Sentences with phrase «religious dimension of the problem»

If we do not wish to speculate about this other world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension of the problem to which the doctrine of immortality is an attempted answer.

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This may mean helping a patient deal with the implications of his faith for his problems, raising the issue with the staff regarding the effect of the religious dimension of a patient's life on his present behavior, or in helping the staff to deal with their own religious feelings or understanding.

But at the same time, moral issues of major proportions are the daily bill of fare in newspapers and on television, and our nation seems infected with social problems that have a deep religious dimension: poverty, pollution, discrimination, runaway technology, to name a few.

We could call this problem the «legalization» of debate, meaning not whether something is legal, but instead the conversion of moral, social, religious, and other dimensions of an issue into legal, or legalistic, terms, or at least the neglect of them because of a focus on what the judges will say.

Christian Century reviewers also disagreed: Samuel Terrien thought that J. B. presented «modern man's reaction to the problem of evil without the category of faith in a loving God» (January 7, 1959, p. 9); Tom F. Driver found the play afflicted with «a sort of theological schizophrenia,» divided between its religious and humanistic dimensions (January 7, 1959.

Buddhists, however, in their interpretation of this myth have always accepted it on the dimension of religious existence and transformed the idea of the end of the world into an existential problem.

The Cultural Dimension As culture develops, so too will religion in order that it may answer more adequately the basic problems of human life and to further deepen the synthesis of scientific knowledge with religious knowledge - the principle of evolution is written into the nature of religion, as in all life.

An understanding of the distinctive contribution of a religious approach to alcoholism is dependent on insight into what might be called the vertical dimension of the alcoholic's problem.

Since I believe there are always religious and theological dimensions of any such problem, I am not at this point advocating a sterile secularism.

He often sees a spiritual dimension bound up in numerous cases of emotional problems, although it is recognized that «only about ten percent of the problems brought to ministers... pertain to religious questions.