Sentence examples for religious forebears from inspiring English sources

He is ironically better placed to "do God" than his overtly religious forebears.

President Jimmy Carter, for example, left the Southern Baptist Convention because he disagreed with its views about women — but Mr. Carter remains his own kind of devout and liberal Baptist in the tradition of his 18th-century religious forebears.

The statement said, "Just as some of our religious forebears decided no longer to accept slavery or segregation, we decide to no longer accept poverty and its disproportionate impact on people of color".

These ministers, several of them among those I have classified as "Jesus Thieves" for their use of the name of Jesus to promote policies completely opposite of those taught by Jesus, were so intent on trying to block a moderate Mormon that they embraced someone they and their religious forebears would in the past have denounced as a "papist".

But Mainwaring is his spiritual forebear, all the same.

By the time the Spaniards conquered the area in the early 16th century, most of the Maya had become village-dwelling agriculturists who practiced the religious rites of their forebears.

Though we might like to imagine that we're far beyond the silly religious bickering of our forebears, our choices in the West have in fact remained much the same since the Reformation, when the modern practice of individual conversion emerged on a massive scale: that is, we can reject, tolerate, or accept other-believers.

They're adapting, exploring the frontiers of religious freedom that our Puritan forebears, perhaps unwittingly, pioneered.

Mr Lacorne notes that although the president's speeches refer often to religion, he seldom speaks, as Reagan and America's Puritan forebears did, of America as a religious Utopia.

On the one hand, his work is a clear departure from established Chinese aesthetics and forms, yet his subject matter, steeped as it is in religious and philosophical exploration, is very much in line with his artistic forebears.

His forebears were German and Dutch rabbis, his father a social and religious liberal who converted to Protestantism to enhance his legal career.