Sentences with phrase «church dogmatism»

During the seventies, Dean's father had a series of small churches in little towns, and in each church his dogmatism and rigidity created a rift in the congregation.

To speak of science as the new church dogmatism is simply wuwu.

Not exact matches

This dogmatism will damage the church and drive others away from Christ.

After reading the comments, this is the overall impression I get: Why would I leave Christianity and the Church * with all its exclusivist dogmatism simply to run into the arms of another community that is just as exclusive and dogmatic?

Though his massive Church Dogmatics took on the appearance of an old - style dogmatism, his theological vision throughout this epochal work remained distinctively pluralistic and open - ended.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

The Episcopal Church has also helped me navigate the middle way between unbelief and dogmatism.