Sentences with phrase «proponents of orthodoxies»

Proponents of orthodoxies do not recognise themselves as vulnerable to ideology.

Though this idea has been soundly refuted by Father John McCloskey, among other proponents of orthodoxy, and though Francis has strongly upheld the indissolubility of marriage, stating that Catholic divorce «doesn't exist,» it is not so clear to many of the pope's critics, who no longer trust Francis, and who dismiss his affirmations of orthodoxy.

Not exact matches

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

Some proponents of the old orthodoxy (such as Gordon Clark and Carl Henry) favor a metaphysical - deductive over an empirical - inductive approach, seeking to deduce the concrete meanings of Scripture from first principles given in Scripture.

«Proponents of business as usual - roadblocks to reform, reluctant to accept the need to change and modernise, wedded to the old orthodoxies - argue that the best government can do is to stand aside and leave it to the market,» Mr Umunna will say.