Sentences with phrase «widespread religious conviction»

A widespread religious conviction that long - term help is no substitute for hard work will inevitably find its way into legislation, and so welfare will evolve into workfare.

A widespread religious conviction that we must aid the poor will inevitably find its way into legislation, and so the nation will create welfare programs.

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Widespread skepticism which dealt severe blows to the Church in Europe undercut religious conviction and slowed down the propagation of the faith.

It would seem that no thought - through secular substitute for the philosophical and religious convictions which once helped give society a reliable fabric of civility has as yet won widespread support.

Modernity has given birth to the widespread conviction that religious symbolism can not truly reveal or disclose anything other than our own secret wishes and desires.

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.