Sentences with phrase «reinforce essentialist»

It had been twisted to reinforce essentialist notions.

And, in spite of his awareness of dynamism and creativity within the tradition and his understanding of the self, his confessional stance implies and reinforces essentialist and substantialist views.

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In spite of the aspects of his thought that process philosophers and theologians can rightly appreciate, I shall contend (1) that a fundamental weakness of Hauerwas» thought is a view of the self that is unclear and lends itself to a «substantialist» interpretation; (2) that such a substantialist interpretation is further reinforced by an «essentialist» understanding of Christianity; and (3) that such an understanding culmninates in a separatist notion of the church - world relation.

In most cases, traditional gender role stereotypes were reinforced, and gender was portrayed in an essentialist manner.»