Sentences with phrase «religious impulse»

He discovers an opening for proclamation not in some natural religious impulse, but in their willingness to confess that there are things they do not know, things they can not see.

One could also judge religions on the basis of how well they express a presumed single religious impulse of humanity, assuming that there is one universal experience which is expressed in a variety of ways.

The Christian challenge has extricated the fundamental religious impulse in their life from the cultural and traditional patterns in which it was immersed.

This paradoxically Christian justification for anti-Christian sentiments is among the most powerful religious impulses in modern Western culture, as well as one of the best disguised.

It is important to remember that the parents in Tennessee and in Alabama were not asking that their own religious beliefs be taught in the schools, much less seeking to «control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities» for the children of other parents.

This is the result of a legitimate religious impulse gone astray.

If Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg is correct in describing the Jewish community as increasingly divorced from any substantial religious impulse (a description I believe to be correct), this lack of interest is hardly surprising.

But it was also a curious alliance of a technocratic drive for government regulation, the supposed expression of «value - free science,» and the pietist religious impulse to save America — and the world — by state coercion.

Though it is worth noting that he seems to see such antihumanist movements as displacements and perversions of more fundamental religious impulses, despite their eschewal of the transcendental.

Through overt and covert means, political and religious leaders want to control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities.

Ultimately the collapse of the religious impulse would leave a huge vacuum.

The religious impulse, evident also in radical environmentalism, rightly recoils from making an idol of humanity.

at the heart of the religious impulse there seems to be a certain solicitude for reality: the fear of foreclosing it or of reducing it to some merely human estimate.

Yet partly due to the influence of what he calls «Reform» he believes the social imaginary has become so secularized that our fundamental religious impulse....

Greg: Charles Taylor believes humans are naturally ordered toward the good, which means they will always feel a religious impulse.

Shoichi wondered if the religious impulse suddenly had found itself «without an object.»

Our community knows very little about Lord Zealous and zealotry, about the religious impulse.

But henotheism can also be dulling to the religious impulse, and most believers will insist that they do not hold it; they can not hold it.

The religious impulse calls people from the distractions of a random world and helps them make sense of things.

The religious impulse of the ecological movement explains both its popularity — it satisfies a basic human need — and the uncertainty of its future.

So pervasive is the religious impulse that it seeks expression in innumerable pseudo-religions, including religions of science, revolution, and progress.

There are a number of cultural trends, however, which militate against the religious impulse and hence have implications for the future of liberal Christianity.

This classic book has become famous as the standard scientific work on the psychology of religious impulses and of the varieties of religious experiences.

Indeed, the effort to make sense of life — the religious impulse — owes much to our primeval questions about the nature of death.

Whitehead, on the other hand, recognizes a de facto growth in world consciousness or the generalization of the religious impulse, but does not seem to see any necessity in it.

Its vocation is not to be a religion among religions, though its faith is never empirically separable from the religious impulse.

Under the spell of the religious impulse (and I distinguish religion from faith), holiness is turned into affected unworldliness, exceptional piety, and the assumption of unusual moral rectitude.

The result is that the religious impulse is forced into a schizoid situation, wherein a way to go must be sought amid other cultural forms outside the orbit of our denominational boundaries.

If the humanities spring from a religious impulse, or at least need it to thrive, then the irreligious, irreverent postures of humanities professors are suicidal.

I don't expect there to be many evangelical Christians who will agree with you on this one, David, as this post undermines the religious impulses of most to organize for the sake of order, uniformity, and thought control — and, of course, worship of a god only they know and have access to.

If this is the last word, the religious impulse must be to withdraw energy from the shaping and reshaping of the course of events and to find an ahistorical fulfillment.

Religious impulses haven't proven easy to expel, however, even in secular societies.

The religious impulse unifies a society and culture.

The religious impulse was programmed into our brains by brainless evolution.

«Great involvement in science and scientific work did not temper Lemaitre's religious impulse that had led him to the priesthood -LSB-...] He was a very good priest, very comprehensive, considering Christianity on a much deeper level than its exterior formalisms.

From his screenplays for Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ) to his own directorial efforts (Hardcore), Schrader has long explored not only the religious impulse, but the particular difficulties that come with following it.

-RRB-, Schrader has long explored not only the religious impulse, but the particular difficulties that come with following it.

Each encounter reinforces Cass's theory that the religious impulse spills over into life at large.

But in this brilliant, groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain.