The tradition of blue as a regal color then continued from the Renaissance through the Age
of Absolutism in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, eventually evolving into a more generalized mark of the aristocracy in the portraits of artists like Thomas Gainsborough, famed for his Blue Boy.
In place
of the absolutism of exclusive claims of finality, an ecumenical spirit would acknowledge a plurality of significant religious models without lapsing into a complete relativism which would undercut all concern for truth.
To be honest in our day is to embrace relativity as a virtue and to recognize that absolutism is a vice — any
kind of absolutism, whether it be ecclesiastical, papal, biblical or the absolutism of sacred tradition.
In
place of the absolutism of exclusive claims to finality, an ecumenical spirit would acknowledge a plurality of significant religious models, without lapsing into a complete relativism which would undercut all concern for truth.
I saw the same glazed
look of absolutism, certitude, and belligerence that I noted years earlier in the eyes of the evangelicals I went to Bible college with.
Except for some feminists, they have contorted themselves into pretzels to avoid any
trace of absolutism in the debate.
This for Marcel meant to spread forth a loathsome image of God in the
name of absolutism, conformity and fanaticism.
Other factors include the Reformation, the ascendancy of the arts, the Enlightenment, and the
concept of absolutism - the idea that power could be centralized in a king or a state.
But in any event the result was the
politics of absolutism, which was rejected by the liberal tradition that Hobbes himself helped to usher in.
Fundamentalism and the subversion of science The dark
side of absolutism Faith and homosexuality Faith and the sanctity of human life The Great Beethoven Fallacy How «moderation» in faith fosters fanaticism 9.
Despite only having seven inmates at the time of the attack, as a result of the high number of political prisoners whose writings had displeased the crown, the Bastille was a
symbol of the absolutism of the French monarchy.
Katz: I think in the 80s the idea of avant - garde modernism, which in some ways linked the
promotion of absolutism, communism, and fascism, all finally collapsed.
I realize this is a Kindle blog but your
kind of absolutism — which is so blatantly wrong — I guarantee you, Amazon will sell more digital books for the PC than for Kindles (assuming the app is free).