Sentences with phrase «century of blind faith»

«After a century of blind faith, this paper provides probably the first direct evidence from a randomized trial that routine antenatal visits for healthy pregnant women do make a difference» finds Prof Justus Hofmeyr from University of the Witwatersrand / Fort Hare.

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Blind faith based on the musings of a few elderly gentlemen of the first and second century CE, and promulgated by a few «elite», white male Europeans is no longer acceptable.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

And in this film (which he has apparently wanted to make for nearly 30 years, since he first read Shusaku Endo's novel), Judas is again key - this time a 17th century Japanese version called Kichijiro (Yosuke Kubozuka), who haunts Portuguese missionary Rodrigues's (Andrew Garfield) journey from profound blind faith through agonies of uncertainty.