Sentences with phrase «of their adherents on»

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

Not exact matches

He argues that most negotiators are overly willing to compromise, and he blames this on the way that some win - win adherents prize «relationships» over getting the best possible deal — a style of negotiating that others, especially non-U.S. negotiators, go out of their way to exploit.

The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.

As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a «prophet, seer, and revelator» of God's will on earth.»

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

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.

In all honesty, would you vote for a man that was a former imam of a mosque that advocates converting everyone to Islam, and teaches that all adherents should do anything, including lie, to advance the aims of creating a global kingdom for Allah on earth?

Then there will be an army of phony Christians professing to be rabid adherents while carrying on in their own sleazy world as always.

Its 300,000 adherents in the country «may face repression on the grounds of apostasy,» according to the annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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.

But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its adherents being instinctively on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

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.

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.

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.»

It afforded the emotional comfort of certainty, offered a compelling explanation of current affairs, situated its adherents on a social map, and was led by men and women of skill.

By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.

Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.

Were it to be otherwise, he maintains, «in the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal and the adherents of other religions.»

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.

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.

By AD 353 the Christian community in Edessa was divided by the rift between the bishop and his adherents on the one hand and the school of Edessa and the majority of the Christians on the other.

By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly on the defensive in intellectual circles.

The commission cited the rampant imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, the startling increase in refugees, and the ongoing bigotry toward Jews and Muslims in Europe, as examples of attacks on religious adherents.

But because the homogenizing worldview of liberal individualism exalts individual autonomy over all standards outside the will, adherents regard with suspicion all communities based on non-individualist assumptions, especially those such as marriage, family, and even the gathered church which are not obviously reducible to private contract.

So, millions of adherent Catholics on the African continent that die of AIDS should be happy that they were at least adherent to Catholic dogma?

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Whatever the nature of the various God's in question, I suspect one thing every adherent would agree on is that there is no imperfection in that being.

In Indonesia both understandings have their adherents, and the inter-group conversation on the differences of emphasis is in progress, without creating sharp polarization as in other places.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

What we are witnessing, I would suggest, is that the Holocaust is taking on some of the characteristics of a cult, with adherents promoting a dogmatic approach to a series of sacred events.

Drawing on a consumer model, such congregations will hold multiple and different styles of worship services each Sunday to appeal to the varying liturgical tastes of adherents.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

The French prohibition on religious symbols extends beyond the school edifice, but violates the freedom to worship of individual Christians, Jews, Muslims and other religious adherents because it bans jewelry, headwear, etc. on their person.

This, I submit, is uncharitable in the extreme, and it also violates the principle, to which Griffin subscribed in Searching for an Adequate God, that a position ought to be criticized on the basis of its «core doctrines» and not on the basis of views that may have been espoused by some adherents but are not essential to the position itself.

In the context of the life and work of other religious traditions it is incumbent on the Church in India to evolve more open ecclesial structures that do justice to its experience of an interrelatedness and mutual inclusiveness with other religious traditions and their adherents.

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.

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

However, they put its adherents under discriminatory disabilities: they did not allow Christians to serve in the Arab armies, they required them to wear a distinguishing garb, they placed on them a special tax, and they forbade them to give such public expressions to their faith as religious processions or the ringing of loud bells.

Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.

Specifically, a large percentage of former religious adherents disagree with official church positions on issues pertaining to the LGBT community.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Adherents of different religious traditions may be able to recognize the reality of both ends, though they are not able to agree on the explanation of how and why the two ends exist or on the priority they should be given.

To begin with, the popular media often refer to adherents of traditional revealed religions as «people of faith,» a term that initially seems respectful but, on closer look, can be seen to carry condescending overtones.

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.

Go to any OB conference and you will see far more self criticicism and willingness to look at how practice can change based on current research than you will see at a Lamaze conference, a Bradley workshop... or any of the many events I have attended that are popular among natural childbirth adherents.

The Congressional tea partiers, the budget austerity adherents, should put a hold on the construction of the huge NSA data center in Utah.

«This information comes against the backdrop of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's public call for its adherents to carry out terrorist attacks globally during the upcoming month of Ramadan,» it said in a statement posted on its website.

He tasked Muslim adherents on good deeds, saying no Muslim must be found wanting of good character.