Sentences with phrase «christian dogmatism»

In my opinion the dangers of Christian dogmatism pale beside this unconscious academic dogmatism which conceals itself from its practitioners under the name of «science.»

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At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

As the developing sciences began to get into their stride, and that brings us into the last hundred years, there was a tendency for them, having refuted so much of what Christian orthodoxy took for granted, to establish their own form of dogmatism.

But that he stands totally and absolutely beyond and above all other men seems to be an assertion of arbitrary and unwarranted dogmatism which does nothing to enhance the faith of the Christian and much to alienate those who can not share that faith.

In some periods, Christians need to be awakened from their dogmatic slumbers; and this is still widely the case, for dogmatism destroys sensibility as the letter kills.

«21 Faith, he says, for the Hindu does not mean dogmatism, implying that for the Christian it does.22 But a Christian would have no difficulty in subscribing to the statement that «it is not historically true that in the knowledge of truth there is of necessity great intolerance.

Luther's use of dialectic («man is totally free... man is absolutely bound») to reach the existential affirmation that it was only through grace that man could take the smallest step at all towards anything spiritually good, enunciated with Luther's dogmatism, seemed to be an attack on the whole civilised Christian tradition of good letters: devoted, refined and peaceful.

Anyways, the quality that I am most willing to condemn in Athiest, Christian, Scientist, or adherent of any other religion alike, is dogmatism.