Sentences with phrase «of adherents from»

Not exact matches

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

You don't need to be a devotee of «servant leadership» or an adherent to the notion of «leading from behind» to recognize that leadership typically requires a sensitive appreciation of the talents, motives and desires of a team of people.

Below, a selection of the worst from Silicon Valley and its adherents in 2013 (they're not all geographically based in the Valley, but they're all part of the same bicoastal startup ecosystem) from founders, venture capitalists, and more.

So Popey failed to appropriately handle the major scandals that plagued his reign, he failed to stop the flight of European and American adherents from his church, and now he is going to hide and reflect.

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.

So, though southerneyes44 writes of Christian «appreciation of alternate views», there's a long and brutal history of Christians persecuting adherents of other religions, including the followers of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents of other branches of Christianity.

As former military and private soldier that worked in the Middle East (as well as having been raised in both religions), I've seen and experienced nastiness from adherents of both religions, but 1st prize goes to my sexually repressed, angry little friends from the «Religion of Peace», Islam.

Indeed, as Pleket has shown, from Augustus onwards, the emperors were the focus of «mysteries» that resembled the long - established mysteries of the Hellenistic world, and drew substantial numbers of adherents.

Regarding you post calling me a liar here is the direct quote from your own source as cited: «No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion.»

Not only that science and faith are of course not antagonistic, and that the popular opinion that «science will solve all our problems» is fallacious, but also that, from a Church and faith perspective, science and scientists must not be seen as «the adversary,» adherents of some threatening or remote activity.

Advances were made in winning fresh peoples and new territories to the Christian faith of the pagan barbarians who invaded the Mediterranean world from the North and Northeast all who permanently settled in that region became adherents of Christianity, although the conversion of some was de1 until after A.D. 950.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

This anticlerical thinking gave rise to a theologically liberal brand of Protestantism, whose adherents were receptive to demands from atheists, liberals, and secular Jews for total separation.

In my survey of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from other Pentecostal sects.

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.

Previously, when American paramilitary groups became convinced of the inevitability of official persecution, their most militant adherents shifted from a defensive to an offensive mind - set, unleashing terrorist violence.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

The phenomenological approach took seriously the faith of the believer and tried to appreciate a religion from the standpoint of its adherents.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Therefore it should be purged from the earth, to the point that in the future adherents to a religious faith of any kind must suffer shame.

The erosion of Christian membership continued not only for lack of nurture from the church but also because the jobs which the government reserved for «scheduled castes» (the official term for the so - called untouchables) in government employment were not open to those who claimed to be adherents of a non-Hindu religion, and therefore no longer in any caste at all, «scheduled» or otherwise.

In order to maintain a positive mental state and avoid the perpetuation of «negative» circumstances, adherents of New Thought may be counseled to turn their «attention from the outer visible effects of this world to the inner world of First Cause....

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

However, the task became complicated when reports from investigation of September 11 identified those involved in the terrorist acts as adherents of Islam, and alleged to be highly motivated by their religious teaching.

The adherents of John the Baptist had their special prayer, as we know from an allusion in Luke 11:1; similarly the early Christian community had its prayer, the Lord's prayer, which was attributed to Jesus, as the sect of John ascribed their prayer to their master.

I don't doubt that most theists believe their religion liberates its adherents; but from the perspective of those who don't share the belief, the opposite is true.

The council has taught us to treat all human beings as «invaluable gift [s]» from God, as truly our brothers whether they are near or far from the fullness of truth known to the Catholic Church — whether they are non-Catholic Christians, the adherents of non-Christian religions, or indeed hardened atheists.

Almost all of its growth has come from ethnic minorities, who compose more than 41 percent of its 3.1 million American adherents.

Here and there Messianic prophets and even «kings» appeared; under Cuspius Fadus, the «prophet» Theudas; under Ventidius Cumanus, the «bandit» Eleasar; under Felix, a «prophet» who came out of Egypt, who led the crowd of his adherents to the Mount of Olives and attempted to enter Jerusalem with them, expecting the walls to fall at his command; under Festus, a «prophet» who promised «salvation» and deliverance from all suffering.

The largest new religion in Japan, Soka Gakkai, grew from a small lay Buddhist movement in the 1930s to millions of adherents today.

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions about the transparently silly aspects of the faith (s).

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.

It was largely due to Paul that the Christian movement began to move outside the boundaries of Jewry, and this partly derived from the discovery that, whereas there was considerable resistance among the Jews to the new form of the faith, some of the Gentile adherents of the various synagogue centers were quickly attracted to the Christian Gospel.

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.

But if they arc seen as clues to a personal quality of men's lives, then a sympathetic appreciation of this quality may at least in part be derived from having adherents of that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask hiof men's lives, then a sympathetic appreciation of this quality may at least in part be derived from having adherents of that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask hiof this quality may at least in part be derived from having adherents of that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask hiof that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask hiOf the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask hiof finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask him.

The curious surplus of religious adherents had resulted from individuals registering as members of both Shinto and Buddhist temple communities.

In May, 1521, the Emperor adjudged Luther to be «cut off from the Church of God» and commanded his subjects to refuse the «obstinate schismatic and manifest heretic» hospitality, food, or drink, to take him prisoner and turn him over to the Emperor, and to deal similarly with all Luther's friends and adherents.

Perhaps this indicates the possibility that we are apt to look at the differences between Sunnism and Shi`ism from an overly intellectual point of view, emphasizing the differences with a degree of subtlety that may well never have been imagined by their common adherents.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

But no argument can be made from an «exaltation» interpretation of the Easter experience that it did not involve appearances of Jesus, and within a short time the adherents of «exaltation» had subscribed to resurrection as the proper interpretation.

When theology is insulated from broader conversations, it can lead to a culture of complacency wherein adherents can slavishly regurgitate doctrinal «facts» with gusto (but without reflection), yet at the same time experience a theological and spiritual impoverishment.

There were other groups among the Jewish people who belong with far greater right than the Essenes to the antecedents of the movement led by Jesus; such, for example, were those who were waiting for «the Man» who was to come from heaven, or Galilean adherents of the Messianic faith, or pietistic religionists of one sort or another.

He flew to New York to see a teacher named Mooji who specializes in a Hindu philosophy that helps adherents find a sense of self through liberation from worldly concerns.

Technically especially from a business perspective Management is right «on the money» as it were With 90 % of the paying fan base also adherents to the sustainable (read no title model) Arsene's statue may well be positioned in the dug out for the next 1000 years.

9) applying or attempting to apply any kind of financial or social sanction against adherents who depart from the faith or fail to observe its obligations;

You've restricted this question to self professed adherents to the ideologies, and restricted answers from defining objectively valid intersections of the ideologies.

The conclusion most readers will come to from reading Keynes Hayek is that much of the debate was driven by personality and the worst kind of academic rivalry, especially between their respective adherents.