How To Use Universalist In A Sentence
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Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage.
Wayneandwax.com
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Theories of origin Various theories have been proposed to account for the origin of pidgin languages, and fall into three broad types: monogenetic, polygenetic, and universalist.
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I found it especially heartbreaking to read these first-person accounts of the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville by LiveJournal users bekitty, writingjen, daughter of shooting victim John Worth, and her husband salvador-dalai via the UU LiveJournal group Chalice Circle.
Philocrites: First-person accounts of Knoxville church shooting.
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I see no reason, then, for ranking Paul among the universalists.
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Esther Kläs's engaging, unpretentiously reductive sculpture evokes the postwar, semiabstracted, universalist figures of Reg Butler, Germaine Richier and Kenneth Armitage.
Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions
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Meanwhile, living in Cambridge and knowing a very large number of Unitarian Universalists and various lefty folks, I can attest that not every liberal is "mannered," "self-critical," or "pensive.
Philocrites: Beware 'Old Testament' comparisons.
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It is a conservative viewpoint in the true sense, which makes it the antithesis of contemporary neoconservatism and neoliberalism, as well as all universalist ideologies.
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The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia only weeks before the 14 Points speech, and Marxist-Leninism was to prove a powerful, similarly universalist, rival to liberal democracy for the rest of the 20th century.
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It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
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With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
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The work that came out of that revolution led to a variety of new scholarship that reflected more "universalist" perspectives, which were based on scientific methods that behavioralists believed applied to all questions social scientists wanted to answer.
Insular Law Schools
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I am with the universalist liberals on both counts, with reservations.
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Raised Muslim, she now embraces a kind of universalist "natural" as opposed to revealed religion, along with practicing little bits of harmless divination.
THE PHANTOM SHIP by Frederick Marryat (New English Library 1975)
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Such a universalist stance obviously includes preserving Medicare and Social Security, as the Democrats emphasized in the 2000 campaign.
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Heavily influenced by revolutionary populism, these leaders struggled to subordinate the immediate means of political action to its universalist ends.
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Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
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The 1981 Perennial Dictionary of World Religions classifies the Unitarian Universalist Association as a development within Christianity, but observes that the new denomination, active in liberal causes, continues its predecessors the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of Americas commitment to live in the tension between humanistic liberalism and Christianity 776.
Philocrites: Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition
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Instead, we advocate an alternative approach that dispenses with universalistic definitions and the testing of these.
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The ‘three great religions’ are all susceptible to this charge, although their adherents may aptly and justly interpret the texts in a humanist or universalist way.
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Whereas most national identities derive from a people's geographic or ethnolinguistic origins, they noted, the American identity was grounded in the universalist ideas and values of the Enlightenment.
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Ultimately he is a universalist who believes that all souls will be reconciled to God, including the souls of Satan and his minions.
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Shinn was something of an anachronism even in his own time — Universalist leaders were increasingly urban and modernist, while Shinn was dedicated to rural people and biblicism — and it may not be easy for many UUs to recognize their relationship to him.
Philocrites: October 2007 Archives
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Yet these are feelings which seem to contradict the universalist, rational aspirations of liberalism.
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Instead, we advocate an alternative approach that dispenses with universalistic definitions and the testing of these.
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How can this Transcendentalist theology of self-culture serve as the foundation for a contemporary Unitarian Universalist spiritual practice?
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In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist.
Globaloney
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I also have in mind the fact that our churches can only sometimes take credit for giving us the worldview we call Unitarian Universalist: Those of us who converted are often right when we say that "We were Unitarians without knowing it" because be embraced the worldview before we found the church.
Philocrites: Counterculture in 'Knocking on Heaven's Door.'
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Early on, Zionism was his religion, but he became disillusioned with it over time, coming to identify as a universalist social democrat ..
Tony Judt, Historian And Author, Dies At 62
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The more the Bible is treated as a historical document, the more its message is interpreted in universalist terms, the more the churches sanctify the political and cultural order, the less hold liberal religion will eventually have on the hearts and minds of believers.
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
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Quakers range right across from very Christo-centric friends, right through to what we call universalists.
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Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France.
Annette Wieviorka.
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Money spent both to satisfy universalist dogma and on avoiding a means-test is money paid to the better off individual who does not need it, and kept from the poorer and needier.
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Although Oldenquist denies that there is a nontribal, universalist morality, thus seeking to deprive the universalist of any independent traction, he does not do much to establish the primacy of the tribal apart from its temporal priority.
Loyalty
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Both universalist and conditionalist views of hell draw some contemporary support.
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I'm always wary of narratives that try to prove a point about human psychology; it's usually some trite universalist nonsense about sex or gender.
