| 1. | "
It is one thing to affirm the notion that churches of diverse
theologies, structures, and pieties can be united in worship of the God
revealed in Jesus Christ and in service to the world."
| Source: | Lincoln, Timothy D. "Mobile sheep and stable shepherds: the ecumenical challenge of porous North American denominational boundaries" Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35.3-4 June 22 1998: 425-426
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| 2. | " Ignoring "God's requirements in
promulgating edicts concerning the worship of God" (Daniel 3:4-7),
Nebuchadnezzar c ombines "ambition and pride" with
"superstition," foolishly believing that his attempt to
fabricate a worthless idol is a sign of piety (Daniel 3:1)."
| Source: | Jeffreys, Derek S. ""It's a Miracle of God That There Is Any Common Weal among Us": Unfaithfulness and Disorder in John Calvin's Political Thought" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 107
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| 3. | "... linked, but the
giving of alms, a central precept of Christianity, meant that
philanthropy, if undertaken in the right spirit, constituted a religious
act of piety, which was a duty to God: such an act..."
| Source: | Madden, Deborah. "Medicine and moral reform: the place of practical piety in John Wesley's art of physic" Church History 73.4 Dec. 1 2004: 741-759
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| 4. | " A quasi-official doctrine of
religious piety pervades public life; and most candidates feel it
necessary to profess a religious creed and to "God bless"
America repeatedly."
| Source: | KURTZ, PAUL. "The Need to Come Out of the Closet!" Free Inquiry 20.3 June 22 2000: 5
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| 5. | " Political discourse and religious worship of
the gods were increasingly interdependent because the living emperor was
by now accepted both as the living god and priest in cults established
in the Seven Cities."
| Source: | Holt, Laura. "The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order: Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian" Church History 71.4 Dec. 1 2002: 867-871
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| 6. | " Kantowicz (1995, 592) explains that these places of worship
were built not only out of piety but that the "church buildings of
each nationality nearly jostled one another as they proclaimed to God
and man, `Here we are!'" Poles, for example, proclaimed their
presence in Chicago..."
| Source: | Tillman, Benjamin F.,Emmett, Chad F. "Spatial Succession of Sacred Space in Chicago" Journal of Cultural Geography 18.2 Mar. 22 1999: 79
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| 7. | " Thou shalt worship no other gods-unless they are celebrities:
The relationship between celebrity worship and religious orientation."
| Source: | Maltby, John,Day, Liza,McCutcheon, Lynn E.,Gillett, Raphael,Houran, James,Ashe, Diane D. "Personality and coping: a context for examining celebrity worship and mental health" British Journal of Psychology 95.4 Nov. 1 2004: 411-429
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| 8. | " Both use the same name for God (Allah), and
Muslims and Christians dress alike, worship on the same day (Friday),
have the same word and standards for what is socially forbidden (eib, or
shame), and visit each other during their respective religious
festivals."
| Source: | Onians, Charles. "Supply and demand democracy in Egypt" World Policy Journal 21.2 June 22 2004: 78-85
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| 9. | " Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the
principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either
one God, three Gods, no God or twenty Gods; and let government..."
| Source: | Conn, Joseph L. "Legacy of liberty: revolutionary-era Pastor John Leland fought to protect religion from government interference" Church & State 57.9 Oct. 1 2004: 13-15
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| 10. | "... to moral
behavior; 2) the Bible (both the Old and New Testaments) as the only
source of religious knowledge; 3) that God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Ghost are pure spirit, and worshiping them in physical
representation..."
| Source: | Nutini, Hugo G. "NATIVE EVANGELISM IN CENTRAL MEXICO" Ethnology 39.1 Jan. 1 2000: 39
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| 11. | "
Witt's interest in the antique was almost entirely
phallocentric, his thesis being that all pre-Christian cultures across
the globe shared a common religious heritage in their worship of
fertility gods and goddesses."
| Source: | Gaimster, David. "SEX & SENSIBILITY" History Today 50.9 Sept. 1 2000: 10
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| 12. | " In Franklin's case, it was uttered by a Deist of
sorts, who at age 22 was still refining his religious beliefs and was
willing to concede that people who recognized "lesser gods"
should be permitted to worship those gods."
| Source: | MORGAN, DAVID T. "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CHAMPION OF GENERIC RELIGION" Historian 62.4 June 22 2000: 722
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| 13. | " Call the pair that consists of a (possible)
god, and a religious tradition that purports to worship the god, a
'god, religious tradition pair'."
