Sentences with phrase «by dogmatic»

Instead, by their dogmatic statements about climate change and their policy advocacy, they have become just another group of lobbyists, having ceded the privilege traditionally afforded to dispassionate scientific reasoning to political activists in the scientific professional societies.

While phlogiston and Lysenkoism were early contenders they lack sharing many attributes with the current situation we skeptics face: scattered, unorganized, scarcely funded, diverse of thought, and oppressed by a dogmatic regime with near unlimited funds and the full weight and force of the state often projecting its own wrongs upon us.

«Instead, by their dogmatic statements about climate change and their policy advocacy, they have become just another group of lobbyists...»

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It was further reinforced in behaviorist circles by their dogmatic refusal to consider the treatment of «subjective» data as scientifically admissible, and of course by the elementaristic bias which has been discussed above.

Many of these courageous thinkers struggled against persecution by dogmatic, narrow - minded authorities, suffering poverty, imprisonment, and death through their efforts to bring the light of truth to th...

The main focus is that of promoting the bigger picture in schools to our children so that they are not taken in by the «smaller picture» and / or swayed by the dogmatic views of extremists.

They were repelled by dogmatic absolutes and believed that the subtleties of practice would not be captured in any theoretical formula of a neatly packaged creed.»

Also, the rejection of many cultural experiences tends to leave people psychologically involuted, intellectually isolated and spiritually subject to the pride and authoritarianism that are generated by a dogmatic and closed system.

I hope that reason will one day guide humanity down a path of peaceful co-existance, eliminating the cultural rifts created and perpetuated by dogmatic faiths.

Anyone who has been engaged in teaching is well aware of the fact that there is no surer way to kill interest, and we may add no more certain way to destroy the sense of Christian freedom, than by dogmatic teaching in the worse sense of the term.

Even such extensive works as the Gifford Lectures have been found wanting by the present generation of theological students, who may be put off by the dogmatic flavor of them, preferring works less overtly theistic and christological.

Further, the texts Bates helps us penetrate afresh need — as do all Scriptural texts — to be repeatedly pondered; and for this task, the concepts, distinctions and guidelines offered by the dogmatic Tradition can help.

The problem with the «Christ against culture» position is two-fold: first, strong reaction tends to increase the attractiveness of that which is banished; and second, the rejection of many cultural experiences tends to leave persons psychologically involuted, intellectually isolated, and spiritually subject to the pride and authoritarianism generated by any dogmatic and closed system.

It happens more often in the eastern world by dogmatic communists (atheists who are fed up with those crazy Christians ruining everything).

The irony is that Sufi's are targeted and punished by the dogmatic factions of Islam that give rise to the extremist and terrorists.

It was by this dogmatic principle that Galileo unfortunately found himself cornered, and while «there was indeed a range of enlightened opinion within the Roman hierarchy at the time of Galileo's trial... the trial itself was not averted» (p. 62).

I realize this boy is only a child, properly controlled by his dogmatic teachings, but please son, educate thyself....

Not exact matches

Every day new users are looking into Bitcoin Cash because they are driven away by the toxic and dogmatic culture of Core.

Unlike the dogmatic secularists you meet in college faculties or in prestige journalism, Blur are the sort who seem ready to admit that the actual world brought to us by secular modernity is pretty pathetic, and that it gets old.

This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.

The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice of Spirit, Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform of finite human nature and its suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons of God.»

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).

Or, conversely, they may require a faith which is, by any reasonable external standard, an oppressive, dictatorial, dogmatic nightmare because of their need for external guidance, direction and control.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

... Bénéton shows that scientism, even though it is not relativistic itself, functions as an «accomplice» to the dogmatic relativism fostered by the modern conception of equality.

Some clergy are quite earnest and good at what they do but often get run off and run down by the controlling minority; other times they are the overbearing, dogmatic type who bully people into submission.

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

We have a few dogmatic birthers and folks who will vote for anybody who says they are «pro-life» (and I'm very much against abortion by the way).

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

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.

In fact, the more cast - iron you are with what you believe, as you seem to be by all the dogmatic statements you have made, the easier it is for something to tip the balance and cause you to remove yourself.

By and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demandBy and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demandby the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demands.

Brown delighted this reviewer with his appreciation of the Psalter and would delight any right - minded Calvinist with his appreciation of Karl Barth's statement in Church Dogmatics IV, 2: as a poor man, writes Barth, Christ «shares as such the strange destiny which falls on God in His people and the world — to be the One who is ignored and forgotten and despised and discounted by men.

(I am aware of the irony of this statement coming from a regular contributor to this blog) The great problem with religious faith is that any proposition predicated on dogmatic acceptance of unprovable supernatural postulates can and will be manipulated by the unscrupulous for their own gain.

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.

Nevertheless, full dogmatic articulations of the Bible's canon were not made by Roman Catholicism until 1546 and Greek Orthodoxy until 1672.

But the blind, dogmatic allegiance and fanatical devotion to the deity manufactured by the church after his death is what is anathema.

When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

Isaak August Dorner, «On the Proper Version of the Dogmatic Concept of the Immutability of God,» in God and Incarnation in Mid-Nineteenth Century German Theology, edited and translated by Claude Welce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

Which is another reason why we can share how we feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape, physical assault — those things that have been criminalized by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.

In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of love as action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).

The religion has made it that an otherwise good person, living their life, surrounding themselves with loving friends and families and doing charitable things can still be considered «bad» by religion because they aren't following dogmatic law asking them to alienate and pester other people.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

Although Biblical authority is asserted as a hallmark of the movement, it is daily called into question by the independent and contradictory theological opinions which are being given dogmatic status by evangelical writers.

Already this dogmatic was seriously challenged by the existential critique of the Bultmannians.

Attacks by Christian theologians such as Barth upon this whole enterprise are justified in so far as there was for a long time a tendency to regard the discussion with unbelief as a kind of prolegomenon to dogmatics itself.

The speculative dogmatic, being itself aware of this to a certain degree, has known no other way to help itself but by the maneuver, not very seemly in a philosophic science, of throwing out a detachment of asseverations at the point where a movement is being made.