Sentences with phrase «spiritual life of our society»

The restoration of theology would greatly enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual life of our society, and it would help overcome the gap between the academic and the ministerial, between the scholarly and the pastoral, that so bedevils American theological education.

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The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

that because religion permeates all aspects of life in African society, there is no separation between the sacred and the secular, the religious and non-religious, or the spiritual and the physical.

We acknowledge that our societies must respond more effectively to the material and spiritual needs of individuals, their families and the communities in which they live throughout our diverse countries and regions.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

The sense of living within a dependable structure — the laws of nature, the principles of the psychological and spiritual life, the requirements of life in society.

Some spiritual seekers like St. Benedict, unhappy with the indulgent life of Roman society, withdrew to form the monastic communities as at Subiaco.

He did not understand the spiritual life as an ascetical exercise of self - negation that had no relation to justice in society and to love of the other even beyond the demands of justice.

Thus, the primary mission of the church is the proclamation and building up of the church, that new society based in the kingdom of God where an alternate personal, economic, social, and spiritual life - style can be modeled.

If people are looking not only for the spiritual within and a transcendent beyond but for a way of life, a charter of conduct and a community of belonging, might they turn to radical Islamism, especially as this is so well entrenched in our societies?

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

And John S. Mbiti in African Religions and Philosophies points out that because religion permeates all aspects of life in African society, there is no separation between the sacred and the secular, the religious and non-religious, or the spiritual and the physical (ARP 1 - 7).

Its «Social Principles» states specifically:»... gambling is a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic and spiritual life, and destructive of good government.

No one can read the biblical section without personal profit and spiritual enrichment, nor encounter the five proposed dimensions of a new spirituality without realizing how needed they are in our own lives, our own churches, our own society.

It was a society able to feel its own interior life, to appreciate its enormous and apparently irreconcilable internal differences, even its spiritual differences, and to harmonize those differences without diminishing their the Ideas or symbols that could provide such harmony were visions of whole, comprehensive enough to digest a society's differences in worldview, and to begin to move those different worldviews toward a common vision.

Nevertheless, there are a great many faithful believers that struggle toward daily balance: the demands of responsibility in a capitalist society, seeking to hear God's voice, living in a seemingly self - sufficient world, vastly expanding that world through belief in a spiritual reality.

They revolt too against the amorality of sensuality without controlled, spiritual love which soaks the society in which they live.

Readers are gently led into considering their own spiritual life, challenged into being honest with their current efforts to evangelise, and invited to analyse the general culture of society.

It is a hopeful sign that leaders of public opinion in other spheres of life are now recognizing the importance of the moral and spiritual dimension of life in society.

Protestant sects also have been tempted to pursue a sort of perfectionism that was highly self - regarding while another stream in Protestant religion has been so spiritualistic and individualistic that the concrete life of the secular societies has been actually ignored as beyond the scope of a spiritual church's responsibility.

from individualism in religion and society to corporate existence; from spiritual and economic selfishness to the truth of the community and of the world which God loves; from rigid doctrines of private property to the original purposes for which God gave his earth to his human family; from privatization of life to Trinitarian communion; from ritual preoccupations to pursuit of justice; from law to grace and from sacrifices to mercy.

The mission is to be directed to human society in all its complexity, and not to an isolated entity within man called «soul» or to a dimension of life called «spiritual».

To live in bodily health, to participate in loving human relationships, and to engage with society in physical, mental, moral, and spiritual adventures, is to bring the whole potential of one's life to full bloom.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

He joined the Society for Human and Spiritual Understanding, a pseudo-church that met on Sunday mornings in a small sanctuary - style room to practice meditation and listen to the pronouncements of a trance medium through whom, it was claimed, spoke the voice of an Egyptian priest who had lived 3,500 years be-fore.

The sheer efficiency of people keeping a strict rule and living without family ties was such that the religious orders had become not only a spiritual ideal but a kingpin of society.

Christian society lives instead according to a spiritual reality that discloses the truth of God and the occasion of agape, «the bright love of brotherly service.»

It is a gathering place for spiritual seekers who are fulfilling their vision for a utopian society and imbibing and implementing a style of life that its adherents believe can change the world.

While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.

The result of their «organic» mind (one that holds, reveres and nurtures a living and spiritual Earth as the centre of an organic cosmos) was not just highly sophisticated societies but also a combination of a deep practical knowledge of the environment.

Here the scenery is more quiet and the atmosphere more spiritual, so it gives you a break from the noise of society and you can get to experience living in a village, far away from the noise of the city, while your window view is a rice field.

Huang Yong Ping and Chen Zhen are Chinese - born artists living in Paris who share deep spiritual and metaphysical roots in Taoist thought and employ Western avant garde art strategies to explore such contemporary concerns as the interplay of nature and the artificial; tradition versus progress; and history and ideology in a worldwide consumerist society.

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