Sentences with phrase «american liberal tradition»

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Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Messiah College, an evangelical liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System of American Protestantism.»

David L. Schindler criticizes the liberal view of the human person that he sees encoded into the American project in First Things, to which Richard John Neuhaus responded with a more positive view of our national heritage, in which religious faith and a strong tradition of civic associations moderate the excesses of liberal individualism.

They also fail to acknowledge the liberal tradition within American Catholicism, exemplified by the Jesuit John Courtney Murray.

Even had Spadaro and Figueroa made their argument well, taking account of the liberal tradition in American Catholicism, they would find themselves in opposition to the tradition of the Church, and to the pope they want to vindicate.

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

Progressive policies were liberal when they were first proposed, but now that they've been established for almost a century they've become a part of the American tradition and so many conservatives will seek to conserve something like Social Security.

The Portland Museum of Art (1882), Ogunquit Museum of American Art (1953), and Monhegan Museum of Art and History (1968) were founded by artists, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1894), University of Maine Museum of Art (1946), Bates College Museum of Art (1955), and Colby College Museum of Art (1959) are part of the proud tradition of American teaching museums that are integral to the liberal arts college experience, and the Farnsworth Art Museum (1948) was founded in memory of Rockland native William A. Farnsworth.