Sentences with phrase «religious impulses in»

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.

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

In its place is the recognition that all religious longing is grounded in an impulse that is validated and redeemed by Christ's crosIn its place is the recognition that all religious longing is grounded in an impulse that is validated and redeemed by Christ's crosin an impulse that is validated and redeemed by Christ's cross.

For these reasons religious populism became an institution in itself and remains today one of the strongest and deepest impulses in American life.

There is a need for thoughtful people to make some discriminations between and within religious groups — to look for curing impulses that are latent in the faiths that so easily can spread disease.

While those who are no religious, and do not believe in God, are able to govern themselves and adhere to their own mix of self justified impulses and moral discretion... to some degree.

As a result of an anti-authoritarian impulse, writes Hatch, Americans of the early Republic began to exalt «religious leaders short in social graces, family connections, and literary education.»

Driver and company also interpreted worship in dramatic terms, noting that Christian worship arises out of an impulse to act together, «to do something which either changes the relationship to the Divine or express it» Finally, there was a need, again arising out of the religious drama movement, for material that was appropriate for production in church.

She also took from her religious training a confessional impulse, on display in three memoirs and her debut work of fiction, The Company She Keeps.

In my vision, the fact that each actual entity, in its very nature, embodies an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value is sufficient in itself to ground the religious intuition of a character of permanent rightness permeating the nature of thingIn my vision, the fact that each actual entity, in its very nature, embodies an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value is sufficient in itself to ground the religious intuition of a character of permanent rightness permeating the nature of thingin its very nature, embodies an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value is sufficient in itself to ground the religious intuition of a character of permanent rightness permeating the nature of thingin itself to ground the religious intuition of a character of permanent rightness permeating the nature of things.

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

Some speak of human beings as essentially economic animals, others define them in terms of their sexual impulses, still others say that they are religious creatures.

With respect to the human personality, the deepest ordering of impulse is cultural, is religious, occurs in myth and ritual.

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.

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.

And the elevation of the religious leaders, their ethical and religious insights, are explicable in the end only on the basis of their own susceptibility to better impulses.

Arising out of what I have said, the diagram at the end of this chapter represents the state of tension which has come to exist more or less consciously in every human heart as a result of the seeming conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born force of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse of religious worship (OY).

If the inquiry be psychological, not religious institutions, but rather religious feelings and religious impulses must be its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena recorded in literature produced by articulate and fully self - conscious men, in works of piety and autobiography.

As Professor A. F. Taylor has insisted in The Faith of a Moralist, all «working» religions which hold sway over the great multitude of men tend to be «revealed»; and even in primitive expressions of the religious impulse something of the idea of «revelation» is to be found.

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.

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.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

In the twentieth century, the same impulse has found a voice in liberal religious thought, the Beat movement, and humanistic psychotherapIn the twentieth century, the same impulse has found a voice in liberal religious thought, the Beat movement, and humanistic psychotherapin liberal religious thought, the Beat movement, and humanistic psychotherapy.

It is the duty of all Catholics — laypeople, religious, and clergy — to control their sexual behavior and resist impulses to engage in immoral sexual behavior.

«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.

Many people are able to work through their unconscious impulses through sharing in those symbolic religious practices which are filled with profound meaning for their group.

Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

It may be true that our religious traditions are part of the problem, but the problem may lie less in an overweening zeal for transcendence than in the localistic immanentalism of American religion, the fissiparous sectarian impulses in much of Protestantism, and the anti-institutional instincts of today's residual romanticism.

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.

Newberg and D'Aquili show that the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain — but is religion merely a product of biology or has the human brain been mysteriously endowed with the unique capacity to reach and know God?

A religious homage, even if it is paid by the avant - garde, can actually undermine the iconoclastic impulse conceptually crucial to Duchamp's oeuvre (Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg made the pilgrimage after the critic Robert Rosenblum referred to work in a 1957 group show at Leo Castelli, in which Johns was included, as «neo-Dada»).