Sentences with phrase «religious certitude»

This attitude combines the unlovely traits of religious certitude and fervor with political partisanship into a stew that produces appalling disregard for both one's opponents and scientific accuracy.

Certainly one is the endless human longing for religious certitude.

Much of the weakening of religious certitude in the Christian West can be laid at the door of science; even people whose religion might incline them to hostility to the pretensions of science generally understand that they have to rely on science rather than religion to get things done.

Throughout the eighteenth century in Europe, the decline of «religious certitude» ¯ what is nowadays called evangelicalism or, less knowledgeably, fundamentalism ¯ was widely taken for granted.

The seventeenth century would surely count as the height of «religious certitude» in Europe: Wars were fought over religion ¯ or at least over the ecclesiastical form religion took in different national contexts.

If «religious certitude» looks moribund now, was it thriving three hundred years ago?

As evidence of the decline of religious certitude in the West, he cites his own experience.

«Much of the weakening of religious certitude in the Christian West,» Weinberg says, «can be laid at the door of science.»

In a recent essay in the Times Literary Supplement, Steven Weinberg suggested that the reason the West has so far outstripped the Islamic world in scientific knowledge is «religious certitude.»

You say that some of your fellow students find their religious certitude by relying on an external authority.

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In intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidence.

Religious orthodoxy, concerned about certitude, may deny the dynamic nature of metaphor.

That assumption of objectivity is a great temptation to us, whether the claim is given in the name of religious orthodoxy or in the name of technological certitude.

What they have in common is that unity of religious and political certitude which, despite all the ideological differences, is uncomfortably reminiscent of the fanaticism unleashed by Muslim fundamentalists.

But the religious «answers» have not come with the same degree of certitude and security that answers come to our everyday problems.

Colors palette are implemented according to the certitude, ceremonial concerned and religious based.