Sentences with word «despisers»

«My teenage self was rather proud of being a «cultured despiser of religion»» she explains.

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.

He is a God despiser.

This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.

Many people see him as the candidate of identity politics for elderly white people, but many of those same Trump despisers have grown up in the post-Cold War world.

The central focus of Niebuhr's career was «the defense and justification of the Christian faith in a secular age, particularly among what Schleiermacher called Christianity s «intellectual despisers.»

This phrase occurs at the very beginning of the Origen's defense of Christianity to its cultural despisers, his Contra Celsum.

The condition has never been confined only to the secular despisers of Christianity.

It seemed to me that the theologian was more often asked to accommodate the faith to its cultured despisers in this liberal age than asked to understand it.

Finally and most importantly, he distinguishes his work from the Balmesian tradition by directing his polemics not against Protestant heretics (at least not in the first instance), but against modern despisers of religion, especially those in academia and in the world over which academia presides, including the rationalistic, atheistic structures and powers of the liberal state.

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

No croissants for those butter despisers, right.

Known recruiting despiser and soon - to - be offensive line coach for the Florida Gators John Hevesy was in Greenwood, MS in an attempt to check on Kwatrivous Johnson and possibly flip him to Florida.

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.

They are money lovers and God despisers.

«But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God....

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

(Heady high minded, despisers...) lol

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.

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

We begin to suspect that this is the case when we see the record of the church in the midst of our world storm The record of the church has not been perfect, but it has been better than its despisers expected.

But if wealth can be created and, once created, put to the service of a moral imagination, are we» camels, the bunch of us» not called to be stewards of wealth rather than despisers of it?

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, high - minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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.

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Act 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

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.

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.

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

(The title of Tindal's 1730 book, Christianity as Old as Creation, or the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature, says it all, as in fact does Kant's Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone and Schleiermacher's Speeches on Religion Addressed to its Cultured Despisers.)

I wonder, though, whether the same problem of budgeting time and the vexing difficulty of developing intimacy with people remained long after he had attained personal success as a teacher, as a trenchant writer, and as a preacher to the cultured despisers of religion.

Some of Hobgood - Oster's historical analysis tries too hard to put the despisers at their ease.

You mean that arch-secular humanist, that despiser of religious «supersitition,» that progressivist despoiler of our once commonsensical public schools?

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

The cultured despisers of religion remained his theological orientation point throughout his life.

Jude 1:18 - 19 «Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.»

' 2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,»

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.

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.»

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.

Public schools have been a primary battleground between the despisers and defenders of religion.

Tillich's attempt to address his day's «cultured despisers» of religion has set the agenda for subsequent theologians and given us the primary paradigm for our thinking — the translation of Scripture into extrascriptural categories.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.