Sentences with phrase «in obscurantism»

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Insistence on literal inerrancy, whatever its uses in arresting doctrinal laxity, leaves the LCMS vulnerable to charges of biblicist obscurantism.

One of the tragedies of Christian history has been the way in which some in positions of leadership have sought to turn the great dynamic movement of Christian faith and living into an ignorant obscurantism.

In both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th centurIn both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th centurin the 18th century.

At the same time, I maintain that to revive or perpetuate the demonology of the New Testament in the modern world is to incur the charge of obscurantism and superstition.

This blindness to the relationship between spirituality and learning has been in part the fault of the «enlightened» secular establishment and in part the fault of religious bigotry and obscurantism.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

But yet it is still sadly true that large numbers of our more thoughtful contemporaries are repelled from the Church because they find in it what looks to them like sheer unthinking obscurantism, a shockingly immoral attitude towards truth (of which Mr. Blamires» book is an example), and a cavalier disregard of patent fact about the world in which we live.

Faith and religious enthusiasm were replaced in many cases by obscurantism and superstition, and the true charismatic was almost obscured by hereditary dynasties of zaddikim who lived in oriental luxury and exploited the credulity of the people.

And thus, our years in review may be construed for their difference — a difference marked by contrarianism, anachronism, obscurantism, compulsion, and, above all, variety.

With his follow - up, Aurora, a no less challenging immersion in the daily existence of a single figure, Puiu deliberately courts a frustrating obscurantism that at times plays like an intriguing mystery and other times just baffles.

Such obscurantism might not be so noteworthy in the work of a lesser artist, but Le Va's art possesses a quality that has become increasingly rare in reductive art even as the genre itself has proliferated: emotional depth.

Despentes succeeds in emphasizing the obscurantism, social crisis, and loss of humanity of the current times, inventing a new version of Balzac's La comédie humaine.

Unfortunately, rather than confront this failure, the arts community has taken up a position of obscurantism and abandoned the intellectual high ground to the more rigorous thinkers found in other disciplines.

Sadly, in today's world we have a society that allows the most egregious obscurantism to thrive in all spheres of life.