Sentences with phrase «other intellectual traditions»

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Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

And, on the other hand, since the Wesleyan tradition is working on a fundamentally different axis, it is more easily able to adapt to a new intellectual context.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

By the late 1790s the medieval tradition of ultramontanism was being revived by Joseph de Maistre and other French Catholic intellectuals.

In the other model are seven «liberal - free» characteristics in the philosophers» tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6) with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sake.

The intellectual tradition of the Sophists (alike criticized by the loyal Erasmus and the exiled Luther), along with other elements of church tradition, had drifted so far that it no longer convincingly centered on that which was revealed.

And not because we are against others, or merely because we are convinced of the intellectual and experiential integrity of our own tradition.

On the other hand, for minds deeply influenced by Nominalist traditions of philosophy in the West, a» mystery» means an intellectual conundrum, something one step removed from worldly experience and therefore not quite real in its psychological impact.

Complementarity between man and woman is a fundamental principle in Judaism, in other religions, in some non-religious intellectual traditions in the organization of society, as well as in the opinion of a very large majority of the population.

The complementarity between man and woman is a fundamental principle in Judaism, in other religions, in some nonreligious intellectual traditions, and in the organization of society, as well as in the opinion of a very large majority of the population.

Through algebra and art, critical thinking and composition, technology and Jewish studies, students are enlightened, informed, and forge an identity rooted in traditions of intellectual integrity, devotion to others, and innovation.

There are more mechanically satisfying problems, for example the notion of morals built from nothing which Polly Toynbee and others have resolved in the humanist tradition and whose best expression is George Elliot but the Promethean in every intellectual is what heats the crucible I suspect.

Or we need to educate young people in this area, proving its role in environmental protection, its utility to save Earth resources and supplement them with other cosmic ones, in the intellectual development of the child, in fighting against the superstition and pseudo - sciences, in the knowledge of ethnic traditions in relation to a globalized world.

Draw on the rich Catholic intellectual tradition and other faith traditions to inform our students» capacity for self - reflection and social justice;