Sentences with phrase «revolt against reason»

The third act, which Witham unfortunately describes as the «revolt against reason,» is dominated by Karl Barth, who used his Gifford Lectures to exposit the Scots Confession and remind his audience that it is God who measures us.

His analysis of human existence seemed unusually profound, but his revolt against reason repelled me.

He is author of Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology; Radicalism and the Revolt against Reason; and Ideology and Utopia in the United States: 1956 «1976.

Not exact matches

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

They are that, of course, but they are much else too, and I suspect that one of the reasons for the revolt against religion is that too often religiously minded people, lay or ordained, have talked of humankind in altogether too «spiritual» a fashion, forgetting so much else that is true of every person who has ever lived.

Possibly when they stop giving the minority a reason to violently revolt as their only recourse against continual oppression.

In any other instance when a player rebels against the club and coach for whatever reason there is no room for doubt, disciplinary actions must be taken, even when he is your best player...... it could be the case even for SANCHEZ, those words no player is greater than the Club are well understood, the problem in this case is that a growing majority of the Fans are fed up with the Club and Manager, years of frustration, deception nothing changing and doing nothing about it has the great majority of Fans siding with the Player against the Club and Manager...... unfortunately both lost the respect of most ARSENAL fans, there is a revolt brewing YES like every year the difference this year is that losing Sanchez will not go without consequence....

Scientists believe that the main reason for the abandonment of Mayans from this place was due to violence or an actual revolt against their rulers.

Give them a good reason to rise up and revolt against Evan.