Sentences with phrase «whose religious values»

Instead, he's the loyal, good - hearted friend whose religious values (no matter how weird they are) inform every part of his life and relationships.

Not exact matches

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

Only a fully observant and theologically Orthodox medical school would train and nurture truly religious and traditional physicians whose medical practice expresses the humanistic values of the tradition.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

But whereas art is a movement from complexity to simplicity within the limits of a canvas, a musical score, a poem, a novel, or a play, the religious impulse seeks an unrestricted field of value whose harmony involves an ever - enlarging processive synthesis of complexity and intensity.

If not, perhaps better to begin with a religious tradition whose particularities our situation of religious pluralism will make it impossible to ignore than to start with an unexamined set of values somehow supposedly prior to any set of religious symbols.

The empirical dimension of religious experience is founded on a sensitivity to what Whitehead has discerned as the value matrix of existence, whose religious meaning is grasped in the moment of consciousness which fuses the value of the individual for itself, the value of the diverse individuals for each other, and the value of the world - totality.

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

Keener says this part of the Christmas story, «would have challenged the values of many religious people who despised shepherds, [whose] work kept them from participating in the religious activities of their communities.»

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»

For Christians whose abuse occurs at the hands of a pastor or in the context of a religious environment, getting out and getting help can be complicated by appeals from the abuser (and his or her supporters) to Christian values like unity, grace, and forgiveness.

A Labour policy rooted in those values might be that no state - funded school should be allowed to select pupils on the basis of the professed faith of their parents, or privilege children of the same religious background over those whose parents do not believe in a god.

Ms Warren said that for children whose parents chose an independent school, academic results were most commonly cited as the motivating factor behind that decision, followed by the school's religious values.

Moreover, religious families, whose values may encourage larger family sizes, are more likely to use nonpublic and parochial schools.

Price was an eclectic and pragmatic politician whose ideological position was often obscured under a cloak of religious values and quotations.

The Quebec Minister of Education, Jean - Marc Fournier, announced today that he is creating a consultative committee on diversity in the province's schools whose primary task will be to come up with «a clear and accessible definition of what is a reasonable accommodation» between the needs of children from cultural and religious minorities and the values of the officially secular public education system.

The answer can not be determined from a mere examination of an organization's current membership rolls but rather depends on how the organization selects members and other relevant factors, such as that the organization is dedicated to the preservation of religious, ethnic or cultural values of legitimate common interest to its members, or that it is in fact and effect an intimate, purely private organization whose membership limitations could not be constitutionally prohibited.

If passed, HB 3859 would exempt faith - based organizations from being obligated to provide services to those whose values contradict religious standards of the sponsoring organizations, and would require the State to provide those refused services with referrals to other available agencies like Abrazo, which is not a church - related adoption agency.