Sentence examples for religious unity from inspiring English sources

He twice (339, 356) exiled the influential orthodox bishop of Alexandria, but the religious unity he sought was short-lived.

As sole ruler after 353, Constantius tried to create religious unity in the empire under Arian Christianity.

A religious unity was articulated by one of Jarrow's finest sons, the Venerable Bede, in the 8th century.

As long as religious unity existed in the Islamic dominions, the Umayyads in Spain were resigned to acknowledge the religious leadership of Baghdad.

But in 1629 Ferdinand's attempt in the Edict of Restitution (Restitutionsedikt) to establish religious unity by force throughout the empire provoked the violent opposition of the Protestants.

The Roman see suspected "religious indifferentism" (as indicated in Pius XI's encyclical of 1928, Mortalium Animos ["On Religious Unity"]) and was hesitant to join the movement.

The blogger praised the pope's "conciliatory agenda" and suggested that visiting regions with a high Muslim population "should provide him with an opportunity to reach out to Muslims, and set the stone rolling for a process of inter-religious unity in the fight against extremism".

There is no room in the inclusive and expansive Hinduism that we in Sadhana embrace, for any vision but one of inter-religious unity, of justice for all, of the eradication of caste and caste discrimination, of the protection of our planet and all its creatures.

As bishop of Trebizond Anthimus participated in discussions at Constantinople in 532, to effect religious and political unity between East and West.

The study of The Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics enabled the falāsifah to see more clearly the political character and content of the Sharīʿah in the context of the classical Muslim theory of the religious and political unity of Islam.

Yet, however meritorious the expulsion may have seemed at the time in order to achieve greater religious and political unity, judged by its economic consequences alone, the loss of this valuable element in Spanish society was a serious mistake.