University of Victoria (British Columbia) Faculty of Education.

Interestingly though, as a result of the traditional school mindset, participation in physical education has declined across U.S. schools, due to the belief that if students are in class for more hours, teacher competencies are measured competitively, and teachers teach to a test, students will ultimately become better learners / scholars.

But with the advent of the influence of the university system and editors coming out of that university myth - filled system, the belief started to sink into the traditional publishing offices that writing more than one or two books per year was a bad thing (except in a few genres like romance).

But one prediction that may come as a much longed for surprise is his belief that more and more major name authors are going to at least experiment with self - publishing, if not reject the traditional industry altogether.

In short, the only clients that agents (who, contrary to popular belief, do not, by - in - large work for authors, but are little more than slush filters that publishers generously allow authors the luxury of paying for) can look forward to having, and being eager for publishers to exploit in the traditional way... are losers.

For traditional publishers, my belief of what will happen is closer to the second: Not much will change except for more tightening and a few of the weaker publishers going down.

The new statistics show that boys tend to read more as opposed to the traditional belief that they are reluctant readers.

This method will be much more successful than the traditional belief that you should spank the dog to reprimand it.

The works inform the sensitive debate surrounding the demonisation and denigration of traditional religion instigated by colonial and missionary rhetoric, and more recently by the most dominant and visible forms of the religious belief systems in Nigeria and across the continent: Islam and Evangelical Christianity.

One of my core beliefs is that latent legal services represents the future of the profession — lawyers will lose much of their traditional work to technology, commoditization and new competitors, but they'll gain much more through the innovative provision of proactive or constructive services to currently unidentified and untapped client markets.

«The initial coin offering not only aligns with our traditional values and investment beliefs, but furthers our confidence that the venture capital industry will soon offer more flexibility in today's market climate.

It seems silly to me, to value the formatting and style of a resume, more than the actual content — and then again, I don't believe in traditional resumes as being very effective other than just being a fancy «business card» with details — and my belief that the traditional jobs are not very efficient or effective in the 21st Century.

The adoption of a broad definition of «traditional laws and customs», which includes the observances, practices, knowledge and beliefs of an ATSI group, will facilitate the receipt of more diverse evidence which can be used to prove the existence and content of particular traditional laws and customs of the group.

What's more, traditional arranged marriages usually occur in a society where such unions are common and where the beliefs that sustain arranged marriages are prevalent (e.g., romantic love is unstable and can undermine the family unit, loyalty is a virtue, etc.).7 American society, on the other hand, celebrates love and considers it an indispensible prerequisite for marriage.

More than this, senior generation traditional owners are of the view that it is imperative their and their ancestors» beliefs and practices, particularly as these relate to «public» and to gender based, i.e. men's and women's, knowledges of sites and Dreamings, be maintained and passed on to members of the younger generation.