Sentences with phrase «religious allegiance»

So profound were the changes involved in this, that, from the point of view of the New Testament believer, Paul was justified in writing to his converts, whatever their previous religious allegiance might have been, «Now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God.»

The citizenship of each particular nationality must take its place alongside global citizenship, our current cultures and our religious allegiance alongside an emerging global culture.

Nor should we neglect the way that the cult clearly achieved prominence by the negative way that it disrupted and displaced competing focuses of religious allegiance (a significant point made by Susan Alcock).

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

Not exact matches

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

In the last outbreak of violence, loyalty to tribe even outweighed allegiance to religious vows for some clergy.

It's tempting to bypass the cross and rely instead on the religious pathways of pious behavior, ecstatic experience and doctrinal allegiance.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

For the same reason the religious beliefs and allegiance of a man are nearly always those of his own family, or of his immediate cultural setting.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

It is taken for granted that, whatever their own religious and other allegiances may be, they will aim at objectivity in their expositions and give adequate representation to viewpoints other than their own both in the articles and» no less important» in the bibliographies.

I find that I can make a more compelling argument against the pledge of allegiance if I base that argument on political beliefs as opposed to my religious beliefs.

I've talked with some who have given up on faith altogether, others who have shifted allegiance to another religious tradition, and a lot who (like me) are still a little uncertain about which road to take next.

``... redemptive skepticism is a religious commitment to avoid being swept up by bad ideas, especially ones that wear a godly guise and demand absolute, unquestioning allegiance.»

Whether the family is nuclear or extended, a twosome or a tribe, its propensities for reverence and ritual often express a religious process that relates home - grown myths, honors domestic symbols, and follows devotional sequences that intensify faith in that family and allegiance to its own images of ultimacy.

This effort to reign in overt displays of Christian allegiance is reported to be a part of a larger movement, initiated by the Chinese government, to increase restrictions on religious gatherings.

While Christians should submit to the state, pray for its leaders, and render qualified obedience to its laws, to pledge allegiance is a profoundly religious act.

Globalization means that all kinds of allegiances — personal, family, religious and national — are increasingly subject to global concerns.

We claimed allegiance to an American «tradition» of religious tolerance, pluralism, freedom, and separation.

In a provocative essay appearing in these pages a while ago, Stephen Swecker challenged religious thinking to abandon its old allegiance to conventional modes of speech and categories of meaning and to plunge into a far deeper and richer pool of experience: the murky waters of unbridled imagination, or «fantasy» (see «Toward a Theology of the Fantastic,» Christian Century, January 16).

Is the Jewish religious person not requesting allegiance with him against an underlying, but not explicitly stated foe... Muslims, Palestineans.

He says, «There is enough evidence to show that by this act Upadhaya intended more than to acknowledge and repudiate his life's social transgressions according to Hindu law, not some religious lapse, such as his allegiance to the Christian faith» (Lipner & Gispert - Sauch: XLIV).

«So far does the character of the Communist's allegiance to the movement correspond to religious commitment that we can even observe the intensely emotional phenomenon of conversion when individuals are persuaded to embrace the Communist faith.»

They want «In God We Trust» on our money (1954), they want evolution banned from schools while allowing a REVISED pledge of allegiance that originally did not include the phrase «under God», they want laws that reflect Christian morality (Abortion, same s3x marriage, etc.), and they treat as outcasts anyone who doesn't align with their particular religious view.

And as a cultural festival, it commands vast allegiance while dramatizing and reinforcing the religious myths of national innocence and apotheosis.

A compilation of survey results since the 1950s by religious think tank Theos found broad trends in religious people's political allegiances.