Sentences with phrase «religious insistence»
Here, one each from the»60s,»70s and»80s testify to a kind of religious insistence on empirical observation.
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The question is ridiculous, since yes, the religious leaders (Jews) had a hand in killing Jesus, but the conclusion that modern Jews are responsible is also ridiculous, as well as the insistence on retracting the question by the ADL, whose whole point is to prevent people from blaming modern Jews, not whether the answer is true or not.
Religious faith seems such a distorter of experience, such an encourager of illusion, that polytheistic paganism's admission of many divine stories seems better than monotheistic Christianity's insistence on a single story.
Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology of human existence» is required even with the strict limits of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.
Throughout his presentation, Ziegler stresses Soloveitchik's insistence that an authentic religious philosophy will always feature powerful dialectical tension, that genuine religious life is ineluctably pervaded with dynamic inner conflict.
We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that faith has for once and for all been given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.
On the contrary, religious experience is to be understood in the light of Whitehead's insistence that «in human nature there is no separate function as a special religious sense (RM 123).
• finally, Luther's insistence on sola scnptura unleashed religious anarchy, since others, much to his dismay, read scripture differently than he did.
But Meland's thinking was truly distinguished not by this, but by his insistence on the fallibility of religious forms and symbols — by his insistence that the reality experienced through empirical knowledge was simply uncapturable by the precisions so loved by the theologians, whether the precision of a Wieman who strove to define with ever - increasing exactness the character of the creative event or of a Hartshorne who strove to state with ever - greater rigor the necessary elements in a notion of God.
The battle around the graves has become a symbol of the struggle between the secular community's insistence on taking care of the needs of the living verses the religious community's impassioned defense for the sanctity of the dead.
The vocal insistence of the religious right on biblical «creationism» and such doctrines as the inerrancy of the Bible is likely to create a one - sided impression of the Christian faith and to turn away people who are not aware of other Christian views.
The libertarian rhetoric of Luther's reformation pamphlets, with their insistence on the freedom and dignity of every Christian and their onslaught on ecclesiastical corruption and established religious authority, certainly fueled and probably helped trigger the peasant uprising.
In either case, it results in a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogma.
I think Whitehead also knew this, suggesting a radical reversal of the Western philosophical and religious tradition's insistence that virtue, there meant as obedience to law, can be externally taught.
; Saul's religious scruples in his insistence that the sacrificial procedure be properly carried out; his apparent assumption of the role of priest (vv.
There is no need to recall Haeckel's blasphemy about a gaseous vertebrate: suffice it to remind ourselves of the classical tradition of religious philosophy with its insistence that God can not be defined except in negatives — apoios, without quality, the ontos on, the thelon, (See Philo.
The insistence upon rules of conduct marks the ebb of religious fervour.
We feel that he has contributed immensely to the clarification of the whole field of experience by this insistence; and that he has opened the way to a far more satisfactory interpretation of the object of religious experience as well as to a more satisfactory scientific description of natural processes.
Troeltsch's insistence upon «the religious idea» is similar to «spirituality» discussed later.
In a structure of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition of «human intelligence» to «divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....
Edicts, inquisitions, laws, and wars failed to extinguish people's religious convictions, or insistence on articulating and sharing them.
Many writers, including Alex von Tunzelmann in her book Indian Summer, which Dalrymple quotes, blame the unraveling of good relations on colonial rule and its insistence, «to define communities based on religious identity and attach political representation to them.»
I guess it's not surprising that it is in these societies where they had to fight for their secularism that there is the most sensitivity about aggressive insistence on religious rights.
However, some respondents cautioned that religious dogma (i.e., prohibition of discussion of sex and insistence on virginity and abstinence) may undermine comprehensive sexuality education.