Sentences with phrase «religious traditions become»

This is true not only in Christendom, but wherever religious traditions become ossified.

As knowledge of other religious traditions became more important, the easy affirmation of Christian superiority was harder to maintain.

So, when does a religious tradition become an extremist agenda?

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The worst thing that can happen to an authentic spiritual / religious Tradition is for it to become a civil religion.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

But as liberals learned more about those whom they were seeking to convert to Christianity from other religious traditions, they became less sure.

In an age in which we have became increasingly aware of other faiths and religious traditions in our own backyards and in other parts of the world, we can not develop our life - centered ethics and our life - centered understandings of God in isolation.

Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition.

The experience of the whole man, evaluating Scripture, tradition, and reason, through the vital action of the Holy Spirit, becomes the ultimate authority in religious certainty.

It could also be called «deep ecumenism,» because it involves seeking out those elements that are already common to, or could become common to, all the religious traditions.

Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car — functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.

Most, perhaps all, cultures and religious traditions have some version of the problem of evil, but as C. S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, this problem becomes scandalous in Christianity, which traditionally has held that the universe is governed by a loving and omnipotent God.

Yet, to repeat another point made earlier, if these constraints themselves become too rigid, as they often do in the unfolding of a religious tradition, then the communication flow becomes so burdened with redundancy that it loses any truly informational (in this case, revelatory) character and decays into the transmission of mere banality.

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.

This has become a cultural tradition rather than religious.

If they think about their own tradition in the light of religious pluralism, the need to consider the basic assumptions of diverse traditions becomes even more important.

«More so than for any other religious tradition, a person can become UU because of what he already believes rather than believing what he does because of becoming a UU,» said James Casebolt, coauthor of two papers on the regional survey read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in October.

In raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violence.

The spiritual well - being of a man depended on becoming the father of a son so that his bloodline and the religious tradition would continue in the future.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

The artists became illustrators, embellishers, and decorators, and thereby lost I their authority to be involved along with speech, tradition, and doctrine in the shaping of Christian religious experience.

The scribe recognized that preoccupation with religious traditions even those commanded by God — can become idolatrous.

So iconoclasm — the abhorrence of the use of opaque images — became a permanent feature of the religious tradition.

And the totem becomes a symbolic medium through which mystery is disclosed, though perhaps not in the sense of the radical other - ness that we discern in the axial and post-axial religious traditions.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

The problem arises when religious practices and doctrines that are intended to bring life and health to the spirit and community become barriers to reaching out to others with the love, justice and mercy of God — or when «human traditions» are substituted for «the commandment of God.»

If religion has an essence, and if embodying that essence well is the primary goal of every religious tradition, then it becomes objectively meaningful to evaluate all religions by this normative essence.

On the other hand, there was another minority who, looking back to their own religious and cultural traditions with a newly acquired Western - type national consciousness, became extremely conservative and rejected the West in toto.

The Word has become flesh in us in the form of our religious practices and traditions.

On the other hand, a person who has heard the message may not feel the vocation to become part of the church but to remain a witness within his or her own religious tradition.

Where religion has become domestic the rituals of a particular religious tradition are identified with seeking God's blessing for the family - related hopes and desires of believers.

We can, of course, jump immediately to the obvious conclusion — namely, that contemporary religion has become acutely individualistic — and we can decry the loss of community and predict the eventual demise of religious tradition as we know it.

The timing of the traits» evolution — human sacrifice came first — suggests that cultures were more likely to become strictly divided along class lines if their religious traditions included the grisly rite.

This former Roman Catholic nun felt confined by the narrow lens of her faith and has become one of the most lucid voices of global religious traditions.

Based on his own practice and study going forward he became known as a wonderful leader, and his kingdom became home to people from all religious traditions, socio - economic positions, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

With parties, family traditions and religious services happening, how much your date or you are in the closet can also become a big problem for a relationship.

Various religious traditions, unfamiliar to a woman especially may become an issue.

Our nation is rich in many cultural and religious traditions, and celebrations focusing on specific groups have grown and become more popular in the last twenty years.

Later he became a professor of religious studies — his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent.

The estimates are surrounded by images and data that put Christmas celebrations in the historical context of Charles Dickens» Victorian England, the dawn of the industrial revolution when religious, social and consumer traditions became the foundations of the holiday most Americans know today.

In particular he had become intrigued by Tantra, that eastern religious tradition in which sexual energy plays a significant role.

Early settlers brought the tradition to America, where it evolved from its religious and scientific roots to become a thriving, creative industry and a means for self - expression.

[1] He established a studio in Madras (now Chennai), [2] and became interested in both the religious and folk traditions of India and in the traditional art and crafts of the country.

Monitoring the flow of funds, looking for a tribal... king... leader... religious person... to suddenly abscond with funds and live in the South of France, misses the major reason why the person became king, leader, priest; he (and it is usually a he) dispenses the largess to his friends and relatives per tradition.