Sentences with phrase «intellectual doubts»

For quite some time the brilliant young student had intellectual doubts about the Christian faith.

They're doing it to cause us enough intellectual doubt, emotional pain, and spiritual anxiety so that we'll correct ourselves and fall in line on the safe and secure path.

However, his conclusions understate the role of intellectual doubt among Millennials because the questions focused on attitudes the Millennials held toward the Church.

These meetings are attended mostly by Millennials who are college graduates still struggling with intellectual doubts from college days.

The most common barriers to prayer are found in personal attitudes, in the social environment, in nervous tension and «spiritual dryness,» in lack of knowledge of how to pray, in intellectual doubts, and in the frustration of unanswered prayer.

Robert Polidori's astonishing After the Flood at Flowers East is one of the finest sustained series of photographs for years and that very rare thing, a set of pictures in which intellectual doubt and graphical certainty combine to something approaching perfection.

Rachel Held Evans seems to be dealing with intellectual doubts about the Bible.

The «portrait» is not so much of the figure as of the artist's attitude towards it; the «Jerk» is therefore a mobile value in the show, becoming the personification of intellectual doubt, a visual alter - ego, or the recipient of a troubling and formless contempt.

... Intellectual doubt has become particularly acute for many Christians due to the fact that there has been a hollowing out of faith in many sectors of Christianity.

This shy student had written in 1955 to say that he was vexed by the intellectual doubts his professors had created.

His breakdown amid the variety of Roman alternatives was cured by the new Christian alternative, his intellectual doubts as a late antique philosopher were resolved by Hebrew and Christian truth, his dissatisfaction with professional advancement in Rome was rechanneled into an enthusiasm for the new society of the ecclesia.

It is intensely personal, sustaining a person's faith, in spite of his / her moral failure, intellectual doubt and spiritual despair of his / herself and the world; and it gives to personal life a sense of direction and destiny.

The research would have been more helpful if it probed the intellectual doubts Millennials have about the existence of God and whether science and Christianity are compatible.

Once religion is injected, they are incapable of intellectual doubt and committed to the modern equivalent of calculating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and condemnation of heretics, preferably by burning.