Sentence examples for religious celibacy from inspiring English sources

He is also remembered for his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), which relates the adventures of the father of Desiderius Erasmus as he wavers between religious celibacy and human love.

Individual noninstitutional and nonsacerdotal religious celibacy may be practiced by the layperson or the occasional clergyman in a faith not requiring celibacy who makes a vow to remain unmarried out of devotion or to allow the performance of some special religious service.

He vehemently condemned the enslavement of Africans (and gave a philosophical voice to the slave); he challenged his era's views on religious celibacy and forced vocations (in a tear-jerking pseudo-memoir of a sexually abused nun); and he entertained the possibility that his cherished materialism denied us free will (in his novel "Jacques the Fatalist").

While there are many reasons to object to the idea, there's one that I keep returning to: There is a baffling paradox in the very concept of religious celibacy.

The philosophical and religious ideals of celibacy in the Classical world strongly influenced subsequent practices of celibacy and monasticism in Christianity.

Such undercurrents rose to surface among the Essenes, a monastic sect associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls, who represented a kind of religious order practicing celibacy, poverty, and obedience.

Ireland and America are deeply religious places; if priestly celibacy is not as well understood there as it once was, it is nevertheless respected.

On the other hand, the religious style that disparages celibacy gives priority to the role of religion as employing and sanctifying the "natural" states of life: sexuality, family, and work.

Ignacio is the son of a Lutheran missionary and a Catholic deacon, and Hess wants to join the virtues of each faith: he likes the idea of the religious order but dislikes celibacy, which prevents the most dedicated Christians from having children to carry on their beliefs.

And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons".

Disappointingly, however, the APA also went on record to recommend that therapists talk to clients whose sexual orientations conflict with the preferences of their religious communities about options like celibacy.