Sentences with phrase «cultured despisers»

It also means that we can not address our theology to the questions and concerns of the «cultured despisers» of religion, since to converse mainly with them does nothing to crack open the dominant ideology we share with them or to change the society which that ideology helps perpetuate.

Theologically, they must accommodate to modernity by making Christian proclamation compatible with a scientific worldview so that faith can be acceptable to its «cultured despisers.»

Friedrich Schleiermacher, on the other hand, declared in his most widely read work that he considered those for whom he wrote to be the «cultured despisers of religion.»

Just as Schleiermacher's Speeches on the Christian Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) won great renown in Germany, so too James» Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) convinced many of Christianity's utility inside industrial civilization, where feelings were being crushed on the assembly line.

These cultured despisers of Christianity say, in effect, that civilization is the supreme value and that Christianity is essentially a threat to its health.

She is writing to the cultured despisers of Christianity, hoping to demonstrate just how progressive Christianity is, but she is also eager to affirm their prejudices about Christianity's failures and limitations.

Both Niebuhr and Murdoch are the intellectual descendants of Schleiermacher, seeking to defend religion before its «cultured despisers.»

One of the ironies of our situation is the fact that at the very time the church seems to have given up on its hope, an extraordinary resurgence of interest in religion, particularly in the non-rational aspects of religion, is being observed in groups as diverse as Marxists interested in eschatology and «cultured despisers» interested in the mystery of faith.

Ever since Schleiermacher's classic On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers was written in 1799, the essence of liberalism has been its attempt to confront culture on its own terms.

In 1798, his On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers appeared.

As a result, the university people had unwittingly transferred their primary sympathy and professional loyalty to the cultured despisers of their own church.

In this respect Sanneh seems to be self - consciously locating himself in a theological vein that reaches back to Schleiermacher and the so - called «cultured despisers» of religion.

This opposition has been most overtly urged on political but often on intellectual grounds, and Schleiermacher's defense of Christian faith against its «cultured despisers» is a procedure that has again and again proved necessary.3

Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, trans.

Tillich, who died in 1965, possessed a rhetorical genius in addressing Schleiermacher's «cultured despisers of religion,» but, as a serious theologian, his work has not worn well.

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

It's unfair to call one's critics cultured despisers, trolls or to compare them to hot - takers like Matt Walsh.

Not exact matches

The liberal may well object that postliberalism fails to make religion intelligible either to the cultured or the uncouth despisers of religion.