Definition of absolutize in English:
absolutize
(British absolutise)
verb ˈabsəl(j)uːtʌɪzˈæbsəluˌtaɪz
[with object]Theology Philosophy Make or treat (something) as absolute.
〔主哲,主神学〕使绝对化;认为…是绝对的
modes of absolutizing what is merely relative
Example sentencesExamples
- In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred.
- One of Eckhart's key ideas is that God is infinitely greater than anything we can think about him, and that one of the problems with religion is that we absolutise our metaphors and our struggle to say something about God.
- Our responsibility as the thinking-doubting faithful is to live graciously out of the Christian tradition without absolutizing it.
- Perhaps we've idolized security, absolutizing it above other values.
- Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.
Definition of absolutize in US English:
absolutize
(British absolutise)
verbˈæbsəluˌtaɪzˈabsəlo͞oˌtīz
[with object]Theology Philosophy Make or treat (something) as absolute.
〔主哲,主神学〕使绝对化;认为…是绝对的
modes of absolutizing what is merely relative
Example sentencesExamples
- In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred.
- Our responsibility as the thinking-doubting faithful is to live graciously out of the Christian tradition without absolutizing it.
- Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.
- Perhaps we've idolized security, absolutizing it above other values.
- One of Eckhart's key ideas is that God is infinitely greater than anything we can think about him, and that one of the problems with religion is that we absolutise our metaphors and our struggle to say something about God.