Sentences with phrase «of doctrinaire»

I know the (Aussie) ABC are a bunch of doctrinaire lefties for the most part, but I always enjoy my appearances thereon and Tony Jones is a not un-agreeable host, all things considered.

The decade is especially remembered for the emergence of a doctrinaire, pro-Minimalist art criticism.

He began to see a spirit of doctrinaire intolerance entering into the way the religious changes were imposed.

Catholic social thinkers mounted an early and sustained critique of the doctrinaire individualism and the abstract social contract approaches of theorists on whom modern liberalism rests: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and their followers.

For even if one avoids commitment and merely drifts with life's tide, or even if the commitment is merely to hold to one's own past or absolutize one's personality, the resultant selfhood is decisively qualified by the mood of inauthenticity in the one case, or by one or the other form of doctrinaire self - assertion in the other.

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

Not exact matches

But the IMF has become far less doctrinaire under the leadership of Christine Lagarde, the former French finance minister.

I went to a similar school, and feel pretty confident in saying that Kenney would be regarded by the staff there as just the sort of product that they wanted to turn out — aggressive and doctrinaire.

We know that the conflict of Muhammad with the Jews in Medina was largely political in nature, whereas the conflict with Christians had a doctrinaire dimension in that it centered on the nature and being of God.

He represents the court as haying succumbed to a doctrinaire enthusiasm for «strict separation» that is pressing toward complete secularization of American public life.

How these positions are more absolutist and doctrinaire than his own commitment to the approval of homosexuality, women priests, and married priests is, as per usual, not made clear.

But doctrinaire doubts are out of place if they hinder our wholehearted cooperation with this new deal (January 17, 1934).

This should not surprise us, since conservatism entails the rejection of abstract and doctrinaire theoretical approaches to political life.

If we are to survive as a people we must recapture the noetic and pneumatic insights gained during the founding period (e.g. the pneumatic reality of the Great Awakening, the noetic reality of the form of government, etc.) and we must repair the egophanic deformation that has resulted in the collapse of the symbols into the doctrinaire «system.»

That doctrinaire communists are dedicated to what they believe to be of supreme worth is evident.

At the Interdenominational Theological Center — a cluster of seven predominantly black seminaries in Atlanta — we feel that While such a pattern will not be rigid or doctrinaire or even «classic,» it seems to have several aspects which, viewed together, could be called the objectives of the seminary inasmuch as they serve to integrate...

Open to transcendence, searching for what is true and good, consensus - building could become genuine and lead humanity to a civilisation of love that no longer has anything to do with the «top - down» and doctrinaire paradigms of modernity.

As Johnson has clearly stated, biology informed by the recognition of intelligent design is «theism «friendly» in a way that doctrinaire naturalism is not.

The accusation is often leveled that such questions betray a rigidity of outlook, all a tad doctrinaire and rather old - fashioned.

This is not to say that he was uncritical of organized and doctrinaire forms of religion, but it is to warn ourselves to put aside traditional Christian stereotypes of a legalistic and barren Judaism.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

So much of Christianity is doctrinaire.

He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego - centered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices.

In those days many of us thought in a more doctrinaire way about social classes than we do now.

These were the doctrinaires who posed the problem of he «unjust prince» and tyrannicide.

Some of the more authoritarian of our Asian religions might provide a sufficiently doctrinaire model but their small following in comparison with Protestant fundamentalism virtually rules them out.

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

Sound doctrine, of course, is not the same as doctrinaire stubbornness, nor a facade for secondhand faith.

He warns that ««socialism for the people» turns Out to be either doctrinaire or bureaucratic oppression of the people.

It would be inaccurate, however with regard to the old quarrel between the doctrinaires and the empiricists of the worker's movement, to include me among the latter.

Bob... I'm not really sure if yr response to the Bonhoeffer quote is becuz you think it unreasonable or simply,» too doctrinaire», or as you say» religious speak» But, I take the statement to mean that the only hope for true community is the death of the «human wish for «community and therein lies the same paradox that is at the heart of the Christian message..

Contrarily, the evidence of our century suggests that the totalitarian impulse is implicit rather than accidental in doctrinaire irreligion which adores its shrunken vision of humankind.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).

To some mullahs in Algeria, who have denounced her «for running with naked legs in front of thousands of men,» the answer is just as doctrinaire.

Her Olympic year began with dislocation when Algeria's army deposed the president and stopped elections in order to keep doctrinaire Muslims out of power.

The doctrinaire and exasperating nature of Thatcherism was its insurgency disposition on the politics of the 1970s; Cameronism is making adjustments and acculturating the British to that «common sense».

But I guess voting a man who did achieve the lowest unemployment rate out of all the Hudson Valley and replacing him with a doctrinaire political hack is what stupid people do.

As Luis da Vinha argues, Ronald Reagan moved from the doctrinaire anti-Communism of his mid-Western background to recognizing Gorbachev as a partner in the process of nuclear disarmament in which they both believed.

Those books did, of course, attract criticism from doctrinaire ultra-Leftists.

ANd parties of the left and right tend to be doctrinaire - you are either a «true believer» or you are an apostate.

Clegg is damaged beyond repair - the electorate are never going to forgive him and those of us who voted LibDem tactically at the general election for a centre - left coalition but ended up getting a rightwing doctrinaire government instead that has done the exact opposite of what the LibDem manifesto said, would probably vote for the devil himself before they'd support anything Clegg now advocates.

«The waivers help with an incredibly doctrinaire law that didn't recognize the realities of the situation,» said Little.

The primary task of the next Labour leader has to be to develop a political economy that addresses the fundamental inequalities and inequities that have blighted British society for so long - and which will only worsen as the Con - Lib coalition's doctrinaire spending cuts begin to bite.

«The waivers help with an incredibly doctrinaire law that didn't recognize the realities of the situation,» he said.

Remember that the bulk of Westerners, though they may be more conservative than the urban coastal population, especially on social issues, are not doctrinaire ideologues.

I bet the mental processes of religious fundamentalists and doctrinaire Communists and any Scientologists all resemble one another far more than they do either the average Episcopalian or the average empiricist (the word that better describes many so - called atheists).

Neither science nor liberalism makes any doctrinaire claims beyond the efficacy of its respective methods — that is, that science obtains knowledge and that liberalism produces social orders generally acceptable to free peoples.»

But Kahan believes that the curious from both sides of the political and cultural divide should make good ambassadors to the more doctrinaire members of their own groups.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

Close - up and Blow Out make a great double feature, mainly because their titles sound so cool together but also because you can't find two better examples of wickedly smart and politically alive «self - referential» cinema that couldn't be less doctrinaire.