Sentences with phrase «religious humanists»

There are religious humanists, but then maybe that is too complicated for Chad.

The indigenous elements were the waning aftermath of Lollardy, earnestly religious humanists, resentment against interference in Church life by the Popes, the decisive action of monarchs, and native leadership.

As religious humanists survey current intellectual and social developments, they are bolstered by a sturdy optimism.

The religious Humanists may be said to be the representatives of secularized religion.

Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and author of Malcolm Muggeridge and The New Religious Humanists, has discovered in the relative obscurity of Loveland, Ohio, an artist of genuine spirituality who is showing the way towards such a primitive simplicity.

The New Religious Humanists: A Reader.

In fact, the religious humanist is obliged to establish that the principle is implicit in those forms of theism in which it is not explicitly acknowledged.

For example, if you believe in human rights, you are a religious humanist, because a pure atheist would realize it makes no sense for blobs of protein molecules to have «rights.»

Not exact matches

But once you go beyond the golden rule, and common sense, humanist discussions of morals and ethics, you run a slippery slope down to religious bias.

«One of the reasons I was perhaps asked to be president of the British Humanist Association is that it was felt that I wouldn't call someone with religious faith «stupid» as that's naive and simplistic,» he says.

I love to study his writings as they are very «humanist», although he was religious in his own right.

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.

I've always thought it funny that religious people use the term «humanist» as a label for reality - based philosophies.

Articulate it, and the Religious Right will likely dismiss you as a secular humanist.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Rehumanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Rehumanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the ReHumanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

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.

The real source of Wiebe's distress lies in what we can call the «humanist maneuver» in religious studies.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Rushdoony, for example, sees no place in a Reconstructed society for the panoply of Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Baha'is, humanists, atheists and non - Reconstructionist Christians that make up American religious pluralism.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Nevertheless, religious faith often plays a prominent part in the discussion, differentiating liberal civil religion from purely secular or humanist beliefs.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

Humanists and other secular groups, many of whom are religious, are fighting back against this assault on our educational and political system.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

As I have already agreed with you, secular humanists (who act like the religious) and militant atheists who profess a categorical belief in the non-existence of God are indistinguishable from the religious.

It is noteworthy that the humanist turns to the language of the religious tradition to express this conclusion.

Chris Stedman is the Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, Coordinator of Humanist Life for the Yale Humanist Community, and author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.»

After all, if the nation (that is, all of us) is «besieged by religious zealots» or «controlled by secular humanists,» the image suggests that we shut fast the gates and unite to repel their attacks.

It was humanists, both religious and secular that banded together to win the rights movements of the past.

Religions and the religious must always be ever mindful of those social perversions that tend towards sidelining the heavenly built hosts of Humanists from ever undulating calamatousness thru unseen forces in the workings of the allness whole and holes in and of Life!

I think spiritual or religious have no real differentiation when it comes to comparing to secular humanist way of living.

Like the scholars of the Renaissance, these religious men saw no contradiction in being at the same time humanists.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

In view of all this the charge must be made against the radical group of religious leaders, whom we call Humanists, that they have failed to do justice to the fundamental feature in the phenomenon of religion.

The 1MM (and the growth formula which it implements) expresses central, interdependent emphases in Jewish and Christian theology — and in other religious and humanist traditions, of course — the emphases on love, freedom, responsibility, and justice.

Humanist: A system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.

The religious radicals whom we, very inadequately, call Humanists can thus point to a world - wide sympathy with their cause.

Though the other 97.5 percent are not all confessing Christians — many profess other religions, or are secularists, humanists and outright pagans — Christianity defines the religious climate of America.

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.

Some of our elected officials may be religious, but we expect them to act as Humanists, not religionists.

These important scientists straddle the divide of religious belief: Dawkins and Sagan are non-believers (materialists); Collins, Gingerich, Roughgarden are believers (theists); and Wilson, whilst being a secular humanist, sees a pressing need for a unity between religion and science.

DeWitt is now an avowed atheist, and his audiences are made up of religious «nones,» the growing number of Americans who are atheist, agnostic, humanist or just plain disinterested in identifying with a religion.

Nonetheless, if American schools would be willing to recognize diversity and perhaps even to incorporate colleges with diverse commitments, whether religious, feminist, gay, politically liberal or conservative, humanist, liberationist, or whatever, pluralism might have a genuine chance to thrive.

You mean that arch-secular humanist, that despiser of religious «supersitition,» that progressivist despoiler of our once commonsensical public schools?

Hume's assertion that our «religious phase» may have been the «inevitable» precondition or «vessel» of secular morality (it isn't clear whether he means naturally or historically inevitable) can't get the ethical humanist secularist around the more haunting question of whether the secular political project of mass ethical secularism is viable, much less sustainable — especially if that social order is not to be grounded in philosophy, and especially if the politics in question must, as apparently it must, be one grounded in rights to freedoms.

In brief, ethically humanist secularists have to find it impossible to live well as self - realized parasites on a social order with religious foundations.

I am not prepared to say the religious communities, among whom I would include the humanist communities, are not capable even today of providing the religious superstructure and infrastructure that would renew our republic.