Sentences with phrase «truth claims»

I always put it this way: I am an atheist in the sense that I reject all man - made truth claims about a deity.

What is the basis, what is the evidence, for truth claims?

It also doesn't mean we don't have real disagreements and exclusive truth claims that may come into conflict with one another.

Know what, why not, we make sweeping truth claims all the time.

Many historical truth claims are true when they are made, but are not true later.

I just feel the need, from time to time, to point out to you and other believers, as they make truth claims, that I think they are actually faith claims.

To them we should say, «We understand that after hearing so many untruths you may be suspicious of truth claims in general, and we respect your caution.

On the contrary, affirmation of the other is based on truth claims: love of God and of neighbor, for example, is not just a polite suggestion, but the exacting absolute injunction of God who created us «in the image and resemblance of God.»

Barth's warnings against embedding Christian truth claims in any prior theory of knowledge apply in the present case: if Christianity has no eschatological Word to explicate, then we are left only with liberal naturalism and historicism.

But the conditions are not apriori; «apriori» refers to a modality of truth claims about them.

I do not intend to argue that truth claims based upon historical particulars can not logically be cosmic in scope.

However, sociological work is restricted to the function of myths, images and rituals, and not with truth claims.

Rational truth can only be one, but Christianity presented itself to the emerging modern world in a divided state of conflicting truth claims.

It does not deny truth claims.

In my One Verse Podcast, we have been looking at some of the claims in Genesis 1 (which some people believe are scientific truth claims... but I don't).

Process theologians argue for a «public» theology, not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria, but open to the public criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry.

It seems fruitless to attempt any adequate justification of Christian revelatory truth claims if at the same time we make only optional the requirement of belonging to a sacramental community.

A recent study in a feminist periodical presents considerable evidence that reductionist stereotypes of Eddy that are still current, even among feminists, sprang to a surprising extent from resentment directed toward her as a woman making serious truth claims in a male - dominated society (Jean McDonald, «Mary Baker Eddy and the Nineteenth Century «Public» Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal, «Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion [Spring, 1986], pp. 89 - 112).

Lindbeck is often accused of being an anti-realist or constructivist, the idea that truth claims humans make are simply ones that we make up and «construct» ourselves with no real relationship with the way things really are.

For example, one of the most basic truth claims is: «Something exists.»

It is true that Lewis could be wickedly clever with liberals who stripped the faith of its substantive truth claims while still thinking of themselves as Christians.

Theology in the «objective» sense is chronologically derivative from the activity of theological inquiry because it is the activity that produces objectively valid truth claims and the objective purposes of professional church leadership.

David Bentley Hart, Alvin Plantinga, William A. Wilson, and others have written wisely and well about the philosophical problems, category errors, and presumptions such truth claims pose.

We must critically analyze one another's mythologies across our cultural and religious differences in order to lay bare their roots in our experience of our differing truth claims.

It is called to serve as a model for a society founded not on metaphysical truth claims but on the overturning and transgressing of all such claims for the sake of harmonious and loving coexistence.

He argued that cultures move from ideational forms in which transcendent truth claims and moral norms are the organizing principles of social life, to idealistic cultures, which blend ideational and «sensate» aims, to sensate cultures, which focus exclusively on sensory perceptions and experiences.

It also functions to de-establish Christendom by undermining truth claims regarding the uniqueness or divinity of Jesus Christ.

The point is, other religions can not touch in the remotest sense the historicity and actual truth claims of the Bible, so we are not complete fools for believing the good news.!

Besides, I couldn't help but ask: «How are they true, what does it mean that they are true, and how do I know that they are more true than other mysterious truth claims?»

Creator God is a potentially verifiable truth claim, in life or at least in death.

Culture means the available truth claims, explanatory systems, myths, stories, memories, loyalties, dreams, and nightmares by which society lives.

Others have argued that Lindbeck too settles for a merely descriptive intratextual strategy that makes no normative truth claims.

does not preclude truth claims but is an invitation to a lifelong adventure of inquiry, dialogue, and understanding.

I'd placed my faith in a set of propositional truth claims that could be deemed true or false based on measurements and evidence and analysis and reason.