Sentences with phrase «other ancient faiths»

Not exact matches

Professor Chung's speech resurrected the ancient debate over «syncretism» — the degree to which the Christian faith can and should accommodate other religious practices, and whether other faiths have sufficient truth without being troubled by the gospel of Christ.

To me it's fine to see those same truths in other ancient and modern faiths.

And you lorraine are a perfect example of a religious zealot — bound by blind faith into believing you are right and that all others will persh according to some inane ramblings in an ancient book.

Others are outraged that Christians, especially Christian leaders, tinker so casually with the ancient language of the faith, the faith in which we baptize.

While the therapists and the mumblers were losing faith in words, King and his colleagues were employing to powerful effect the art described by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian and other ancients.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

The Magisterium is clearly using Tertullian's lucid and succinct style from his Catholic writings to express the ancient orthodoxy of the Apostolic faith on these points without in any way endorsing his other, heretical, views.

It is as though a new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile vision of a Universe composed of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion of a living truth emerging from all action and exercise of will.

I enjoy reading all kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about other religions and their texts of faith... you find that there are alot of common denominators..

You are wasting your one and only life on blind faith in a ancient fairy tale created by man to control the behavior of other men.

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

Yes, there are many philosophers, world religion professors, and experts in ancient history who will attest to Christianity's parallels, predates, and contrasts with other faiths.

Our faith in the resurrection is far more — indeed, radically other — than acceptance of the ancient accounts of Jesus» appearances to his disciples.

-- And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

Dalahäst And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

Berlin fears the ancient faith in and search for a perfect and harmonious society, «an ideal for which more human beings have, in our time, sacrificed themselves and others than, perhaps, any other cause in human history.»

You need something else to prove your faith as anything other than just another collection of ancient stories.

This reveals the ancient wisdom of our faith that recognizes that most of our people are good hearted, who do not victimize others actively, but passively miss the clear call to love — not because they are unloving, but lazy, ignorant, or whatever.

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

The three - decker world view of ancient man, and the contemporary space universe which stems from Copernicus and Galileo are so different from each other, that every aspect of the Christian faith on which cosmology impinges must be radically reinterpreted.

The failure to appreciate that genre calibration is responsible for much of the tension in the evolution discussion... To observe the similarities between the creation and flood stories and the literature of the ancient Near East, and to insist that all of those other writings are clearly a-historical while Genesis is somehow presenting history — this is not a strong position of faith, but rather a weak one, where Scripture must conform to one's expectations.»

Faced with a world in which some form of encounter with other faiths can no longer be avoided, the ancient religious traditions are breaking into increasingly bitter wings.

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

After years of asking defendants to take it on faith that the system is working, it's now up to Microsoft and others to justify that their ancient software patents — which award 20 - year monopolies in a fast - moving industry — do more good than harm.