Sentences with phrase «religious liberals»

Nor do they cast into sharp relief, except in very general statements about adaptation and reaction, the kinds of conflict that have emerged between religious liberals and religious conservatives.

These materials may well have exposed large numbers of children (and their parents) to the ideas and values of religious liberals.

Many of them failed, but great numbers of them survived to produce something unique in education, the small religious liberal arts college.

But because the national science standards and the textbooks have nothing to say about the relationship between science and religion, students will assume that science is competent to provide a complete picture of nature — a claim deeply controversial for religious liberals as well as conservatives.

Many religious liberals, historians, and secularists have concluded that the Hebrew Scripture's Ten Commandments were based on this earlier document, rather than vice-versa.»

The shift has created a great antithesis in the church between classical Christians who desire, as I do, to remain faithful to the faith once delivered and religious liberals by whatever name who seem intent on endlessly revising the message

Just as being an evangelical does not make Wesley entirely supportive of all contemporary evangelicals; so being a liberal certainly does not mean that Wesley would support everything that is said and done by contemporary religious liberals.

Among aggressive secularists and certain religious liberals who have forgotten why they were religious in the first place, virtually all forms of evangelism collapse into proselytism.

This dual focus on reason and ethics similarly explains the close attention religious liberals have paid to the sciences — physics as a source for better cosmologies, and the biological and social sciences as a source for both ethics and philosophies of history.

In the current culture wars, religious liberals tend to ally themselves with the educational establishment against those on the Religious Right who are attacking the public schools.

Religious liberals need Stanley Hauerwas, a perpetual disturber of their peace.

Contrary to popular impressions that associate such thinking with religious liberals, religious conservatives are substantially more likely to have thought about it than either moderates or liberals.

On the left, religious liberals fear that the various spiritual orthodoxies Will lead to extremism.

Religious conservatives complained about voters» indifference toward abortion and President Clinton's evident character flaws, while religious liberals lamented public apathy toward social injustice and Speaker Gingrich's ethical lapses.

To begin with the camp in which I may be found, religious liberals appreciate pluralism and tolerate divergent lifestyles because they know that theirs is a limited truth.

At present, much evidence (including some from the kinds of opinion surveys I have just maligned) indicates that religious conservatives and religious liberals in the United States are deeply divided — on nearly everything.

As the conflict between religious liberals and conservatives has intensified, the different versions of American civil religion have continued to energize specific policies and programs.

I know plenty of religious liberals, they just don't happen to believe in Machine Gun Jesus like you do, you sarcastic twit

Many religious liberals, historians, and secularists have concluded that the Hebrew Scripture's Ten Commandments were based on this earlier docu - ment, rather than vice-versa.»

Owen particularly shines in his chapters on Hobbes and Tocqueville, since the choice that secular and religious liberals have is ultimately between these two.

It is hard not to smile nowadays when someone, inevitably a religious liberal, declares some proposal «prophetic.»

Yes, religious liberals have accepted evolution pretty much from the time Charles Darwin first proposed it, but in contrast to Darwin many of them believe that evolution is purposeful and that nature has a spiritual dimension.

These religious liberals are the worst infidels in many ways in the country; and some of them are filling pulpits down South.

Religious liberals, Christian and Jewish, need partners in a world that is hostile to rationality, morality and freedom of conscience.

Religious liberals, who claim to find God in human experience, should view as significant the two centuries of this American experiment with religious openness.

Here is his punch line: Protestant conservatives may be far more innovative in coping with modernity than most theological and religious liberals have believed.

As sodomites gain the fields of Atheism and religious liberals, The Time will soon arrive!

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

Some of the difference evident in American society between religious liberals and religious conservatives can be understandable in these terms, especially if some part of the more liberal population can be assumed to have differentiated in their religious discourse between symbolism oriented toward holistic meanings and symbolism subject to empirical criticism.