Sentences with phrase «true religious institutions»

In this way, for - profit companies aren't true religious institutions — they seek to maximize profits and therefore have to play according to the market's rules.

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It was true both of the religious sects like the local church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.

Catholics have been gratified to find in Evangelicals true brothers in the defense of human life, in the defense of religious freedom, and in the defense of the institution of marriage.

But in such a case it can have no true existence as a church; it can function only as the religious institution of a revolting society, serving the interests of the society in the same way that a capitalist church serves a capitalist society.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

That all this is true of religious institutions, though, should not obscure the fact that churches are more than voluntary associations and are important not merely for being private.

This is especially true today of Catholic school searches, since many of these institutions are undergoing enormously threatening (and promising) transitions — from religious to lay leadership, from mission - inspired to vision - driven strategies, from operational to entrepreneurial leadership, from a culture of entitlement and security to a culture of competitiveness and risk.