Sentence examples for western faith from inspiring English sources
In words and gestures, Francis seems to be determined to recreate, or regain, the kind of center that has failed to hold in every major Western faith.
One difficulty with the idea that China can advance only by embracing the Enlightenment is that China adopted a version of this western faith, with near-fatal results, when Mao came to power.
The objective of this session is to provide a theoretical framework and practical guidelines for working with clients who experience difficulty reconciling their sexuality with their spiritual identity within the major Western faith traditions.
Religious vegetarianism is commonplace in the East, but is not considered mainstream in most Western faith communities.
Similar to the Western faith, Lent is a period of time where individuals are supposed to be more conscious of their spiritual character.
Despite this, the overall trend characterizing the course of Western faith is clear enough: it has grown more tolerant and has encouraged the expansion of the moral circle.
Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence would be most likely to cause a problem for western religions, in particular traditionalist Christianity, because of the geocentric nature of western faiths.
Today, Trombley is one of the few non-indigenous persons living in Tuk, but not long ago there was no shortage of European Catholic and Anglican missionaries pushing hard to convert the Inuvialuit to their Western faiths and traditions.
What they mean are liberals who are so concerned about Western racism that they find it hard to tolerate any criticism of non-Western people or non-Western faiths.
In my book, I refer to this as "Western Universalism" and feel that this artificial view of non-western faiths has been assumed as the "standard" space in which all traditions must see themselves, leading to difference anxieties, and hence to the pressure to pretend sameness.
And yet, they are also reclaiming an abandoned element of the religion; Judaism, after all, was the original Western messianic faith.
