Sentences with phrase «observance which»

Intra-religious disputes can often rumble on for centuries, raising infinitely complex points of principle and observance which are impossible to deal with effectively in the few hours available in a standard English Court case.

10) demanding any form of conduct or observance which makes it difficult or impossible for adherents (particularly children) to take part in lawful activities which are commonly enjoyed in British society, and punishing or attempting to punish adherents for failing to comply with such a demand, particularly by putting them in fear of supernatural disfavour.

While faith is so personal and subjective that it is not open to objective study, the religious observance which stems from faith is observable.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

The «wall of partition» in Ephesians stands for the whole system of Jewish piety and legal observances which constituted a barrier to fellowship between Jew and Gentile.

Amongst the yoga spiritual observances which make up the eight limbs of yoga, called Saucha, virtually signifies purity.

Not exact matches

The pair competed in long - sleeves and long - pants in observance of Egypt's Islamic culture of modesty, a significant contrast to the bikini - style uniforms that has long been associated with the sport; Elghobashy also sported a hijab covering her hair, which was permitted after a last - minute decision from the International Volleyball Federation following a request by African Volleyball Confederation chairperson Amr Elmany.

Because it's topic is martyrdom, which fits in rather well with today's observances, don't you think?

«Ramadan is a Muslim religious observance that takes place during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, believed to be the month in which the Qur «an began to be revealed.»

The Programme of Action is comprehensive and seeks to build and strengthen «adequate national structures which have a direct impact on the overall observance of human rights and the maintenance of the rule of law.

The Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses: and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.5

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

Nor, on the other hand, are we given a code of precise rules of observance, adapted, so far as possible, to cover all contingencies (which was the aim of Jewish Rabbinical teaching).

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

So we might go through the «church year» and see that the various lections which are appointed for each Sunday and for festivals or times of special observance suggest the particular aspect or element in the proclamation which will be appropriate and desirable.

In conservative evangelical circles, whether in the Anglican Communion or in churches of a «reformed» type, the recovery of this normative worship in eucharistic observance has not always been achieved, although there are many signs which point toward a growing awareness of its importance and centrality.

In the pursuit of his mission he found himself obliged not merely to neglect some of the finer points of current religious practice (such as fasting on the proper days) but also to break some of the rules which were thought necessary to safeguard the religion of the Law (such as those of Sabbath observance).

These ideas are further elaborated in the Talmud and the Midrash, the major sources of traditional Judaism, which teach, for example, that the authentic observance of religious precepts is possible only in the Land of Israel and that only there is it possible for a Jew to have direct communion with God.

The director of research at Pew explained, «People who say they have a religion — which is still the vast majority of the population — show no discernible dip in levels of observance.

Before sailing for Troas, Paul had kept at Philippi the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, which is a seven - day observance following immediately after Passover, a one - day observance.

I simply don't believe that the new covenant includes adopting pagan observances, such as Easter (which isn't even a Christian name!)

It is apparently designed to give historical justification for the observance of the feast of Purim, which the Jews may have taken over from the Persians during their captivity.

The form of religious observance, which is the cultus, becomes heinous when it is perpetuated in an existence whose total Structure flatly contradicts that which is symbolized in the form!

Can not Israel, in spite of its own observance of the Jewish No, view Christianity as the praeparatio messianica of the nations, and thus recognize in it the way which its own hope for the messiah is taken to the nations?

The strict Sabbath observance of the New England Puritans, which gave rise to «blue laws» in many American cities and towns, influenced the structure of time for many groups in this society.

Many centuries of debate and cultural change have shaped the law and liturgy of contemporary Shabbat observance, which varies considerably from one branch of Judaism to another.

Herbert Fingarette has developed an elaborate interpretation of Confucius in which the dominant thesis is that the ruler governs the empire, establishing harmony and peace, by a kind of ritual dance or observance of propriety.26 Wang was no totalitarian!

Sabbath observance, in other words, showed us the importance of giving up our controlling, anxious grip on the world so that we might learn in a regular and concrete manner what it means to trust in the grace of God and community and to welcome and respect the gifts on which all the living depend.

Jews should recognize in the Christian observance of Christmas «one of the factors that help maintain the religious character of our society» in which Jews, too, with their own beliefs and practices, and with their very lives, have a considerable stake.»

The prophets were combating a type of religion which assumed that men could satisfy the will of God through careful observance of the cult and ceremonial cleanliness, and could in other matters follow their own will.

In this regard the early Hebrews faced a problem, common not only to all primitive faiths but to all advanced faiths too, in which humane conduct has to compete for primacy with ritual observance.

In the Jewish tradition, faith in God is expressed by the meticulous observance of the Mitzvot, which include both ethical and ritual commandments.

The Christian, he came to believe, is justified not by his deeds — by «work righteousness» including religious observances — but by trusting in the mercy and love of God, which can never be earned but is offered freely in Christ.

There is no doubt in my mind that the present Jewish observance of the Sabbath derives from the period of the Exile, not earlier, which we can date from 597 to 539 B.C.; and I believe that the present Jewish observance of the Sabbath is the creation of the Priestly writer.

But, so far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his view of the terms on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (baptism / faith in Jesus without taking on Jewish observance of Torah).

It is also interesting to note that where customary law — adat — deviates from religious law and can not be reconciled to it even in a formal way, it is often customary law which is observed, and such observation is not derogatory to religious sentiment nor to the conscientious observance of the religious obligations and practices of Islam.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

He to Spalatin: «What disturbs me about Erasmus, the most learned man... in explaining Paul he understands the righteousness which originates in «works» or in the «law» or «our own righteousness» as referring to ceremonial observances.»

They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.

While for the most part conforming to the normal expressions of public ecclesiastical observance, the Lollards privately responded with the special fervour of total commitment to the Gospel, nourished a form of religious egalitarianism which in some respect could be called a proto - Protestantism, and were sharply critical of the established priesthood.

As Professor Douglas Laycock puts it, the religion clause requires government to «minimize the extent to which it either encourages or discourages religious belief or disbelief, practice or nonpractice, observance or nonobservance.»

It corresponds to the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which was a one - day religious observance that came fifty days after Passover.

Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.

The instruction should address the principles of honesty, tolerance, personal responsibility, respect for others, observance of laws and rules, courtesy, dignity and other traits which will enhance the quality of their experiences in, and contributions to, the community.

A time of Christian observance, a celebration of new life, an opportunity to eat too much chocolate and buy lots of small plastic eggs for which you will never find a purpose.

«One Big Table» is the theme of the nationwide observance, which originated three years ago with America's Second Harvest, the Chicago - based agency that is the largest domestic hunger - relief organization in the United States.

Monthly observances and celebrations like National Breakfast Month give school nutrition professionals an opportunity for marketing tie - ins, which are in turn opportunities to promote programs like school breakfast to students.

The observance, which is open to the public, will start at 10:30 a.m. with a color guard from the Seneca Nation preceding Seneca, local, state and federal officials to the amphitheater, whe...

The move comes after calls from politicians and members of the public to keep the popular new statue — which was installed facing Wall Street's iconic «Charging Bull» earlier this month by State Street Global Advisors in observance of International Women's Day.

The memo cites Executive Law § 296 (10)(a), which mandates that employees religious observances or practices be accomnodated «unless, after engaging in a bona fide effort, the employer demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate the employee's or prospective employee's sincerely held religious observance or practice... without undue hardship.»