| In fact, the church's public argument is based on reason and science, not fideism. |
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| Claiming that no compelling evidence exists and then refusing to acknowledge the existence of any evidence is simply a form of atheistic fideism. |
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| Ward would, I imagine, deplore its readiness to embrace cultural dissolution, its reckless fideism, and its unnecessary obscurity. |
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| Descartes used something like it in his Discourse on Method, but one senses that there was actually some faith left in Descartes' fideism. |
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| At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics. |
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| On the contrary, its abdication from the realm of the mind can make it seem another form of fideism. |
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| We are faced with fideism or with uncritical obedience to tradition, and the distinction between the two may be no more than academic. |
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| A common feature of all revivalist movements is anti-intellectualism and a greater readiness to accept dogma and fideism. |
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| But this tendency, which the 19th century dubbed fideism, took various forms, and to understand Hobbes's theology we need to see the difference between him and the fideists. |
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| Even if you reject Wittgensteinian fideism you might still take a lesson from it. |
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| Powerful propaganda for fideism, which posits faith over reason, coming from Einstein. |
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| In fact Heschel avoids both dangers, rationalism and fideism. |
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| And I employed poor people fideism and needy people trusts in this door and shop and courtyard and porch. |
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| He began to subscribe to a kind of mystical fideism, dismissing both positivist criticisms of religion and rational arguments in favor of it. |
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| Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. |
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| Insofar as fideism insists that knowledge of these truths is possible, it must be distinguished from various forms of skepticism with which it otherwise shares certain common features. |
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| Religious perspectives that are not sheer fideism, which divorces faith from reason, or fundamentalism, which is unwilling to engage diversity, thus have a role to play. |
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| A vague fideism among many Korean missionaries has sometimes hindered appropriate planning, effective preparation, and practical support for their children's education. |
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