Citations:unquestioningness

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English citations of unquestioningness

  • 1868, England, The United Kingdom and the Disunited Church, page 139:
    ... spectacle of many individuals rejecting all spiritual authority, and busied with civil affairs alone, and the spectacle of another spiritual power receiving a voluntary allegiance, for both tend to impair the unquestioningness of the obedience of its subjects.
  • 1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 216:
    He bowed gravely, kindly. His eyes were as steadfast as hers; but they had not her unquestioningness. In a brief, deep glance, they studied, searched her; it was a look intense, but not prolonged, — then he let go her hand, which he had scarcely detained, and she turned to her mother.
  • 2012, Sung Wook Chung, Jurgen Moltmann and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Engagement, Wipf and Stock Publishers (→ISBN), page 181:
    The “beneficial unquestioningness” of established Christianity remains, perhaps because such an attitude is considered safer than to allow real inter-religious debate. States do not want ideological differences to be highlighted and established churches may in fact be gaining the role of “ministries of religion,” agencies for ensuring that all religions are kept happy and quiet as they cater for their own communities.