"Advocatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the starting-point of theology. For the theologian, as for the advocate, dogma, law, is something given—a starting-point which admits of discussion only in respect of its application and its most exact interpretation. Hence it follows that the theological or advocatory spirit is in its principle dogmatical, while the strictly scientific and purely rational spirit is sceptical, skeptikos—that is, investigative. It is so at least in its principle, for there is the other sense of the ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno |
