Sentences with phrase «own field of religion»

I refuse to read the article based on the premise of the subject line and especially given divisive nature of how CNN is / has been conducting itself as the so - called purveyor of truth especially int he field of religion which it knows nothing about but instead, chooses to try to sway readers» opinions based on a very secularist or antagonistic approach.

The very fact of revelation proves religion to be inadequate, and now the whole field of religion must be looked at in the light of this fact.

Let me give a happier example, also from the field of religion.

The revision of church doctrine along deconstructionist lines is hardly imminent, though some academics in the field of religion might wish it.

Four friends of Alcoholics Anonymous who were non-alcoholics and from the field of religion had substantial input on the relationship with God that early AAs were enjoined to establish.

I felt isolated both personally and intellectually: as a mother at home with young children I was in a different world from my male peers, and I was conscious that my first book had alienated many colleagues in the field of religion and literature (I had called much of the current enterprise into question).

The field of religion being as wide as this, it is manifestly impossible that I should pretend to cover it.

This perspective is primarily concerned to eliminate nonsensical statements, or at least to distinguish between nonsense (non-verifiable) and sense (verifiable) Under the pressure of this demand by logical positivists, those who speak and write in the field of religion have not only felt called upon to clear up the fuzzy and meaningless jargon that often characterizes their field, but many have relinquished all terms that refer to the non-verifiable.

They hold that the time of Christianity is past, and that some other shoot must grow in the field of religion to take its place.

Part of the problem, of course, is that in the field of religion we are still dealing with the vestiges of a cultural establishment.

In some sense this later literature, subsequent to the extinction of the kingdom of Judah, represents the entry of the individual into the field of religion.

His valued contributions in the fields of religion, church, community, anthropology like «cheap grace», «world come of age».

It was to answer this question that the whole field of religion and personality developed.

These men had been convinced that belief in the field of religion must be formed by the same methods of inquiry that worked so well in the natural and social sciences.

What began as an important effort to legitimize «women's rights» in the field of religion has often degenerated into a one - sided, man - hating polemic.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author intends to present the portrait of a man of extraordinary accomplishment in the fields of religion, politics, linguistics and ecclesiology, but also as an ordinary man whose letters and reported conversations reveal his struggle with the ordinary issues of a person of his time.

It is inevitable that those historians of religions majoring in specific areas are constantly rivaled by scholars outside the field of religion who are interested in the same areas.

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives.

This is the field of religion.

Not exact matches

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

As long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United States.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

Since science can make no authoritative claims in the field of cosmogony, answers to those questions can only come from two other sources, that being philosophy and religion.

The GOP field of candidates this year is «mostly happenstance» — the contenders did not rise to the front of the pack because of their religions, Silk says.

Editor's note: Stan Chu Ilo is professor of religion and education, director of field education, at St Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada.

Though it is ostensibly about my own contribution to the field of American religion, the review nevertheless begins and ends with a paean to Timothy George, «a Baptist who is dean of Beeson Divinity School and who will also deliver our annual Erasmus Lecture in October.»

The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself «an inclusive learned society and professional association in the field of the study of religion.

«Till we have [real assents],» says Newman, «in spite of a full apprehension and assent in the field of notions, we have no intellectual mooring, and are at the mercy of impulses, fancies, and wandering lights, whether as regards personal conduct, social and political action, or religion.»

What we do know: (from the fields of astrophysics, nuclear physics, geology and the history of religion)

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

Wieman had just broken into the field of philosophy of religion with an equally startling book, Religious Experience and Scientific Method.

Pluralism and Particularity in Religious Belief By Brad Stetson Praeger, 145 pages, $ 45 In the Christian theology - of - other - religions debate, John Hick's pluralist hypothesis dominates the field.

And some people from my religion are scoring touchdowns on the field of science and they testify it improves their understanding of God.

@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type of delusion while ignoring so many others.

Administrators worry that doctoral students increasingly will be trained in the history of religion or comparative religions rather than in Bible, theology, ethics, church history and practical studies — the traditional fields of theological education.

[35] He listed five fields of study with which missiology has to be related, namely Biblical Studies, Church history, Systematic Theology, Social Sciences, and World Religions.

Samartha's Christological reflections on the pluralistic theology of religions [60] remains to be one of the most original and in - depth studies on the field.

According to Eliade, the historian of religion will include the entire religious history of humanity, from Paleolithic to modern period, in his / her field of investigation without any pre-judgement.

Mircea Eliade was born in Bucharest in 1907 and began teaching in the field the history of religions in 1946 at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Theologians and scientists who do not wish to go this far have proposed two other models: a «separation» model of mutual respect between science and religion and a «dialogue and engagement» approach that says comparing the two fields is valid.

The sociologist of religion must beware of falling into the same error in overemphasizing random phenomena (eccentric forms of sectarianism, etc.) The historical beginnings of religious and sectarian communities, however, are important fields for investigation of the mediums through which religious experience finds expression.

The third trend is characterized by (1) a clearer methodological consciousness concerning the field, purpose, and method of the sociology of religion; (2) a profounder understanding of the nature of religious communion; (3) a rapprochement between students of religion from theological and philosophical points of view, and of students of society.6 Outstanding are the works of Raoul de la Grasserie and H. Pinard de la Boullaye, S. J., of Roger Bastide and Robert Will.

Based on McCann's research concerning what the churches are doing in the field of mental illness and mental health, the authors of Action for Mental Health wrote this indictment of our lethargy and unconcern: «The prevalence of religion in modern American society, as measured by church membership... does not seem to have had any measurable positive or negative effect on mental health....

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

To be sure, religion is also a field of intellectual inquiry and practical skill, and it is possible and desirable to give instruction in religious history, philosophy, beliefs, and institutions as well as to arrange for practical experience in religious affairs.

I do not want to upset anyone's individualized religious theologies and yet I see a faulted system of each religion's societies in generalizations unremarkable yet blatant conscripts of their elderly influences upon their religiously devoted youth - fields.

Bastide's brief summary extends the field of the sociology of religion too widely; only one chapter («L'organisation religieuse») deals with its tasks as we will have to define it.

He clarifies his rather vague definition of the field by contrasting biblical theology with five other modes of study: doctrinal theology, nontheological biblical studies, history of religion, philosophical and natural theology, and «the interpretation of parts of the Bible as distinct from the longer complexes taken as wholes.»

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

There has been much discussion whether the sociologist of religion is right in viewing his material from a special point of view and handling it according to a special method, or whether he has a more or less well - circumscribed field which he can call his own.