Sentences with phrase «particular religious tradition»

He does not import into his philosophy any doctrines that have emerged into dominance in particular religious traditions.

It has an existentialist twist as well in its tendency to reduce particular religious traditions to subjectivity.

For systematic theologies, after all, are theological expressions of a particular religious tradition's construal of all reality from the vantage point of that religious particularity.

This evolutionary adaptation comes to a climax when it is universal in its sympathies and tolerant of every particular religious tradition by virtue of the «Unconditioned» that comes to expression in all religions.

In his book Fundamentalism (Westminster, 1978) James Barr argues that fundamentalism arises out of a particular religious tradition: the revival experience of conversion and the intensely personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Unlike systematics, it abstracts itself from faith commitment, and is «principally concerned to show the adequacy or inadequacy of the truth - claims, usually the cognitive claims, of a particular religious tradition» (AnIm 57 - 58).

Perhaps the future will reveal more understanding and unity among this prophetic minority, gathered from all the great paths to God, than may ever exist within any particular religious tradition.

The major concern of systematics is «the representation, the reinterpretation of what is assumed to be the ever - present disclosive and transformative power of the particular religious tradition to which the theologian belongs.»

Schools have to deal with the dissonance created by the blending of a religiously diverse constituency with the school's particular religious tradition.

Speaking from within the Christian tradition, Harvard theologian Gordon Kaufman in 1993 said something like this: since we are moving very rapidly toward one world, and a global consciousness is already beginning to enter into us, our religious practices and thinking must reflect this great historical fact; all the particular religious traditions have become outmoded and can no longer meet the needs of our new cultural situation in their traditional form.5

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

Where religion has become domestic the rituals of a particular religious tradition are identified with seeking God's blessing for the family - related hopes and desires of believers.

No, I expect the anti-Blaine groups to continue looking for a case with facts supporting their point of view — that is, a case involving an application of a Blaine Amendment in a way that appears to discriminate against a particular religious tradition, denomination or practice.

Does this forbid only those laws with text that specifically targets a particular religious tradition, denomination or practice?