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The Carnegie strategy was to make the pensions paid by his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching dependent on colleges removing from their charters denominational requirements (such as requiring that trustees, officers, faculty or students to belong to any specified sect or imposing any theological test).

By subjecting scientific observation to a theological litmus test, he drives the very wedge between faith and reason that he purports to avoid.

We're not really tied up on size, worship style or the right answers to a theological litmus test, we just want a place that is faithfully being church in the world.

We concur with others[ 54] that research into the role of spiritual experiences and religious belief in health, which does not stray into attempting to demonstrate that they have utility[ 58], is grounded in nature and does not purport to test theological or mystical mechanisms, is important and worthy of support.

He was twice pulled out of theological college to play Tests against Pakistan and Australia, and was selected to play against Australia in 1962 when he was a fully fledged priest.

Now, as the Transitional National Council's coordinator of a Libyan stabilization team being asked to solve problems like fuel shortages and human rights abuses, he suddenly finds himself in an ideal laboratory to test his signature theological propositions — and to try to make them government policy.

The proposed system would test applicants on their theological knowledge and adherence to French values before making them sign a charter agreeing to adhere to French law.

Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts, and practices not as phenomena whose existence requires an apologetic justification but as wells of tested wisdom that invite theological insight.

"Mimesis" contains twenty chapters, each one anchored to a characteristic passage from a theological or literary work, which is then tested for tone, diction, and syntax, and enfolded within a specific historical context.

Despite the obvious inequality of the theological contest, Pagis says, Job passed God's test without even realizing it.

When it comes to exploring sociological, philosophical and theological dynamics, however, speculative fiction is a good testing ground.