Sentences with phrase «religious tradition find»

Because our religious tradition finds the heart of divine revelation in the Holy taking human form, Christians have a powerful theological basis for understanding and learning from the arts.

Not exact matches

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

He also founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an organization that encourages acts of justice rooted in prayer and respect for other religious traditions.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

In the end, playing nice with other religions — even if we're not religious ourselves or find ourselves devoted exclusively to our own faith traditions — is the best way to go.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

As we attempted to outline in our last editorial, when we search the pages of human history we do find such a line of spiritual and religious tradition that not only claims the direct authority of the Absolute Transcendent One whose name is «I Am Who I Am», but is also coherently developmental in doctrine and in providence across millennia.

Two researchers at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga found that atheists and agnostics run the range from vocally anti-religious activists to nonbelievers who still observe some religious traditions.

I am also polydox in that I believe that «all truth is God's Truth» and I find authentic insights (and errors) in every Religious Tradition.

Central to almost every religious tradition is the belief that the first humans were androgynes, beings possessed of such strength and power that the gods found it necessary to split them in half in order to preserve their own divine supremacy.

Perhaps, as John XXIII proposed, the Universal Declaration is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground for resolutely resisting the dehumanizing forces of this age.

In Eliade, an Indian Christian finds a Guru who opens the eyes to see the wealth of Indian traditions and who has made Indian / oriental religious philosophy dialogue with Western / occidental philosophical thought.

Perhaps the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

He clearly sees a role for Marxism, which, he thinks, has enriched the myth of Golden Age found in many religious traditions by working towards building a classless society.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

As children of modernity, we are left to wonder what to do with the legacy of dream interpretation found in all great religious traditions.

The premium placed on marriage as the ideal site for lifelong love and childbearing by most of the world's major religious traditions, the social value attached to the wedding rite, and the support accorded a wide range of marriage - friendly norms by most religious traditions all probably help to explain the religion - marriage connection found across much of the globe.

Perhaps the revitalization of our religious traditions will come from new efforts to live them as experienced realities, rather than objects of thought, by those who find them meaningful, whatever their own origins may be.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

It is also important for the evolving religious life of thousands of persons dissatisfied with the religious traditions or congregations in which they find themselves.

Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.

Be that as it may, the crippled man found nothing in his religious tradition to cure him until Jesus came along and restored strength and action to his impotent limbs.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.

It is a presentation of the great religious traditions and a search to find the semina Verbi — the seeds of the Word.

Although they may begin in priestly, mystical or communal religious traditions, fundamentalist - like movements seem to be found more frequently in those religions that claim to have received through revelation or great discovery a grand message of new truth, which must be delivered and which turns all ordinary understandings on their head.

Have you found a religious denomination or tradition that feels like home?

Both a new, regional survey by an Ohio University scholar and a nationwide poll conducted in 1997 by the association determined that UUs found a philosophical - ethical home in the socially liberal, creedless, gender - inclusive denomination after rejecting the teachings and practices of their previous religious traditions.

The United States has a strong tradition of welcoming the persecuted, from its founding when people were fleeing religious persecution in Europe to now where we've resettled refugees from over 40 nations in partnership with local communities.

But, if anything, reassessing the religious traditions that you were brought up in, finding it wanting but not wanting to abandon the idea of spirtuality altogether would seem to require just a little more thought than mindlessly adopting the traditions you were brought up with.

I think one part of this came out of the strict religious traditions that highlighted hypocrisy, exhibited pride in self - ability to carry out religious ordinances or «procedures», and were founded in mere tradition rather than from some higher power or actual scriptural foundation.

Shi`a recognizes Tradition as a source of religious rules, but it does not find all kinds of Traditions acceptable.

If a basis for the ruling is not found in the Qur» an or the Traditions, then it should be sought in the general agreement (ijma) of the religious leaders, and that general agreement should be followed by all the people.

The artist, therefore, no longer was permitted to contribute to religious imagination by the creative work of painting and found himself limited to illustrating the «complete» statement of the religious traditions contained in confessions and in creeds.

If this analysis is correct, Evangelicals and committed members of other religious traditions could find themselves united in the Republican Party facing Seculars and less committed members in other traditions among the Democrats.

We now have an opportunity to bring together the historic wisdom of our religious traditions and customs with the findings and insights of the behavioral sciences.

If we could find an answer to it it would allow us hermeneutically to retrieve the best aspects of our religious traditions.

As it is, I see in the Mystery of the Incarnation the greatest affirmation of our humanity to be found in any Religious Tradition.

Indeed, the Golden Rule is to be found in almost all religious traditions.

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

To respond to the ecological crisis it may help us to go deeper into our own religious tradition to see different bases other than what we already found.

In other words, we have to find out what theology is reflected in the general outlook and religious mentality of the community, in their life, customs and traditions.

Some religious traditions, especially Buddhism, have taught that we will never find ultimate peace until we affirm this restlessness and cease our idolatrous substantializing of things and ourselves.

In the notion of a «shadow side» of God we do not necessarily have to envision the caprice and primitive, irrational power which Jung and Neumann find in the God of certain segments of the Hebrew religious tradition.

Jeremiah wrote them a letter, one of the most notable documents in our religious tradition, in which he declared the universal availability of Yahweh, to be sought and found in personal prayer, anywhere, at any time.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

Instead I argued commitment to religion liberty (pluralism) makes impossible the use of the rhetoric of any one religious tradition; so pressures are great to create a new rhetoric, that is, find a new religion.

Similarly, he found that Protestant Ecumenical children — those whose religious tradition was similar to that of the program — gained more information and accepted more of the attitudes communicated by the program than did Catholic children and Protestant Evangelical children.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.