Sentences with phrase «ultimate religious value»

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The last factor I would mention is monasticism, which throughout the great upheavals of history continued to be the indispensable bearer not only of cultural continuity but above all of fundamental religious and moral values, of the ultimate guidance of humankind.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

Whether it is expressed in religious terms or not, the meaning of life, values, destiny — ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.

What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that ultimate meaning and value rests «in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.