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Like him, she, too, would be earnest, ethical, independent, and undogmatic. (Crunden 1984, 18) Stage five is constituted by the narrating I's introduction to secular culture while in Vitebsk, with her uncle Solomon:

The Council's vision must not be confused with the late Enlightenment vision of an "undogmatic Christianity," (46) as can be found in the thought of the Protestant theologian Otto Dreyer (1837-1900).

(On the other hand, the University of Chicago's David Strauss told The New York Times, "A lot of the unanimity is ersatz," because many of the decisions were narrow, to avoid surfacing severe disagreements among justices.) Kagan's undogmatic approach means that she, like Roberts, tries to find opportunities for common ground.

Sometimes Always True: Undogmatic Pluralism in Politics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology

Thinkers like Erasmus of Rotterdam turned Christian traditions into undogmatic humanism, bent on eradicating the denominational borders within Christianity.

radically undogmatic; who because of the many experiences he has had and the knowledge he has drawn from them, is particularly well equipped to have new experiences and to learn from them.

Chapter 5, "The Improvisations of Pierre Cochereau," is similarly technical and undogmatic and provides many examples in transcription.

But something was eating away at the faith of his grandfather, corroding and corrupting it, making it an ideology of narrowness and intolerance, banning books, persecuting thinkers, erecting absolutisms, turning dogma into a weapon with which to beat the undogmatic. I don't wish to ventriloquize Rushdie in quite the way that Heller allows herself to, but this seems to be a clear indication that he's talking about a modern phenomenon: the faith becoming an ideology, being usurped by children of the twentieth century--the Maududis and the Qutbs--and turned into a political instrument.

However, it is key to include Alexander Calder here, whose mobiles are among the least authoritative and most undogmatic of sculptural forms.

So, for a final example in this brief survey of current American poetry's voice, I have chosen a poem both politically alert and wholly undogmatic, by Yusef Komunyakaa (b.

In this respect, the author watched hundreds of film documentaries on both scientific and esoteric undogmatic topics, listened to his favourite relaxation music and read books [1]-[13].

Before that they had insisted that Toryism was a "disposition, not a dogma." This is all very well if your opponents are equally undogmatic. But when those opponents are clever and determined 1968ers who know what they want and are determined to get it, this attitude is like fielding a cricket team in a hockey match.

In editing terms, too, the filmmaker was elliptical and undogmatic. One of Beattie's best chapters concerns Jennings's use of collage, the way in which images were juxtaposed in dynamic patterns, while sound, in particular music, created surprising associations.

His attempt to rethink his way from religions that are dogmatic, authoritarian, and fundamentalist to a religion that is worldly, life-affirming, democratic, and undogmatic is attractive for many.