Sentences with phrase «total meaning of religion»

Schweitzer was firmly convinced that one of the shortcomings of all world religions is that they regard ethics as ultimately separated from spirituality, as is the general rule in Eastern religions, or as myopically identified with the total meaning of religion, as is the case generally in the West.

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Certainly Equiano became an eloquent critic of slavery; nevertheless, for him, Noll writes, biblical religion meant «the nearly total application of Scripture to the liberating effect of the Christian gospel for the individual person.»

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

They sought total authority, which means getting rid of religions which would compete with that authority.

This does not mean that Isaiah was either more intelligent or more sincere in his religion than Moses, or Augustine more than Isaiah, but it means that their respective theologies are to a significant degree products of the total of learned culture in their respective times, and thus that these theologies themselves reflect these several levels of cultural development and philosophical refinement.

His view suggests considerable, but by no means total, retreat on the part of religion against the onslaught of rationality.