Sentences with phrase «heretical imperative»

Fronting the theological «right,» I'm convinced that any attempts to reconstruct old certainties, as if «the heretical imperative» could be ignored, are futile.

I have called this crucial consequence of pluralism «the heretical imperative,» and I have tried in my recent book of that title to analyze different theological responses to this rather uncomfortable situation.

In 1969 my book A Rumor of Angels was published, and in 1979 my book The Heretical Imperative.

For me, however, delineation with regard to the theological «right» is equally important, and I hope that The Heretical Imperative has now fulfilled this purpose.

Alas, such certitude is unavailable to those of us persuaded by the logic of the heretical imperative.

In The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our modern age.

From The Sacred Canopy through The Heretical Imperative (1979) to In Praise of Doubt (2009), much of Berger's career has been dedicated to understanding the causes of this condition and teasing out its implication.