Sentences with phrase «religious dialectic»

In The Analogical Imagination I tried to rethink the traditional Christian theological dialectic of sacrament and word as the more primordial religious dialectic of «manifestation» and «proclamation.»

But I now see more clearly — thanks to the voices of the new theologies allied with the welcome recovery of spirituality within theology — that in practice and thereby in theory this pervasive religious dialectic of manifestation and proclamation is best construed theologically as mystical - prophetic.

Modernity, with its enthronement of «progress through technology» is, however, the concrete economic, social, political, cultural, and ecclesial orders against which liberation theologies direct their intellectual and religious dialectics.

Not exact matches

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

The individual and the community are both essential components of an irreducible dialectic, and maintaining the integrity of such dialectics, as Ziegler so faithfully communicates, is for Soloveitchik a fundamental necessity for genuine religious experience.

this dialectic combines a theory of religious symbolism with a philosophy of history.

The voice of religious faith enlarges and enlivens the overall dialectic of culture, even among non-believers, just as the voice of secular society keeps religious writers more alert and intelligent.

Buber's dialectic combines a theory of religious symbolism with a philosophy of history.

In The Sacred Canopy Berger articulates the relation between religious symbolism and social interaction by suggesting a dialectic interplay between the two.

Nevertheless, inasmuch as each articulated one side of a basic religious polarity, they are necessarily complementary visions the solution to such historical oppositions and antagonisms is, therefore, a dialectical one — not in the Hegelian or Marxian sense of dialectic, but through a dialectic which acknowledges both sides of those paradoxes intrinsic to the religious situation.

But these rudimentary and altogether primitive speculations on certain religious problems soon assumed larger proportions when Muslim scholars who were skilled in the art of dialectic and tolerably conversant with Greek philosophy appeared on the scene.

There is a religious temptation to hide both terror and importance by dramatizing the relative chaos, making it a divine struggle, salvation history, the dialectic of benign creation's unfolding.

It would consist of a dialectic in which immediate religious data would constantly be the object of critical reflection, but also in which critical reflection would constantly be referred to specific religious situations.

At Erfurt the Occamists gave Martin a confidence in logical processes and the use of argument and dialectic which never left him, however much he thundered against it as a way to religious faith.

(p. 27 and cf. p67) It is not clear whether, in the dialectic between subject and «community with ecclesial character», when say papal teaching does not «speak to me», there is a place for Vatican II's call for the human subject to offer a «religious assent... of mind and will... according to (the Pope's) manifest mind and will» (Lumen Gentium, 25).

The history of Christianity in the U.S. is a dialectic of the intellect and the emotions, Wills maintains, in a sweeping chronicle that stands four - square on church - state separation as the anchor of religious liberty.

A constant dialectic between the physical and the metaphysical pervades all the works: Marlene Dumas brings not only icons or religious symbols, but universal signs in which faith unites with tragedy and love interacts with grief.