Sentences with phrase «religious sanction»

They have pointed to the role of Protestantism, Pietism, and even of Catholicism in fostering the sense of national destiny, in giving religious sanction to the imperialist programs of kings and democracies, in justifying nationalist wars and in blessing armies bound on conquest.

This time she found seventeen fellow Democrats to join her in explaining to the pope that «Religious sanction in the political arena directly conflicts with our fundamental beliefs about the role of democratic representatives in a pluralistic America — it clashes with freedomsguaranteed in our Constitution.

Here again Bonhoeffer is concerned not to provide religious sanction for some worldly movement but to discern the form of Christ's work in the world and bear witness to it by our own words and actions.

Often religious sanctions were used to reinforce their caste privileges.

The world - ruling church of Innocent III received a new religious sanction from the most human and most Christlike of all the saints.

For this reason Luther sided against the peasants in the Peasants» War, and gave added religious sanction to a social stratification which is still much in evidence in European society.

Cultural practices adversely affecting women or minorities may acquire religious sanction but are nonetheless subordinate to these core values.

The majority of American Jews actually expect and sometimes demand that their rabbis give religious sanction to keeping America secular.

He fought against the prevailing practices among the Muslims, such as the worship of saints and other social customs which had no religious sanction.

Sometimes this cultural demand gets translated into a moral demand and is given religious sanction.

And elites within the churches have dutifully fallen into step, giving religious sanction to the project of secular remythologizing.»

In truth, the pope is not imposing a «religious sanction» (although perhaps he should) but explaining the consequences for one's communion with the Church, such consequences being not «in the political arena» but at the altar.

One of the great appeals of the electronic church gospel is that it gives religious sanction to the American tradition of utilitarian self - interest.

«Benevolent intentions have been used with sincerity at one time or another to justify slavery, to give religious sanction to white supremacy and the continuance of imperialism, to prevent the poor from having education or the suffrage, or to discourage land reform or the organization of labor.

However, our Church has identified itself long ago with the «temple,» has dissolved itself in the temple, and (this means) has returned to the pagan temple as its religious sanction.

At the same time it gave religious sanction to the notion, already latent, that each people, and each alone, possessed a pure faith and a divine mission.

But because of an outmoded Selective Service understanding of psychic - emotional structure and the failure of religious sanctions, we took the «life lovers» of one whole generation and labeled them «cowards.»

Religious sanctions as well as economic, social and legal ones have traditionally enforced the inferior position of the lower castes.

To use just one example, Iran goes so far as to offer frustrated young Saudi Sunnis the religious sanction of blessing «temporary marriage», known in the West as sleeping around, which it is possible for some Shi'ite clerics to approve but not Sunni clerics.

Cohabitation — An emotionally and physically intimate relationship, which includes a common living place and exists without legal or religious sanction.