Sentences with phrase «war of religion»

The memory of wars of religion, and the fear of their revival, make some commentators understandably hesitant to emphasize the religious dimension of the contest in which we are engaged.

The so - called wars of religion did not pit one religion against another, as in Catholics versus Protestants.

But a vibrant expansion of Christianity need not mean «a global war of religions.»

We of the West definitively put wars of religion behind us with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

After the terrible experience of the European wars of religion occasioned by the sixteenth - century Reformation, many of the brightest and best, including many thoughtful Christians, decided that God and the gods could have no place in the public telling of the myth of origins.

Is it any coincidence that the latest war of religion that started on September 11, 2001, is being fought primarily between the United States and the Islamic world?

Though we no longer see classic wars of religion, most Americans are repelled by the way religion exacerbates the conflicts between Irish Protestants and Catholics, Lebanese Christians and Muslims, Israeli right - wing Orthodox and Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and Indian Hindus and Sikhs and Pakistani Muslims.

The next war of religion is shaping up to take place within our country, pitting American against America.

The December war of religion is among our most cherished traditions.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

Given the history of wars of religion, it is vital that we resolutely deny to ourselves the notion that we engage in mission because we have the truth or that what we have is superior to what others know and believe.

By his death, there was a growing and powerful Calvinist presence in France, which can be seen as triggering the wars of religion in that country.

Such aims might appear paradoxical to those who were taught that the emergence in the 17th century of secular liberalism, with its privatization of faith, rescued the West from «wars of religion.»

According to them, the official Church had the opportunity of avoiding all the errors and theological rashness which led to the persecutions of heretics, wars of religion, witch - hunting, and all the other dark and lamentable events of Church history.

Like it or not, and we decidedly do not like it, we are engaged in a war that can be defined in many ways, but is also and inescapably a war of religion.

The war against terrorism is» more than it is politic for world leaders to say in public» also a war of religion.

President Bush is right to insist that this is not a war of religion, even if that may be more wish than fact.

One of the assumptions of modem secular politics is that the state must be secular and religion private, lest we return to the wars of religion that devastated Europe in the 16th century Is there anything wrong with that assumption?

After decades of bloodshed, violence, and terror in the wars of religion, however, many came to something like the opposite conviction that, in Pannenberg's words, «religious passion destroys social peace.»

Hobbes and Locke are reeling from the so - called «wars of religion,» and Rousseau had his fill of the French Catholic Church's rather too cozy relationship with the French aristocracy (the ancien regime).

Modern politics was born, in a more than chronological sense, in the aftermath of the wars of religion.

At its deepest level, this is a war of religion.

The wars of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries devastated the social and political fabric of Europe, and nobody should want to flirt with a repeat of that tragic experience.

From the seventeenth century, in reaction to these wars of religion, some politicians began to ignore moral constraints and to base their policies on reasons of state», which allowed a nation to deviate from the ethical norms required of the individual.

Where the later view has prevailed — the view that we have a superior truth to offer — there have been wars of religion, enmities between Christian and Jew, the denial in Christ's name of human and civil rights, the burning of heretics, and worse!

But when the yoke of Istanbul was finally thrown off, and when the wars of religion between Catholic and Protestant also came to an end, Hungary» curiously for this part of the world» was left with a thriving Protestant community.

In the standard account of the rise of modernity, the wars of religion in the 17th century horrified Europe and convinced leaders of church and state alike that secular governments, not churches, should rule and that different faiths should be tolerated.

Clauser would later write with great passion that in those years, physicists who showed any interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics labored under a «stigma,» as powerful and keenly felt as any wars of religion or McCarthy - like political purges.

Few textbooks today slight the Crusades, the Inquisition, the wars of religion, the persecution of witches, or the arrogance of missionaries.

As its subtitle suggests, this is grand - scale history the story of invasions, empires, colonization, wars of religion, international trade, immigration and plagues refracted through the prism of the languages spoken by the victors and the conquered.

From the fairy - tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob - filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen.