Sentences with phrase «qua religion»
However, he leaves open the question as to which criteria prove a religion or spirituality to be «authentic» and «true», if religions are, qua religion, catholic, i.e. oriented towards (Cosmotheandric) Reality.
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And where the new faiths are not sectarian, they may be nationalistic, in a day when quas - religions of nationalism kill their legions.
Küng's second step is a fuller articulation of that needed ethic and, as a sine qua non for its effectiveness, a challenge to the world's religions to work for peace among themselves.
Anthropomorphic gods are the product of religion, they are not what theist refer to when talking about a «god» qua «first cause».
To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»
First, the detachment was felt in this particular case to mean, inter alia, that the scholar studied religion but did not (at least, qua scholar) participate in it.
Furthermore, this week's New Yorker features a characteristically excellent piece by our best living literary critic, James Wood, much of which is taken up by an in - depth and very sympathetic engagement with the work of the aforementioned Professor Taylor, whose work is a sine qua non for anyone hoping to understand the place of religion in our contemporary context.
Aregbesola noted that the continued celebration of June 12 as Democracy Day became a sine qua non in the political history of Nigeria as it was the only day Nigerians, in their heterogeneity voted for Chief Moshood Abiola in a pattern that defied ethnicity, religion, ideology and locality.
And herein lies the beauty and the genius of the UN Declaration of Human Rights: it captures and puts into words — despite differences in race, culture, and religion — a globally accepted baseline of sine qua non elements that contribute to human dignity that all individuals should benefit from regardless of which government is in power.