Sentences with phrase «intellectual despisers»

The central focus of Niebuhr's career was «the defense and justification of the Christian faith in a secular age, particularly among what Schleiermacher called Christianity s «intellectual despisers.»

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This opposition has been most overtly urged on political but often on intellectual grounds, and Schleiermacher's defense of Christian faith against its «cultured despisers» is a procedure that has again and again proved necessary.3

Both Niebuhr and Murdoch are the intellectual descendants of Schleiermacher, seeking to defend religion before its «cultured despisers.»