Sentences with phrase «essentialist views»

However, for process - relational thought, any form of postmodernism based on substantialist and essentialist views is inadequate and counterproductive; its exploration of the motifs elaborated by Hauerwas would be considerably different and more adequate.

In spite of these testimonies, the churches have for the most part bought variations of the essentialist view put forth by the modern medical and mental health disciplines.

Gay author Dennis Altman has denied the essentialist view and declared that the homosexual movement is a direct continuation of the counterculture's move toward a freer and more inclusive bisexuality (a position similar to the one held by Foucault).

Nearly all official statements on homosexuality by these churches in recent years have adopted some version of the essentialist view of homosexuality.

Are we forced to choose between an essentialist view of religion, on the one hand, and conceptual relativism, on the other?

This is where the essentialist view is so handy, and it may be one reason why it is clung to with such persistence.

Not exact matches

The interrelated legs of his tripod — the development of an ethics of character and virtue grounded in a view of the self that is unclear and that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of the Christian story, and a separatist position on the church - world — are mutually dependent on each other for their internal consistency and coherence.

And, in spite of his awareness of dynamism and creativity within the tradition and his understanding of the self, his confessional stance implies and reinforces essentialist and substantialist views.

In his tripod, the three legs, a view of the self that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of Christianity, enacted in and illustrated by his separatist view of the church - world relation, are internally consistent and coherent, and mutually dependent.

In spite of the aspects of his thought that process philosophers and theologians can rightly appreciate, I shall contend (1) that a fundamental weakness of Hauerwas» thought is a view of the self that is unclear and lends itself to a «substantialist» interpretation; (2) that such a substantialist interpretation is further reinforced by an «essentialist» understanding of Christianity; and (3) that such an understanding culmninates in a separatist notion of the church - world relation.

The particular way constancy of character is emphasized implies a substantialist view of the self and an essentialist understanding of Christianity.

In most of the history of Western thought, tradition has been viewed in essentialist categories.

The reductive (but not necessarily essentialist or straightforward) works on view at From Centre seem to me to be a genuine attempt at continued participation in a living, though contested, tradition.

In this video, artist Gary Simmons discusses his work Step in the Arena (The Essentialist Trap)(1994), on view in the exhibition Singular Visions.