Sentences with phrase «religious prerogatives»

Women were under all the obligations of the law but shared in few of the social and religious prerogatives.

It's heartbreaking to see religious folk attempting to exclude others from the discussion, as if love and family, peace of heart and mind were religious prerogatives only.

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In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

The most notable New England Baptist, Isaac Backus, opposed such a test, stating that «no man or men can impose any religious test, without invading the essential prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ.»

But there are writers who, realizing that happiness of a supreme sort is the prerogative of religion, forget this complication, and call all happiness, as such, religious.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

The Christian Emperors were not priests, but they too believed the regulation of religious affairs to be one of their prerogatives.

Many appear to be much concerned about it, but nothing is more evident, both in reason, and in the holy Scripture, than that religion is ever a matter between God and individuals; and therefore no man or men can impose any religious test without invading the essential prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ....

More was voicing his fundamental objection to being compelled to accept the king's new title of being the supreme head: it was an invasion of prerogative of conscience of that in part of the divine law of God since it applied man - made law to the deeply held religious conviction of the individual.

The American penchant for expressive individualism means that most conservative religious parents often place a higher priority on the unique qualities of individual children and the prerogatives of parental choice than on church dogma.

«It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over time...

It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over time all of these have weakened, and so now schools are the best place where this education can take place.

It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over...