Rather we must do so in
dialogue with other faiths, for many of those faiths have something quite important to add to our own perceptions.
As
with other faith schools in the state sector, they will be allowed to recruit 100 % of pupils from particular faith groups.
Faced with a world in which some form of
encounter with other faiths can no longer be avoided, the ancient religious traditions are breaking into increasingly bitter wings.
Before, however, we look at the questions of intellectual openness,
fellowship with other faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.
He wrote, «Christian theological endeavor has been more concerned with introspection, intra-Christian relations, than with the interrelation of
Christianity with other faiths.
The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion - which would have brought them in
line with other faith schools in the state sector.
Currently european and north american nations are being de-Christinized, not only by attacks from science and the arts, but also by the plantation of
immigrants with other faiths, most notably Muslim and Hindu beliefs.
The vast majority of registered faith schools in England have a Christian faith designation, but there are also a small number of schools
with other faith designations - including Muslim, Jewish and Sikh.
Individuals are often timid about turning outward, and they need the support and the on - the - scene presence of the rest of the community if they are going to
share with others the faith they already share among themselves.
They will fight for us on the Internet and from the hallowed halls of institutions of learning and advancing civilization, of interdependence not separatism, of building
bridges with other faiths, not destroying them.
Mohammed: are YOU so blind that you fail to see Islam is unable and unwilling to peacefully
coexist with any other faith in anyplace on this world?
Yes, there are many philosophers, world religion professors, and experts in ancient history who will attest to Christianity's parallels, predates, and
contrasts with other faiths.
About 38 percent of responses fall into the association category, including Turkish Christians seeking ties with the Greek Orthodox Church, Indian Christians attempting to build alliances with Hindu and Muslim leaders, and Sri Lankan evangelicals
collaborating with other faiths to provide social services.
In this view the intervention of the magisterium in the church's intellectual life should be, limited to those occasions when the church is dealing with matters of ultimate loyalty, such as confrontations of church and state,
confrontations with other faiths, or internal schismatic movements.
He has not focused on what the churches are specifically up against even if they were in agreement about restoring their theological vocation,
conversing with other faiths and so forth.
How could you turn back and look at all your problems
with the other faith instead of looking past all of it to see the possibility of ONE people emerging together for the good of the country and the good of the people ALL the people.
By claiming no special knowledge about man as man but only about the believer as believer, this confessional theology refuses to engage in
controversy with other faiths.
Commitment to life - affirming values, and structures, solidarity with the poor in their struggle for justice and for their forests and land, and dialogue
with other faiths directed towards a liberative ecumenism are some of these.
It also works with national HIAS to advocate on behalf of refugees and immigrants, particularly in
collaboration with other faith - based organizations.
I still hope that the church will become more open to intellectual enquiry, more willing to seek not only Christian unity but
fellowship with other faiths and more closely engaged with the critical issues of today's world.
He interviewed more than 100 people during the making of Priestland's Progress and the programmes cover a broad spectrum of topics including who Jesus was, the nature of sin, the relationship of
Christianity with other faiths, what happens after death, and what religion, prayer and worship are all about.
My contemporaries would not object to the inclusion of Islam and Judaism in religious education programmes, but nor would they object to this being kept brief and put in the context of the Catholic Church's
relationship with these other faiths.
The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion — which would have brought them in
line with other faith schools in the state sector.
I would not want «any» other religion baptizing
me with any other faith after I am dead!
A third way is to internalize new insights gained from a dialogue
with other faiths and ideologies.
I speak of the ideas to be discussed as proposals rather than truths because in my view ideas that emerge out of a dialogue
with other faiths and ideologies appropriately function, not as absolute truths to which all thinking Christians have an obligation to assent, but rather as experimental suggestions — lures for thought and feeling — that are fittingly evaluated by different Christian communities relative to needs and contexts.
Yet who that has been involved in dialogue
with other faiths has not had the sense of an echo, a reflection, of the kind of life Christians seek to live?
Christianity, following Jesus and Jesus» God, should be expected to be somewhat vulnerable and «defenseless» in any relational encounter
with other faiths.
But we are also experiencing a turn in our awareness, developing new consciousness in dialogue with the sciences,
with other faiths, with ourselves as men and women, and with the earth itself.
The statement was widely viewed as a move away from a period of more open dialogue
with other faiths.»
The World Council of Churches wanted Christians to engage in dialogue
with other faiths and ideologies, considering Communism and scientific humanism under the latter heading.
This article is adapted from his forthcoming Many Mansions: A Christian's Encounter
with Other Faiths (Beacon).