Sentences with phrase «rational objectivity»

Marsden notes how ironic it is that Christians are rigorously judged against the standard of rational objectivity at a time when the very possibility of rational objectivity — as an inheritance of the Enlightenment — is under widespread attack.

However, Tinder suggests the Christian claim of revelation will render this change unlikely in the arena of scholarly discourse with its insistence on rational objectivity.

A renewed trust in our capacity for rational objectivity opens the mind to the mystery of being, just as a deep engagement with the revelation of Christ leads the mind toward a more realistic, honest approach to all of reality.

They are no more capable of rational objectivity or critical thinking than any other group drowning in it's own self - interest and self - importance.

Theological anthropology would agree with this but would add that it is too superficial to interpret the self - centredness in human beings as a mechanical disorder or as an organic maladjustment easily corrected by the mechanical or organic processes to come; and that the condition of rational objectivity also requires overcoming of the spiritual alienation of the self from God which is behind all psychic and social alienations.

In order to follow Kant one must suppress one's existential subjectivity in favour of a rational objectivity in which one participates only by virtue of having previously defined the essence of value as one's rational nature.

Not exact matches

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

To chadg76 who said, «I can't believe that any rational human capable of abstract thought and objectivity believes any of this man made garbage.»

Practitioners of disciplines that pride themselves on their objectivity and neutrality sometimes make pronouncements on matters of ultimate human concern, but when they do so they invariably introduce assumptions not warranted by their purely empirical or purely rational methods.

Is the absolute demand that the physician should defend the life of every man as far as at all possible either the artificial and morally unreflected exaggeration of the biological zest for life which rational man opposes to the true «objectivity» of nature's action in life and death, or is such absoluteness a genuine ethical demand?

This objective empirical dimension is part of a mathematico - logical rationality where objectivity within the realm of measurable possibility is considered as rational and only rational is acceptable.

In «Theology and Objectivity» Ogden holds that theological language, though different from that of science, is objectifying because it is both cognitive and subject to rational assessment and justification.114 Of course, this view assumes the possibility of metaphysics, a possibility now generally denied.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

However, Professor Duméry does not do this, because his idealism refuses to recognize the objectivity of the divine actions which are the object of the Christian faith, objectivities which are irreducible to rational requirements and disconcerting for them.

We have allowed these beliefs to corrode the Church's ability to define her own key beliefs and to offer a rational critique of the counterfeit versions of such things as human nature, autonomy and objectivity which are part of the culture in which we live.

Thinking parents trust logic, objectivity, and impersonal analysis.They let children do for themselves, foster independence, and answer children's why's in order to fuel their rational development.

The three artists underscore the limited ability of rational systems such as those promoted by Internationalist artists and architects to undo entrenched social and racial biases, pointing to how such methods may instead reinforce discrimination by cloaking it in objectivity.

What has happened to rational scientific objectivity and enquiry?

For some lawyers, it is an entirely rational approach if they can do it with some level of objectivity.

In many respects, my job as a family law lawyer was to foster the objectivity of my clients and encourage them, as much as I could, to adopt a rational approach to their legal issues.