Sentences with phrase «subjectivism in»

What this view neglects, however, is the subjectivism in American society developed in large part as armor against the Word.

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

The empirical theologians would stress the practical dangers of the anti-realism and subjectivism in these same thinkers.10 This is not to say that the empirical theologians would simply call these late twentieth century thinkers nihilistic, for that assumes that the loss of foundationalism simply requires the loss of realism and that the acceptance of relativism simply requires subjectivism.

It was clear enough, Ward conceded, that the pope wished to condemn the principle of «subjectivism in religion.»

The Cartesian subjectivism in its application to physical science became Newton's assumption of individually existent physical bodies, with merely external relationships.

Not exact matches

As Catholics become more and more concerned with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced with the «subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»

The isolation of Scripture study from the believing community of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness of the people of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation of that truth vulnerable to unfettered subjectivism.

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

When modernity finally put the question, most Protestants proved unable to give a compelling answer, took refuge in moralism and religious subjectivism, and waited.

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The terms in which Whitehead describes his divergence from Descartes are extremely suggestive: for it is his mathematical or functional conception of form that enables him to effect his «reform» of the Cartesian subjectivism.

Some even think (wrongly, in my opinion) that the role it assigns to observers leads to subjectivism or philosophical idealism.

They now found themselves in a situation where the subjectivism of their «free Bible» was matched bythe subjectivism and uncertainty of the literally true «word of God» itself.

But equally far from the subjectivism of the romantic or the «I believe because it is absurd» of the mystic, that sacrifice is called for precisely in the name of objective truth comprehended through the «clear, logical cognition» exemplified by the modern scientist.

For those bred in the abstract, «objective» world of print, such characteristics reek of a decline into undefined «subjectivism».

(In thus relativizing nexus to a single divine subject actual entity, transcendentism might be construed as a form of subjectivism.)

Phenomenology, at least in its first practitioners and its early stages, was conceived as a conscious rejection of subjectivism and an attempt to recover, without abandoning inwardness, the experienced reality of external things and of the self as well.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

Subjectivism dominates not only the attitude of our age toward values but modern thinking in general.

Such a position may be less exciting than either the early empiricists» «objectivism» or the «subjectivism» which many readers found in Kuhn's first edition.

The recrudescent nineteenth - century theology of Christian subjectivism finds its literary equivalent in the current Christian chic of salvation through autobiography alone.

Catholics acknowledge an infallible authority in questions of both dogma and morals, whereas Protestants possess no objective rule for either but are buffeted to and fro by the winds of subjectivism and error.

Such a conclusion does not imply subjectivism, either as manifested in a will to power over the object or as a projection into the object.

It is this «otherness» in its fascination and mystery which requires protection against subjectivism, propagandistic exploitation, projected self - understandings, and all the other ways we generally fail to hear and see the other in its otherness.

He has certainly succeeded in rebutting Thielicke's charge that by starting with the Christian understanding of existence he betrays a subjectivism akin to that of Schleiermacher.

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

Now perhaps it should be said immediately that this is not a call for exegesis that is mere problem - solving activity (as the inductive preaching of late liberal Protestantism tended to be) nor for client - centered preaching that is an exercise in self - analysis and smothering subjectivism occasionally embroidered with Scripture verses.

While Berger finds in all this subjectivism the reason for Picasso's «failure,» I find in it simply Picasso.

The alternative seemed normlessness and subjectivism, particularly dangerous in sexuality issues, where passions run high.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency to re-state Julian's words in a kind of summing - up, and a subjectivism that some may find off - putting.

The American religious empiricist so understood could accept what these postmodern philosophers and theologians have elucidated without dismissing them as nihilists; but these postmodernists, in turn, also are close enough to the American religious empiricist to hear their critique of postmodern anti-realism and subjectivism.16

As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.

Brunner believed that this personalistic, existential notion of truth as encounter was a fruitful — and biblical — alternative to the liberalism and subjectivism of Schleiermacher and the intellectualistic objectivism found in traditional Roman Catholicism and orthodox Protestantism.

If Griffin's process view really is committed to this extreme value subjectivism, many of us would consider that in itself to be a sufficient refutation of his position.

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

Here, no doubt, lies one reason for the theological interest in «verifiable facts about Jesus of Nazareth: «they are needed, it will be said, to regulate the christological pluralism of the New Testament, and, still more, to restrain the subjectivism that imposes fantasy on the text.

The result is the combination of ethical subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.

Descartes is offered as a case in point, being «inconsistent with the subjectivism which dominates his thinking.»

The first, of course, is that the subjectivism and emotivism of the psychological strategy — so pervasive in all models and institutions of moral instruction — reflects a moral cosmology that is not so universal after all.

If this recognition can not be commonly agreed to, ethical subjectivism will pervade any society that has become aware of each individual's equal right to judge moral codes, as is inherent in the Western liberal or democratic notion of civil justice.

Bellah calls his own view «symbolic realism» and he contrasts it both with the «primary naiveté» and «objectivism» of orthodoxy, and with the «functional reductionism» and «subjectivism» common in the social sciences.

It is important to note here that the use of «subject» and «subjective» does not in the least imply «subjectivism».

It is this prevalent relativism or subjectivism which isolates each one in the myth, in the cold and lonely freedom, of «the autonomous self».

Furthermore, this polarity is methodologically well founded because it realizes the historical premises of phenomenology (in this case the history of preliterate peoples) according to the principle that without history phenomenology tends to vanish in a more or less arbitrary subjectivism.

Following the dangerous reference to Antichrist, Luther said with a deep subjectivism which frightened Spalatin: «Daily greater and greater help and support wells up in me by virtue of the authority of Holy Scripture.»

This last statement could certainly use some elaboration, for it seems actually to contradict a later section in Leclerc's book, where White - head's praise of Cartesian subjectivism is cited:

In this dictum Descartes is inconsistent with the subjectivism which dominates his thinking.

Moreover, if such acceptance requires retrofitting the Gospel, ignoring the Magisterium, and diving into the quicksand pits of moral subjectivism, I don't think you'll find too many folks interested: in Africa, or elsewhere, for that matter.

With the age of the Enlightenment, rationalism culminated in a complete rejection of the supernatural, and extreme empiricism led to scepticism and subjectivism.

Like any other forms of media, games are one dipped in subjectivism.