Sentences with word «dogmatist»

It is one of the many curiosities of the age in which Henry lived that the crusade against visual amenity and luxury in the world man builds was taken up by dogmatists of a fervently materialistic bent.

Common tactic used by dogmatists who can not defend their position and uncomfortable being questioned on that dogma.

Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view religious adherents as dogmatists.

Metaphysical believers and spiritual seekers affirm their spiritual identity and deny a religious identity, while dogmatists, including fundamentalists, institutionalists, moralists and neotraditionalists, affirm a religious identity but deny that they have a spiritual identity.

All this debate proves is that the religious dogmatists that rule this theocracy we call America will get all Christ - ey over just about anything.

So perhaps one way to move beyond a debilitating polarization in the ecclesial realm (I dare not proffer any suggestions regarding the political realm) is for all my fellow dogmatists to aspire to become mystagogues.

John Calvin has a reputation as a stern dogmatist, but he said about God, «His essence indeed is incomprehensible, utterly transcending all human thought.»

The medical materialists are therefore only so many belated dogmatists, neatly turning the tables on their predecessors by using the criterion of origin in a destructive instead of an accreditive way.

Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake — such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.

However, even the most rock - bound dogmatist could not help but be overwhelmed by the sheer spiritual delight of the chapel.

People have attempted to absolve Jesus from blame for this utterance by the argument, difficult to substantiate, that it was not an expression of real despair — and the fact has been quite overlooked that it was not less but more than doubt and despair: as our old dogmatists knew, it was derelictio, a being lost and abandoned [The Word of God and the Word of Man (Harper Torchbook.

Spiritual questing is increasingly reflexive and individualistic, with cultural expectations fulfilled for all but the cynical secularists and the feisty dogmatists.

Dogmatists constitute about 15 percent of the population.

The polemical exchange that pitted the irenic skeptic, Erasmus (with whom Marius clearly sympathizes), against the belligerent dogmatist, Luther, provides Marius the perfect opportunity to sum up his case:

A common criticism of Taylor is that, though he is no junkyard dogmatist, he is in fact basically a Catholic apologist.

(If there weren't the perennial ugly dogmatist and those fools discussing religious dogma while riding along, whom would we have to pick on?)

The trouble with the Common Core is not that it was the handiwork of anti-American ideologues or anti-teacher dogmatists, but that it was the work of well - meaning, self - impressed technocrats who fudged difficult questions, used federal coercion to compel rapid national adoption, and assumed that things would work out.

But there has also always been a group of Passive Investing dogmatists that has employed characterizations a whole big bunch less kind than «nice but flawed.»

It's worth remembering that many born again democratic agonists and syrup - mouthed communicators are pushing the same old tub of green slops, and pushing it more effectively than pre-Climategate dogmatists.

In both cases it's all brought on by intoxicated leaders, one - sided media apparatus, crony industries, dogmatist institutions and unscrupulous banks.

It is possible that some kind of, dare I say, «revolution» will be needed to purge our burgeoning technocracy of tenured dogmatists and kleptocrats.

If a Soldier is willing to fight and die for your right to be a religious dogmatist, he is also willing to fight and die for my right to live up to principles of decency, empathy and kindness that come not from fear of God but joy in living in peace with others and the love of a shared humanity.

The only people who throw insults are dogmatists who do not like being challenged.

When we abdicate responsibility for the role of reason, we make ourselves vulnerable to the fundamentalists and dogmatists of every type.

You have a perfect right to do so; but in that case you are the dogmatist.

Now I have run into my share of dogmatists, from both the political and the theological tribes.

It is a dogma that should impel all dogmatists to alleluias of awe and gratitude.

So Chesterton's «journalist,» whatever his protestations, strikes me as a dogmatist of this sort.

AE, Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.

The dogmatists of the law reply to Buber that spirit remains a shadow and command an empty shell if one does not lend them life and consciousness from the fountain of Jewish tradition.

More likely than dogmatists to be professionals and to have high incomes, they come chiefly from religious backgrounds they consider «oppressive.»

This typology maps five current American subcultures: born - again Christians; mainstream believers; metaphysical believers and seekers; dogmatists; and secularists.

Dogmatists, whether fundamentalists or neotraditionalists, are more concerned with the form and phrasing of religion than with its spirit, according to Roof: «Tradition for them is largely bounded by the encrusted institution and frozen in a nostalgic past.»

Dogmatists and secularists Roof combines — a fascinating recognition that both subcultures, though radically different in their expressions of «lived religion,» share a disaffection with the contemporary spiritually minded.