Sentences with phrase «dogmatists of»

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.

To understand this attitude we must go back to the last of his «Talks on Judaism» in which he contrasts the false desire for security of the dogmatists of the law with the «holy insecurity» of the truly religious man who does not divorce his action from his intention.

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.

Not exact matches

I'm tired of feeling hemmed in and hounded by the dogmatists on all sides.

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.

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 irony here is that one of the conscious aims of that statement had been to make welcome room for the evangelicals within the inclusive Methodist theological enterprise — even while it was also trying to wall off the extreme dogmatists from the «right» and the barn - burners from the «left.»

He was born in western New York, the son of a clergyman who was a narrow - minded, strait - laced, Calvinistic dogmatist.

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.

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.

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.»

Binary explanations, such as the idea of a «culture war,» he finds insufficiently enlightening, except as applied to the dogmatist subculture's view of reality.

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.

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

The sworn enemy of such cultural vitality and creativity is «obscurantism,» once the domain of the clergy, presently the vice of scientific dogmatists (FR 44).

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 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.»

Despite the fact that Böhm is not a dogmatist, his use of industrial materials as well as the pure nature of his compositions reflect an untainted believe in the modern, the contemporary and foremost in the man - made.

To be fair to Hansen, this is one where he was spot on correct — and I well remember one guy telling the dogmatists at realclimate.org that Hansen was actually correct and demonstrating this with satellite pics of soot which almost exactly matched the satellite temperature plots.

I spent 2 years (15 — 25 hours / week) back in the late 90's trying to convince a bunch of on - line dogmatists that Y2K would NOT be The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKIof on - line dogmatists that Y2K would NOT be The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKIOf The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI).

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.

The question I would like answered, is whether the Greens and the wide array of energy dogmatists who cheer them on, actually understand — let alone support — any of the energy technologies that underpin the capacity of the two global superpowers to enter into the «Climate Pact» in the first place?

The way I read Glen's flag was that the 1 % s on either side were the dogmatists, and that the overwhelming majority of people are in a range between.

Dogmatists, of course, don't easily change, so this stalemate may well continue until intelligent laymen have had enough and push them off the stage.

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

Because use of that that term pretty much identifies the speaker as a dogmatist.