Sentences with phrase «theological dogmatism»

Harnack set out to show from his penetrating studies of early Christianity that the relevance of Christianity to the modern world lay not in theological dogmatism but in the understanding of Christianity as an historical, changing, evolving process.

The Enlightenment was a reaction against theological dogmatism.

It is not difficult to follow the writer in his rejection of the understanding opaque and authoritarian» understanding of revelation associated with ecclesiastical authority and theological dogmatism.58 Such understandings lead to the mistaken idea that there are propositions which count as «revealed truths.»

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Though his massive Church Dogmatics took on the appearance of an old - style dogmatism, his theological vision throughout this epochal work remained distinctively pluralistic and open - ended.

Process philosophy is, therefore, a much - needed corrective of theological and scientific dogmatisms of eternal truths, fixed categories, and unchangeable permanences.

This sensitivity is a significant hedge against dogmatism, and I could not agree more with Cobb's remarks about the fallibility of theological systems.

Because its inclination to claim absolute and exclusive theological truth so regularly, moves evangelical doctrine into dogmatism, it may be unable to establish the intellectual foundation which distinguishes a university from all other social institutions.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.