Sentences with phrase «religious values in»

He has been a state and national leader in mental health counseling and is Past President of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling, a division of the American Counseling Association.

But McDonagh is nothing if not even - handed, and he has made a film which gets to the heart of what it means to hold religious values in the 21st century.

The blog recognizes the importance of the LDS church and religious values in romantic relationships and endeavors to cover weighty topics with pragmatic sincerity.

In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.

The author asks: what place is there for religion and religious values in the global economy, and what should be the relationship between economics and theology?

You should keep your religious values in your own home.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

The debunker acknowledges a positive, religious value in anger; there exists an honest - to - God Christian anger, which is a virtue.

Not exact matches

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

«I would not score very highly on religious value,» said Lee, then 82, still in good health, and a sort of Minister Emeritus.

Developers at the time could access virtual anything of any value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check - ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

It ignores the leadership of civil society, including religious leaders; the political value of religious ideas (real theology) in creating a functional future for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application of punishment.

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

However, giving religious beliefs too much weight in electoral decisions undermines the basic democratic values that have guided our nation for over two centuries.

As the Oliners reconstructed the motivations for his commitments, they found that Johan's values centered in patriotism, egalitarianism, and the religious examples of his grandfather and parents.

Institutional separation of church and state, religious freedom, and toleration are values that grew up in America within Christendom's fundamental religious and political commitments, and not generally in opposition to them.

«Assimilating what is of undeniable value in secular modernity's embrace of religious pluralism, freedom of conscience, individual autonomy, and the equal dignity of men and women requires genuine discernment....

While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the religious bubble.

Rather, we refer to recent attempts in sociobiology to account for the rise of human culture and religious values such as altruism.

The religious right in America vote against their own values and liberties, so they hold the hand that holds them down.

Universities that take religious faith seriously and that value their international relationship with the center of their faith contribute to diversity in a fruitful way.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

Then he faded from the scene for a couple of decades, only to be picked up by the left wing of the Democratic party after their electoral disaster of 2004 in order to certify their sympathy for «religious values.»

In Monday's speech, which continued much religious language, he also said: «We call upon the bonds that unite us, our faith, our family and our shared values.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

What needs to be shown is not a mere filiation of concepts or the use of words, but the religious value men found in the concepts, the religious meaning they undertook to set forth in the words.

The only locus in which alternative values and vision are nurtured is the religious community.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

They are the primary participants in religious experience; they are the unit of value; the social group, the church — while it is conceived to be in unbroken continuity the true «commonwealth of Israel» (Ephesians 2:11 - 12.)

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

The object of religious valuing, in other words, is «sacred.»»

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

«It would be a step backwards if California, a state that has long been a leader in diversity, inclusion and pluralism, could not find a way to value and honor the religious freedom of Christian universities like Biola while at the same time respecting the dignity of our students,» Corey said.

The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare in any way with the consequences which are visible in the destruction of our common religious and ethical values.

Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice in this campaign: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a religious label but then opposes family and faith.

There might be a Buddhist monk who has been in solitary meditation for 30 years who might know but nobody that takes religious texts at literal face value has any idea.

Whether it is expressed in religious terms or not, the meaning of life, values, destiny — ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.

Man's call to majesty on the one hand and to humility on the other, to take Ziegler's title example, do certainly conflict, and a religious personality loyal to both will experience considerable tension in his struggle to achieve balance between the two values.

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.

In human and spiritual terms the focus on the family for any struggle between conflicting worldviews is obvious since it is here that cultural and religious values are primarily passed on.

«It is a positive sign that one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in the field of the international press has been attributed to one who proclaims spiritual, religious and moral values in the world, and who speaks effectively in favor of peace and greater justice,» Lombardi said.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different vieIn fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different viein the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

Every culture in the past has had a religious dimension, which motivates the culture and supplies it with its values and goals.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

Sixty - three percent of political and religious conservatives support allowing women and couples in the developing nations to determine the timing and spacing of pregnancies in a manner that includes the voluntary use of methods of preventing pregnancy — not including abortion — that are harmonious with their religious values and beliefs.

It looks lie the Republican alliance cobbled together in the 80s between the (relatively) poor, religious, family values types and the godless money - grubbing types is showing some stress at the seams.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).