Sentences with word «religiousness»

This typical picture of the Christian value system held up even when we used such other definitions of religiousness as frequency of churchgoing and perceived importance of religion in one's daily life.

Religiousness in this broad sense of an encounter with «mystery» seems to be a most durable aspect of our human situation.

Nevertheless, to attain religiousness A within the boundaries of one's existence, that is, to be inwardly defined by self - annihilation before God, is already enough of a task.

As already pointed out, research findings show that there is a positive relationship between religiousness and bigotry.

How much more difficult it is, then, for an individual to attain religiousness B, that is, to become a true Christian!

The other day I was speaking at Gettysburg College, a school in Pennsylvania with a vestigial Lutheran connection, and a professor took strong exception to my claim that ours is not a secular society but one that is maddeningly confused in its pervasive religiousness.

Culture and religiousness replace one another in the history of peoples, writes Buber.

Webster's Third says what every educated person should know: Religiosity is «intense, excessive, or affected religiousness».

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

This is nature in action and a small part of the inevitable process that will remove religiousness from the gene pool.

Technically, what Bonhoeffer is saying is that in the modern world that can do without God, the idea of the innate religiousness of man, the religious a priori, must be rejected.

These questions, Hamer contends, provide a measure of the subjects» affinity for spirituality, akin to the trait that the Minnesota group called intrinsic religiousness.

All he needs to do is balance his perceived religiosity to get enough people to consider him just religious enough, compared to the too much religiousness of the other guy.

The surmisings and the longings of all deep religiousness are contained in the ethics of reverence for life.

That sounds like an endorsement of religiousness instead.

The natural religiousness of humanity is not discerned in the (nonexistent) uniformity of empirical religious beliefs or practice in individuals or societies.

For only when our confidence in the ultimacy of our instinctive religiousness has effectively been challenged can we begin to be sensitive to the God who is distinct from man, who calls us out of identity with our world into responsibility for it.

Moreover, if Herberg was clairvoyant in his discussion of diversity, he was blind when it came to the future of American religiousness.

Religiousness means activity — an elementary setting oneself in relation to the Absolute; religion means passivity — taking upon oneself inherited laws.

And yet there is no other way not only to a new religiousness but also to a new culture.

Religious people are mentally insane but apparently it is okay because religiousness is so widespread that their form of mental insanity is regarded as normal.

Its ancient meaning «is its only meaning,» and the development of the ancient meaning, while essential to modern religiousness, lies «beyond the proper scope of biblical theology.»

One of the reasons psychiatrists have had so much negativism about religion is surely that they have had to deal with the wreckage left by a petty and self - righteous religiousness.

This judicial religiousness is often noted.

The most refined religiousness can become God's most stubborn opposition as the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees makes clear.

Alternately it is associated with support for a general religiousness characteristic of East and West alike.

Most important is family religiousness.

Much conventional religiousness, born of a mixture of piety and anxiety, conceives love as a special power which will bring every problem to resolution and every life to completion.

I guess in my personal experience people who were religious enough to say «bless you» (outside of the sneeze ordeal which I even say bless you out of childish habit) did it as some kind of display of their awesome religiousness vs other people's sinner ways.

Religiousness consists in «duty and reverence.

We do not really know what to do with religiousness when it expresses itself outside those enclosures which historians and social scientists have carefully labeled religions.

As their crops begin to fail and their youngest child disappears, their strict religiousness and superstition leads to an atmosphere of suspicion and blame, where every slight is a sin and every setback is either a punishment from God or a curse.

Patients reporting greater overall religiousness and spirituality also reported better physical health, greater ability to perform their usual daily tasks, and fewer physical symptoms of cancer and treatment.

Hamer sought to build on these findings by linking religiousness to a specific stretch of DNA.

Of course, this devout religiousness goes unaddressed.

For our world is rapidly receding even from what Kierkegaard called Christendom and is sliding into the kind of paganism where even natural religion, religiousness A, may come to be out of reach.

Pieris constantly reminds us that the poor in Asia are non-Christians, and Asian reality is an interplay between religiousness and poverty.

If so, it demonstrates not that ours is a secular society but that, as aforesaid, it is maddeningly confused in its pervasive religiousness.

Culture and religiousness replace one another in the history of peoples.

The church as an institution promoting «religion» and «human religiousness» had come under criticism.

The study was the first to suggest a genetic component to what the researchers called «intrinsic religiousness,» which includes the tendency to pray often and to feel the presence of God.

But a question may be raised about the validity of the measures of religiousness that have been used.