Sentences with phrase «abstract philosophical idea»

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

ANYONE who has read Rebecca Goldstein's novels knows her remarkable knack for combining abstract philosophical ideas with the all - too - concrete dramas of everyday life.

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The Hebrew mind, as represented in the Scriptures, did its thinking in a metaphorical fashion; indeed it might be said that the Jews thought mythologically, if by this word we mean that they thought in pictures and in stories, rather than in abstract concepts and Greek philosophical ideas.

Perhaps the most telling critique of the earliest assumed relationship between Puritanism and the American Revolution is that it stressed certain abstract ideas, theological and philosophical, and so overlooked the real forces that produced the American Revolution.

Attempting to depict the non-representational, non-objective, and some of the most philosophical and spiritual ideas, abstract geometric art dominated the 20th - century.