| Source: | Armour-Garb, Bradley. "Betting on God: why considerations of simplicity won't help" Religious Studies 35.2 June 1 1999: 119-121
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| 14. | " The second he calls "a new spirituality of seeking,"
which stresses "negotiation." Whereas previously worshipers
knew where God was, so to speak, now they search for God by making their
way through a vast array of religious and spiritual options."
| Source: | SALIBA, JOHN A. "AFTER HEAVEN: SPIRITUALITY IN AMERICA SINCE THE 1950S" Theological Studies 60.2 June 1 1999: 390
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| 15. | " At certain points in a
R[bar{a}]ml[bar{i}]l[bar{a}] performance (189-205), the spectators
worship the gods as if they were temple images; at the wedding of
R[bar{a}]ma and S[bar{i}]t[bar{a}], women sing humorous wedding songs
(g[bar{a}]l[bar{i}]) and an old man recites mantras as he does at
ordinary weddings."
| Source: | TIEKEN, Herman. "Theatres indiens" Asian Folklore Studies 58.2 June 1 2000: 455
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| 16. | "... worships God
alone." How the ruler gets to power has to do with God's will,
not man's.
Hadi Hawang of Malaysia is blunt about this: "I am not
interested in democracy."
| Source: | ABDO, GENEIVE,PIPES, DANIEL. "symposium" Insight on the News 16.30 Aug. 14 2000: 40
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| 17. | "
"The doctrine of separation between church and state has been
abused, twisted, and taken out of context in recent court decisions in
order to prevent the public worship and acknowledgement of God."
IN HIS FIRST OFFICIAL ACT, Pres."
| Source: | MOORE, ROY S. "PUTTING GOD BACK IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE" USA Today (Magazine) 129.2664 Sept. 1 2000: 51
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| 18. | "... e and live on after death by affirming one's justice,
nobility, or piety and thereby winning the favor of the immortal gods."
| Source: | AHRENSDORF, PETER J. "The Fear of Death and the Longing for Immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature and the Problem of Anarchy" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 579
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| 19. | " Indeed, as Stengel notes, the
faith of the Puritans was rooted in the notion that God could not be
flattered with the indulgences and saintly interventions that were the
stuff of Roman Catholicism, much less through the state-ordained piety
of the Anglican Church."
| Source: | Ignatius, David. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Washington Monthly July 1 2000: 37
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| 20. | "
For a more authentic sense of piety before nature, you have to read
Gerald Manley Hopkins's superb sonnet that begins "The world
is charged with the grandeur of God"."
| Source: | Skidelsky, Edward. "Nonsense upon stilts" New Statesman (1996) 129.4489 June 5 2000: 53
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| 21. | " Since in Eusebius the adjective
theosebes always implies active piety, and the phrase to theosebes
politeuma means for him, as Hollerich correctly states, 'a concrete
human association based on devotion to God' (p. 126),..."
| Source: | BARNES, T. D. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.2 Apr. 1 2000: 373
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| 22. | " As her title
suggests, she finds change stemming from the inspiration of a new
Catholic piety characterized by individuals who faced "God alone,
with only minimal mediation" from the institutional church."
| Source: | Wilson, Everett A. "Alone Before God: the Origins of Modernity in Mexico" Church History 72.4 Dec. 1 2003: 920-923
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| 23. | "... reforms and alternatively those who
championed the renewed emphasis on ritual and uniformity in public
worship, and the attack on sermon-centred piety. [81] Most of those we
can identify as Laud's prot[acute{e}]g[acute{e}]s fell into this
second category."
| Source: | FINCHAM, KENNETH. "William Laud and the Exercise of Caroline Ecclesiastical Patronage" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.1 Jan. 1 2000: 69
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| 24. | "
The third chapter begins with the observation that "Mary
stands for creation in relation to God" (73), and it is here that
much of the correlation between Marian piety, nature, and gender is most
thoughtfully explored."
| Source: | Shoemaker, Stephen J. "Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary" Church History 73.4 Dec. 1 2004: 876-878
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| 25. | "
Liberals who put the emphasis on toleration are willing to suffer
within their midst individuals who worship other gods or no gods at all."
| Source: | Berkowitz, Peter. "Lubavitchers and liberals" Policy Review .126 Aug. 1 2004: 79-91
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