Evangelicals, Lindsay is right to emphasize, are a broad and diverse group, but they are not so broad that they include people whose understanding of religious hierarchy, appreciation of liturgical rituals and theories about the role of Scripture are exactly the things evangelicals once rebelled against.
Green, 28, who said his upbringing in Tustin, Calif., was not particularly religious, described his appreciation of his Jewish heritage as a "slow awakening".
4. Replace religious exceptionalism with appreciation for diversity.
Some religious works showing appreciation of the beauty of nature, a characteristic of the Danube School, also date from this period.
In a recent interview with The National Catholic Reporter, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, tasked by the Holy See with helping renew and revitalize the LCWR, described Rome's "profound appreciation for religious life" and "profound gratitude" for the "extraordinary accomplishments" of women religious in the United States.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Mr. Sinkford said he regarded one of his primary tasks to be "helping Unitarian-Universalists to claim a larger public voice" on the value of liberal religious views and an appreciation for religious pluralism.
The Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung (1875 1961) adopted a very different posture, one that was more sympathetic to religion and more concerned with a positive appreciation of religious symbolism.
His name dropped from view almost immediately after his death, perhaps because of the chilling effect of the Reformation on the production and appreciation of religious art.
In her brief and beautiful book, "The Sacred Depths of Nature," Ursula Goodenough, a cell biologist, articulates a sensibility that she calls "religious naturalism," a profound appreciation of the genuine workings of nature, conjoined with a commitment to preserving that natural world in all its staggering, interdependent splendor.
Locke claims that logical theories of value have historically had difficulty accounting for phenomena such as the aesthetic appraisal of a logical or mathematical proof; moral commitment to aesthetic production; or aesthetic appreciation of religious practice.
I have a deep appreciation for religious choice, and for all faiths practiced with integrity.
