Sentences with phrase «defending orthodoxy»

That is defending orthodoxy, not investigating an extremely complex scientific problem.

In fact, sustainability is predominantly a religious movement that is primarily concerned with defending the orthodoxy of its slowly - evolving existing teachings (particularly when those teachings are opposed by logic and scientific evidence), with establishing hierarchies within the community of believers, and with persecuting non-believers and non-adherents within the believer community.

But in his rebuttals he comes off as a high priest defending an orthodoxy.

There are plenty (if not more) of those defending the orthodoxy for similar reasons.

Defending orthodoxy by the severe punishment of deviants was not only a Catholic practice.

Athanasius and other supporters of Nicene theology were exiled and persecuted for defending orthodoxy, but in the end, their tenacity, patience, and thoughtfulness prevailed.

I've defended my orthodoxy by insisting that I believe Jesus is the Son of God, that he was born of the Virgin Mary, that he died and rose again, and that he is coming again.

A disembodied Word expressed in creedal statements, which were constructed to defend orthodoxy against heresy rather than proclaim the faith, will not communicate the joy and redemptive power of the gospel.

Not exact matches

Daniel says: «The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy»

Luther plainly asserted the natural law, as did the Aristotelian thinkers of high Lutheran Orthodoxy; he even defended the truth of the Ten Commandments on the basis of natural law.

(CNN)- The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy.

Relevant religion seeks not to defend old orthodoxies but rather to aid persons in spiritual discovery, encouraging them to be as true to their own light as the prophets and Jesus were to theirs.

«The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy.»

After Constantinople fell in 1453, Ukrainian Orthodoxy became part of the Russian Church, which declared Moscow to be the Third Rome, now entrusted with defending Christian civilization in the East.

But they no longer make their chief role that of defending historic orthodoxy — especially Reformed scholasticism — against the «acids of modernity.»

And an important part of this implicit ontology of Mormon Christianity that distinguishes it from the particular orthodoxy Mouw is eager to defend is the pronounced rejection of divine impassibility in favor of the being Terryl and Fiona Givens have eloquently presented as The God who Weeps.

But it is a strange notion of orthodoxy which defends a bishop who — however strong he may be upholding Catholic doctrine — shamefully covers up child abuse.

Many defended Wellhausen against charges of anti-Semitism by correctly pointing out that he was evenhanded in his negative judgments: his hostility was directed at all forms of orthodoxy, as he defined these.

The conservative extreme defends the bulwarks of orthodoxy as long as it can.

Arturo Carlo Jemolo, with his ceaseless struggle to defend religious liberty, critically, polemically, and legally, is such an example.42 So is Danilo Dolci, with his effort to find, outside of any religious or ideological orthodoxy, forms of social participation that will be neither impersonally bureaucratic nor boss dominated.43 Nor should the achievements of many such men, working through parties and independently, be underestimated.

This tendency to unthinkingly defend any particular scientific orthodoxy not only fuels the belief that scientists are «no better» than their religious fundamentalist...