Sentence examples for religious utterances from inspiring English sources

Those who follow the lead of Wittgenstein regard religious utterances as noncognitive but attempt to determine the way in which religious language is actually used within a circle of believers.

But as the behavior of the sniper suspect careened out of control this month, so did the character of the religious utterances -- furious proclamations of "I am God" and belligerent telephone calls to priests -- that law enforcement officials attributed to him.

The incommensurability thesis tells us that religious utterances are unlike scientific or metaphysical claims and so we are confusing different uses of language if we judge religious utterances by the standards of science or metaphysics (Phillips 1992).

For it must surely be granted that religious utterances are not made in a purely intellectual way.

The autonomy thesis tells us that religious utterances are only to be judged as justified or otherwise by the standards implicit in the religious form of life, and this may be further restricted to Christianity or Hinduism, or any other religion (Malcolm 1992).

Others who hold that religious utterance based on experience is without cognitive import regard it as either the expression of emotions or an indication that the person using religious language has certain feelings that are associated with religion.

And given the messes that popular and some other science has made of the subjects of time, the mind, the nature of religious utterance, and consciousness above all, it is ignorant to suppose that that science needs no help.

The first of the five strands of Hinduism is doctrine, as expressed in a vast textual tradition anchored to the Veda ("Knowledge"), the oldest core of Hindu religious utterance, and organized through the centuries primarily by members of the learned Brahman class.

Why? "His strange, quasi-religious utterances were all rather irritating to me and my generation," says the exhibition's curator, Stanislaus von Moos, an art historian who has produced definitive tomes on Le Corbusier and Robert Venturi.

One is proper names of all periods, the majority of which are meaningful utterances with religious content.

But in much of Africa, Asia and the rest of the world, they serve not only to silence irreligious utterances but, along with other limits on free speech, to ensure that hardline religious leaders support incumbents and to silence political opponents.Even laws introduced to tamp down the most poisonous utterances can end up as a tool of repression.