Sentences with word «obscurantism»

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

I make no plea for obscurantism or «blind faith,» but rather that men should find their proper place in the universe.

Contextualization [is] a delicate enterprise if ever there was one... the evangelist and mission strategist stand on a razor's edge, aware that to fall off on either side has terrible consequences... Fall to the right and you end in obscurantism, so attached to your conventional ways of practicing and teaching the faith that you veil its truth and power from those who are trying to see it through very different eyes.

In both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th century.

Thus arises the tradeoff that most concerns Godwin and Kemerer: individual autonomy and cultural pluralism versus social cohesion and a societal duty to rescue children from obscurantism.

This bewildering parade of names indicates that the dialectics of Dewey (his movement back and forth between the ideal and the reality of community) has degenerated, in Rorty's hands at least, into sheer obscurantism.

Such obscurantism might not be so noteworthy in the work of a lesser artist, but Le Va's art possesses a quality that has become increasingly rare in reductive art even as the genre itself has proliferated: emotional depth.

Insistence on literal inerrancy, whatever its uses in arresting doctrinal laxity, leaves the LCMS vulnerable to charges of biblicist obscurantism.

He concludes that God's existence is, after all, plausible enough, and that the Islamic civilization Ben Abbes is striving for is not a crushing obscurantism but a political and philosophical safeguard of personal happiness and biological reproduction.

One of the tragedies of Christian history has been the way in which some in positions of leadership have sought to turn the great dynamic movement of Christian faith and living into an ignorant obscurantism.

About the only thing that was accomplished, from what I could tell, was a half hour of empty chatter and post-modern obscurantism.

They generated two contrasting types of spirituality, and that «contrast may well be defined in terms of the «sanctification» and «justification» aspects of the Christian doctrine of grace,» he said.24 The Reformation was overbalanced by a defeatism and cultural obscurantism, and the Renaissance by an unwarranted optimism.

Luther's defeatism and Calvin's obscurantism contributed to this defeat.

Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2012, J74pp, # 2J Nowadays, historians are presenting the Reformation without all the anti-Catholic propaganda: no longer it seen simply as a victory over Roman obscurantism.

It calls for the fostering of values that «have a universal appeal» and that could help to «eliminate obscurantism, religious fanaticism, violence, superstition, and fatalism.»

If Christianity wants to avoid the charge of outright obscurantism or willful fanaticism, all four claimed, it must justify itself before the bar of nature; and if revelation has any meaning whatever, besides being otherwise an expression of ethnic or religious chauvinism, it must be seen as being merely a pedagogical repetition for the peasant mind «set of the Book of Nature.

We can avoid this epistemological obscurantism if we recognize the experiential, perceptive quality of all reality.

Because public broadcasting is one of society's best hopes for disseminating information and penetrating the clouds of commercial obscurantism, support from every political quarter should rally behind our public system.

Its «life» is manifested not in a self - protective obscurantism, but in the act of «breathing life» into whatever is worthy in a given time and place.

Even dissent and avant - gardism must now define themselves as over against mainstream media content and programming, which gives an unearned cachet to willed obscurantism.

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism.

Faith and religious enthusiasm were replaced in many cases by obscurantism and superstition, and the true charismatic was almost obscured by hereditary dynasties of zaddikim who lived in oriental luxury and exploited the credulity of the people.

In another year's time he'd be producing oblique agitprop antagonisms outside of the system; in two he'd be liberating his craft from the strictures of conventional filmmaking practice altogether, rejecting the petite - bourgeois affectations of narrative and drama in favor of hyperpolitical obscurantism; and by 1970 he was producing documentaries for the Arab League on the subject of Palestinian persecution, dedicated only to ideological saber - rattling.

Its poorly executed obscurantism and hacky supporting character work failing to conjure any real sense of danger or stakes.

Full of bright primary colors, punny chapter breaks, all manner of meta - winks and other strenuous bits of Godardian business, the movie draws an unambiguous parallel between the disintegration of their relationship and the loss of Godard's filmmaking mojo as he is swallowed whole by his own surly, disagreeable post -»60s obscurantism.

With his follow - up, Aurora, a no less challenging immersion in the daily existence of a single figure, Puiu deliberately courts a frustrating obscurantism that at times plays like an intriguing mystery and other times just baffles.

Adoniou's methods and advocacy can be seen as an attempt to find a space between two extremes — the conservatives, who are nostalgic for a return to 1950s - style grammar instruction, and the parts of the Academy that still favour obscurantism.

There must be those who take Titchner's wilful obscurantism for creative thinking and artistic depth, but his appeal passes me by.

Thus, the world's most prestigious art prizes, biennales, triennials, art fairs and forums have become orchestrated dance orgies of obscurantism around this intellectual idol.

Denying climate change is not Rebelo's only contribution to policy obscurantism.

He makes Mosher's attempts at obscurantism look as simple as the phone book.

Anyway, that father is the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia and one of his points of advice is: [we need to] «educate ourselves and work hard and engage with life's difficult questions rather than retreat into religious obscurantism.»

There was so much justi ed resentment against obscurantism, excessive censorship and ultra-conservative taboos.

If these spaces and the activity they foster are to continue then practice, the term and the action it describes, should be celebrated and separated from obscurantism and corporate - tinged nebulousness, which ought to be the true targets of critical focus.

Derrida would laugh at me, the book thrower, for having joined a profession notorious for obscurantism.

At the same time, I maintain that to revive or perpetuate the demonology of the New Testament in the modern world is to incur the charge of obscurantism and superstition.

Left to themselves the mosques will remain centers of fanaticism and obscurantism.

Secularism was a necessary corrective to religious traditions, both Jewish and Christian, that had discredited themselves through their mutual hatred, their obscurantism, their spiritualist escapism.

There is certainly nothing in the Reformation image itself that gives warrant for rigidity, legalism, obscurantism, or wooliness.

The tough - minded post-Story survivor may (if he is an indulgent sort of person) also answer «yes»; but if he does he will believe that he is generously tolerating a good deal of backwardness and obscurantism.