Universalist

The more the Bible is treated as a historical document, the more its message is interpreted in universalist terms, the more the churches sanctify the political and cultural order, the less hold liberal religion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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Early on, Zionism was his religion, but he became disillusioned with it over time, coming to identify as a universalist social democrat .. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Papabear (2008)

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. ❋ Papabear (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If Mr. Cuno opposes the pressure to repatriate antiquities, which is mounting, it's not only because he espouses lofty "universalist" ideals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Raised Muslim, she now embraces a kind of universalist "natural" as opposed to revealed religion, along with practicing little bits of harmless divination. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Alexsamade (2010)

Minority presses are given grants by the Ministry of Culture - more than 50 press publications of ethnic and religious minorities were registered in the mid-1990s - but in mainstream media, outsiders generally serve to legitimate and affirm a "universalist" vision. ❋ Irena Maryniak (2009)

What about the idea promulgated by Anglican blogs like this one and the one Greg Griffith runs that you're some kind of universalist? ❋ Unknown (2009)

What's even more frustrating is that Weiner made a much better human-finch comparison earlier in the book, when he gave the example of a single finch species occupying many different niches on one island, essentially a 'universalist' species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But not so with the absolutist or 'universalist' religions, according to which we are either in or out, and out is not an acceptable choice, so we become 'infidels' and therefore trashable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I note however that a cosmetic company is trying to trademark "universalist" as a brand of cosmetics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Obama has tapped what has long been a "universalist" strain in French thinking, political scientists say - in part, that all individuals are equal and owed that equality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The critique of Enlightenment from the left--singling out the corrupt core of "universalist" values"--ended up colluding with the critique of Enlightenment from the right--its purported neglect of the religious in preference for the polemically secular--in ways that have had really awful consequences. ❋ Jenny Davidson (2005)

The apologist must therefore somehow seek to explain these without sacrificing god's perfectly good nature, else admit that no, the god described in that ancient narrative is not a moral being, which either reduces Christianity to some sort of mystic universalist religion or defeats it entirely. ❋ Unknown (2009)