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Bill Hemmings, shipping director, Transport & Environment, said: «The IMO should and could have gone a lot further but for the dogmatic opposition of some countries led by Brazil, Panama, Saudi Arabia.

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Where evidence indicates that a policy or procedure is not fit for purpose, there needs to be an appetite for review and an acceptance that security and risk is a constantly evolving area where there is no room for dogmatic defence of «the way we have always done things».

A metaphysical structure is not a tool for dogmatic tyranny, but a basis for intelligibility in all arenas of experience, including humanity's political life.

It maintains that New Testament exegesis is important for dogmatic theology, and does not shirk from the tensions created by such exegesis for the proclaimed faith of the church.

The claim for dogmatic certitude is vigorously denied and his own philosophy declared to be inadequate (PR 343).2 Whitehead thus takes criticism for granted; indeed he regards his philosophy as a success if it makes a new kind of criticism possible (ESP 114) 3 He himself provides the criteria according to which his philosophy is to be evaluated.

Such a denial or dismissal of this particular theory or «insight» is by no means to «undermine the credibility of the Church and the message she preaches» and to suggest as much is to substitute physical scientific «insight» for dogmatic truth.

There is no place for fatalism or for a dogmatic pessimism.

But I'm not for dogmatic statements about Christ and negative assumptions about ones relationship with Christ.

The vast majority of religious persecution throughout history are precisely for dogmatic reasons: Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or lack thereof.

Not exact matches

While it makes good sense for professionals to become ninjas in their respective discipline, for the laymen investor, this dogmatic thinking can be very dangerous.

«Conventional fund management holds dogmatic disdain for highly concentrated positions.

Try to think of these recommendations as a loose guide for development, rather than a rigid checklist or dogmatic list of rules.

However, I have no respect for those who condemn this and that from a fiery pulpit becuase of their dogmatic programming.

Next, I want to thank Ken Masugi for his evangelical efforts in getting Straussians dogmatic and undogmatic to read this blog.

Those of us who continue to fight for orthodoxy, in dogmatic as well as moral theology, miss those days when there was a clear beacon shining from across the Tiber.

As for Buddhism - it's not what the hippies wearing sarongs and smelly old flip flops, say it is... As the article points out, it can be dogmatic.

It seems to have become a dogmatic absolute for you, also.

Bonnette writes from a Christian and sometimes specifically Catholic perspective, and obviously strives to be fair to those with whom he disagrees, except for the most dogmatic proponents of scientistic materialism, whom he effectively skewers.

n8263 I like to say that we have «confidence» in the method behind science where ideas do not become dogmatic, new evidence can change what we thought we know, and that all the experts are looking for the mistakes and eager to point them out if there are any.

Those who are dogmatic in their religious beliefs are criticized for being narrow minded, and ironically you are of similar mind.

Or, conversely, they may require a faith which is, by any reasonable external standard, an oppressive, dictatorial, dogmatic nightmare because of their need for external guidance, direction and control.

When it comes to dogmatic absolutism you, Frank, Old Adam and even Brigitte to a lesser degree have a similar epistemology and, for all of our disagreements, neither Gary nor I are dogmatic absolutists and so share a similar epistemological perspective.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

That would seem to imply that theology for a person of faith is more speculative than dogmatic, certainly not the dogmatic absolutism that closes minds and often hearts that we see in so many who profess faith.

You are as dogmatic as any «true believer», though not for atheism, but nationalism that you call.

Henry also praises Barth for returning divine omnipotence to its proper, preeminent place in Christian dogmatics.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

We have a few dogmatic birthers and folks who will vote for anybody who says they are «pro-life» (and I'm very much against abortion by the way).

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

«The assailants of dogmatic truth have got the start of its adherents of whatever Creed; philosophy is completing what criticism has begun; and apprehensions are not unreasonably excited lest we should have a new world to conquer before we have weapons for the warfare.»

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

In fact, the more cast - iron you are with what you believe, as you seem to be by all the dogmatic statements you have made, the easier it is for something to tip the balance and cause you to remove yourself.

@JohnR For ages the church has been accused of being behind the times, monolithic, dogmatic and so on.

The teaching of Christ in the gospels is full of exhortations to «works righteousness,» however inconvenient they may prove for certain established strains of Christian dogmatics, and the episode of the young ruler is wholly lacking in the sort of exegetical ambiguities that might allow for reassuring evasions of that sort.

I think Nietzsche's desire was prophetic, the God of Dogmatic Absolutism is «dead» for many Christians.

Apologetics should change and adapt in response to the questions of the audience and the particular themes of the age, but dogmatic theology is deliberately distinguished from apologetics in its concern for timeless truths.

It is not a decision for everyone, but one that is perfect for her, as she prepares for her new life teaching dogmatic theology.

(I am aware of the irony of this statement coming from a regular contributor to this blog) The great problem with religious faith is that any proposition predicated on dogmatic acceptance of unprovable supernatural postulates can and will be manipulated by the unscrupulous for their own gain.

It is this new spirit, Eco believes, which awakens the late Middle Ages from its dogmatic slumber and sets the stage for the Scientific Revolution.

Those with limited tolerance for schematic arguments may find in the above but the dry bones of a dogmatic skeleton of abstract ideas.

I say this because I realize that in what I have written it is not simply a matter of a dogmatic theologian commenting on the work of a disciplined historical critic; there are issues involved here which are neither purely theological nor historical; they touch the manner in which we understand our existence and our need, an existence and an understanding that we allow it possible that Christ has redefined for us.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

And this christological position would be correlative with a soteriological position which would insist on the necessity of Jesus for Christian existence, and yet not in any dogmatic or supernaturalistic sense.

Throughout the book she takes it for granted that the «old dogmatic literalistic myths» must go, indeed have gone; the only question is what «we» will replace them with.

I am sure your statement is true but I guess what I found interesting was that for some atheist they are just as dogmatic as the religious folks.

(This Lutheran Pastor believes that both the Assumption of Mary and the Immaculate Conception can be defended biblically, but they can not be made dogmatic beliefs necessary for salvation.)

Of course, there are new questions in dogmatic and moral theology, which have been discussed more openly at and after the Council and which have not yet been solved, among them questions of great importance also for the practical life.