Sentences with phrase «religious language»

The linguistic analysts have described various functions of religious language.

Basically it is a way to learn relaxation techniques, which in religious language are often called meditation and prayer.

In recent elections it has become obvious that presidential candidates are welcome to use religious language only in certain communities.

When the life experience associated with religious language changes, the rituals of a religion lose their power to give meaning to the lives of believers.

A second reason for the loss of power and meaning in words may lie in the nature of traditional religious language.

The author explores these elements and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition and experience, raising questions about religious language: reality, analogy and metaphor.

Most religious language makes use of other categories, and it is important to know which language - game one is using and how language - games may be mixed.

In the introduction to this study, we attempted to establish the empirical foundation for religious language.

Now I would agree that religious language does indeed express and evoke distinctive attitudes.

Counseling for those who are more comfortable talking in traditionally religious language rather than psychological terms or for those who feel more comfortable talking to a religious leader rather than a secular counselor.

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

So far we have been looking at religious language in terms of natural theology and natural religion.

He particularly appreciated that the order did not contain discriminatory religious language.

There are many reasons for current debates about religious language.

Contemporary philosophers have also shown some of the varied ways in which religious language is used.

A second suggestion has to do with religious language.

With whom do we communicate when we communicate in religious language?

This is not to underestimate the knowledge of native believers — those who understand their own religious language and no others.

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.

Typically, one lesson may be on the parables of Jesus with the 11 year olds, followed immediately by a session on the bearing of theories of Wittengenstein on understanding religious language with the Religious Studies Advanced level (pre-University) students.

We are to deal with the key problem of how to talk about God, as this issue is illuminated by our understanding of how religious language works.

Pupils will given an introduction to religious language regarding birth ceremonies and analyse the importance of these ceremonies.

Moreover, NIESR points out that many caste discrimination and harassment cases involving members of low caste religions involve the use of offensive caste language, but not religious language; and that, while this is clearly evidence of caste harassment and supportive of claims of caste discrimination, it is not necessarily evidence of religious discrimination and harassment.

David Tracy's work (1975) has focused our attention on religious language.

As galling as one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arena.

The primary contribution of a «process hermeneutic» to Biblical studies, in my estimation, will be a recognition of a basic duality in the nature of human speech in general and in religious language specifically.

But a recognition of the metaphysical reference of all language — and of religious language more particularly — means that the interpretive process does not end at this point.

There can not be sufficient evidence for the central claims of theism because religious language is meaningless.

Likewise, metaphysical systems can be considered as speculative extensions of interpretive categories which within religious language itself are applied to distinctive types of experience and key historical events.

In Monday's speech, which continued much religious language, he also said: «We call upon the bonds that unite us, our faith, our family and our shared values.

In addition, we should note again that religious language expresses worshipful as well as ethical attitudes, and thereby implicitly affirms an object of worship.

The only problem was that the most fervently religious language in his speech wasn't directed towards God (and Jesus never got a mention) but towards an altogether different deity — the United States of America.

But if Mascall's own assumptions explain that the meaningfulness of a good deal of discourse about God can be understood in terms of the univocal use of metaphysical concepts, then it is only the use of the apparently incongruent religious language that requires special explanation.

Who is — if we want to introduce religious language — doing more for God's children?

We ought to allow our living experience once more to fill the empty verbal shells of an all - too - familiar religious language, so that the word of the cross and of the imitation of the crucified Lord might suddenly receive an intelligible content and a power that force men to make a decision.

I merely observe that most of us slip easily into a loose godlessness — however well hidden it is beneath religious language and the outward expressions of piety - unless we are kept in a state of spiritual tension by life's disconcerting experiences.

What they attribute to religious language Whitehead attributes to all language.

I'm with you that we should try to make our praying coherent and specific, and we should avoid meaningless words and cliche religious language.

Van Buren, then a theologian at Temple University, argued that traditional religious language no longer makes sense in modern societies.

At times the debate about religious language seems like a pitched battle between political camps of the left and the right.

«We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love another» wrote Jonathan Swift.4 He may be pressing his point, but it seems as if religious language is more specific articulating the role, place, needs, concerns of its own people and is if anything rather general when addressing the other as significant other.

«Those who sing: «I love you for a hundred thousand reasons, but most of all I love you» cos you're you» are not likely, if they are consistent, to expect religious language to be of the plain «down to earth» kind, or likely to expect reasoning in religion to be of the «knock - down» compelling kind.»