Sentences with phrase «universal frame of reference»

Each continues, of course, to console himself with the delusion that his special system of theology or his particular interpretation of the meaning of the Word of God constitutes a universal frame of reference within which the other person is or ought to be included and that consequently communication between them ought to be possible.

Within the Protestant fold there are of course many individual claims to the possession of a universal frame of reference.

There is no universal frame of reference which provides a common pattern of thought to the whole Protestant community.

For the Protestant community is without a universal frame of reference.

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It means the construction of a frame of reference which is at one and the same time universal in its outreach and immediately personal in its application.

Because their ultimate frame of reference is not a universal faith but national culture.