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In a word, the redemption wrought by Christ being the full deliverance of the persons redeemed from all misery, wherein they were inwrapped, by the price of his blood, it cannot possibly be conceived to be universal unless all be saved: so that the opinion of the Universalists is unsuitable to redemption.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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As usual, the most vigorous and effective defense of the particular comes as part of a universalist demand for emancipation.
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The pursuit of universalist truths has been given a knocking by the rise of postmodernism, he argues.
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Though the tension between the parochial aspects of the faith and its more universalist tendencies is as old as Judaism itself, Chanukah is not an empty metaphor into which other narratives or unrelated themes — whether praiseworthy or not — can be poured at will.
Religion
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The novel stakes out a universalist position that valorizes a basic, transcultural category of the female body, especially as and when that body is subjected to disfigurement on account of patriarchal ideologies.
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Yongji universalist Temple is Western Chamber.
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Early gay rights advocacy had a distinctly assimilationist and universalist orientation.
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His essay in the catalogue takes numerous swipes at universalist definitions of art and at the notion of art's autonomy from the larger social world.
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However she notes a grass roots feminist theory to provide explanatory insights into the processual dynamics of systemic gender inequalities must use universalist concepts and categories.
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In the early 20th century, against a background of thinking that rejected the universalist aesthetic of the classical tradition and saw period styles as the key to true historical understanding, Mannerism came to be re-evaluated.
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In the view of the critics, sweeping universalist generalizations based on such a tiny and unrepresentative sample of the world's languages are at best premature and at worst absurd.
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In effect they are denying the universalist character of Buddhism are returning it to the particularistic mould of ethnic religion in contravention of the clear injunctions of the Buddha.
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Unitarian Jihad is a nascent satirical religious/humanist movement, which intentionally juxtaposes the Unitiarian Universalist principles of a creedless faith and rational discussion with the Islamic concept of Jihad, specifically the use of that word in connection with the idea of a "holy war". . .
Philocrites: How's the Unitarian Jihad doing?
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Very few Unitarians or Universalists treated "unitarianism" or "universalism" as their religion.
Philocrites: Making it up.
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Instead, we advocate an alternative approach that dispenses with universalistic definitions and the testing of these.
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It is important to emphasize that such a conception of historical interconnections does not situate itself in universalist claims about Shakespeare's representation of history.
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It seems clear that a universalist prescription, cast an actor of any ethnicity for any part, runs into serious objections.
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Moody argued that Paul was no universalist but rather a missionary.
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The balance of power never suited the more universalistic, moralist spirit of the late twentieth century.
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It all seemed a bit too easy and specific, not cool and abstract enough too conform to the universalist ambitions of modernism.
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I understand that the terms Unitarian and Universalist have particular and important meanings to some of us.
Philocrites: Uh oh, here come the Unitarians and Universalists!
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To compare their republic's democratic idealism to Rome, with its conquering legions, subjugation of peoples and universalist claims to law and order ignites a simmering anger.
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But a reading of the story that I hadn't heard several times before came from a sermon preached by a Reform rabbi, a great preacher and a real mensh, with whom my Unitarian Universalist congregation had a wonderful relationship.
In Abraham's Shoes Without A Bible
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It is for taking this "universalist" position that Zik and his cohorts have been accused and crucified for idealism, for trying to import an "American solution" to a uniquely African problem, and for an inability to perceive the true nature of the reality in Nigeria - Nigeria being a colonial creation from multi-national entities, and former empires.
Vanguard
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Thus, it would appear that he is a universalist in the fullest sense of the term.
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Wisdom of Solomon thus saw a new synthesis of various sapiential traditions in a much broader philosophical/theological framework that could cope with a universalistic and Hellenistic perspective.
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Ultimacy is the term Unitarian Universalist James Luther Adams used to describe a desire to be lifted up-beyond the mundane, ordinary, even human dimensions of our lives.
From First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio
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Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: How "unitarianism" is a doctrinal leftover that Unitarian Universalists cling to somewhat irrationally.
Philocrites: Philocrites is signing off.
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He preached a universalist message to people whose minds were firmly locked into the local.
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Once again a universalist rhetoric disguises a rather more restricted reality.
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There was a time, of course, when most progressives were universalists.
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My Irony, Philocrites, and My Dog Wants To Be on the Radio are kicking around ideas for something like a "blogring" for Unitarian Universalist bloggers — maybe even a "metablog.
Philocrites: June 2003 Archives
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Although a man of the universalist left, Jimmy understood the lure and limited value of black nationalism for African-Americans.
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How can this Transcendentalist theology of self-culture serve as the foundation for a contemporary Unitarian Universalist spiritual practice?
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It is an accomplished group of self-made liberal middle-class professionals with a secular and universalist outlook.
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I got the impression he was coming from a universalist background, but he could have been talking about predestination.
