Sentences with phrase «dogmatic statements»

The works in this series are not meant as dogmatic statements, but rather as entrées for magical thinking and critical discourse.

It then became so clear to me that questions are usually personal dogmatic statements with a question mark tacked on to the end.

But I'm not for dogmatic statements about Christ and negative assumptions about ones relationship with Christ.

Ideally, the children will acquire an onlook that is open toward religious faith and tentative in dogmatic statements of belief.

Many people in the new world have abandoned active commitment to the Christian heritage, not because they wanted to, but because the church led them to believe that the Christian faith was to be identified with certain dogmatic statements, which for them no longer had the ring of truth.

Duméry applies this to different dogmatic statements.

Even questions, guised under a desire to learn, are almost always dogmatic statements of the questioner seeking affirmation for what they already believe.

If discussion of inspiration is to prove fruitful in evangelical circles it must move from dogmatic statement to matters of concrete theological judgment.

Quite possibly Barth realized that a dialectical method must negate all human expressions of the meaning of faith — including the creedal and dogmatic statements of the historic Church — while paradoxically affirming the deepest expressions of «subjectivity» or Existenz.

If this were simply a dogmatic statement of the importance of relationships grounded in Whitehead's doctrine of prehensions, we would all have to recognize the danger of moving in this way from the metaphysics to the more concrete theory.

The problem with scientific naturalism as a worldview is that it takes a sound methodological premise of natural science and transforms it into a dogmatic statement about the nature of the universe.

One does not find this language here because this is not an ecumenical document but a dogmatic statement.

But I would like to point out that you display the typical kind of question, which isn't a question at all, but a dogmatic statement looking for confirmation with a question mark at the end.

What man has written in the past as his Scriptures and as his dogmatic statements were expressions that more or less captured the experience of faith that was his at a particular moment in time.

A metaphysical system is an instrument of vision, not a dogmatic statement of final truth.

Are you saying that we depend completely on God and in His mercy alone, to bring about crisis for change or, is this yet another dogmatic statement disguised as a question??? So, there's NOTHING I can do to change me....

As with any dogmatic statements, there are a lot of «buts» and «ifs» around it.