Sentences with phrase «dualistic thinking»

Dualistic thinking refers to a way of thinking that sees things in binary or opposing terms, such as black and white, right and wrong, or good and bad. It simplifies complex ideas into two opposing categories, without considering the possibility of shades of gray or alternatives. Full definition
The mystique surrounding pastoral care is another example of dualistic thinking about the church and ministry.
This is a sad example of shallow, dualistic thinking by both groups.
That's dualistic thinking at its worst; and it's the normal mind that has taken over our world.
Do you want to try to get away from dualistic thinking and embrace more both / and in your life?
Furthermore, this way of thinking reveals dangerous dualistic thinking about creation.
Does this not suggest dualistic thinking, that the divine and human, the spiritual and the physical have no intrinsic relationship?
I currently am somewhat uncomfortable talking about a sinful «nature» as it seems to encourage dualistic thinking.
Whether the soteriological focus is on individuals or on society, it presupposes dualistic thinking.
We Christians are repenting of having succumbed to dualistic thinking through the influence of Greek thought and, especially, in extreme form, the effects of Enlightenment thought on Protestantism.
Only an end to dualistic thought helps us to escape the power of such a closed system within and without.
You reject exclusionary dualistic thinking, instead looking for perspective with nuance because reality is full of non-binary truths.
If «Sunday School and Church» is the formative experience in a congregation, it is very likely that the people of God are being formed by a structure that perpetuates dualistic thinking about Christian faith, about the work of Christians, the nature of the church, and the role of pastors.
The question of whether the biblical writers were correcting dualistic thinking or introducing it has vexed interpreters of scripture in every era of church history.
Dualistic thinking affects everyone, not just women and members of minority groups.
However, there is little in Pauline theology to indicate dualistic thinking about human nature.
Pastors and people — men and women — are robbed of new life in Christ by the ways in which dualistic thinking impacts the life of a congregation.
There has always been a tendency toward dualistic thinking in the Christian tradition.
Dualistic thinking believes that people and issues have two sides: physical and spiritual, and the two never meet.
Meaning, which requires expression through the narrative mode of consciousness, appears to dualistic thinking as the concoction of our alienated subjectivity.
But we know life is paradoxical: yoga teaches us that life is never either / or (what we call dualistic thinking); life is experienced as both / and.
The dualisms described here represent a particular form of dualistic thinking.
That's dualistic thinking at its worst; and it's the normal mind that has taken ver our world.
It is one thing to be aware of the way attitudes have been shaped by dualistic thinking about Christian faith.
The deepest divisions of our world have their philosophical roots just here — in dualistic thinking.
Yes, they are somewhere that can not be found through faith, rather by abandoning all dualistic thoughts.
In the past, dualistic thinking about what it means to be a woman so strongly associated motherhood with women that childbearing seemed essential to spiritual wholeness.
Part of the problem is that the dualistic thinking that radically separates human beings from the physical world is deeply ingrained.
A mythical version of dualistic thinking may be found in what Paul Ricoeur calls the «myth of the exiled soul.
This is the kind of dualistic thinking that is doomed to perpetuate conflict.
«That's dualistic thinking; that got us exactly where we are.»
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