Sentences with phrase «religious language changes»

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.

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Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

(27) Having established some degree of critical distance from the assumed language and values of the culture, how do we develop a poetic and corporate language that can break the rim of normative consciousness and revitalize the religious imagination as a source of energy for social change?

«Because of that, we have to develop narratives, frames of reference, language, and tools that connect climate change to people's religious values and identity.»

There are many reasons why people might have voted no which have little to do with what they think about LGBTQI + people, including religious convictions, misinformation, language barriers, fear of change, or unfounded fears of what else might change if the Marriage Act changes.