Sentences with phrase «other religious communities»

It also led to failure to appreciate the positive contributions of other religious communities.

Does it make sense to cooperate with other religious communities in serving the people?

Its understanding of salvation is not identical with that of other religious communities.

Again, what happens in other religious communities in no way excuses what has happened in the Catholic Church.

LiveScience: Amish Population Booms in US Though they travel at the pace of a horse and buggy, the Amish are spreading out across the nation more rapidly than most other religious communities.

Although I believe this is true on many fronts, the most direct and obvious one is with regard to the Christian stance toward other religious communities.

What about other religious communities of African Americans and Latino's?

The relationship to Judaism is more important than that to other religious communities because of its central role in the self - definition of Christianity and the long history of Christian persecution of Jews.

His guiding ambition, he writes in his preface, is to «affirm Christian confidence in the universality of salvation in a way that [gives] full value to the diversity of aims of life and subsequent patterns of life commended by other religious communities.»

Back then, religious freedom advocates warned that «many of the claims made about the Jehovah's Witnesses practices could also be made of other religious communities practices as well.»

But in public action involving power, especially in politics, it is better that they work through open multi-religious political parties rather than through political parties confined to the adherents of one religion which runs the risk of falling into the danger of being swayed by religious communal self - interest and search for communal power over against other religious communities.

He developed no systematic position on the question of the rightness of converting sincere members of other religious communities to Christianity.

«No other religious community is faced with such hatred, violence and aggression as is the Christian community.»

CSW's Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas welcomed the initiative and said: «Our research consistently finds that Christians and other religious communities in Vietnam continue to experience violations of their right to freedom of religion or belief.

Now that we know something of these other religious communities and their quality of the lives they engender, we can not suppose that a gracious God would punish their saints for failure to join the Christian church.

Some would be related to other religious communities or consider themselves entirely secular.

«We repent of having at times persecuted each other and other religious communities in history, and ask forgiveness from each other and pray for new ways of following Christ together,» wrote the group, comprised of delegates from the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the Pentecostal World Fellowship, the Vatican, and the World Council of Churches.

If we work together with those in other religious communities and other nongovernmental organizations, we can make a difference.

«Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible,» she said.

For example, how do the practices in which this school engages in transactions with its immediate neighborhood, with the larger host society and culture, with third - world cultures, or with other religious communities all help form learners» ways of «having to do with God»?

Since then he has been pressing for Christians to change their Christologies, not because they are unfaithful to Jesus Christ but because they are demonstrably falsifying of what occurs in other religious communities and obviously destructive in Christian relations to these communities.

As a Protestant who believes that this process of self - criticism, both personal and corporate, is an expression of faith and that every attempt to absolutize any given form of the tradition is idolatrous, one question I ask of other religious communities is whether they encourage this questioning and critical spirit.

Radical proposals are made that we abandon the myth of incarnation and, indeed, all doctrines that can not be accepted by members of other religious communities.

They were even compatible with continuing Christian anti-Judaism and lack of appreciation of other religious communities.

To this day no other religious community has criticized its sacred scriptures so ruthlessly, with such a commitment to truth.

Two, I can relinquish everything that sets us apart as Christians and only talk about the values we hold in common with other religious communities.

Quoting from the article: «Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible,» she said.

On the other side, we believe that it is also important to relate our Christian faith to the natural and social sciences, to other religious communities, to the critical political and global issues of our time.

Some of us have managed to live, at least imaginatively, in other religious communities.

We understand the pluralism of our social context in part because it reflects the variety of ways in which we understand our own experiences.The problem of being the church is acute for us not only because we must live side by side with those of other religious communities, but because the church is only one of the communities in which we live.

There is no doubt that the Catholic Church has been «singled out»; that the incidence of sexual abuse in other religious communities, in public schools, and in social services is as high, and possibly higher, than it is in the priesthood.

As members of these other religious communities became friends and neighbors, this kind of Christology ceased to be convincing.

So will churches and other religious communities.

«The College has no stated position on the wearing of headscarves as a gesture of care and concern for those in Muslim or other religious communities that may face discrimination or persecution,» said Wheaton president Philip Ryken.

«The Muslim community is fundamentally opposed and so are some of the other religious communities,» he told Channel Four News.

«Your community and other religious communities and pro-values communities can still band together to save societal values,» said Paladino, a businessman from Buffalo at a synagogue led by Rabbi Yechezkel Roth in 53rd Street in Borough Park.

Bill Rammell: Ministers and officials will continue to meet representatives of the Iraqi government to discuss how Christians and all other religious communities can fully enjoy the freedom of worship enshrined in the Iraqi constitution, and are not subject to violence or intimidation.

In a speech to the Church of England's national assembly this week, he said: «I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues around the perceived concerns of other religious communities and to try and bring them into better public focus.»