Sentences with phrase «made dogmatic»

You have made a dogmatic statement and claim Rasmus does not know what he is talking about.

(This Lutheran Pastor believes that both the Assumption of Mary and the Immaculate Conception can be defended biblically, but they can not be made dogmatic beliefs necessary for salvation.)

I grieve when Christian preachers make dogmatic assertions about people they say will be lost.

My point here is not to make dogmatic claims about what will ever be scientifically or technically possible, but to suggest once again the Hall's own vision of the future may take too seriously the self - image of some technologists as practitioners of a purely rational and completely formalizable activity.

As a future RD, I need to be wary of making dogmatic claims and really focus on the individual.

And when you have 10 years (or even 5 years) of data that clearly indicate a «break point» then it behooves you to pay attention and not make dogmatic statements about how that «break point» does not exist.

Not exact matches

While it makes good sense for professionals to become ninjas in their respective discipline, for the laymen investor, this dogmatic thinking can be very dangerous.

They both have dogmatic aggendas and that makes both sides untrustworthy George Fear

Christianity's «dogmatic» character and «missionary spirit» have made it bigoted to the core.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

When you make categorical statements like «not a single shred of evidence» it tends to show that you're (a) dogmatic, (b) misinformed, and (c) know nothing about history, philosophy or science.

In fact, the more cast - iron you are with what you believe, as you seem to be by all the dogmatic statements you have made, the easier it is for something to tip the balance and cause you to remove yourself.

One thing I'd like to add to the conversation is that being dogmatic does not make you right or wrong.

That is what makes religion dogmatic and prevents atheism from being dogmatic.

Of course we don't want to make the mistake of becoming unnecessarily dogmatic or prideful in the answers we seek, but I think an «easy faith» can cut both ways.

On the other hand, as memoria, faith makes it clear that Christian faith is a dogmatic faith which is tied to a certain content, a fides quae creditur.

Nevertheless, full dogmatic articulations of the Bible's canon were not made by Roman Catholicism until 1546 and Greek Orthodoxy until 1672.

The religion has made it that an otherwise good person, living their life, surrounding themselves with loving friends and families and doing charitable things can still be considered «bad» by religion because they aren't following dogmatic law asking them to alienate and pester other people.

It was a very just thought to which the older dogmatic frequently recurred, whereas a later dogmatic so often censored it for lack of understanding and a proper sense of its meaning — it was a very just thought, although sometimes a wrong application was made of it: the thought that what makes sin so frightful is that it is before God.

The speculative dogmatic, being itself aware of this to a certain degree, has known no other way to help itself but by the maneuver, not very seemly in a philosophic science, of throwing out a detachment of asseverations at the point where a movement is being made.

Vietnam, sexism, racism, homosexuality, multiculturalism, bio-ethical decision - making, nuclear control are just a few of the major issues that overwhelmed the dogmatic posture of the neo-realists.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

Post-conciliar theology makes it clear that many new questions still await an answer, that many opinions in both dogmatic and moral theology must again be discussed and even revised, including matters which are important for the Christian life.

But the studies that have been made suggest that attitudes learned in one field have limited influence on new situations in other fields; and outside their own area scientists can be as dogmatic as anyone else.

Rejecting Paul's confidence, and the inevitable dogmatic corollary, Hick's solution is that God has intentionally made the world ambiguous — i.e., has intentionally created it «to look as if there were no God» so that we can come to faith freely.

Schleiermacher believed one could make headway in dogmatics only by inviting the hearer's or reader's participation in the inquiry.

That Bhuddism has dogmatic «scriptures» or tracts enough for Bhuddism to be called Bhuddism, make it a religion — plain and simple.

The claim for dogmatic certitude is vigorously denied and his own philosophy declared to be inadequate (PR 343).2 Whitehead thus takes criticism for granted; indeed he regards his philosophy as a success if it makes a new kind of criticism possible (ESP 114) 3 He himself provides the criteria according to which his philosophy is to be evaluated.

My tendency was to cover that insecurity with dogmatic pronouncements; and this tended to make my rigidity seem virtuous, at least to myself.

Now, in making this contrast between two quite different kinds of language about God I am not suggesting that the elaborate dogmatic formulation is worthless: still less that it is ridiculous.

Barth's answer was that every page of his Dogmatics was in need of improvement and that we should set to work to make it better.

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

The reason the author found out that kids have a tendency to make us more observant is because religion is dogmatic in nature and requires an all in commitment.

or when they made the religion of a bleeding heart liberal into a conservative dogmatic behavioral control mechanism.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

Although he accepted the synoptic account of Jesus» teaching as largely authentic, he made no attempt to construct a picture of Jesus from that teaching, and, although he quite properly criticized the element of myth in the gospels, he then went on to replace that dogmatic mythology of the Church with a conceptual mythology of his own.

Consequently, although four of the six chapters (3 - 6) that make up Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, concentrate on the Scriptures, the document begins (chapters 1 - 2) by setting the Bible in the context of God revealing Himself to man in the history of salvation, in Christ who is the fullness of Revelation, and in the life of the Church through which Revelation is transmitted.

While some parents who call themselves «attachment parents» do tend to make some of these choices, these are not pre-requisites into some exclusive club of dogmatic parents.

Specifically, care should be taken not overstep the boundaries of the logical question at hand and end up drifting into dogmatic hatred and making generaliztions about the stupidity or evilness of those we don't agree with.

A case certainly can be made for him as a precursor of Blue Labour in one respect — his faith — but it was this very faith that made him such a dogmatic pacifist and thus sundered him completely from working class patriotism.

Even blood donation has become a Paleo fad among the most dogmatic of 21st - century cavemen, based on the notion that our ancestors were often wounded, making blood loss a way of life.

It seems to operate under the dogmatic belief that the human body is a machine, and that the problems that can cause one part of this machine to break down are very dissimilar from the ones that make another part vulnerable to malfunction.

But the mandate to make everything exist in the real - world is thankfully not dogmatic.

Though it is set during World War I and inspired by stories Renoir heard from fellow veterans, calling «Grand Illusion» an antiwar film runs the risk of making it sound strident and dogmatic.

But that's only the tip of the iceberg as far as The Crucifixion is concerned, and while Gens remains a cinematic visualist worth keeping tabs on, why he signed on to make a film this condescendingly dogmatic is a question I'll likely never know the answer to.

On the other hand, complexity makes the difference or the complex plurality, which does not have an horizontal order, the social - corporative theories tend to fall to the deception of having «organization levels», and unavoidably make the mistake of seeing the world as a plural closed over it - self; typical of the dogmatic ideologies that in the end just look for a zero confusion level.

dogmatic effort to... short - circuit community participation in school governance, (ii) evade its responsibility to assist struggling schools before summarily seeking their closure often to improperly make way for charter schools, and (iii) co-locate other favored programs without regard to squeezing out the students in «traditional» public schools from any fair allocation of school resources.

Don't fret, meat - eaters, Copeland assures us that «this book is here to exalt vegetarianism in pursuit of the delicious, not the dogmatic,» and her flavor combinations are top - notch, making these veggie - centric meals you can truly look forward to.

The above 5 points probably makes me sound overly dogmatic toward individual stocks.

Less than a decade later he passionately disavowed all of those things, publishing a dogmatic, almost comically specific, often contradictory manifesto describing the precise method of making pure, modern paintings: paintings that incidentally were nothing like his own early works.