Sentences with phrase «psychologize what»
To label these things as phobias is to psychologize what may be a rational moral stance, given the premises.
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Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.
The subject no longer discovers mystery from without but produces the effect of mystery from within by what sociologist Philip Rieff calls «psychologizing interminably» about its own interiority.
Even if steps are taken to avoid psychologizing, to give due emphasis to the eschatology, etc., the fundamental weakness remains the fact that the deliberate elevation of a historically reconstructed figure to the central concern of faith must inevitably lead to the confusion of two quite separate functions: the reconstruction of a historical figure and what we shall call the construction of a faith - image.
Much of what will be said in this chapter may be condemned as unwarranted «psychologizing»; but when a meticulous academic procedure has taken us as far as it can go, there is still a legitimate place for imagination, properly guarded.