Sentences with phrase «religious humanism»

I find it a bit humorous that the writer did include «Christian humanism» and also «religious humanism» in his ranting way (s)

Religious Humanism largely emerged out of Ethical Culture, Unitarianism, and Universalism.

It is not a restored religious humanism that will make Christian faith a vital answer to the thanatos syndrome.

Underlying all these, Lepard contends, is a kind of «religious humanism» based upon a fundamental religious belief in the sanctity of human life.

It should go without saying that Buchler's metaphysics leaves room for religious humanism.

Gregory Wolfe is the publisher and editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and the director of the Center for Religious Humanism.

Because of these factors, religious humanism is a still small voice.

Proponents of religious humanism predict that its formative principle will gain increased importance in religion and theology as various forces are brought to bear on the theological enterprise.

Thus, rather than building its theological superstructure on the ashes of a rebutted theism, religious humanism grounds itself in a principle that obtains whether God is or is not, whether the Transcendent is good, indifferent or demonic, and whether God is or is not the creator of humankind.

Unfortunately, religious humanism has not yet found a Barth to articulate its inner logic.

It is against this background of a wider examination of religious models, initiated by a heightened doctrinal uncertainty, that I would enter a new version of religious humanism in the theological flesh market.

Growing numbers of theologians are consciously adopting the thesis of radical human creativity to the extent that the difference between religious humanism and such theists as Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Novak and Duméry is not as great as we may think.

There is an absence of a systematic theology / philosophy of religious humanism.

When Christian theologians expose the full implications of theological postures recently assumed, and when they critically examine humanism without the prism of gross misinterpretations, it will be recognized that the formidable chasm is between the right (theocentric) and left (humanocentric) wings of theism, not between the latter and religious humanism.

We can now differentiate religious humanism from the variety of Christian theism that is its closest kin.

The religious humanism I endorse does not attack Christian theism with the critical apparatus of rationalism, science or positivism; nor does it seek to make these the foundation for the humanist perspective.

Religious humanism questions whether we can shed our human nature and escape the human condition to view reality from an extrahuman or superior perspective.

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

Among the major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

The major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

Wieman, Henry Nelson, «Hartshorne's Total Alienation,» Religious Humanism 3, 1 (Winter, 1969), 43 - 45.

The present and future theological contribution of the UUA is the legitimation of a post-Christian religious humanism.

What of the future — if we assume that membership shrinkage has stabilized, that fiscal stringencies have been effected, and that a theological convergence toward a religious humanism has not only occurred but has at last received official recognition?

A greater critical distance would well serve Wolfe's project of promoting religious humanism.

He is guided by Max Stackhouse's definition of religious humanism: «Humanity can not be understood without reference to God; and neither God nor God's revelation can be understood except through the lens of thought and experience.»

Not exact matches

Humanism is opposed to this ideology, not only because it's always based on unprovable religious superstition but because humanists believe strongly that the fate of humanity is not subject to divine whims but rests with humanity itself.

There are also organizations for those who find their primary religious practice in Judaism, Buddhism or Humanism.

The books known as the Wisdom Literature, also referred to as the documents of Hebrew humanism (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus), describe a religious way of thinking drawn from the lessons of daily experience.

While most people now take humanism to be opposed to anything religious, Pope Francis was suggesting that the «humanistic spirit» can only survive within a culture that is open to God.

Finally, however, Boiling can not sustain his antic avoidance of the religious question which Aunt Emily's ethical humanism forces upon him.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

7) Eliade's Orientalism and New Humanism: Homologization of Western and Eastern Religious Thoughts

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

2The phrase «the ethics of words» is utilized by Sidney Hook in his essay «The Atheism of Paul Tillich» in Religious Experience and truth, edited by Sidney Hook (New York: New York University Press, 1961), p. 59, and also by Corliss Lamont in The Philosophy of Humanism (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1967), p. 143, to discredit redefinitions of God.

The author examines the nature and character of atheistic humanism and non-Christian religions, and how such forms of religious belief are similar to and different from Christian belief.

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

During the Second Vatican Council, for example, there was resistence to using the word «dignity» in the conciliar document on religious liberty, on the grounds that it smacked of secular humanism.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

I hope that whatever you have in your life (be it religious faith, humanism, etc.), that it gives you that peace.

And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.

One must first recognize that there are two basic religious traditions in Western thought: a mainstream tradition of Christian and non-Christian theism, and a minority tradition of humanism.

It now has its own religious philosophy — secular humanism — which it advocates and evangelises with all the fervency of any religious fundamentalist.

Secularism and humanism were eclipsed in Europe during the Dark Ages, when religious piety eroded humankind's confidence in its own powers to solve human problems.

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

April 14, 2012 at 11:00 am Just on the accounts of humanisms» history trees are ladled with the religious being ever so fearful of God's impending wrath should they investigate things does in no way or shape or formula make today's closeted christians alikened to their pruned branches being thown upon the dung heaps!

The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.