Sentences with phrase «religious body which»

A church or other religious body which cares about human love will offer its service, its wisdom, and its ritual to those who wish to have them; but it will not control the legal foundations of marriage according to its own prescriptions.

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Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

Overall, he has produced an impressive body of work which, thankfully, demonstrates that liturgical arts (which Schickel prefers to call «ritual arts» because «it stresses the way in which these objects participate in the drama of religious ritual») can be tastefully done in a modern idiom without lapsing into the triteness or sentimentality that plagues so many of our newer churches.

The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Moral force — the foundation on which to build — does not emanate from the religious bodies dependent on the state or from the state itself.

However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.

The way in which members of a congregation reproduce the love of God through genuine hospitality and a love for one another will indicate whether they are indeed the body of Christ or simply a religious club.

Actually, it is the body of religious teachings and practices that form the many paths to that which goes beyond the material.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

Schlesinger states that «religion has an indispensable social function,» but the body of his address argues that absolutism is the root of the worst social and political evils, and that all absolutism is essentially religious, whether it is the «Judeo - Christian tradition» or «the totalitarian social religions of our age» (by which, one assumes, he means fascism and communism).

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

Within the Christian body, for which repentance of sins has from the beginning been the critical religious act, healthy - mindedness has always come forward with its milder interpretation.

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

One source is the «roll data» kept by religious bodies themselves, which vary in quality from the clearly defined, meticulously updated and publicly available membership records of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the much less reliable numbers put forth by many historically African - American denominations.

It is crucial for us to understand that the child of faith will not be harmed «if the body is clothed in secular dress, dwells in unconsecrated places, eats and drinks as others do, does not pray aloud, and neglects to do all those «religious» things which some decree... one thing, and one thing only is necessary for us to know righteousness, life and freedom.

You are now attempting to take the practice of «meditation,» which is typically understood, and defined and practiced, especially in the Easter Religious context as a «quieting, and stilling of the body and mind, to clear the mind of negativity, and create states of peace, harmony, joy, etc...

The fifth criticism, which is Preston's own, is that the WCC is not realistic enough and does not sufficiently analyze the complexities of social and political decisions.13 Preston's criticism may be fair, but it highlights the difficult question of how religious bodies can influence world affairs.

Their student bodies represent diverse religious and denominational traditions, none of which functions as the reigning source of the views about church and ministry that are behind the curriculum.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

The review by academics and lawyers urged minsters to establish a body which would allow self - regulation by Islamic religious councils.

A military officer read some religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic, before his body was released into the sea.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

The demand for immediate, powerful and deep religious experience, which was part of the turn away from future - oriented instrumentalism toward present meaning and fulfillment, could on the whole not be met by the religious bodies.

Therefore the religious person needs to be disciplined and equipped in body and mind for the task, with more calmness and mastery in the midst of peril and turmoil, more sensitivity and deeper insight into the bonds of interdependence that hold people together in rich community, a more passionate and richly integrated life purpose which can transmute the common things of daily experience.

The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.

I know of no survey which has shown people within churches — conservative, moderate or liberal — to be eager for their religious bodies to be involved with specific political action in their name.

We are becoming aware of a whole body of data accumulated within the last one hundred years which has stirred the flames of controversy in religious, anthropological, and philosophical circles — data that raises new questions about the origins of the family and of human society.

This stems from the fact that already they made it obvious that the two gentleman ought to be deported to the USA where they came from and I believe strongly the clergy and other religious bodies as well as Think - tanks which have become Water - tanks are watching closely what the next step of the Commander - in - Chief of the GAF will be.»

In 2015, NHS England published new national guidance which for the first time obliged NHS bodies to provide pastoral care to non-religious people on the same basis as chaplaincy is provided to the religious.

In 2014, the National Offender Management Service recognised that non-religious people in prison have the legal right to humanist pastoral care, and in 2015 NHS England updated its guidance on Promoting Excellence in Pastoral, Spiritual & Religious Care, which established for the first time that NHS bodies should provide equal pastoral support for the non-religious to chaplaincy services for the rreligious people in prison have the legal right to humanist pastoral care, and in 2015 NHS England updated its guidance on Promoting Excellence in Pastoral, Spiritual & Religious Care, which established for the first time that NHS bodies should provide equal pastoral support for the non-religious to chaplaincy services for the rReligious Care, which established for the first time that NHS bodies should provide equal pastoral support for the non-religious to chaplaincy services for the rreligious to chaplaincy services for the religiousreligious.

This constitution brought together leaders from each occupation and institution like the lawyers, doctors, the different religious bodies, drives, teachers, amongst others to help gathered and write laws which could govern every aspect the country, forming the legislature to the executive down to the judiciary arm of government.

This constitution brought together leaders from each occupation and institution like the lawyers, doctors, the different religious bodies, drives, teachers, amongst others to help gathered and write laws which could govern every aspect the country, forming the legislature to the executive down to...

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

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Instead of the religious and philisophical debates of Xenosaga, or even the man vs. machine dynamics of Xenoblade, a war which was fought on the living bodies of literally titanic Gods, we have a standard sci - fi story of humans settling on a new planet.

Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.

Antoni explains how this body of work was inspired by small religious votive charms called milagros («miracles»), which often take the shape of an ailing area of the body, such as a limb or organ.

In our 2015 regulatory round - up (here), we described the ongoing dispute arising in the Trinity Western cases, where three professional regulatory bodies — law societies in three provinces (B.C., Ontario and Nova Scotia)-- refused to accredit a religious university which required that students sign a «community covenant» requiring that they abstain from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman.

For this reason, where a church or religious body asserts, because of its ethos, that religious belief constitutes a genuine occupational requirement for employment, it must at least «be possible for such an assertion to be the subject, if need be, of effective judicial review by which it can be ensured that the criteria set out in Article 4 (2) of that directive are satisfied in the particular case.»

The right of self - determination mentioned in the above paragraph is a reference to German constitutional law, which affords a broad right to any religious body, inter alia, to «administer its affairs independently within the limits of the law» without involvement of the state (Art 137 WRV, forming part of the German Basic Law in line Art 140 thereof).

The Bill also establishes the circumstances under which a religious accommodation may be granted in various areas of a public body (services, employment, and education etc.) as well as the specific elements that must be considered when dealing with certain accommodation requests.

Moreover, while the majority of the court recognized that it engaged the section 15 protection afforded to homosexuals under the Charter (which, as a public body, the BCCT had to consider), they also noted that those values had to be balanced with the sections 2 (a) and 15 rights also afforded to religion under the Charter and concluded that it was improper for the BCCT of teachers in fail to balance the religious freedoms of TWU graduates against those rights.

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