Sentences with phrase «skeptical attitudes toward»

To be sure, the church succeeded in making the necessary adjustments, but it was difficult to ban a spirit of enlightenment which spread under the influence of foreign cultures upon the Christian civilization and which furthered the growth of skeptical attitudes toward the absolute validity of the ecclesiastical institution of redemption.

«For science to flourish, scientists must have a skeptical attitude toward their own results, constantly questioning and testing apparent solutions to problems.

The skeptical attitude toward action research exists because the generalizations developed are applied only to the population studied.

The blog Travel Summary adopted a skeptical attitude toward the cryptic announcement, referring to it as a «devaluation» of Rapid Rewards points.

In contrast to those like Smith and Emin who promulgate an unshakable faith in spontaneity and the infallibility of an artist's gesture, painters like Case share an unassuming and skeptical attitude toward the unplanned mark.

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The Ash «arites were skeptical in their attitude toward sense data.

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..

Ultimately, my attitude toward breastfeeding was similar to my feelings when I went to SoulCycle for the first time: I was skeptical about its benefits, but because everyone else was so nuts about it, I was willing to try it.

The hosts take a skeptical look at stress and the modern attitude toward «curing» what was once considered a normal part of everyday life.

Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.

«This is important, because attitudes toward scientists can help explain why some people are skeptical about climate change.»