Their roots in Gaza are more practical than religious.
However, Kant means his system to make room for humanity's practical and religious aspirations toward the transcendent as well.
This theme will serve as a touchstone in the following survey of Royce's work in metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and practical philosophy, religious philosophy, and logic.
The pyramid would be abandoned by subsequent pharaohs of the New Kingdom, for both practical and religious reasons.
He is refreshingly practical, denouncing religious conversions and complicated rituals, instead urging followers to be open, in head and heart.
I knew little about the Eastern and Midwest Native American cultures and was intrigued by the variety of collections associated with the artifacts, practical tools, religious materials and jewelry on display.
But Gardasil's benefits could be blunted by a complex brew of practical, economic and religious considerations.
But when it came to actual practical clashes between religious and political beliefs, the panel talked about gambling rather than sex or even assisted dying.
Alongside his practical plea for religious attention to the needs of working families and the role of labor unions, Mr. Sweeney offered a capsule theology of work, rooted in the sacraments and a doctrine of "God's ongoing act of creation".
Some may say this just reflects my more occidental perspective, interested more in the practical than the religious, more in the new than in the old, more in progress than in tradition, more in preserving the lives of those still living than those already dead.
