Sentences with phrase «more dogmatic»

Well, France is even more dogmatic than Britain about shale gas!

In winning, science became more dogmatic than the religion it replaced.

«Surrealism wasn't a systematic movement in America the way it was in Europe, where it was much more dogmatic,» Foster said.

So is Occupy Museums, with its more dogmatic debtfair.org centered on the art of Puerto Rico.

As Abstract Expressionism took hold in New York and action painting grew more dogmatic, Edith set aside her figurative intensions and turned to collage and assemblage «because it was in an avant - garde technique it was considered alright by the abstractionists.»

It requires being a little more dogmatic, persistent, and repetitive to get a point across than was previously the case.

There's no investor more dogmatic than a confirmed passive investor.

I used to be a bit more dogmatic on the comic / not comic divide, but these days I try to keep more of an open mind on the topic.

Though she is more dogmatic than I am, I was comfortable with that most of the time, but I do admit to cringing on several occasions.

Giroux rejects absolutism when it comes to empirical knowledge, but he is more dogmatic with regard to the values teachers as transformative intellectuals are supposed to cultivate.

Their Judas, Kichijiro, appears early and while the more dogmatic Garupe is tormented more by fleas than doubt, Rodrigues, horrified by what the locals are put through for their faith and God's total silence, begins a crisis of belief that runs the film.

There is no one diet, of course, but for these types, for the artists, there is a good template to explore, and to the chagrin of the more dogmatic yoga and spiritual community, it is an acidic diet notable for its red meat content which stimulates the sympathetic system and balances these stressed beings.

in fact, they seem even more dogmatic and committed to this stance these days.

The kernel of your message here is perfectly reasonable and a useful reminder for those of us who enjoy a more dogmatic approach.

Elementary children in the Church can sometimes embrace their parents views and be much more dogmatic about them, so I would be very on guard for a potential negative comments from classmates and would want the leader to cut off any kind of negative peer response as quickly as possible.

This is what separates science from other more dogmatic ways of knowing.

The real issue is that Americans are more dogmatic than in the past, believing what they here and becoming less educated as a group.

One thing is provable, the more dogmatic the believer, the less intelligent he is.

Not exact matches

Though the action takes place well before the 18th century, there are hints of the movement from the thinking and institutions of the middle ages — dogmatic, mystical,... Read more

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It is ironic that the values of liberal democrats reflect the teachings of Christ much more faithfully than do the rigid dogmatic proclamations of conservative republicans.

That would seem to imply that theology for a person of faith is more speculative than dogmatic, certainly not the dogmatic absolutism that closes minds and often hearts that we see in so many who profess faith.

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.

Hence today I feel much more confident to develop a doctrine of God and to treat the subjects of Christian dogmatics in that perspective.

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

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 can not say that it is «dogmatic» to assert that god doesn't exist because it hasn't been * proven * that god doesn't exist, any more than someone can say its dogmatic to assert that elves, fairies, Santa, the Easter Bunny, or leprechauns don't exist.

On the other hand, some of them may have read back into Wesley a more conservative, dogmatic, or moralistic mentality than he in fact exhibited.

I find SBNRs are more likely to be open to reality, less dogmatic, less pushy, than Christians or Muslims.

He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that on all these questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context of general reflection.

On that basis it is conceivable that genuine «progress» in dogmatic development in the future will move, not so much in the direction of a wider, more exact unfolding and precise definition of traditional dogma, but simply in that of a more living, radical grasp and statement of the ultimate fundamental dogmas themselves.

While it holds to a dogmatic faith, evangelicalism demands more than this: an experience, that of the new birth, and a vigorous activism.

Of course, there are new questions in dogmatic and moral theology, which have been discussed more openly at and after the Council and which have not yet been solved, among them questions of great importance also for the practical life.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

If this were simply a dogmatic statement of the importance of relationships grounded in Whitehead's doctrine of prehensions, we would all have to recognize the danger of moving in this way from the metaphysics to the more concrete theory.

It happens more often in the eastern world by dogmatic communists (atheists who are fed up with those crazy Christians ruining everything).

Both shifts in his thinking indicated that he was less dogmatic in his approach to history than he had been in his Gifford Lectures and more open to human accomplishment.

Davis is perhaps more candid than Beegle in recognizing that he can not be dogmatic concerning what in Scripture is to be rejected.

No cult would be authorised which was of itself «hostile» to the State; nor any which was itself exclusive of all others, The basis of these exceptions was, once more, political policy and not any dogmatic zeal».

The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are about sex and sexual activity.

They are more didactic, include some dogmatic statements, provide moral instruction, and even suggest forms of organization.

Singer thinks these systems are human fabrications, dogmatic ingenuities which tell us more about people than they do about God.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

Thus, for example, B. Marcozzi, Schmaus, Colombo, Carles, and Catholic exegetes of the present day more or less generally; exegetes seem to be more progressive or less embarrassed than dogmatic theologians.

This initially occurs in Descartes and Spinoza, but it becomes far more comprehensive in Schelling and Hegel, and so much so that the whole body of dogmatic theology undergoes a metamorphosis into pure philosophical thinking in Hegel's system.

The liberals have been more conscious of the need of applying human intelligence to the quest for the truth of the gospel, and chastened by an awareness of the fallibility of the human mind, they have been less dogmatic in asserting that God has given to them the full and final disclosure of Christian truth.

Perhaps conservative evangelicals run the risk of being needlessly dogmatic on some issues, thereby alienating the next generation, while progressives are in danger of giving up so much historic doctrine that their faith is starting to look more like Campolo's humanism than historic Christianity.

While few of us who were seminarians and graduate students in the late «50s and early 60s are still Barthians, many of us, were then, and whether we stayed with Barth or, more commonly, departed from him, the in - depth exposure to his Church Dogmatics left its mark.

Dispute the proofs all you want, but pretending they don't exist - or that logic isn't «evidence» of anything - shows more that you're partisan and dogmatic than reflective and intelligent.

The never - completed Dogmatics alone ran to 12 volumes that average more than 600 densely printed pages each.