Sentences with phrase «not fideism»
Christianity is not a blind faith — it's not fideism.
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Well, whether I was right or not, among the responses I provoked none surprised me more than the accusation of «fideism.»
More often than not the philosopher is maligned as the progenitor of European irrationalism and fideism (la Isaiah Berlin).
Their critique of reason opens the door also to forms of irrationalism and fideism that the deconstructive post-modernists do not, in fact, want.
One can have recourse to fideism and subjectivism, but the question remains: How does one show that fideism is not myth?
However, from my perspective, it is not his pacifism that makes Hauerwas vulnerable to charges of fideism and sectarianism.
Whether Mr. Hollinger knows it or not, he and the pope are on the same side in contending against both ideological secularism and religious fideism.
Does not his entire enterprise threaten to veer toward fideism since it lacks the support of a meaning that could announce its other origin by confronting me?
To believe that whether or not scholars are Christian is irrelevant to the excellence of their scholarship is to reject a rich philosophical and theological tradition and to adopt a form of the fideism for which many Catholics justly criticize many Protestants.
But the tension between fideism and scientism didn't make sense to me; somehow, the whole cake had to be cut a different way.
The main entry in our Cutting Edge column shows how this relationship, contrary to the apparent monism not to say fideism of Professor Ayala the 2010Templeton Prize winner, is related to a proper understanding of the relationship between science and the spiritual.
While the pope labels the paradigm technocratic, the criticism is not of technology per se, but of an uncritical techno - fideism — a «blind confidence in technical solutions» — and of the market logic that harnesses it with a single - minded focus on profit, without thinking about the actual goals of human activity.
There is no reason, in principle, that science and religion need to be odds, but the worst of the AGWers do not simply adopt AGW as a religion, but as the crudest form of fideism.