#doctrine

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#churches #doctrine #emergent-church #foucault #institutions

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consensus #fear #hypocrisy #intellectuals #international-law

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#better #could #doctrine #experiences #expression

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#cold #cold war #doctrine #europe #expanded

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#baseless #been #doctrine #equal #fiction

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ask #doctrine #false #himself #honest

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. ↗

— Joseph Lister

#believer #christianity #doctrines #fundamental #i

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#doctrine #experiment #generation #mortal #never

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#changed #doctrines #more #names #readily