Sentences with phrase «empirical base for belief»

If that view were not bizarre enough, Fish quotes another liberal who holds that Milton is not only the apostle of unrestrained freedom but is also «above all, a Humanist» the greatest representative in England of that movement which had abandoned the dogmatism of the Middle Ages and was seeking for a natural or empirical basis for its beliefs.»

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If the «light dawns» and the «ice breaks,» we have a basis both for «belief that» and «acknowledgment of» which is open to analysis and checking for «empirical fit,» and this can lead to commitment.

Unfortunately, in the Western Church, after the substitution of «right beliefs» for «works» or «fruits of the Spirit» as the sign of authentic faith by in classical Protestantism and the Enlightenment's emphasis on a reductionistic understanding of reason based solely on empirical logic, faith became confused with orthodox theological beliefs.