Sentences with phrase «lukewarmness with»

To the degree that members of oldline Protestant denominations participate in this reinstitutionalization of society and in the consequent erosion of deep values, their loyalties will be dispersed over a number of different social worlds, they will exist without what JeanFrancois Lyotard has termed a societal «master narrative,» and they will surely experience lukewarmness with respect to traditional faith.

But it is obvious that we do not want to overcome lukewarmness with the destructive fanaticism that those beliefs engender today.

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What idea of ecclesial vitality does Cobb have in mind when he charges the mainline churches with lukewarmness?

Cobb provides the reader with an illuminating account of the historical and recent setting of oldline lukewarmness.

The lukewarmness engendered by vagueness and irrelevance could, in principle, be replaced with wholehearted conviction of truth and importance.

Yet the only time Alpers writes without her characteristic lukewarmness is when she talks around Katz's art, particularly when expressing her impatience with those who treasure «art as something distinctive, something which might have its own history.»