Sentences with phrase «of its adherents who»

It is well known that the serious decline in membership of the «mainline,» or liberal, branches of American Protestantism is largely due to the loss of a substantial portion of their adherents who were born after World War II.

Not exact matches

Its new CEO, Jim Hackett, is a meat - and - potatoes business guy (he ran office furniture maker Steelcase for years) who also is an adherent of so - called design thinking.

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

Will adherents of traditional morality, who seek only to protect their view of marriage (and not in any other way legally to stigmatize homosexuality) be relegated to the margins of society, treated the way....

Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Imagine that Mr. Cochran, who is black, were an adherent of a religion that avowed the inferiority of white people, and that he distributed literature to that effect.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

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.

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.

If this second thesis is correct, Christianity confronts an adherent of a non-Christian religion not only as a mere non-Christian, but also as a person who may already be regarded in certain respects as an anonymous Christian.

He notes that in subsequent years Gilson's approach attracted a number of high - profile adherents, including Joseph Ratzinger, who, over the long course of his theological and now magisterial service, has relied consistently on the «Gilsonian paradigm» when explaining the relation of faith and reason.

Why do you assume that the dictators who are in control of the region today are adherents of Islam?

Sometimes, the best friends a minority can have are adherents of other religions, who see it in their interest to lobby on behalf of the minority.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

Typically though, there are plenty of religious adherents / nut jobs who would disagree, to the extent of telling us we really should blame a particular religion in its entirety, including everyone practicing it, so long as its not their own version being blamed.

Today, the 30 Days Prayer movement (30daysprayer.com) counts hundreds of thousands of faithful Christian prayer warriors who cry out to God on behalf of Islam's 1.7 billion adherents, asking God to reveal to them his truth.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

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 result is a remarkable and often brilliant blend of the insider's penetration and the outsider's critique that demands the attention of all who would understand fundamentalism, whether as adherents or as observers.

The adherents of «pan-Germanism» fumed against the «Jewish emperors» who ruled Austria - Hungary and against the Roman Church that in their view deprived the nations of their true substance.

I suspect that a number of these conclusions are shared by many middle - of - the - roaders who have thought of themselves as just - war adherents.

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).

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.

Also, some of these books, just like the Bible, are not to blame as much as the adherents who think they have to be applied literally and rigidly.

Judaism I guess takes it a step further and wants to make sure it's adherents are very serious about being part of the religion, than say a person who accepts jesus or mohammed to ease their conscious at a certain moment in time.

Last week, the AG reported a gain of 48 churches and about 45,000 adherents (those who consider an AG church to be their church home) in 2015, bringing its total number of American adherents to 3.2 million.

Article I of the Statement of Belief, which must be signed by all who seek membership in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, the Mother Church, reads: «As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.»

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.

But that, as Novak points out, relies upon «the erroneous notion that democracy must create its own culture rather than drawing upon the practical wisdom of more primary cultures, cultures like Judaism that inevitably trace their wisdom back to the God who has created all and who has revealed himself to its adherents....

Fuller cooperation is often possible among those who share a common philosophical grounding than between adherents of different philosophies.

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.

Anybody who can use the internet today will see the ridiculous nature of the religious adherents.

One may at this point note that among his adherents were women, who are elsewhere never included among the followers of a rabbi.

But a lot of the blame for the fear should go to terrorist groups and radicals who are soiling my faith and crippling the voices of the overwhelming majority of peaceful adherents.

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.

Christ's perfect union of divinity and humanity is the central mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring of this paradox marked the heretics of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to live with the ultimate inscrutability of the God - Man.

After religious pluralism and ecological issue have been recognized as realities of the present, the ecumenical movement has widened their internal and external dialogues to include adherents of both ideological and religious faiths who have provided their insights to the churches in clarifying their contribution to humanizing modernity.

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

Millennials who are able to distinguish between the body of Christ (church) and the local building / assembly (church) recognize the difference between being the church (Christian) and doing church (adherent).

At a conference in Japan, a pioneer of Christian dialogue with tribal peoples once observed that Western Christians tend to be at ease only with those adherents of other faiths who are as precise and sober as they are.

A steady number of those reports tell us that the number of nones (those who are not adherent to any...

It is a gathering place for spiritual seekers who are fulfilling their vision for a utopian society and imbibing and implementing a style of life that its adherents believe can change the world.

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.

But, in many places, ardent adherents of the Reformation were at work, preachers who had studied in Wittenberg and in other evangelical centers or who had come under the influence of the Reformers through their writings.

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.

Therefore, not making studies about this essentially leads to great controversy, and who started this controversy gets famous and rich because his books are sold to thousands of adherents for whom he sounds revealing, and even by non-adherents who need to read him before they can critically think about him.