Sentence examples for rational declaration from inspiring English sources
Instead, Christianity is evoked by presenting the awfulness of life without it; according to the writer and critic Frank Kermode, "[T]he callousness of incident and the coldness of tone work by suggesting the positive and rational declaration of the Faith".
Worse, the furore suggests that at the beginning of the 21st century, in our apparently rational, secular society, the declaration by a leading scientist that God was not involved in the universe's creation is deemed to be newsworthy and deserving of front-page headlines in national newspapers.
Lincoln who married the "self-evident" and rational truths of the Declaration of Independence with the romantic longing to make them a living reality for every American regardless of the accident of her birth, for it is this president who understood the need for every American to listen to "the mystic chords of memory" from our collective past.
This sort of identity is rather impervious to rational thought and official declarations, and a good thing too.
Along with Mendelssohn, Lessing embraced the idea of a purely rational religion and would endorse Mendelssohn's declaration: "My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths" (Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 3/2, p. 205).
The quietistic (if not reactionary) implications of his political thought were epitomized by his famous declaration in the Philosophy of Right that "what is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational".
Another tough declaration.
The rational is distinct.
