must move
from dogmatic statement to matters of concrete theological judgment.
Not exact matches
(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.
If this were simply a
dogmatic statement of the importance of relationships grounded in Whitehead's doctrine of prehensions, we would all have to recognize the danger of moving in this way
from the metaphysics to the more concrete theory.
His questioning of the physicists» acceptance of the sheer givenness of the underlying laws of astrophysics reminded me of Hawkings»
dogmatic statement that «Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself
from nothing...» (The Grand Design, p. 180).