Within the church, both biblical fundamentalists and liberals have been preoccupied
with factuality.
Secondly, modernity has made us preoccupied
with factuality, with scientifically verifiable facts and with historically reliable facts.
Not exact matches
«he had to accept the truth of her accusation» synonyms: veracity, truthfulness, verity, sincerity, candor, honesty; More accuracy, correctness, validity,
factuality, authenticity «he doubted the truth of her statement» antonyms: dishonesty, falseness • that which is true or in accordance
with fact or reality.
In the modern period
with its emphasis on
factuality, critical thinking is deeply corrosive of religion in general, Christianity and the Bible in particular.
Indeed (and it seems to me this is a very important statement about us), we live in the only culture in human history that has identified
factuality with truthfulness.
He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged
with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt
factuality, an atheist.)
cit., pp. 103, 105, 53 f.) God's demand that Israel become «a holy people» means the spontaneous and ever - renewed act whereby the people dedicate themselves to YHVH
with their corporeal national existence, their legal forms and institutions, their internal and external relationships, the whole
factuality of worldly life.
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz termed religion a construction that «clothes» its symbols
with «such an aura of
factuality that they seem realistic.»
With constant visits to New York however, a Jasper John's exhibition changed his mind as he was impressed by the
factuality of the work and the geometric patterns of the rings and stripes that formed the images.