Sentences with phrase «against obscurantism»

In both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th century.

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Even dissent and avant - gardism must now define themselves as over against mainstream media content and programming, which gives an unearned cachet to willed obscurantism.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.