absolutising

And this Enlightenment assumption is powerful and attractive partly because of a collective memory of centuries of appeal to unaccountable and tyrannical religious authority, the refusal of the right to question, the absolutising of local and transient structures of power.

Church Schools: a National Vision 2006

And this Enlightenment assumption is powerful and attractive partly because of a collective memory of centuries of appeal to unaccountable and tyrannical religious authority, the refusal of the right to question, the absolutising of local and transient structures of power.

Church Schools: a National Vision 2006

The real opposition is between a classical Muslim and Christian acceptance of interpretation and reflection in charting the believer's duties in the public sphere, and the crude and violent absolutising of a single narrow cultural expression of faith, devoid of any positive sense of history.

Religion, Culture, Diversity and Tolerance - Shaping the New Europe 2005

The real opposition is between a classical Muslim and Christian acceptance of interpretation and reflection in charting the believer's duties in the public sphere, and the crude and violent absolutising of a single narrow cultural expression of faith, devoid of any positive sense of history.

'Religion culture diversity and tolerance - shaping the new Europe': address at the European Policy Centre, Brussels 2005