Sentence examples for secular understanding from inspiring English sources
One need not agree with D'Souza about everything to hope that his optimistic, secular understanding of America's role in the world prevails over Bennett's religious triumphalism.
He'll combine two different planes — religious event and secular understanding; political grandiosity and high school triviality — to see how they rub against each other.
The secular understanding of freedom is different from the Christian understanding of freedom.
We take our religious commitments seriously and on their own terms, rather than measuring them against a secular understanding of what's "reasonable".
Paradoxically, killing animals could be useful in developing better ethical, non-secular understandings of the relationships between humans and the rest of the world.
What is paradoxical, illogical, and incomprehensible to the rational, conceptual, natural, scientific, secular, human understanding is how a transcendent, perfect God can appear in ordinary human and worldly forms; how what is absolute and eternal can be expressed in limited words, in trees and rivers, in historical beings and animals, and in dreams and other human experiences.
In rejecting the view, Martha Nussbaum argues that "it seems illiberal to hold that practices internal to the conduct of the religious body itself the choice of priests, the regulations concerning articles of clothing must always be brought into line with a secular liberal understanding of the ultimate good" (1999: 113 14).
Such data are also uniquely suited to understanding secular trends in disease and examining healthcare resource consumption for planning the future of healthcare with respect to diseases and financial allocations.
Luhrmann's account, she says, "is fully compatible with both secular and supernaturalist understandings of God.
The images, despite their groupings, are hard to separate and blend the religious, secular, and political understandings of the body.
At least, that's my out-of-touch, secular Manhattan journalist's understanding).
