Sentences with phrase «into dogmatism»

Because its inclination to claim absolute and exclusive theological truth so regularly, moves evangelical doctrine into dogmatism, it may be unable to establish the intellectual foundation which distinguishes a university from all other social institutions.

The problem with athiesm which the buddhist scholar Alan Watts pointed out is that it all to often devolves into dogmatism like religion.

Not exact matches

It is a far cry from Paul's benediction — «The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit» — to the Athanasian Creed, with its hard dogmatism, its overconfident survey of God's nature into three clearly defined acreages, and its arrogant conclusion: «He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.»

As the developing sciences began to get into their stride, and that brings us into the last hundred years, there was a tendency for them, having refuted so much of what Christian orthodoxy took for granted, to establish their own form of dogmatism.

After reading the comments, this is the overall impression I get: Why would I leave Christianity and the Church * with all its exclusivist dogmatism simply to run into the arms of another community that is just as exclusive and dogmatic?

Neglect of the fact that the story is a story betrays us not only into a sterile and irrelevant literalism, but also into an unnecessarily rigid and divisive dogmatism.

Doubt challenges all dogmatisms and calls into question the neat schemes in which we think we have the truth all wrapped up.

we can understand Albert Schweitzer's lament of the present regression into narrow dogmatism, «We have a rich heritage from the past.