Sentences with phrase «religious escapism»

It will then be transformed into the style of religious escapism known as «gnosticism.»

If mysticism loses touch with sacramental symbols, with apophatic patience, and with the needs of the social world, it becomes a form of religious escapism.

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Secularism was a necessary corrective to religious traditions, both Jewish and Christian, that had discredited themselves through their mutual hatred, their obscurantism, their spiritualist escapism.

Much of this suspicion of symbols is very helpful, for it brings to our attention the childishness, escapism, resentfulness, and oppressiveness that have at times become attached to religious consciousness.

But does not the restlessness resident in religious visions perhaps encourage an escapism with respect to the cosmos?

Whenever this has occurred the religious vision has suffered either from escapism or a sense of deadness.