Sentences with phrase «very dogmatic»

And, as I experienced when I interviewed the New York guru during his brief visit to Australia in the late 1970s, he had a very dogmatic and often abrasive manner.

When Color Analysis became fashionable way back in the 70's and 80's, it acquired a bad reputation because it was very dogmatic.

When I was first introduced to Color Analysis I felt very «put out» when I was given a small swatch and told what I «could» and «couldn't» wear by a very dogmatic consultant.

My training draws from powerlifting and bodybuilding and athletic training, but I would say it's bodybuilding but bodybuilders are very cliquish in the sense that they're very dogmatic.

He was very dogmatic and he ran the show.

He was very dogmatic in his sermons regarding the LGBT Community.

I've this was a good book for someone like me, who does not have very dogmatic beliefs but still wants to nurture a spiritual side.

I don't agree with any kind of dogma and yet, Marx was a very dogmatic person, no different from Jesus or any other religious leader.

Come on, Cap'n, you got ta admit, some atheists can be very dogmatic in their approach to what they don't believe.

I know a lot of people who are very dogmatic about theological beliefs that may or may not be valid «private revelations.»

Not exact matches

While it makes good sense for professionals to become ninjas in their respective discipline, for the laymen investor, this dogmatic thinking can be very dangerous.

The last potential risk he discusses is that Austrians have a dogmatic bias and tend to be very cautious in an investment space.

We have a few dogmatic birthers and folks who will vote for anybody who says they are «pro-life» (and I'm very much against abortion by the way).

At the same time, Francis cites Dei Verbum, the dogmatic constitution on divine revelation, observing that the Church's duty to guard the deposit of faith, which closed with the death of the last apostle, is in «the very nature» of the Church.

He was speaking of that which he saw articulated in the Catholic tradition of Eucharistic worship, as he understood it; yet his words unconsciously echoed a great deal that is most deeply characteristic of Dr. Karl Barth's criticism of what he regards as the very heart and centre of Catholic dogmatics, namely the doctrine of the analogy of being.

The social historians have shown that the official, dogmatic, established, and routinized religion of the churches was a very fragile creation.

It was a very just thought to which the older dogmatic frequently recurred, whereas a later dogmatic so often censored it for lack of understanding and a proper sense of its meaning — it was a very just thought, although sometimes a wrong application was made of it: the thought that what makes sin so frightful is that it is before God.

The speculative dogmatic, being itself aware of this to a certain degree, has known no other way to help itself but by the maneuver, not very seemly in a philosophic science, of throwing out a detachment of asseverations at the point where a movement is being made.

But his battles were mostly fought with so - called «West Coast» Straussians, whose dogmatic interpretation of natural rights was very different from their namesake's Socratic skepticism.

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

Any Christian that disagrees is too close minded, too indoctrination, too dogmatic to understand the very simple reason why... Truth, so far as religion is concerned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Elementary children in the Church can sometimes embrace their parents views and be much more dogmatic about them, so I would be very on guard for a potential negative comments from classmates and would want the leader to cut off any kind of negative peer response as quickly as possible.

Admittedly crafting acceptable formulas of personal faiths has proved to be a daunting task, but the very acknowledgement of a possible plurality in dogmatic formulas undermined the clarity of the manuals.

The dogmatic method in theology is very useful in proclaiming the faith to those who already (or almost) believe it; but in a global society, we shall have to take up the apologetic method again.

Fishon, first of all I would guess that if we were exposed to one another very often for three months, the subject would have come up much sooner by how dogmatic you come across on this subject.

Writing in Commonweal, Peter Steinfels, senior religion reporter for the New York Times, describes what is now a very tired scenario: «A church that is democratic, egalitarian, open, embracing, tolerant, innovating, lay - led, diverse, and affirmative of American values is pitted against a church that is autocratic, hierarchical, dogmatic, discriminating, clerical, monolithic, and committed to a European past.»

It is the duty of the dogmatic theologian to understand and, as far as possible, to retrieve the doctrinal formulas of the past — at the very least, to show their point.

It may very well be that this is an impossible task since Luther had strong mystical tendencies and mystical theology is contemplative, sometimes speculative, rather than dogmatic.

There is the dogmatic principle which argues that supernatural truths committed to human language are necessary and definitive of their very nature.

I think, too, that the dogmatic interpretation which you give of the Incarnation is very narrow.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

It is a tragedy that so many of our leaders today (and all of those ignorant fools who elect them on the basis of their religious beliefs) are guided by their brainwashed, dogmatic belief in what amounts to no more than a very elaborate story of Santa Claus.

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

The theology of grace easily seems very abstract and remote, but we should remember that it used to be taught as part of fundamental moral rather than dogmatic theology, as it often still is by the Dominicans.

Some teenagers are dogmatic and judgmental of each other and if these conversations took place only in the hallways of the school, the view of breastfeeding and the shared knowledge base could end up very skewed.

A case certainly can be made for him as a precursor of Blue Labour in one respect — his faith — but it was this very faith that made him such a dogmatic pacifist and thus sundered him completely from working class patriotism.

I have a very non-dogmatic approach, very like macronutrient agnostic when it comes to diet, but I default to, where I'm a little dogmatic on — and I shouldn't say dogmatic — it's just what I — what we see out there is most people are insulin - resistant and overweight, right?

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

It seems to operate under the dogmatic belief that the human body is a machine, and that the problems that can cause one part of this machine to break down are very dissimilar from the ones that make another part vulnerable to malfunction.

NCLB's dogmatic aspirations and fractured design are producing a compliance - driven regimen that recreates the very pathologies it was intended to solve.

No Child Left Behind's dogmatic aspirations and fractured design are producing a compliance - driven regimen that recreates the very pathologies it was intended to solve.

It is very much a forum full of people who are dogmatic about traditional publishing.

The AGW «theory» was laughable, dogmatic and pseudo-scientific from the very beginning to me.

I consider myself very open minded and get incensed that these dogmatic warmists refusing to accept the truth.

Very typical of a dogmatic position.

But yes, it does grate to have very good science denoted as mere «dogmatic insistence».

We have a very large problem of a number of climate skeptics being entirely ignorant to the current literature on various issues and the direction of research, and still making statements of absolute confidence about how there isn't enough evidence, and yet I am supposed to believe I am the dogmatic one.

You are just providing the very thing that Judith is refering to, this dogmatic stance that AGW has all the evidence in its favour.

You are putting what you say forward, at least so it seems to me, as a «silencer» — and that is dogmatic behaviour, the very thing that Judith says puts climate science at a real and growing disadvantage.

At the very least and assuming that any future THOROUGH review finds the CRU innocent, the emails show a distinct mindset that could very easily be described as Dogmatic.