Sentences with phrase «role of religion into»

Over several decades, the partisanship of the liberal oldline churches brought the public role of religion into deep discredit.

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

The accuracy of this translation was called into question lately by scholars impressed with the central role of the covenant in the religion of Israel.

Investigations into a so - called Islamist «plot» in Birmingham schools have raised questions about the role of religion in education in Britain.

He adds that the sign character and servant role of the church demand that in the face of the oppressive situation of the people, the church must «organize itself into peoples» movement for liberation» cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste and culture; and here transparency of the church requires that we have to conceive of an open church with flexible structures, boundaries, rules and rituals making Christian identity vulnerable.

Even if we were able to suspend our common sense in the area of religion in order to buy into this traditional theology — something which many people have felt forced to do because they saw no good alternatives — we would then have a spirituality that is unable to adequately fulfill its role.

Although Bultmann agrees fully with Bousset that the concepts Paul used in his christology were taken over from the mystery religions rather than handed down from Jesus, he is not misled by this fact into ignoring the decisive role Jesus» historicity plays in the theology of Paul: «The historical person of Jesus makes Paul's preaching gospel.»

If the goal of organized religion is to call all people into the fullness of their humanity, as I believe it is, then perhaps church leaders ought to look at those they hold up as role models.

This higher degree of religiosity translated directly into beliefs about religion's role in secular affairs.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Today the history of religions will either develop into a major specialty, playing a key role within and between the social sciences, humanities, and theology, or it will lapse into respectably tolerated standing within one or several of these disciplines.

The final confrontation between the Queen and her variously philosophical rivals unfortunately settles into a pompous discourse of the human species» right of self - determination, the role of religion (the Queen is variously confused with Iris, the Virgin Mary, the White Goddess, etc.) and the problematical advances or technology... and the psychological and physical power of a vampire eucharist.

What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.

From there, Beltz has delved into the secret history of weeds in drawings that take a plants - eye view of human history, particularly the role psychedelics have played in the development of human religions and even early America.

The chief role of religion and «the Classics» in this process has always been to throw a spanner into the works by restricting observation, suppressing documentation and logic analysis, and when the foregoing methods fail to suffice to maintain the established order of «knowledge», to persecute the scientist economically and / or physically.