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Rawls has since tried to eliminate the universalist presuppositions from his theory.
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Today's readings share an unmistakably universalist thrust, extending God's good news of salvation beyond insiders.
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They think of themselves, so the explanation goes, as the real defenders of universalist ideals.
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It is in the nature of a universalist religion to evince a lack of regard for borders and nationalities.
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I think it clearly is a universalist faith in the sense that everybody, no matter what race, religion or creed, has a potential for being true sons and daughters of the eternal.
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The work of Henry Reynolds (and that of others less distinguished) has come under criticism for its universalist approach, bipolar categorisation, insensitivity to gender, and uncomplicated morality.
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At uuworld.org's blogs, Sonja Cohen tracks Unitarian Universalists in the media and Shelby Meyerhoff monitors the UU blogosphere aka the interdependent web.
Philocrites: February 2008 Archives
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Napoleon was a universalist who believed in a common civil code for all his conquered subjects.
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Some Unitarian Universalists view the relationship of minister to congregation as a business relationship in which the minister is the employee of the congregation; I have even heard the word "hireling" used to describe a minister.
Philocrites: Authority in the Spirit: Developing a doctrine of the liberal church.
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Catholics who argue for mass immigration from Mexico are making two mistakes: first, in treating the Catholic Church as a kind of universalist ideology–something like Communism–and, second, in pretending that nothing else matters.
Archive 2008-08-03
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I think, he says, I need new terms here entirely because, yes, not all monotheism is universalist and predicated on the faith/doubt, win/lose scenario of Pascalus's Christianity (as your example of Judaism illustrates), not all polytheism is of that Graeco-Roman nature (as your example of Hinduism points out), and the atheism I'm talking about really includes antitheist and agnostic outlooks in its focus on doubt.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
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We uphold a universalist orientation to the problems facing the world.
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Mandatory health coverage will drive down health care costs, and its universalist dimension and market-based orientation should appeal to the left as well as the right.
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Supporters of the universalist approach insist that the existence of linguistic universals ensure translatability.
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For the universalist left, nationalism was a trap used by an entrenched ruling class to prevent workers from understanding their own interests.
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To them Mizrahi feminists seemed sectorial, their strategy influenced by clannish values rather than by a liberal “universalist” value system.
Mizrahi Feminism in Israel.
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An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an invocation at the Unitarian Universalist church.
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Was he a nationalist rather than a universalist?
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Christianity is the mature form of the western universalistic tradition.
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And finally, we maintain a progressive identity that has always accented universalist values, ever more crucial in the present day.
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If Mr. Cuno opposes the pressure to repatriate antiquities, which is mounting, it's not only because he espouses lofty "universalist" ideals.
Treasures on Trial
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Social comparison theory contends that basing self-evaluations of physical appearance on universalistic targets such as celebrities has negative implications for body-image.
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In modern anthropology, fetishism, like animism and totemism, tends to be disfavoured as a universalistic principle.
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While universalists insisted that Masonry was not a religion, they did view it as a great aid to religion.
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So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.
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Reacting against the universalist claims of the French Revolution, German romantics of the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as Fichte and Herder invoked blood, soil and the spirit of the Volk.
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Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed.
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Stranded out on a limb, the most important need in the coming years for the individual in the South is for the solidarity of democratic, humanistic and universalist currents in both the North and the South.
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It's entirely possible to be a reformer at home and a universalist abroad.
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Still, it is safe to say that the vast majority of the demonstrators who gathered in Seattle advanced universalist criticisms of free-market capitalism and corporate globalization.
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Various theories have been proposed to account for the origin of pidgin languages, and fall into three broad types: monogenetic, polygenetic, and universalist.
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King's Chapel, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a liberal Christian church in the Unitarian Universalist Association that started out, way back in 1686, as the first Anglican church in New England; it became independent and unitarian in the 1780s, but has continued to use the Book of Common Prayer in its own distinctive way ever since.
Philocrites: Philocrites in the pulpit: King's Chapel, Dec. 13.
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I've always wondered how James Luther Adams, who reinterpreted the meaning of "prophet" in ways that made the term popular among progressive Unitarian Universalists, really got around this point when it comes to the biblical prophets.
Philocrites: March 2007 Archives
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But it is an interpretation, distinct from the universalist interpretation of the verse that you are probably more familiar with, and it explains why you missed it in the listing.
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Examined purely structurally, this might represent a prototypical ‘exchange of men between women’ that would disrupt Levi-Strauss's universalist claims.
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The universal vision of the Church, which represents one of the valuable contributions of the movements to the local Churches, could be deformed, becoming a vision platonically "universalist," and this would work to the detriment of attention given to the reality and the problems of the local Church.
Archive 2008-05-18
