Sentences with phrase «other religious traditions»

As knowledge of other religious traditions became more important, the easy affirmation of Christian superiority was harder to maintain.

In particular I should learn whatever I can from persons who have been formed in other religious traditions.

Note the inclusion of comments on what can be learned from other religious traditions.

I believe it is expressing itself today in movements of liberation and also in enthusiastic efforts to encounter other religious traditions at a deep level.

To understand, appreciate and respect other religious traditions is essential.

Although other religious traditions could have provided a similarly fertile metaphysical ground for the study of nature, none actually did so.

We have recognized the values of other religious traditions and accepted our place as one among others.

The worshipers of economic growth guided by this theology are tolerant of other religious traditions as long as they give up any claim to binding everything together.

My interest in the hypothesis is grounded in part in the way that it validates particularistic Christian confession, but as such the hypothesis also supports those in other religious traditions who are committed to the distinctive truth of their confession.

Other religious traditions do that too.

The final brief section of the document, «Interreligious Dialogue: A Theological Perspective,» suggests that «our recognition of the mystery of salvation in men and women of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.»

Instead of just having Christians talk about other religious traditions, chapter 9 allows some Buddhists to speak for themselves.

Attitudes toward other religious traditions, even «primitive» ones, are changing in wide sections of the churches.

These fundamentals have been incorporated into just about all Judeo - Christian religious perspectives on marriage, and are consonant with those in many other religious traditions as well.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith made the same point as bluntly as anyone, asserting that the failure of Christians to affirm the saving action of God not just within other religious traditions but through them is blasphemy.

Thus Hailemariam signals a transition in how religious discourse can enter political discourse while also affirming other religious traditions.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

«My opinion,» Dr. Colletti replied, «is that, depending on the view of Jesus» work, there can be affirmations of Jesus» divinity that leave us quite open to hearing the claims of other religious traditions without prejudging them.

Moreover, knowing other religious traditions and key concepts in them that are like - sometimes very like — key Christian concepts is enormously helpful in clarifying the Christian concepts (and vice versa).

Liberals continued to believe that Christianity had certain advantages or superiority over other religious traditions, and these they wanted to share.

Eliade neither agrees with the view that Hinduism belongs to the family of Aryan religions nor does he define the relationship between Christianity and other religious traditions on the basis of what was known as a «progressive history of religion».

Iranian religion has been catalytic, profoundly influencing other religious traditions but leaving only small communities to embody its own.

Other religious traditions share at least some of the Buddhist reserve about religious talk.

First, because I lived in Japan as a boy, I have had more contacts there than in countries where other religious traditions prevail.

Shira, The meme «God hates pagans and apostates» is definitely biblical, which testifies to the reality that individually and collectively all People of the Book [and other Religious Traditions] are capable of greater or lesser spiritual understanding and mature actions.

A benefit of this particular description is that it makes clear how other religious traditions would describe Christian experiences in their terms, and why Christians could view those «outside» descriptions as rooted in real religious truth.

I will devote my next talk to this question of faithfulness to Christ as we affirm and appreciate other religious traditions.

Rauf would sometimes invite leaders from other religious traditions into his Tribeca mosque and would open the place up for the city's interfaith events.

This does not mean that I should uncritically accept what historians, scientists, philosophers and adherents of other religious traditions say.

As Hindus have met other religious traditions, they have typically been prepared to extend this same accepting attitude toward them.

And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.

Can you agree that in relation to other religious traditions Christians should both listen and witness?

«I may have studied Buddhism and other religious traditions more than the rest of you, but I'm still a novice and a generalist.

But as liberals learned more about those whom they were seeking to convert to Christianity from other religious traditions, they became less sure.

Or is it improper to suggest that members of other religious traditions who are facing crises try Jesus?

Appreciation for other religious traditions has grown dramatically among Christians, and this has already led to growing self - esteem among participants in these other traditions.

Our recognition of the mystery of salvation in men and women of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.

Morikawa was profoundly convinced that Christian hostility toward other religious traditions was mistaken.

Like many other religious traditions, the Christian story is open to being retold in diverse ways in new situations.

Other participants stressed the presence of the logos within other religious traditions, claiming that Christ was truly present there.

Your spiritual experience is valid to me, and most Pagans don't think of other religious traditions as being «wrong»; we just disagree with anyone who thinks they have a stranglehold on the truth.