Sentences with phrase «religious situation»

Except for worship, basic religious situations reside in secular experience, in terms of issues that are faced and relationships that are both nourishing and nurturing.

A fifth and final point made by Ramsey is that «if there is to be any religious education at all, there must be religious situations for children to explore.»

It would consist of a dialectic in which immediate religious data would constantly be the object of critical reflection, but also in which critical reflection would constantly be referred to specific religious situations.

Though I do not believe that this issue is as important as most Protestant leaders have made it, I have come to see that the meaning of representation at the Vatican to American non-Catholics in view of the actual religious situation in this country is natural, and the fact that this meaning exists here is more important than the fact that it does not exist in Britain or in Japan, for there are objective reasons for the difference.

But just as new understandings of cosmos, history and society have compelled us to revise our views of revelation, so also our new understanding of the world's pluralistic religious situation demands a similar rethinking.

Just for that reason we — in harmony with our own religious situation — bring scientific considerations to bear on the «miracles» of Jesus.

I know the bible as a compendium of lies perpetrated on humanity by a self - interested priesthood that traces its origins to the political / religious situation of Ur in Sumeria back in the days of the supposed abraham.

However, for the great majority of us who have little knowledge of the current political and religious situation in Indonesia (and, if we're honest, would probably have been hard pressed to find it on a map until the Tsunami hit in December 2004), the combination of travelogue and political journalism is both relevant and interesting.

All of them, notably Barth, Brunner and Gogarten, hold the same theological tenets in so far as they are critical of the present religious situation.

It was into a religious situation much like the one reflected in the Puranas that Shankara came in the early part of the ninth century.

The primary stage posits two religious situations: the human search for God, or «natural consciousness,» which experiences the divine as a response to our cultural values and needs; and the «revelational consciousness,» in which God initiates the encounter, irrupting into the human world over the infinite abyss as a commanding presence.

That the religious situation is lamentable, that religiously men are in a pitiable state, nothing is more certain.

While the peoples of all three continents have endured bitter confrontations with European and North American colonialism and are still suffering from the consequences, the religious situation in Asia is unique, with several major living religions augmenting the differences among the indigenous peoples.

Moving to the U.S., I abandoned my goal to integrate my training in New Testament exegesis with my interest in practical theology in a professional teaching career because the religious situation and ecclesial contexts in the U.S. are quite different from those in Germany.

If he was not able to change the face of the present in a decisive way, his groping toward the mainsprings of human existence enables one not only to grasp more deeply the religious situation of our time but also to foresee the direction in which a new breakthrough must be sought.

In this pamphlet, written in 1940, Walter Nigg says that Martin Buber «possesses a paradigmatic significance» for the religious situation of modern man:

The final aspect of this factor that we must remember is that the political and religious situation was such that many thought the end - time was very near and about to break in upon them «like a thief in the night».6 For a section of the Jews, as for the early Christians, there was an air of expectancy.

Such situations, common in everyday life as well as in religious situations, have, say's Ramsey «an objective reference and are, as all situations, subject - object in structure.»

There is no application of his work to original sin, but the insights are there: the dynamics of becoming are ontologically given for selves as for every other actuality, but the parameters of what a self may become are not an ontological given, but are in fact mediated by one's particular cultural / religious situation.

«If this legislation is approved, the religious situation in the country will grow considerably more complicated and many believers will find themselves in exile and subjected to reprisals because of our faith,» wrote Oleg Goncharov, spokesman for the Seventh - day Adventists» Euro - Asia division, in an open letter.

One may well ask whether the religious situation of «Christian America» is capable of informing democratic deliberation and decision by reference to religion and religiously grounded moral discernment.

Some of them are reluctant today to speak of revelation because it seems to be too apologetic and particularist, especially in light of the plural nature of our religious situation.

But in our religious situation today can we continue to maintain such an exclusivist Christo - centrism?

Melville navigated the waters of death and disbelief in a way that Hamilton believes provides reliable guidance to those who would today seek to understand and explicate our religious situation.

A full sense of what we know as history was still not awakened in these religious situations.

But in a religious situation that includes matters both good and evil, teachings both true and false, he may indeed use things and teachings that are good or of indifferent value as instruments of salvation.

The challenge was the religious situation in what is now the South of France.

As a result of this perspective on the religious situation and its theological possibilities, I have for quite a while found myself in a sort of two - front position.

But YHWH witnesses to a religious situation for whose understanding we need personal categories.»

Some of the elements in Altizer's theological vision seemed very strange, but I was convinced that they were a healthy corrective to a shared understanding of the religious situation, which had outlived its usefulness.

As in his Golden Globe - winning 2005 drama Paradise Now, Israeli filmmaker Hany Abu - Assad takes a complex, personal approach to a touchy political - religious situation in this Palestinian love story.

If we couldn't understand Afghanistan's complicated political and religious situation, did we really expect to have identified every weird virus and disease you could pick up there?