The founders
of religious studies whose commitment to science Wiebe lauds were also men of deeply religious purpose.
Not exact matches
Fr William Massie on Cardinal Ratzinger's last book, a
study of religious relativism and defence
of religious truth; Marisa March on a anatomist
whose...
James Goss,
whose area
of interest is religion and literature, is Associate Professor
of Religious Studies at California State University at Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91324.
But the worry that the pool
of future faculty will be dominated by graduates
of religious studies programs
whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions
of theological
study and who would not want to be associated with such schools is misplaced.
The broader purpose
of Ashcraft's
study is to demonstrate by example the virtue
of taking political and
religious ideology out
of the realm
of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience
whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.
We have noted that historically there have been a variety
of subjects
whose study has been taken to be the best indirect way to come to understand God more truly: scripture, tradition, «salvation history,» liturgy and the dynamics
of worship,
religious experience, the historical Jesus, and so forth.
Even today, as countless
studies show, greater political activity characterizes those Protestant groups with the more «republican» religion; groups asserting «the church should stay out
of politics» are those
whose Christianity rests less easy with
religious liberty or the democratic regime generally.
Fr William Massie on Cardinal Ratzinger's last book, a
study of religious relativism and defence
of religious truth; Marisa March on a anatomist
whose science brought him closer to the Creator and into the Catholic Church; Cyprian Blamires on the restoration
of Our Lady's shrines in England and the growth
of Marian devotion.
In his
studies of Luther and Gandhi, Erikson has illuminated the role
of dynamic
religious leaders
whose personal and existential conflicts reflect the central conflicts
of their age.
Of course, such negative impact of religious studies on religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitmen
Of course, such negative impact
of religious studies on religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitmen
of religious studies on
religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension
of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitmen
of their
religious calling and
whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit
religious commitment.
There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions
of Indian
religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and
religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist
whose works have excited students to further
study of Hinduism and Indian culture.
They usually take place outside the Divinity School, and they are intended, not for specialists in
religious studies of any kind, but for a general audience
of people, mainly, but by no means exclusively, undergraduate,
whose courses
of study may lie in other fields, but who are interested in listening to a non-technical presentation
of questions with which theologians are concerned and perhaps also in taking part in discussions which are arranged to follow the lectures.
It's a picture showing a throng
of the disaffected, the abused, the former fundamentalists, the kids who were raised by fundamentalists, people
whose parents were alkies»,
religious, but wildly hypocritical, who never actually
studied religion, science, philosophy, etc..
There's an interesting character
study here
of an insecure, lonely man,
whose ego, daddy issues, and complicated feelings about being raised by a nun played by Diane Keaton — oh yeah, that's a thing — contribute to an inferiority complex that doesn't just define his ascension to power, but threatens the world's largest
religious institution as we know it.
Quentin Tarantino's favourite film
of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series
of brutal murders and the three men
whose lives are on a collision course as a result: the father
of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries
of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a
religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....