Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 385 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: ... Reason, religion and revelation by Neale, Edward Vansittart [1810-1892] (1875)
Thomas Aquinas was the first to write a full treatment of the relationship, differences, and similarities between faith, which he calls "an intellectual assent", [5] and reason. [ 6 ] Dei Filius was a dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Roman Catholic faith.
Religion is the substance, the ground, and the depth of man's spiritual life." [84] When religion is seen in terms of sacred, divine, intensive valuing, or ultimate concern, then it is possible to understand why scientific findings and philosophical criticisms (e.g., those made by Richard Dawkins) do not necessarily disturb its adherents. [85]
Extrinsic religious orientation is a method of using religion to achieve non-religious goals, essentially viewing religion as a means to an end. [4] It is used by people who go to religious gatherings and claim certain religious ideologies to establish or maintain social networks while minimally adhering to the teachings of the religion.
No religion is free from internal dissent, although the degree of dissent that is tolerated within a particular religious organization can strongly vary. This degree of diversity tolerated within a particular church is described as ecclesiastical tolerance , [ 47 ] and is one form of religious toleration .
Constantine the Great did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. While he was the first Christian emperor and promoted religious tolerance with the Edict of Milan , Christianity was not declared the official religion of the Roman Empire until AD 380, some 43 years after Constantine's death.
The relationship between the level of religiosity and the level of education has been studied since the second half of the 20th century.. The parameters of the two components are diverse: the "level of religiosity" remains a concept which is difficult to differentiate scientifically, while the "level of education" is easier to compile, such as official data on this topic, because data on ...
Émile Durkheim saw the social, not the instinctual side of mankind, as the key to their religious experience. [15]Theologians have questioned the utility of an approach to religion by way of a so-called instinct; [16] psychologists have disputed the existence of any such specific instinct; [17] while others would point to the advance of secularization in the modern world as refuting the ...