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8 Dec 2018, 4:02 am
"It is in Christianity that the seeds of Western religious toleration were first sown. [read post]
10 Mar 2018, 9:46 am
That is because our restless western intelligentsia is always on the lookout for a new guru and eager to ingest a new self-help manual. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 6:55 pm
Jürgen Habermas, a veteran leftist German philosopher stunned his admirers not long ago by proclaiming, “Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 12:12 pm
The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 10:26 am
The traditional family is the foundation of society and must be protected. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 7:45 am
A History of the Humanitarian System: Western Origins and Foundations, HPG Working Paper (ODI, June 2013) [text] How to Manage Refugee Helplines (UNHCR, June 2013) [text] "Humanitarian Assistance and the Conundrum of Consent: A Legal Perspective," Amsterdam Law Forum, vol. 5, no. 2 (2013) [open access text] Improving Impact: Do Accountability Mechanisms Deliver Results? [read post]
13 Sep 2009, 4:08 pm
On the one hand it is appealing to reach such a conclusion, particularly if one takes an historical approach to argue that the doctrine of human dignity has its roots in the Western Enlightenment tradition, including the Judeo-Christian tradition from which it was born. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 4:12 pm
Similar rituals and sacraments were then adopted by the earliest Christians sects, which suggests that Christianity itself was potentially founded on a psychedelic sacrament. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 10:30 pm
Influences and Confluences: The Theological Foundations of Western Property Law and the Place of Worship in India4. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 2:08 am
It would have also required the judges to accept, deny, or at least comment on the petitioners' loaded submission that Section 377 was based on "traditional Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards. [read post]
14 May 2018, 2:09 pm
Thus the much-revered "Wailing Wall" -- the western wall of the Antonia foundations at which so many pious Jews gather each day and lift their prayers to God for the rebuilding of their Temple is -- if only they knew it! [read post]
30 May 2018, 2:19 pm
Thus the much-revered "Wailing Wall" -- the western wall of the Antonia foundations at which so many pious Jews gather each day and lift their prayers to God for the rebuilding of their Temple is -- if only they knew it! [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 8:55 pm
Here is the abstract: Herman Dooyeweerd and John Finnis are two legal philosophers from distinct Christian traditions. [read post]
31 Aug 2019, 9:01 am
What is the current state of some of the practices being developed in China and Western societies? [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 2:34 pm
The most prominent disputes over religious symbols in the public sphere have involved religious headcoverings – one of the most immediately obvious demonstrations of one’s faith that automatically distinguishes Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews from the larger, mostly Christian population in the Western world. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 4:00 am
Hellerstedt and What It Means to Protect Women, (Forthcoming, Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Foundation Press, 2019)).Gal Amir, 1648 or 1948? [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 7:08 am
Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 9:49 am
Rob BostonWall of SeparationAll taxpayers of Illinois – Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, etc. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 7:49 am
FFRF will have to show that the recognition of the Good Friday holiday has a religious purpose or amounts to an endorsement of Christianity. [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 11:55 am
In brief, and to repeat, I don’t think the kind of transformative religious experience within this species of Christianity in America exemplified in the first two “Great Awakenings” in U.S. history, “reflect[s] a broad ‘empiricist turn’ in Western thought: that is, a turn away from an epistemology grounded in received authority, toward an epistemology grounded in experience and observation. [read post]
