Sentences with phrase «student of religion»

These aspects of my teaching situation may indicate something of the posture to be assumed by students of religion in the next decade.

The data on religious identification alone make this an invaluable book for students of religion and public life.

Nor does he merely mean that students of religion consider their subject important.

The contemporary student of religion is living at a time when not only the reality but also the very meaning of religion threatens to disappear.

Nor did God or the Prophet order anyone to follow a given religious school of thought — with the result that since the dawn of Islam Muslims have been asking for right answers from any well - known students of religion they meet, without binding themselves to any specific teacher.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

Although the book is written in a manner entirely accessible to the nonspecialist, one hopes that theologians and professional students of religion will pay particular attention to Mouw's argument.

Is it the collection of stories that you can't prove are true, or is it the blind faith they force upon students of their religion?

Students of religion went to Al Azhar in Cairo, the foremost Muslim university.

Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.

Students of religion will recognize the dodge — it used to be called fideism, and atheists gleefully ridiculed it; and the expedient suspension of rational argument; and the double standard.

Students of religion know that the primal forms of religious discourse are by one means or another dialectical, and thus they must inevitably exist in tension with the dominant modes of contemporary thought and experience.

Any student of religions may look only on the glass.

Deciding that no student of religion in America could...

In other words, he would cut the task of the student of religion down to a historical, psychological, and sociological size, shorn of all systematic concern.

You don't have to be a student of religion to recognize references from the Book of Revelation.

Deciding that no student of religion in America could afford to neglect him, I phoned for an appointment.

But within the context of such a forthright commitment, the school would be open to students of all religions or none, to interfaith relationships and to freedom for academic exploration and inquiry.

As a student of Religions, I want to note that various responses to the ecological crisis are already given from the perspective of different religious traditions.

He emphasized repeatedly the enormous value of this kind of personal contact with the contemporary religious forms for the student of religion who ordinarily studies these forms only from literary documents belonging largely to the historical origins or early classical epochs of those religions.

Non-Christian religions provide the student of religion with countless analogies to the central concepts of Christian faith and ethics; furthermore, the pre-Christian world of religion reveals itself to the student as the source and origin of definite Christian ideas, forms of doctrine, cultus, and organization.

Social scientists and students of religion in a wide variety of disciplines have drunk deeply from Geertz's well.

The same holds true for the student of religion who wishes to understand it better from either the inside or the outside.

Peter Cooper, a self - taught industrialist, inventor and social reformer, founded the college with the mission of making higher education available to all; it was among the first to admit blacks, women, students of any religion and those who could not pay, making it need - blind long before the term existed.

I am not a student of religions, but I doubt that any religion obliges its adherents to tell the truth only when they have specifically invoked divine assistance in doing so.