Sentences with phrase «within religious communities»

Human beings of his wisdom and grace are rare in any circumstances, even within religious communities.

It's the level of cognitive dissonance within religious communities about other communities that confuses those of us who think all of them are a bit strange.

Some of those practices will be located within religious communities, while others may be broadly distributed within society.

As the title of this book suggests, his quest is to find a way through the ever - changing times with their complexities, emphases and ups and downs to help prepare the way for greater stability, renewal and enthusiasm among the Lord's disciples, especially within religious communities.

Fundamentalists» discursive and communal richness is a form of «cultural capital,» giving people status within their religious communities much in the same way that wealth or education might give them prestige in the secular world.

If this approach is valid, then we shall have to give greater emphasis in the church's mission, to conversion of religions to Christ and to urge individuals from other religions converted to Christ to stay within their religious communities and build up Christ - centred fellowships around the Bible and the Lord's Table within their religious ethos.

Within the religious community, contemporary organizing has seldom been divisive.

There seem to be four major factors that make for differentiation within a religious community.

Horizontal person - to - person relationships are supported by a shared view of reality, within the religious community of a church.

The sacredness of the Bible rests upon the demonstration, through generation after generation within the religious community, that it is able to do this.

One result of television «s influence is that, within the religious community itself, the balance of authority is moving away from those denominations which emphasize the common welfare, toward religious groups that are distinctly privatistic and oriented toward utilitarian individualism.

There's a thriving bisexual community even within the religious community.

The only Israeli formula company, M *, with the pseudo-scientific Latin sounding name, has been running a successful public relations campaign within the religious community in Israel for eight years now.

The lengths to which devastated widower Shmuel (Géza Röhrig) goes to achieve the sense of finality that he can not locate within his religious community eventually reaches the point of absurdity.

Since right wing fundies are clearly a powerful part of the Republican and global warming denial power base, it is appropriate that we hear other points of view within the religious community.

There is broad and growing agreement within the religious community that global warming is real and a danger we must demand that our political leaders address.

In previous posts regarding a similar dispute elsewhere, I predicted this outcome (and think that, as a matter of ecclesiastical structure and organization within that religious community, it is rightly decided).

Not exact matches

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

Within the vastly varied religious communities that are in some fashion engaged by the HIV / AIDS issues, there is a plethora of reactions.

It would also, they object, lead to a highly complicated and unwieldy legal system, since not only each religious community but also each sect within the community would have to be allowed full freedom to follow its own laws.

While an individual's religious values will certainly factor into his or her perspective on this hot - button issue, the diversity of opinions within the faith community should make us pause before claiming God is on one side or the other.

The religious community's tradition and belief - system offer ethical guidelines within which (or even against which) individuals can develop their own functional value hierarchies.

The FCC has allowed licenses to go to religious groups who have no intention of ever broadcasting in ways that speaks to the diversity within their community, but only to use their monopoly as a tool to further their own narrow ideology.

In this regard, Hertzke notes one of the great paradoxes of American politics today, namely, that blacks — among the most traditionally religious communities within American society — continue to identify with an increasingly secular and culturally liberal Democratic party.

Although self - defined Pentecostal or charismatic religious communities exist within Protestantism and Catholicism, it is its «character as movement that produces Pentecostalism's visible fruits.»

His existentialism, his philosophy of community, his religious socialism, and his dialogical philosophy all develop within his philosophy of Judaism as well as outside of it.

abortion issue, gay rights: are not «religious» issues, the proof of that is that within the Christian community there is support for both sides, AND there is support for both sides in the atheistic community.

They make for differentiation within the practice, tradition, and organization of a religious community in certain periods, locally and otherwise, particularly if combined with the second factor.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

sermons, speeches, and the emergence of dialogue within and between religious communities.16

Atheism, pantheism, and paganism have, it would seem, made far more inroads within the Jewish community than Christianity, but Jews who adhere to these religious inclinations, because they do not join a rival covenant community, largely escape the censure of the Jewish community.

There are, in each case, courses of action or attitudes that are considered, according to basic religious principles, or according to tradition or custom within a community of faith, as very specifically not in harmony or actually contrary to the spirit of the particular cult group.

Church, denomination, and sect — each type of religious community and, within each, the different religious ideologies, practices, and covenants exhibit the genius of the civilization we call American.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

But when we go beyond this and take our own religious experience into account, as we must inevitably do, are we not forced, even against our will perhaps, to acknowledge not only that we recognize the fact that God is known in a distinctive way within the Christian community, but also that we have trusted ourselves to God as thus known; that God - as - thus - known is our God?

Besides the Wahhabiyah movement, there are also other groups within Islam who subscribe to the jihad of the sword as a religious belief for the protection of community and faith.

Public life needs to be ordered toward a deeper dwelling within «a community of language, religious belief, daily life, and the sharing of resources and goals.»

The present ecumenical movement, and here we include the meeting of Christians and Jews, and the meeting of the Christian community with other religious communities, has an authentic element of charity within it.

The first is having a subculture of friends within one's religious community.

Though I myself welcome the recent cultural ascendancy of the community question, I need to admit and then to face honestly three further difficulties that have attended this development before I can then proceed to demonstrate the need for the cultivation of certain religious virtues within communities of higher learning.

My personal definition of marriage goes beyond the government's definition of marriage, to that of a religious sacrament undertaken within the context of an affirming community of believers, serving as a foreshadowing or a demonstration of Christ's love for the church.

But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person of Christ without leaving their religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word of God as «part of the Church» within their religious and cultural community - settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.

This metaphor emphasizes that the autonomy and security of each community's religious experience and expression must be guarded by all members of the extended family, and that the interaction within the common spaces of the house must be governed by mutually agreed codes of conduct allowing for free exchange of ideas and not leading to the theological «annexing» of one unit by another.

The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of religious experience as it comes to individuals living within the framework of a religious society.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

Within such churches and religious community, the «you are unworthy of god's love but he love you anyway if you will grovel enough but you are never going to grovel enough to please him etc etc etc actually get's casts as «God = I, we, the church.

Social agencies, welfare groups, religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

This religious ritual» referred to traditionally as metzitzah b» peh» is practiced primarily within the confines of small Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and traces back to the Talmud where it was understood to protect the circumcised baby from harm.

As members of one of the oldest counseling, caring professions, clergymen can affirm their heritage by increased involvement in mental - spiritual health ministries within both religious and wider communities.