Sentences with phrase «doctrinaire forms»

This is not to say that he was uncritical of organized and doctrinaire forms of religion, but it is to warn ourselves to put aside traditional Christian stereotypes of a legalistic and barren Judaism.

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If we are to survive as a people we must recapture the noetic and pneumatic insights gained during the founding period (e.g. the pneumatic reality of the Great Awakening, the noetic reality of the form of government, etc.) and we must repair the egophanic deformation that has resulted in the collapse of the symbols into the doctrinaire «system.»

For even if one avoids commitment and merely drifts with life's tide, or even if the commitment is merely to hold to one's own past or absolutize one's personality, the resultant selfhood is decisively qualified by the mood of inauthenticity in the one case, or by one or the other form of doctrinaire self - assertion in the other.