Sentences with phrase «psychologizing of»

It has lost this in two different ways: one is through the psychologizing of religion, whereby the church becomes basically a therapeutic agency, and the other through the politicizing of religion, whereby the church becomes an agent of change, a political institution.

Biblically conservative Christians today rightly reject recreational sex as a psychologizing of Scripture if undisciplined sexual behavior is justified by conclusions drawn from modern theories about sexual repression.

I would agree, but I would supplement this narrative by pointing to the psychologizing of human identity and political struggle over the last century.

Through the psychologizing of the moment its total content is reflected upon and reduced to a process or experience of the soul.

Augustine's psychologizing of love, removing it from biblical, prophetic justice, has done the West more harm than good in the long run.

Not exact matches

In relation to the contemporary tendency to psychologize the sacrament, this understanding of the reality of the past and its causally effective presence supports the theological consensus of a presence not dependent on the subjective state of the worshipers.

While rejecting psychologizing, this view of real presence also opposes the magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines.

Augustine seems to have held a psychologized version of such a view.

The invocation of the speech of heaven has become psychologized, privatized, and powerless.

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

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.

A further factor at work in the situation was the feeling that a discussion of «faith» in the teaching of Jesus would lead to a discussion of Jesus» faith and this would be an illegitimate psychologizing about Jesus.

Instead of beginning with an image derived from prophetic discourse, that of another voice behind the prophet's voice, and extending it by analogy to narration, prescriptive saying, wisdom literature, hymnic compositions, and so on, we are delivered from psychologizing interpretations of revelation to a sensitivity to the sense of the text, to the world - reference it opens up before it.

This was, if anything, even farther from the truth about the special problem of the modern middle - class American woman than the Freudian - type psychologizing, and even less helpful in offering her an understanding of it.

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.

Bultmann has reacted very sharply against this development, which he accuses of psychologizing about Jesus in the manner of an already discredited liberalism.

It is not a case of psychologizing about Jesus but of recognizing that a person is necessarily involved in his word, that the message necessarily involves the messenger, that a message challenging to faith necessarily involves a witnessing to faith on the part of the messenger.

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.

The self - consciousness of Jesus, however, is not a legitimate concern, because we have no sources for such knowledge, and when we supply the deficiency by analogy from other historical individuals, we are psychologizing about Jesus.

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.

The escalation of marketplace conflict is related to the emergence of sexuality as the political issue of the day, combined with a psychologized (and thus subjective and selective) view of oppression.

Plowing ahead with abandon, like the kids who scamper their way through it, The Florida Project is a snapshot portrait of Americans living on the margins that has no time for psychologizing.

Armchair psychologizing is always a dangerous game, but my best hunch is that a kind of moral panic has set in among certain reformers — on both sides of the aisle, though it seems more pronounced on the Left.

At the same time psychologizing and seduced by her subject, the artist finds herself in a double bind, a dilemma that resonates with the muddled desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry or unashamed self - praise.

Her paintings offer a heavy dose of London School psychologizing in the vein of Lucian Freud and Paula Rego and some of the gross - out tactics practiced by artists like Jenny Saville and Cecily Brown.