Dogmatism refers to the attitude of being fixed or rigid in one's beliefs or opinions, without considering other perspectives or evidence. It means being stubbornly certain and unwilling to consider alternative ideas or opinions.
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To connect this to some of the previous discussions, I see some traces
of dogmatism in Harpur's work.
One may identify theology with
dogmatism in the sense of blind appeal to authority and refusal to be honest about the facts.
My third prediction is that the word «evangelical» will go the way of «fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated
with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and biblical literalism.
They view religion as engendering an anti-scientific outlook, one where the whole enterprise of scientific enquiry is undermined
by dogmatism, even if the particular dogmas are contradicted by scientific fact, such as creationism.
But that he stands totally and absolutely beyond and above all other men seems to be an assertion of arbitrary and unwarranted
dogmatism which does nothing to enhance the faith of the Christian and much to alienate those who can not share that faith.
This openness is not thought of so much as a protest
against dogmatism as an insistence on the possibility of newer and richer insights and formulations of belief.
Most of us locate ourselves at some point along a spectrum, with
religious dogmatism at one extreme and ideological secularism at the other.
Second, the present research examined correlations of the PNS - J with a limited number of variables (big - five personality traits and need for cognition), because there exists no Japanese measures of constructs such
as dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity that replicated the factor structures of the original measures.
Calvinist and Lutheran
dogmatism made it possible, in the 19th century, to attack Roman Catholic institutions since, in view of their alleged «spiritual despotism,» it was impossible for them to teach history and philosophy properly; while at the same time Calvinists and Lutherans guarded in their own colleges a rigid curricular orthodoxy of classical disciplines wedded to the most arid forms of theological orthodoxy.
Sometimes I get tired of a tendency toward
dogmatism on one hand or lack of coherent purpose on the other; sometimes I get depressed by the scale of the problems we face or terrified by what the future may portend; sometimes I get lazy or overwhelmed by life's circumstances and just don't do much.
Reacting to the biblicism and
narrow dogmatism of old Lutheranism, a variety of neo-Lutheran movements in the twentieth century sought to free the liberating Word of a gracious God from the constrictions of a dogmatic, rationalistic, proof - texting theology.
Harnack set out to show from his penetrating studies of early Christianity that the relevance of Christianity to the modern world lay not in
theological dogmatism but in the understanding of Christianity as an historical, changing, evolving process.
At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion
meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.
The problem with athiesm which the buddhist scholar Alan Watts pointed out is that it all to often devolves
into dogmatism like religion.
The problem for White was not Christianity per se, but theology, or traditional
Christian dogmatism associated with clerical authority.
In some periods, Christians need to be awakened from their dogmatic slumbers; and this is still widely the case,
for dogmatism destroys sensibility as the letter kills.
Process philosophy is, therefore, a much - needed corrective of theological and
scientific dogmatisms of eternal truths, fixed categories, and unchangeable permanences.
It's about raising awareness of the harm religious
dogmatism does and asking religions to stop imposing their beliefs on other human beings.
After reading the comments, this is the overall impression I get: Why would I leave Christianity and the Church * with all its
exclusivist dogmatism simply to run into the arms of another community that is just as exclusive and dogmatic?
The examples are apt and illuminating, and much of the thrust of the argument is simple common sense against
antireligious dogmatism.
At the same time, it made possible the spread of more rigid views of right belief, and pushed many Christians
toward dogmatism and the approach to doctrine called «fundamentalism.»
Nor will they forgive the neoliberal
market dogmatism that resulted in the British economy becoming so unbalanced and so over-reliant on reckless financiers.
Ryan - i like your philosophy - and this is a great article - pragmatism
over dogmatism is always best!
But
dogmatism no more befits the findings of science than it does the proclamations of theology.
My friends, we need less ideology and more geometry,
less dogmatism and more algebra, and there is nothing «fuzzy» about either of these two subjects.
The Left's Problem with Free - Speech Criticism: Progressives are dodging questions about left -
wing dogmatism by pointing fingers at conservatives, argues Jonathan Chait, an impulse that «encourages overlooking unhealthy habits on one's own side.»
Richard has no difficulty exposing Rorty's self - satisfied,
smug dogmatism, but he rightly suggests that Rorty at least has the virtue of making candid how many now live even though they have never read Rorty.
Some commenters accused me of outdated and
dangerous dogmatism in sticking up for traditional religion.
The Communist systems collapsed under the weight of their own fallacious
economic dogmatism.
This scientific façade hides an
intolerant dogmatism that views the spirit as produced by matter and morals as produced by circumstances.
Even if you manage to surround yourself with people with whom you share the same
specific dogmatism, you will have cut yourself off from deeply meaningful relationships with people who disagree with you even a little.
It also illuminates the
moral dogmatism that often lurks behind any technocratic claim to be guided by an administrative science unencumbered by moral attachments.
Their historical openness shows, by stark contrast, the
closed dogmatism of the historian, Arthur Schlesinger.