Sentence examples for exclusive truth from inspiring English sources
There is some truth in each metaphor, and exclusive truth in none.
He answered: "All faiths that come out of the biblical tradition -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- have the tendency to believe that they have the exclusive truth.
Because so many religions make claims to exclusive truth, not all of them can be correct, leading the Manichaeans among us to conclude that those who are on one side cannot be on the other.
When, however, a religion is transmitted from one culture to another (as from Semitic to Hellenistic; i.e., Palestine to Rome) or claims some degree of universal or exclusive truth, formal creeds often develop as aids in maintaining continuity and identity.
The opposite of religious totalitarianism is an ideology of pluralism -- an ideology that embraces religious diversity and the idea that my faith can be nurtured without claiming exclusive truth.
It was not that the Bacchic cult spread heretical beliefs about the gods Roman civic religion was never based on theological doctrine with pretensions to exclusive truth; rather, the growing secret cult led by male priests threatened the traditionally dominant position of senators in state religion.
Devoted to eternal and exclusive truths, they brook no dissent and tolerate no debate.
We need to promote an open, self-critical approach, to repudiate exclusive truths and narrow-minded, binary visions of the world.
Although he still called himself a Muslim, he "found a new way to pray"—and came to the conclusion that religion should be seen more as a source of meaning in people's lives, than as a source of mutually exclusive truths.In some ways, his personal narrative, as he describes it, is not so uncommon among Muslims who migrate to the West.
But what we are talking about here is not learning the exclusive truth-claims of this or that denomination.
What causes us to cling to "correct" beliefs, exclusive "truths" and "infallible" authority?
