Sentences with phrase «secular environment»

The most obvious answer lies in our competing secular environment.

So we have the rather severe problem of an unfortunate choice facing many of the young: accept either a mystical and irrelevant religious tradition or a cynical secular environment.

It is ironic that Bach's music, so completely biblical and evangelical, is now performed in secular environments such as concert halls.

For the Christian witness to be taken seriously in an increasingly pluralistic and secular environment such as the West, Christians must learn the art of being able to 1) have integrity in our convictions; 2) genuinely love, listen to and serve those who do not share our convictions; and 3) consistently do both at the same time.

Or people who were raised in religions or secular environments without god, or who find the concept illogical or who think that «god» among the thousands of stories out there isn't even an interesting idea...

There is a further dimension to this work which has been evoked at the Synod, and that is the wider cultural engagement demanded of the Church in countries with a strongly secular environment.

And when the other - worldly flight from history grows stale because of its failure to connect with present reality, dreamers are tempted to the opposite extreme of milking perfect fulfillment out of a purely secular environment.

Since in large measure Christian distinction involves the use of resources like money and time, as well as vehicles of primary regard like Scripture, prayer and extrafamilial commitments, promoting such identity involves a hard confrontation with the values of our secular environment.

Moving toward more modern social arrangements is presumed to entail a displacement or devaluation of traditional religious institutions, or at least some concessions on the part of such institutions to the secular environment.

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

I am committed unashamedly to teaching Christian doctrine and draw a clear distinction between that which is taught in a secular environment... and what is confessionally committed.

But Everett agrees with Burgess and Baum that the church in socialism did not betray the faith, that in many ways it did show the way toward a vital, nonestablished church in a secular environment.

That religious principle embodied by Christians should be confined to their Church and not imposed on anybody in a secular environment.

While the Catholic Church would certainly want to recognise that love and commitment between two people of the same sex is a good thing, the term «homosexual love», understood in the sense in which it is used in our secular environment and in this book, is an oxymoron for the Catholic mindset.

In his typology of approaches to the Christ and culture problem, Niebuhr repudiates the contention of groups identified by his «Christ against culture» category who feel they can withdraw from their secular environment:

Their work is concerned with the role of the individual in society, particularly through the lens of young Muslims living in a secular environment.