Sentences with phrase «became dogmatic»

Over time, some of her methods became dogmatic and extreme, yet her influence continued to grow.

It seems to have become a dogmatic absolute for you, also.

n8263 I like to say that we have «confidence» in the method behind science where ideas do not become dogmatic, new evidence can change what we thought we know, and that all the experts are looking for the mistakes and eager to point them out if there are any.

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

There's nothing wrong with that, unless you become dogmatic about YOUR particular errors.

The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are about sex and sexual activity.

In situations like this, when the critical conclusions are ambiguous (as is so often the case), scholars tend to become dogmatic in order to defend the critical method.

This is why they attempt to nail down exactly what Scripture means (for everyone) and assume what God is / wants / demands (from everyone) and become dogmatic (and sometimes downright mean) in the process (toward everyone except maybe their spouses and doctors and accountants).

To be sure, liberals could become dogmatic about their liberalism, and fundamentalists could be fair - minded about their convictions.

France: Hollande's message of fiscal responsibility must promise progress Having embraced a degree of fiscal conservatism, the Socialists are nonetheless wary of it becoming a dogmatic position or an end in itself.

But like anything, if we take things too literally or use too much force, there is a risk of becoming dogmatic and losing the essence of the teaching.

* Yes, newer studies show no effects on certain health risks, but if we become dogmatic claimers of how red meat is super healthy, we become no better than our opposition that is based in bad evidence or average person arguments for that matter.

Rules alone tend to condition the students to become dogmatic followers, while broader imperatives guide them to be critical and reflective participants.

Just to add to this point, I like to stress that scientific debates should avoid becoming dogmatic, and that phrases must be placed in the right context.

That and given that even the most trivial things are linked to Climate Change give me cause to believe that we are seeing much uncritical acceptance, or perhaps more accurately some have simply become dogmatic.

In some cases this currently accepted state can become dogmatic and actively opposes alternate explanations that are supported by data.

Become a dogmatic and hysterical army of drones, like them?

It runs the risk of becoming dogmatic about its premises.

Not exact matches

While it makes good sense for professionals to become ninjas in their respective discipline, for the laymen investor, this dogmatic thinking can be very dangerous.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

Of course we don't want to make the mistake of becoming unnecessarily dogmatic or prideful in the answers we seek, but I think an «easy faith» can cut both ways.

Powell accordingly takes his reader through varying accounts of the Trinity in Barth's Church Dogmatics, where Barth finally settles on a view that stresses God's inherent otherness: «God exists as the in - between of the Father and the Son; here God enters into and becomes that which is radically opposite God.

He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that on all these questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context of general reflection.

It was because of the book Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics that I first became a feminist theologian.

And, writing for theologians, Karl Barth said in his Church Dogmatics (T & T Clark International) that we must not become too engrossed in the demonic as there is the imminent danger that we might become a little demonic!

In the argument of Protestant - Catholic - Jew, if the specific dogmatic elements of each faith were not important, then religion must have become simply one way a minority group could ease its way into the mainstream.

The real issue is that Americans are more dogmatic than in the past, believing what they here and becoming less educated as a group.

Whether you want to admit it or not, Naturalism (that is, a belief that nature is the highest authority, or the divine per se) has become just as much of a dogmatic religion as the religions which Naturalists rail against.

What I'm arguing about is how unpleasantly dogmatic some people become.

This initially occurs in Descartes and Spinoza, but it becomes far more comprehensive in Schelling and Hegel, and so much so that the whole body of dogmatic theology undergoes a metamorphosis into pure philosophical thinking in Hegel's system.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

From Boff's presentation it becomes clear that the specific image of the Trinity is being moulded by the needs of society which, in turn, is being viewed from a socially understood Trinity.12 The former becomes clear from his starting point which lies with the needs in church, society and cosmos, and with the opposition to a hierarchical church, an undemocratic society and a disregarded natural environment.13 The latter results from his dogmatic and historical treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity, especially from his developing the notion of perichoresis.

If we read Hegel in this less dogmatic, less idealist fashion, it becomes possible to see how he might be susceptible of a revolutionary interpretation.

In the case of the Incarnation, the idea is received subjectively into the minds of individuals and then becomes objective in the dogmatic expressions used by the Magisterium.

Various dogmatic beliefs suddenly, on the advent of the faith - state, acquire a character of certainty, assume a new reality, become an object of faith.

As we saw in the first chapter, Christian fundamentalism first became evident when one section of Protestants, sharing a particular set of dogmatic convictions, unconsciously imposed these on the Bible.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

We suggest, then - though still holding that specific, dogmatic answers are impossible - that the poem in substantially its present form came into existence within a century or so of the event of the Exodus; in repeated, annual liturgical use it probably became relatively «fixed»; and probably it was appropriately modified, possibly chiefly in interpretation, when the cultic rehearsal of God's creation of Israel was shifted to Jerusalem.

Even though he modified this later in his life to become what I think is a more unified idea, it still represented the cornerstone of his contribution to Christian theology and Church dogmatics.

Problem is that science has become almost as dogmatic as religions have, in fact science is a religion to many people.

This dogmatic intolerance becomes all the more difficult for non-Catholics when it is associated not only with distinctly religious dogma, but also with elements of natural law that are not accepted as divinely sanctioned moral demands by most non-Catholics.

«The Road Ahead in Theology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace of ideas.

We should beware that our interpretation of either the universe (science) or the Bible (theology) doesn't become so inflexibly dogmatic that it flies in the face of truth.

Although he had been interested in science from a young age, it was while teaching dogmatic theology in the United States that he became increasingly fascinated with the connections between his own subjects and those of science and philosophy.

Thus even in the middle of the third century the laity preserved their «1iturgy» of electing, of bringing the offerings or tithing, of identifying themselves with the prayers of their celebrants in antiphonal amens.97 Moreover, their consent was sought in dogmatic and moral formulations.98 Closely connected therewith was the people's prerogative in the recognition of martyrs which in the fourth century was to become the communal voice in the authoritative canonization of saints.99

Wear your opponents out The dogmatic end - product from the pressing game is that the pressing side always becomes tired and worn out after a certain amount of pressing.

Even though Shiller said she was concerned in general about parents who could become «overly dogmatic» in their approach to parenting, members of the Takoma Park group all stressed that the eight ideals are just that: ideals, and not regulations.

One Tory observes: «As well as the Poll Tax, she was also becoming increasingly dogmatic on Europe.

All of the dogmatic rhetoric from fat cat trade union leaders on six - figure salaries and the money they are spending on anti-cuts campaigns can not disguise the fact that trade unions are becoming less relevant to the British workforce.