Sentences with phrase «dogmatic interpretation»

Are we, by a narrow and dogmatic interpretation of Jesus, blocking effective communication and spiritual communion in a day when the world's destiny may hang on our finding the world - wide faith?

I think, too, that the dogmatic interpretation which you give of the Incarnation is very narrow.

But his battles were mostly fought with so - called «West Coast» Straussians, whose dogmatic interpretation of natural rights was very different from their namesake's Socratic skepticism.

Finally, in the late 1960s (partially as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to painterly abstraction as «lyrical abstraction».

Not exact matches

Maybe they taught the different viewpoints and discussed the differences rather than generating interpretations to square dogmatic Truth.

Of course, we are both engaging in speculative interpretation / theology, not dogmatic theology; so neither of our opinions should pose a challenge to anyone's faith.

But whether this dogmatic antisubstance bias of modern process philosophy is well - founded or, rather, stems largely from an ill - examined myth, depends on the accuracy of Whitehead's interpretation of Aristotle's concept of substance.

The technical disciplines taught in universities and seminaries - technical dogmatics, ethics, spirituality, apologetics, missiology, historical theology, and so forth - find their value as they lead to richer biblical interpretation.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

B. Incorrect, dogmatic (present on both sides of the E. vs. C. issue) interpretations of either secular or scriptural evidence.

Two disciplines that have often in the past pretended lack of awareness of each other, dogmatics and exegesis, now share a preoccupation with principles of interpretation.

If we read Hegel in this less dogmatic, less idealist fashion, it becomes possible to see how he might be susceptible of a revolutionary interpretation.

If one of the motives of the nineteenth - century historical - critical scholars was to free the Bible from dogmatic ecclesiastical interpretations, Ricoeur in turn seeks to free the Bible from culture - bound, subjectivizing interpretations as well as from fundamentalist, objectivizing interpretations by asking us to listen carefully to what biblical discourse testifies.

The standard objection to this line of interpretation is that Romans did not represent Barth's final position: the disruptiveness of the early Barth was displaced later on by the more placid, doctrinal tones of the Church Dogmatics.

We suggest, then - though still holding that specific, dogmatic answers are impossible - that the poem in substantially its present form came into existence within a century or so of the event of the Exodus; in repeated, annual liturgical use it probably became relatively «fixed»; and probably it was appropriately modified, possibly chiefly in interpretation, when the cultic rehearsal of God's creation of Israel was shifted to Jerusalem.

We should beware that our interpretation of either the universe (science) or the Bible (theology) doesn't become so inflexibly dogmatic that it flies in the face of truth.

So, «socialism» is often merely useless, while dogmatic literal interpretation of religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than socialism.