Sentences with phrase «of adherents within»

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

Not exact matches

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

(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.

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

In the face of war (or any conflict), adherents might seek peace among the warring factions within the borders of their own heart and mind.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

Outside of Europe, it was more or less insignificant, precisely because, by comparison, it lacked both adherents, and clergy, both within and without Europe.

Thus within a little more than a century about half of Christendom came under the rule of zealous adherents of the faith taught by the Arab prophet.

Adherents believe the Christian Bible is inerrant and hold its passages to be historically accurate, including the story of Noah's Ark, and that the Bible's internal chronology, which places the Flood within the last five thousand years, is reliable.

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.

Demanding a dispassionately cool anonymity at the expense of the feverishly assertive personal components that had been the hallmarks of abstract expressionism, minimalism's adherents asserted that the meaning of an artistic entity resided not within, but rather solely on its surface.

Increasing awareness and clarity among adherents to a faith or cultural group about variations within their system of beliefs and practices.

[iv] This private interest (or «market control») theory of regulation has some adherents within the legal community, of whom Richard Abel is perhaps best known.