In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role
of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.
Not exact matches
«I would not score very highly on
religious value,» said Lee, then 82, still
in good health, and a sort
of Minister Emeritus.
Developers at the time could access virtual anything
of any
value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check -
ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and
religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social
values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them
in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense
of gods as we understand them After many centuries
of religious domination, enforced through pain
of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other
religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
It ignores the leadership
of civil society, including
religious leaders; the political
value of religious ideas (real theology)
in creating a functional future for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application
of punishment.
The disposal
of unsound
religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application
of knowledge leading to common acceptance
of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive
value is populated with hundreds
of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks
in the continuing enlightenment
of the human race.
As the Oliners reconstructed the motivations for his commitments, they found that Johan's
values centered
in patriotism, egalitarianism, and the
religious examples
of his grandfather and parents.
Institutional separation
of church and state,
religious freedom, and toleration are
values that grew up
in America within Christendom's fundamental
religious and political commitments, and not generally
in opposition to them.
«Assimilating what is
of undeniable
value in secular modernity's embrace
of religious pluralism, freedom
of conscience, individual autonomy, and the equal dignity
of men and women requires genuine discernment....
While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot
of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the
religious bubble.
Rather, we refer to recent attempts
in sociobiology to account for the rise
of human culture and
religious values such as altruism.
Universities that take
religious faith seriously and that
value their international relationship with the center
of their faith contribute to diversity
in a fruitful way.
The official publication
of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends
in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence
of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians
in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and
values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).
Then he faded from the scene for a couple
of decades, only to be picked up by the left wing
of the Democratic party after their electoral disaster
of 2004
in order to certify their sympathy for «
religious values.»
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was
in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid
of the
religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance
religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it
in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is
of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel
of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
What needs to be shown is not a mere filiation
of concepts or the use
of words, but the
religious value men found
in the concepts, the
religious meaning they undertook to set forth
in the words.
The decision
in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal
of making
religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens
in a society governed by secular
values.
They are the primary participants
in religious experience; they are the unit
of value; the social group, the church — while it is conceived to be
in unbroken continuity the true «commonwealth
of Israel» (Ephesians 2:11 - 12.)
If
religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response
of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that
in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme
value in their hierarchy
of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the
religious dimension.
The object
of religious valuing,
in other words, is «sacred.»»
Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation
of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated
religious traditions, technology and politics to personal
values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated
in the idea
of Incarnation
of God
in Christ.
Although
religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act
in ways that are
in harmony with the
values of particular
religious communities, this plays a secondary role
in relation to most public issues.
«It would be a step backwards if California, a state that has long been a leader
in diversity, inclusion and pluralism, could not find a way to
value and honor the
religious freedom
of Christian universities like Biola while at the same time respecting the dignity
of our students,» Corey said.
The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare
in any way with the consequences which are visible
in the destruction
of our common
religious and ethical
values.
Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice
in this campaign: no
religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test
of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights
of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a
religious label but then opposes family and faith.
Whether it is expressed
in religious terms or not, the meaning
of life,
values, destiny — ultimates — are matters
of faith and therefore are
religious concerns.
Their distrust
of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility
of a primary kind
of perception
in which beauty,
value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data
of experience rather than products
of wishful thinking.
«It is a positive sign that one
of the most prestigious acknowledgements
in the field
of the international press has been attributed to one who proclaims spiritual,
religious and moral
values in the world, and who speaks effectively
in favor
of peace and greater justice,» Lombardi said.
In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different vie
In fact, I see the decision as a victory for
religious freedom
in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different vie
in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important
religious value simply because some
of their neighbors hold a different view.
I have called this the coup de culture,
in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from
religious faith), the once generally accepted
value system
of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not
in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view
of life.
The
religious insight is the grasp
of truth: that the order
of the world, the
value of the world
in its whole and
in its parts, the beauty
of the world, the zest
of life, and the mastery
of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason
of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm
of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
Sixty - three percent
of political and
religious conservatives support allowing women and couples
in the developing nations to determine the timing and spacing
of pregnancies
in a manner that includes the voluntary use
of methods
of preventing pregnancy — not including abortion — that are harmonious with their
religious values and beliefs.
This overall agenda would not differ from those
of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except
in the high level
of consensus, and
in the fact that the most important
religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared
values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences
of transcendence).
After Wieman's review
of Process and Reality, his first published text relevant to our concerns was «God and
Value,» a chapter
in Religious Realism, ed.
The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration
of America's land and resources
in the hands
of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land
values — ought to be high on our
religious and public policy agendas.
This exploration was conducted chiefly
in a chapter on «The Concept
of Supreme
Value»
in Normative Psychology
of Religion (1935) and
in an article for the Journal
of Religion (1936) entitled, «
Values: Primary data for
Religious Inquiry.»
Huckabee's 2008 Iowa victory and Santorum's surge suggest that,
in spite
of the dominant stereotypes about evangelicals, they
value religious authenticity more than rhetoric and care about more issues than gay - marriage and abortion.
Here the specialist may serve as a consultant and interpreter to the professional psychotherapist
in regard to the
religious concerns and
values of the patient.
Fallon says, «The sacramentalism» which characterizes true Christianity should help us see what there is
of positive
value in the «symbolism»
of the Hindu
religious world.»
Value is also involved
in the
religious concept
of faith.
The use
of numbers
in ancient
religious texts was usually numerological rather than numerical; that is, their symbolic
value was more important than their secular
value as counters.
As more
religious persons seek mental health services it has become apparent that the relevance
of religious background, participation, and
values requires attention
in the diagnostic and evaluative process.
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been
in existence long before human beings came to live
in Palestine, instead
of originating
in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception
of the men
of old, but we can not regard belief
in the literal truth
of such accounts as an essential
of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm
of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true
value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
In Religions,
Values, and Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions
of the world developed around the
religious experiences
of the prophet and his or her early followers.
The presence
of such a nonrational element does not disqualify
religious values from consideration
in lawmaking, however.
In religious experience, interpreted within process thought, the physical emotions, purposes, desires, and volitions
of individuals are fused with conceptual insights into the nature
of things for the purpose
of transforming the individual,
of enlarging his or her experience, and
of advancing the creative process whereby new
values emerge.
It is here assumed that judgments
of worth
in the esthetic, moral, and
religious fields require a similar presupposition
of the givenness
of an order
of value which is to be discovered and universally recognized and honored.
In keeping with Whitehead's principle of dipolarity, religious experience can be defined as a fusion of both physical and conceptual activity in a pervasive type of value experienc
In keeping with Whitehead's principle
of dipolarity,
religious experience can be defined as a fusion
of both physical and conceptual activity
in a pervasive type of value experienc
in a pervasive type
of value experience.
Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that
in some circumstances citizens
of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal
religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.
«it was only when
religious belief was removed from the realm
of «fact» to that
of «
value», about which individuals were free to differ, that a societal system could evolve
in which a multiplicity
of denominations could exist side by side and have equal rights.»