Sentences with phrase «dogmatic ways»

Whether it is the current math debate in California, the 30 year debate over school prayer, or the long running debate over phonics vs. whole language — this unhealthy habit of thinking in dogmatic ways does our children little good.

While I don't follow any dogmatic ways of eating, this chicken pot pie could be classified as paleo.

This is what separates science from other more dogmatic ways of knowing.

There's a reason we talk about Jesus still today, and it's not in a dogmatic way.

Just as we all know Whitehead's emphasis on atomic units, so we should also recognize Russell's presentation of organic unities, and not to take simple metaphors in an exclusive and dogmatic way.

not in a dogmatic way....

The dogmatic way in which the church has often declared itself on matters of personal salvation and judgment has rested on an inadequate understanding of the complexities of the human situation.

Not exact matches

Why can atheists be so dogmatic: «There's a right way to think, and there's a wrong way.

Alex — my view is that male - centred dogmatic theology sets up a dualistic and paternal way of perceiving ourselves that is maintained to keep control.

We have a few dogmatic birthers and folks who will vote for anybody who says they are «pro-life» (and I'm very much against abortion by the way).

Anything that is dogmatic and expects you to behave a certain way and that people try to shove down each other's throats is a religion.

@fishon — The problem here is that the definition of «dogmatic» is not being used in a standard way.

Of course we don't want to make the mistake of becoming unnecessarily dogmatic or prideful in the answers we seek, but I think an «easy faith» can cut both ways.

I was already aware of the perils of connecting the dogmatic to the experiential, but I had never faced it in quite this way.

Every time people try to» explain» God's ways according to some sort of dogmatic certainty the bible throws a spanner into the works.

In the argument of Protestant - Catholic - Jew, if the specific dogmatic elements of each faith were not important, then religion must have become simply one way a minority group could ease its way into the mainstream.

For this reason, he advises that we read the Dogmatics with Mozart's melodies playing in our ear: «It is in this way that one should read, for example, those pieces that seem like the powerful finale of a symphony: the end of Barth's doctrine of election..

General councils were the undisputed way to solve dogmatic and doctrinal disputes.

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 speculative dogmatic, being itself aware of this to a certain degree, has known no other way to help itself but by the maneuver, not very seemly in a philosophic science, of throwing out a detachment of asseverations at the point where a movement is being made.

The methodological section of the Dogmatics is supplemented in a valuable way by Revelation and Reason: The Christian Doctrine of Faith and Knowledge.

Rather than proclaiming loud, dogmatic slogans about the Bible, we might do better to consider the odd and intimate ways in which we have each been led to where we are in our relationship with the scriptures.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

«I feel like I'm not as dogmatic or fundamentalist in any way, because I've come to the understanding that I don't have all the answers, that my responsibility is to ask questions and learn and grow.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

Re: idiot above claiming it is bigoted and dogmatic not to give to a believer charity, if it is ok for believers to argue that no money should be given to Planned Parenthood because it mind find its way to the part of PP that provides abortions (70 + % of which are for believers in th USA), it is ok for non-believers to argue that donations to a cult based charity might find their way to the cult's indoctrination division.

Anyone who has been engaged in teaching is well aware of the fact that there is no surer way to kill interest, and we may add no more certain way to destroy the sense of Christian freedom, than by dogmatic teaching in the worse sense of the term.

In a section entitled «The Relativity of the Idea of God in Meister Eckhart» in the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.»

In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.

They reply that anti-dogmatic historians are dogmatic in their own way, since they antecedently rule out the unique and the transcendent.

I think our religious culture of dogmatic fear really stifles peoples» natural curiosity, and the way scripture is pulled out of context and used as some sort of hard - and - fast Holy Slogans to live by is simply too much for people.

Way to DOGMATIC and RIGHT WING to run this country P.S Are Democrats allowed to be Morman?

At one extreme it results in a dogmatic insistence on the rightness of the missionary's culture and way of thinking, or, at the other extreme, in an affirmation of the validity of all cultures and the right of local people to read the Bible for themselves and formulate their own theologies.

The Spirit of politics and the lust of dogmatic rule are then apt to enter and to contaminate the originally innocent thing; so that when we hear the word «religion» nowadays, we think inevitably of some «church» or other; and to some persons the word «church» suggests so much hypocrisy and tyranny and meanness and tenacity of superstition that in a wholesale undiscerning way they glory in saying that they are «down» on religion altogether.

``... rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.»

I hope he is now in heaven praying that each of us will go the whole way across the bridge he built, and return to dogmatic theology in the university without metaphysical reserve.

«The Road Ahead in Theology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace of ideas.

We're too willing to listen to experts who say that the «I» or person is a dogmatic illusion, that we're all determined by our natures the way the other animals are.

His pronouncements on public policy began sometimes to sound as dogmatic in their way, and as vulgarly insulting as pronouncements from Rome had done.

It is not merely a doctrine, it is also a way, an outlook, a temperament; it is the way a Muslim should view law, or dogmatics, or ethics, or ritual.

Then, in the 1970s, came the revisionist view that Hecker, and bishops like John Ireland of St. Paul - Minneapolis, John Keane of Catholic University, and Cardinal Gibbons, were in fact exploring a new ecclesiology, a new way of thinking about the Church, that Vatican II would vindicate in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

Even blood donation has become a Paleo fad among the most dogmatic of 21st - century cavemen, based on the notion that our ancestors were often wounded, making blood loss a way of life.

[O] ne of the ugliest parts of the Perfect Health Retreat to me was the completely dogmatic approach that it and it alone is the one and only true way to attain optimal health.

When Color Analysis became fashionable way back in the 70's and 80's, it acquired a bad reputation because it was very dogmatic.

Where evidence indicates that a policy or procedure is not fit for purpose, there needs to be an appetite for review and an acceptance that security and risk is a constantly evolving area where there is no room for dogmatic defence of «the way we have always done things».

In groups, she argued, she was dogmatic, and she sulked when she didn't get her way.

dogmatic effort to... short - circuit community participation in school governance, (ii) evade its responsibility to assist struggling schools before summarily seeking their closure often to improperly make way for charter schools, and (iii) co-locate other favored programs without regard to squeezing out the students in «traditional» public schools from any fair allocation of school resources.

The UK's dogmatic approach to teaching reading does a disservice to the different ways and speeds at which young children learn, writes Jan Dubiel Ofsted's recent Bold Beginnings...

Yau writes that Murphy «is uncompromising in ways that I admire, which is to say she is not dogmatic.

I've basically been thinking that way ever since, but now I just don't feel so dogmatic about it.