Sentences with phrase «worlds ancient religions»

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-- As empires emerged in the ancient world, local religions began to take on universal characteristics, with moral codes that diverse groups could follow.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

Saying that Jesus came to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Some of them rival The Da Vinci Code in their passion for conspiracy and the shallowness of their historical knowledge, not just of the New Testament and early Christianity, but of ancient religions generally and, even more broadly, the ancient world.

This is according to the «religionsgeschichtliche (History of religions) hypothesis», which presupposes that it was an intentional polemical fourth - century Christian replacements for popular Greco - Roman feasts in the ancient world.

The mythological world of ancient man led of necessity to religion.

The Renaissance and the Reformation reversed this long process which had led to the resurgence of ancient religion in a Christian dress, and they made way for the emergence of the new world with its renewed emphasis on the human scene.

The more you know about science today and the religions of the ancient world, the less it is possible to believe what you were taught as a child, even if you wanted to.

It is not found in Buddhism nor in Hinduism; not in animism nor in pantheism; not in the religions of the ancient Greeks or Romans; nor in the religions of the Incas or the Mayans; and not even in that one other religion which also recognized a Creator separate from the created world, Islam.

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

When the ancient world was in the last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity.

It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Ancient man needed something to figure the world out: ENTER RELIGION... We now have the Sciences to use to do this figuring: EXIT RELIGION.

And yes, Bill P, if the «End Religions» of the world were more educated about things like «voluntary servitude» as a synonym for «slavery» in the Bible, they might understand the library of ancient texts that they continue to deride.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

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.

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

Anyone who accepts the message of salvation in faith accepts it as a child, and stands in a different relationship to God from that of men in the religions of the ancient world; he dares to be unconstrained, he has no need of any mediation nor any mediating persons; he is in immediate relation to God.

So also does world history — the history of the ancient East as well as of the Roman Empire, the history of the Jewish religion as well as of the Christian.

Ultimately, science is at best only consistent with a God that does not directly intervene in the daily operations of the cosmos, certainly not the personal and ancient gods associated with the world's great religions.

15 Creatio ex nihilo, the belief that the world was created out of nothing, is one of the most common themes in ancient myths and religions.

WPIE is a holistic «dietary lifestyle» — it is not a diet; rather, it's a way of life — based on an integration of ancient food from 1) Eastern healing systems (such as Ayurvedic Medicine); 2) world religions and cultural traditions (from Buddhism to Yogic Nutrition, etc.); 3) and modern, Western nutritional science.

How Zoroastrian religion thrives in the online dating world in Australia, nearby regions — A woman who practices the ancient Zoroastrian religion, also known as Parsi,...

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

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These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco - Roman world.

With their location at the crossroads of trade, religion, language and the arts, these countries are home to fascinating modern cultures as well as some of the world's most ancient and timeless architecture.

Being the most devote Buddhist country in the world, having only recently opened to tourism, and being home to ancient civilizations where cultures and religions met; Myanmar felt like being in another world.

Earlier, he had been painting scenes of urban life with a sense of isolation and mystery; after World War II, he turned to timeless themes of death and survival, and to concepts drawn from ancient myths and religions.

This exhibition focused on the religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean world and the modern challenges in piecing together an accurate picture of classical religion from surviving material fragments.

Millennia later when the heliocentric model became more apparent, I think there was fear that because all the ancient books & bibles were written from a geocentric world view, people might throw out religion and its morality along with this old ancient geocentric «science.»