Sentences with phrase «from the dogma of»

Perhaps materialism was a liberating philosophy when the need was to escape from dogmas of religion, but today materialism itself is the dogma from which the mind needs to escape.

Thus we have been pretty well emancipated from the dogma of automatic progress and even from faith in the goodness of man.

He has an excellent understanding - free from the dogma of left and right - of where the system works and where it doesn't.

In every class I walked away feeling expanded, awakened and free, free of limitations, free from the dogma of my conditioning, and free from the mind's authority.

A guide to the generation of artists that led American art away from the dogmas of Abstract Expressionism to the more freewheeling, object - besotted aesthetic of the 1960s.

During his time at the firm, his work continued to expand, slowly moving away from the dogma of Painters Eleven.

Not exact matches

Surveys of national opinion indicate either hostility to anti-Semitic dogmas or, what is worse from the agitator's point of view, complete indifference.

Most economists - at least not those blinded by either dogma or an over-reliance on quarterly data - who made a fundamental analysis of the state of western economies, could not help but feel that the sense of escape from calamity was a bit premature.

But, we also criticize people who adhere to the dogma — of Christianity, of Islam, of Hindu tradition — when the actions are far removed from what the «policies» of the respective texts dictate (e.g. love thy neighbor, but act badly to others, specifically non-Christians *), or when the «policies» are adhered to VERY closely and make no sense in today's day and age (e.g. homosexuality is a sin).

For the proponents of this opinion, Jesus wanted a Christianity free from dogma — and it is precisely this kind of Christianity that corresponds to the needs of the present age.

The Job and Ecclesiastes passages are spoken from man's point of view and are not statements of dogma.

«Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error.»

- But the difference is, Science eventually comes to its senses in the face of TESTABLE EVIDENCE and changes it's views; the thought of changing away from religious dogma is abhorrant to almost all faiths, and change in practices often take much time.

The threatening dogma entailed in the Bible is the type of behavior I would expect from other human beings but not from a God who cares only about his created beings.

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.

When Christians usurped Jesus from the Jews and made him over in the image they imagined for him it was easy to dismiss the truth in favor of the dogma, and therein lies the fundamental flaw in Christianity — Jesus was a devout Jew!

That they started in the 1820's does not take away from the fact that what they base their dogmas upon is pure invention on the part of a somewhat deranged preacher (who even claimed to walk on water... disproved, fortunately).

Given the «inner unity» of their relationship, the falseness of any attempt to divide theory, or dogma, from the realm of activity, ie the realm of lived pastoral reality, is clearly evident.

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

If the dogmas of the Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of ideas of equal finality.

I don't think that's what Catholic dogma teaches — it is merely for the type of suffering you are describing, that during suffering, the strength one can draw upon is from a closeness with God (or a feeling of something greater that can help one).

According to this myth, biblical scholarship was a struggle outward from dogma into the freedom of history, and upward to the higher truth finally realized in 19th - century Germany.

In the first chapter, he reclaims the word dogma from its popular pejorative meaning, defining it as an accurate statement of what is true, and setting out the relation between philosophy and theology that frames the rest of the book.

Attacking Christianity We can say of many of the secondary lines of attack upon Christian dogma drawn from the modern sciences and modern critique that the interpretations offered of the evidence is never necessary, and that frequently the evidence itself is too scrappy and too little evaluated as fact to be worth considering.

If your so - called «faith» is so strong and «protects» you from all of your perceived «dangers of evil», then WHY are you so afraid of people who have simply decided to live a life guided by REASON instead of a life guided by contrived dogma and ancient mythology?

It can exhibit the «old» dogma from quite a different angle, and profoundly alter the concrete form in which it appears in the thought and especially in the life of the Church.

Most of the theology and dogma that developed around him since then resulted, as I see it, from misunderstanding or avoiding his central teaching, which had nothing whatsoever to do with sun worship.

To the extent that in canon law there are maxims which belong to divine, immutable law and derive from the essence of natural or supernatural realities, they also belong to the Church's doctrine of faith, to its dogma.

But there is an irony here: Reading on, I found that this very love of dogma eventually led Newman away from the evangelicalism with which I then identified, first to Tractarianism and then to Rome.

In my judgment a reworking of Christianity along progressivist lines, i.e., along lines which teach God's insistence upon democratic dogmas and which discern doctrine - altering «Revelation» in democratic social trends, remains an ongoing potentiality, whether initiated by «Protestants» or «Catholics»; this follows, I hold, from Tocquevillian premises.

That is, no definitive Lutheran dogma is taken from the Book of Hebrews alone (it is a historically contested book).

It's getting to the point now that, far from feeling like I am on the front lines battling dogma and superst.ition, I feel like I am mopping up the remaining pockets of resistance to logic and reason in a boring rear guard action.

(10) The language of dogma may be different from the language of Scripture, but the message must be the same.

I think, maybe (I'm still working on the whole «unbelief» system... there is far more dogma on «unbelief» than I thought possible, and I'm only recently becoming aware of the amount of it) the abyss is the unknown that we move away from, or, don't move into... once we do go there, it is not an unknown, and therefor can no longer be an abyss.

I don't agree with any kind of dogma and yet, Marx was a very dogmatic person, no different from Jesus or any other religious leader.

Sir Winston and other greats of Western civilization notwithstanding, our good priest from Thebes would have felt most uncomfortable at Trent or in other contemporary centers of Christendom where dogmas were held in high regard.

«We are no longer in the business of fixing permanent dogmas from an inspired Bible.

Not to pass out fairytales to our children of some aged dogma from an era long dead, our children deserve better.

In the popular telling of Martin Luther's story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging the dogma of his day.

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

«The Highest Beings stand out from one another as dark omnipotence and shining goodness, not as later with Marcion in dogma and creed, but in the actual experience of the poor soul of man.»

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

Those basic tenets do not come from religion; indeed they predate religion which has incorporated them into its dogma as if it were the original source of such inherent wisdom.

Once more the aim is the removal of mythology, but this time it springs from a dogma which is less inappropriate.

[3] He described the idea that a fetus is a person from the moment of conception as a «minority dogma» by which the majority of Americans was being «tyrannized.»

Also, if the acceptance of the finality of Jesus is dissociated from the acceptance of particular dogmas about him, the obstacles to a full appropriation of Jesus and of spiritual existence would be still further diminished.

The fact that the most fruitful research has occurred only when this dogma has been denied (or bracketed, as by Freud) is not yet viewed as any grounds for lesser faith, nor are the extraordinary paradoxes that follow from this dogma for thought's understanding of itself.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

Perhaps it was the softening of Communist dogma, its transformation from a system into a collection of causes, which brought about the decline.