Sentences with phrase «traditional faith»

While the transition to modernity may be painful, perhaps especially so for practitioners of traditional faiths, the overall gains must be positive.

As a result, the study may have simply looked for traditional faith expressions.

If it is really to speak to people in their actual lives, it must continually search for new ways of presenting the insights of traditional faith.

But in seeking «to create new men and women,» secular nationalists failed to appreciate the grip of traditional faith on the people they sought to emancipate.

The «heresy of nationalism» expressed as a belief in American «exceptionalism» and America as the «New Israel» has also distorted traditional faith in deeply erosive ways.

About half of the defectors moved away from traditional faith to atheism and agnosticism (20 %), while almost as many moved in the other direction and returned to the church (17.3 %).

Knust's take on Scripture is in complete contradiction to traditional faith practices and understanding.

Vardey's remarkably rich, diverse, and creatively organized anthology traces the evolution of modern spirituality over the past 50 years, a period notable for sweeping changes in even the most traditional faiths.

His own style and theology are rooted in a deeply traditional faith and practices: struggling with age and painful foot problems he is routinely heard to mutter «all for thee, Jesus» in the tradition of «offering up» suffering.

The emergence of «spiritual, but not religious» sensibilities left many Americans willing to denounce or laugh about traditional faith.

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

The article discusses how Obama's Christianity is not in line with modern fundamentalists but is instead a more traditional faith inspired to help the poor.

However, their calls to render traditional faith consonant with the spirit of modernity appear to their critics as intolerable reductions of the faith.

In East Asia, traditional faiths such as Buddhism and Confucianism focus on individual spirituality rather than collective spirituality, which entails social support and moral guidance.

PASTORAL COUNSELING Pastoral counselors are counselors working within traditional faith communities to incorporate psychotherapy, and / or medication, with prayer and spirituality to effectively help some people with mental disorders.

The history of Christian thought has been a process of continual evaluation of new expressions of traditional faith to determine whether these new expressions adequately preserve the essential aspects of the faith, or whether they have sacrificed essential elements under the pressure and demands of the immediate cultural environment.

Some in the Catholic Church believe the world is facing a rising tide of demonic activity, particularly in America, where millions are moving away from traditional faiths and looking for alternatives.

Spiritual: staying true to and furthering profoundly held beliefs and values, whether they're expressed as a traditional faith or simply resound in the way life is lived.

The charity also stated that it wants «politicians to recognise pressures on Christians in the public sector to affirm beliefs contrary to traditional faith.»

There are still millions of Christians in this country, in many denominations, who cling to the scriptural and traditional faith and the morality that comes with it.

The Nones» reluctance to commit to organized religion may also stem from the moral standards a traditional faith demands.

Contrary to Marxist critiques, a fair assessment reveals that traditional faiths are a poor opium for the people.

Beecher and his followers might have thought as much, but Applegate's analysis of the shifting theological landscape would have benefited from a more even - handed attempt to understand the traditional faith on its own terms.

Nearly two years later — after father and daughter had come to imperfect but sustainable terms of peace — Mary Ann was able to write to a friend explaining what she had learned from the «holy war» and sketching the outlines of what had come to replace the traditional faith she rejected.

Like those who hold Enlightenment views, they offer proposals for reforming and reformulating the traditional faith.

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

«Yet Buddhism and Shintoism, Japan's traditional faiths, have long lost their credibility,» said Martin Repp, a German Lutheran theologian who is the deputy director of the NCC's Center for the Study of Japanese Religions in Kyoto.

It is not the argument of an administration indifferent or inimical to traditional faith.

The service they performed was not greatly different from that of the creators of the Jewish Talmud whose commentaries on the Mishnah were designed to guide the Jews in the diaspora, and help them to adjust to the foreign environment in which they found themselves, and still hold fast to their traditional faith.

And in this, finally, it would appear, he found the proof of the reality and the goodness of the Person whom his traditional faith postulated as the center and meaning of the physical universe It is apparent that the question of the validity of such thinking comes into consideration.

To the degree that members of oldline Protestant denominations participate in this reinstitutionalization of society and in the consequent erosion of deep values, their loyalties will be dispersed over a number of different social worlds, they will exist without what JeanFrancois Lyotard has termed a societal «master narrative,» and they will surely experience lukewarmness with respect to traditional faith.

Perhaps another such issue is the threat of practical nihilism that is engendered by the decline of traditional faiths.

But the following decade saw this European «bible belt» disappear as an unprecedented wave of prosperity would combine with the spiritual exhaustion that had set in after two world wars to produce a nihilistic consumerism largely indifferent, if not altogether hostile, to the traditional faiths.

Your May / June editorial sees St Thomas Aquinas's system as static, and says we need something more dynamic — specifically, that we need to bring in evolution (this is a traditional Faith movement theme, and to be expected).

A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.

Traditional faith has said that he is cast into hell, not simply the vague and shadowy Sheol of the Old Testament but to Christian literalists, a burning lake of fire to suffer eternally.

So, find partner in any local area or religious with some traditional faith its most difficult challenges for Jewish family.

Their children always follow him mothers order and traditional faith of family.

NuGospel is combining the traditional Faith - based production approach with new media distribution format «Social RadioTV» targeting Urban Millennials communities domestically and internationally.

Under the policy, children were forbidden to speak their native tongue and to practise their traditional faiths.