Sentences with phrase «parochial perspectives»

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

I am not a liturgist and, from the parochial perspective of a pastor who has studied worship much less than he has done it, I risk the tendency of many like me who probably unfairly think that liturgists are the ecclesiastical equivalent of lepidopterists.

A political theorist and public intellectual dedicated to reaching beyond his parochial perspective to comprehend people in faraway cultures and distant historical epochs, Walzer all but excludes from his purview conservatives and conservatism in the here and now.

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Unfortunately from my perspective, the company is famously parochial — meaning they're iconic and much - loved where they have stores, like in California, but they basically refuse to expand elsewhere.

The perspectives of the»40s and»50s that shaped many of us strike us now as incredibly defensive and parochial.

In short, from our perspective, it depended on an extremely parochial and naively optimistic view of American society and of the power of human rationality.

Civil religion — or, stated from one perspective, that liturgy which gives form to the parochial gods of nationalism and capitalism — is a profound threat to the human personality, Harrington believes.

In their eyes, the high performance of parochial schools relative to the public schools was damning, at least from a constitutional perspective.

I went from a very parochial viewpoint to a global perspective.