Sentences with phrase «religious heritage»

As a matter of fact, our own religious heritage constitutes first of all a historical problem.

It built upon, and took for granted, the Jewish religious heritage, and its essential doctrines would be quite meaningless apart from that context.

That somehow to create equality and space for minority faiths and cultures we need to erase our majority religious heritage.

If one is to have a degree of objectivity concerning his own tradition, he must be cognizant and appreciative of the other great religious heritages.

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell has written his masterpiece, a roiling saga about love, honor, belief — and, above all, about bravery in its many forms — in which a young warrior's religious heritage sets him on a quest for a mysterious treasure rumored to be the Holy Grail itself.

They insisted that African converts abandon their traditional religious heritage and many cultural practices.

It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»

Western liberalism, as Siedentop has cogently argued, is itself the offshoot of the Christian religious heritage, especially in its Protestant variety: liberalism is Protestant Christianity purged of its ritual and sacramental content.

Eliade drank from the wells of Indian religious heritage.

Given such an overwhelmingly monolithic and continuing religious heritage and given such an intense national experience, has Mexico blended them into a civil religion?

Justification by faith is... simply one detail in the soul's general religious heritage, from Christ....

One vigorous modern reform movement in Hinduism which seeks to recapture the best of India's religious heritage calls itself the Arya - Samaj, the Society of Aryans; another publishes a religious journal which it calls The Aryan Path.

The Buddhist message and teachings were «released» into the mainstream of the national religious and cultural life without any demand that any person becoming Buddhist had to «leave» his or her cultural and religious heritage behind.

It is true, he acknowledges, that American missionaries in Korea played a large role, but the revival they preached resonated with Korea's earlier religious heritage.

In India many religious communities live abundantly from their own particular religious heritage, while also living partially, but intently, from the richness of another or other religious tradition (s).

And, finally, shall the clergyman offer himself to the alcoholic as one who is only incidentally a representative of religion or as one who recognizes the significance and value of his specifically religious heritage and role?

As an Episcopal clergyman, I have naturally looked to my own religious heritage for grounding and there found F. D. Maurice, a remarkable 19th century social critic, theologian and antagonist of the church - centered Oxford Movement.

Notre Dame, Baylor, Valparaiso, St. Olaf, Wheaton and Calvin are among the schools that have maintained a robust relation to their sponsoring religious heritages.

It is a profoundly life - affirming experience for a woman to learn that she has a historical and religious heritage heretofore largely ignored.

Outdoor adventurous trips either that is trekking to Everest base camp or island peak climbing, which best suits for both the novice and veteran travelers and trekkers ranging from comfort walking alongside of cultural, historical, and religious heritage sites in Katmandu Valley to thrilling peak climbing and expedition to the world's highest mountains.

Patrick Hough's work reflects on the relationship between archaeology, technology and the reanimating power of digital cinema, in the context of contemporary iconoclasm — particularly the recent destruction of cultural and religious heritage throughout Syria and Iraq.

Once our souls have been crushed and our cultural and religious heritage stripped to eliminate our differences, and everybody except the elites are more or less economically equal, then it will be much easier to smash us all together into one global system.

So a God who is ultimately the source of good and destructiveness is not only metaphysically possible but has been a part of a great religious heritage.

To understand his parables, one must read them through Jewish eyes, assuming Jewish values and symbolism and the Jewish religious heritage.

A roiling saga about love, honor, belief and bravery in its many forms, in which a young warrior's religious heritage sets him on a quest for a mysterious treasure rumored to be the Holy Grail itself.

Further, many non-Catholic private schools have their own religious heritage that informs institutional practice.

«We are proud of our religious heritage and as president I will protect religious liberty.»

Besides, the Russian church proved useful in rallying people against the Nazis, and the power of Kiev's religious heritage was impossible to deny.

They also often return to the sacred stories and symbols of their religious heritage but without being stuck in a theological box.

If it is, then we must ask whether it is in our power to reintroduce the religious dimension through a synthesis of what remains of Christianity and the religious heritage of humankind.

Second, extremism thrives through poor interpretation of religious heritage that does not compromise between Islam and nationalism.

In one ad, he promised to «end Obama's war on religion» and to «fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.»

If you know the cause of an illness, you can also find a cure: The religious heritage in all its forms had to be reintroduced, especially the «heritage of Western Christianity.»

I have a friend who creatively blends his ethnic and religious heritage.

In the first half of Mark 7 Jesus says that you can't judge a book by its cover; you must look beyond external factors like nationality or religious heritage or social position to get the real story on someone s faith.

Every crisis is a spiritual crisis and an opportunity for spiritual growth; it is a chance to reexamine our answers to the big questions of life - the questions with which our religious heritage has struggled through the centuries.

In his religious heritage, fatherhood, motherhood, marriage, sonship, and brotherhood had been familiar descriptions of divine - human relationships.

Finally, our vague religiosity faces an insuperable difficulty in that it provides no way by which the precious insights of our religious heritage are to be maintained.

Given the zeal and passion with which Sullivan had presented and openly extolled the school's religious heritage and philosophy, I wondered how anyone could believe the school irreligious.

Such punitive, unflattering pictures of God certainly don't fit the best understandings of him in our religious heritage.

It is this latent hostility towards Christianity which explains the indifference, or even the complaisance, of our society towards the desecration of its religious heritage and the persecution of Christians throughout the world....

He called Great Britain back to its religious heritage, proposing its citizens draw on it again, to heal contemporary ills.

• Our religious heritage is so tainted by racism, classism and sexism that we have nothing to learn from it for today.

Our religious heritage has nurtured and sustained, us through our dark night of suffering.