Sentences with phrase «religious significance of»

A basic difficulty arises from the fact that, under some laws, Aboriginals have to prove the religious significance of sites and their importance; partly this is difficult owing to different approaches by different Aboriginal groups to sacred sites and to the fact that knowledge of the sites is restricted to a few gender - specific individuals and partly it conflicts with some Aboriginal values and customs, including the importance given to secrecy.

But other judges have recognized the religious significance of Sunday and that the laws existed to enforce the maintenance of that significance.

This exhibition catalogue features entries with full - color illustrations of the works in the exhibition as well as six new essays discussing the artistic, historical, and religious significance of the caves and their sculptures and recent research dedicated to their digital reconstruction.

Students will trace the history of relief printmaking as it relates to entymology and explore the cultural / religious significance of insect symbolism in art.

The first element is the religious significance of careful study of faith traditions in their particularity.

«4) Had Durkheim lived longer, he very likely would have pursued the religious significance of societal integration in a modern context.

We need to understand the religious significance of the miracle accounts to their original audience so that we do not lose sight of the point of these passages.

So it is proper and even necessary to ask, what was the religious significance of this miracle account to its contemporary audience?

A funeral without the dead body has the religious significance of the Book of Job without the sores and boils, Exodus without the stench of frogs, Calvary without a cross, or the cross without the broken, breathless, precious body hanging there, all suffering and salvation.

For education in the religious significance of process philosophy, there are some clues in Whitehead's summary of the major elements of religious response: worship, adventure, meaning, companionship, and peace.

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

What is the religious significance of Whitehead's concept of the nature of God?

I will discuss the religious significance of this important view separately.

The truth is that the religious significance of the cross predates your god - man.

The religious significance of Zionism becomes indisputable when one realizes that «to raise the Jews from a disintegrated and fragmented mass of individuals into an organic unity, whether it be the unity of the Jewish people as whole, or any part of it, is to create the conditions that make the Jewish religion possible» (JC 329).

Though Hartshorne has never given a great deal of attention in his writings to concrete religious phenomena, he has always been concerned about the religious significance of his work, He advocates the neoclassical conception of God partly because he believes it is more in keeping with religious experience than classical formulations of either theism or pantheism.

In arranging the World Congress of Faiths conference I felt that an interfaith group could perhaps go further and try to discuss the religious significance of one faith to members of another.

Few even of the best accounts of Muhammad's life discuss the religious significance of Muhammad for those who are Christian.

(Two Types of Faith, p. 38 f.) On the other hand, Buber has recognized and pointed to the tremendous religious significance of Jesus as possibly no Jew has heretofore done while remaining firmly planted on the soil of Judaism.

It occurred to me that if (as Cornel West and others have argued) it was the Enlightenment that created the category of race (dividing «white» from «black» and subordinating the latter to the former), it was also the Enlightenment that repressed the epistemological and religious significance of contemplation in the mystical theology of premodern writers.

I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

In sum, Wyschogrod believes that the problem of supersessionism turns on the church's capacity to understand its own identity in terms of the abiding religious significance of the distinction between Jew and gentile.

The journal ran articles on «the religious significance of poetry,» and others with titles like «Shall Pastors Know Something About Art?»

Gordon Michalson, Jr. has engaged the moral and religious significance of Kant throughout his scholarly career, and in this study he argues that the advantages that Kant provides to the modern theologian are a fool's gold.

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There's no reward for taking on something that has significance bordering on religious for some... even if it proves to be a bit of a «false god.»

Sadhus and Hindu pilgrims began to gather in Kolkata on their way to the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela, where an expected hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims will gather at the Gangasagar to take a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology.

It is perhaps telling that, when describing the Christian background of the movement, he notes that «religious beliefs crucial to such warfare placed enormous significance on imagined awesome but reassuring supernatural forces of overwhelming power and proximity.»

- A lack of religious belief does not preclude «eternal significance» you dumb - ass!

The result is the new series The Story of God on the National Geographic channel, which follows Freeman as he visits sites of religious significance around the world.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Calvin emphasized that the everyday activity of ordinary Christians has deep religious significance.

If this is seen simply as a struggle between a somewhat venal monarch and aggrieved barons, the Church's role in promoting basic liberties is completely obscured, as is the significance of Magna Carta for religious freedom in this country.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

As a result, he made one of the supreme contributions in man's spiritual history to the significance of the individual as the religious unit.

Significance of M.L.King's Martyrdom: Martyrs are generally those who undergo violent death in witness to a religious truth.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

Finally, aware of the religious dimensions of the texts, they are able to appreciate how claims to ultimate significance are inevitably forged in terms that are anthropologically rooted, historically conditioned and literarily defined; on the other hand, for the first time, many of them come to perceive Christianity as in fact making a number of extremely interesting religious claims.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

Critics says this mode of analysis gives too little significance to religious motives.

The significance of this doctrine has not been lost on poets and theologians, and especially on one of the greatest of English religious poets Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

It may seem obvious to her that, in British Christianity, the abandonment of a belief in a personal God would be of little significance, while the loss of the Authorized Version of the Bible and Cranmer's Prayer Book marks a religious disaster of the first magnitude; or that if «our minds are... full of readily available religious imagery... there is no need to expel [it] simply because... we do not believe in God.»

For the whole Muslim world this small area of the Arabian Peninsula has a religious significance not equaled by any other place.

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

In its report, the commission acknowledged the significance placed upon the confidentiality of religious confessions, particularly by the Catholic Church.

The insights of geniuses or of moments of high illumination may of course be valuable clues to the significance of the more generally enjoyed experiences which define the religious consciousness.

Though the networks sought to make all religious programming emphasize broad religious truths rather than individual tenets of denominations and to avoid dealing with controversial economic and social issues which were of religious significance, many programs produced by the churches in relation with the networks were critical or prophetic in nature.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

Of course Père Teilhard had a full - length treatment in The Phenomenon of Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesOf course Père Teilhard had a full - length treatment in The Phenomenon of Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in process.