Sentences with phrase «validity of religious»

It should be evident by now that our question about purpose in nature is one way of raising the problem of the intelligibility and validity of religious discourse in a scientific age.

But such an overemphasis upon the clear and distinct at the expense of the deep and complex should not be considered a fundamental challenge to the validity of religious experience or the meaningfulness of religious discourse.

We can not say that this is not a valid picture of the Christ for them (see Chapter 8 on the validity of religious beliefs).

Consequently, we can not judge the validity of religious beliefs by asking whether they are true or whether they are consistent with some other beliefs or principles.

Instead, we must judge the validity of religious beliefs by asking whether they help fulfill this purpose.

Do I, the champion of reason and common sense, maintain that reason, believability and even truth can not judge the validity of religious tenets?

Any church leader who questions the validity of a religious presence on college campuses should read this book and reassess that notion.

As long as German Protestants viewed the Kirchenkampf as an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faith.

While some scientists have expressed opinions about the validity of religious beliefs, I don't know that many, if any, have attempted to prove or disprove religion using the scientific method.

Not exact matches

So, as Cbarriel points out, for the religious, belief (repent / faith) in the religion comes first, and explanations (or «inspirations») on the validity of that belief will inevitably follow.

Schleiermacher's primary argument was for the validity and positive contribution of religious experience over secular atheism.

«It's religious belief that appears to undermine the validity of your research and your academic integrity,» she notes.

Some attend to the growing recognition of the intrinsic value and validity of other great religious traditions.

Yet this theory seems also to conflict with the claims of universal validity which are characteristic certainly not of all but of a great part of religious messages, interpretations, and systems.

Even when the individual calls an absolute criterion handed down by religious tradition his own, it must be reforged in the fire of the truth of his personal essential relation to the Absolute if it is to win true validity.

«31 The idea of the particularization of the validity of expressions of religious experience will have to be followed out in epistemology and in the theory of religious experience.

What I am saying now is that the question of its validity as a religious belief is an altogether separate question.

Does the truth or falseness of a religious belief have no bearing at all on its validity?

The vicious circle established between the claim and the demonstration of its validity on such grounds has been the curse of many a religious tradition in many a religious community.

To take the example always used by those arguing for the «common school,» religious tolerance can be taught without necessarily giving the message that all religious views are of equal validity.

Certainly it would be the contention of many religious readers of Dawkins's book, The God Delusion, that Ecklund's point has great validity in the current debate.

As we pointed out in Chapter 8, we can consider each other to be wrong without necessarily impugning the validity of the other's religious beliefs, if their beliefs lead to right relation with God and people.

Essentially, the question of religious validity has now turned into a clash in scientific theory.

Having no doubt among themselves about the answers to every religious question, they are led to the conclusion that the most important communication task is to reach others with these answers and to convince them of their validity.

Yet this unsurpassability needs to be understood in such a way as to avoid the connotation of a superiority that negates the revelatory value and validity of other religious traditions.

Indeed, instances of religious fundamentalism in many parts of the world suggest there may be some validity to these arguments.

Having no doubt about the answers to every religious question, they conclude that the most important communication task is to reach others with these answers and to convince them of their validity.

I'm happy to discuss any religious issue on here from the validity to the bible to the factual accounts of Christ.

It was not until 1981, after much of the election furor had passed and the country was settling down to a new president that writers began to challenge publicly the empirical validity of many of the claims which had been made about the size and influence of the religious broadcasters.

While it is not possible empirically to verify the validity of a theological reality, it is possible empirically to clarify several things related to religious television's claim of success in converting people.

Many phenomena previously thought of as part of a world of superstition may be seen to have a genuine religious validity; or the phenomena themselves may be seen after all to be systematic parts of the mechanics of new models of the cosmos.

> From his suddenly grateful and relaxed heart would pour forth a fierce stream of witness, advice, theology, powered by the sheer intellectual validity of the witness, and finally by its religious authenticity and coherence.

Both anthropological and clinical evidence support the validity of distinguishing the positive and negative effects of various religious approaches.

Rather than either simply dismissing the validity of his confession or rejecting the sincerity of Savonarola's religious convictions, Weinstein argues that torture made Savonarola doubt his own status as a prophet» a reading that both psychologically perceptive and humanizing.

He also rejected suggestions from those opposed to gay marriage that religious schools would be forced to teach about the validity of same - sex marriages.

As the installation on the first floor makes clear the religious content that Vedova gleaned from Tintoretto was less the point than the validity of abstract painting as a vehicle to incite energy through a structural metaphor.

This appeal presents the validity of a conviction of appellant for conducting religious services in a public park of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, without a required license, when proper application for the license had been arbitrarily and unreasonably refused by the City Council.