Sentences with phrase «religious understanding»

With an almost religious understanding of witness — most likely from her Catholic upbringing — she shares the news of what she has seen, heard, and touched with her hands.

So before I turn to those criticisms, let me briefly honor the genuine contributions to human and religious understanding made by modernity, and I provide you with only a partial list.

Some argue that science is objective and religious understanding subjective.

In part because it flies in the face of popular religious understandings.

It failed because our friend the farmer did not have deep within himself some important religious understandings of who he was and what he was doing.

Evaluate religious understanding of the origins of humanity in relation to scientific theories.

Hick thereby provides us with a genuinely religious understanding of salvation.

We expect the student to develop the kind of religious understanding which quietly bears witness to its value and reality and hence does not have to be compulsively sold to others.

How can one's college years be spent in such a way that they are not a period of diminishment from religious understanding or a laming of true piety?

This genuinely religious understanding offered us by Hick enables us to restore genuine meaningfulness to our Christological affirmations.

• being willing to declare that fundamentalism is schismatic and heretical, and being able to show why this is the case when militants attempt to take over or subvert serious religious understandings and communities.

I am confident that many students of the Bible, and many other readers as well, will find in this choice little book the quintessence of a soundly historical and at the same time a deeply religious understanding of our Lord and his mission.

Mujerista theology articulates religious understandings of Hispanic women.

Such moral and religious understandings produce both a basic cultural legitimation for a society which is viewed as at least approximately in accord with them and a standard of judgment for the criticism of a society that is seen as deviating too far from them.

Clovis, you might be astounded at how little the so - called religious understand their own holy book.

He would maintain that «knowledge without religious understanding, was, if not positively dangerous, at the very least worthless.

Ninety per cent of the prize money will be donated to the Tony Blair faith foundation which promotes better religious understanding, the ex-PM's office said.

At 4:30 p.m., the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding holds its sixth annual Innovation Exchange, focusing on Trump's first year in office, and immigration, Queens College, 65 - 30 Kissena Blvd., Queens.

Learning objectives: Analyse religious understandings of the origin of the world in relation to scientific theories.

In contrast to religious understanding of transcendence, Marx asserted that human beings shape the universe and their own destiny, and human being is not any more the object of history but its subject and agent.

The Paradox is in Kierkegaard's understanding the essentially Christian, and appropriating it as such is the highest degree of religious understanding and belief.

It was stronger than this, for it suggested a religious understanding of how the market has worked, how it has failed, and how it needed correction... Continue Reading»

For he is the only theologian whose mode of religious understanding has been consistently dialectical: faith neither enters into union with the world nor does it stand in isolation from the world; faith is always the product of a dialectical negation of the world, of «history,» and of «objectivity.»

What I mean when I say this is that I am «Christo - centric» — that is, my religious understanding centers on Jesus the Christ.

In the following part of this book five fundamental experiences will be described as forming a basis for a religious understanding of human existence.

Such «stories» regarding the old - times within our histories of religious understandings are indeed plagued and remitted around many controversial imaginings» garnishments that are hindrances yet for good civil & moral reasoning.

Such «stories» regarding the old - times within our histories of religious understandings are indeed plagued and remitted many controversial imaginings» garnishments that are hindrances yet for good reasons.

Not only does a religious understanding of the Word reverse the forward movement of the Incarnation, but it encloses the Word in a static and lifeless form, thereby isolating its power and confining its role to one of passive quiescence.

The impotence of contemporary moralism arises from the fact that «we are trying to maintain a political valuation of man which had roots in a religious understanding of him, when that religious understanding has been forgotten.»

They are persuaded that faith is an important component in their lives, and many of them want to deepen their religious understanding.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

# 1) He came to show us God, Himself, in a visual way # 2) He spoke to the times at hand while promoting a kingdom of God not currently being understood by those moored in the trash heap of religious understanding # 3) To speak of a time when Holy Spirit would guide us (implication as to what the kingdom really was) into all truth instead of a faulty human understanding (perspective) of history.

Their religious understanding is limited; they know about as much as any secular person, which is to say, very little.

The period which spawns a Great Awakening is a time when the realities of life in society have deviated so far from their moral and religious understandings that the authority of the old institutions are questioned.

Clearly the past quarter - century has witnessed significant changes in the cultural and religious understandings of sex roles, sex outside marriage, homosexuality, single - parent families, the explicit portrayal and discussion of sexual matters and so on.

Those who are trained academically can enable the community to understand that its daily struggle for existence is not separate from its religious understandings, sentiments and beliefs.

Ross Christian Belief Rule # 1: A belief may be considered Christian (i.e., appropriate for Christians to believe) if it is consistent with the Great Commandment and with the centrality of Jesus of Nazareth to our religious understanding.

The message of Jesus must form the base, the keystone, for our religious understanding.

They have their religious understanding locked up in a closet with the result that they hold and teach it rigidly and defensively.

It is almost as widely held that these common moral understandings must also in turn rest upon a common set of religious understandings that provide a picture of the universe in terms of which the moral understandings make sense.

The erosion of common moral and religious understandings is not identical with increasing moral and social corruption, though there is much evidence of the latter in contemporary America.

Lindbeck's model of religious understanding did not rule out the possibility of apologetics — of speaking to people who do not share the linguistic world of Christianity.