Sentences with phrase «about orthodoxy»

But because the figures since 2002 might raise doubts about the orthodoxy, there has been a great silence.

The real excitement, Campolo seems to suggest, lies in being at the forefront of progressive politics and new - age spirituality rather than with the old Christian «hang - ups» about orthodoxy and the pursuit of holiness.

What about the orthodoxy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, Oscar Romero and Mother Teresa, to name a few counterexamples?

If he complained about Orthodoxy living in an ahistorical world of religious Let's Pretend, it was not because he thought the Church had that much to learn from history, especially the history of the West.

For Westerners it is all about orthodoxy.

The later debates about his orthodoxy centered on his use of Stoicism and his more speculative cosmology.

In a few circles of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, there was strong concern expressed about the orthodoxy of an article on «The Resurrection,» and as soon as this came to the notice of the press, the debate left the confines of Presbyterian Church circles and became a public issue.

Alexander's core convictions about Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism, and they reward reflection, whatever one's ecclesial allegiance.

I also admonished her to discover the Church through its liturgical and communal life, not the abundant resources available about Orthodoxy online.

Don't worry about orthodoxy or heresy.

While only the «de fide» category ever had any formal agreed designation, they did perhaps, through their setting of parameters, allow for a freer debate with less risk of raising concerns about orthodoxy.

Your ignorant comments about orthodoxy have no foundation in history or reality.

For Bell, the arguments about orthodoxy between Christians are only alienating those looking on, and his frustration is evident.

Not a word about orthodoxy or biblical truth; only words about tactics and power.

With his usual care, Griffiths assesses the main claim about the orthodoxy of Balthasar's theology put forward by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick in Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ's Descent into Hell (Eerdmans, 2007).

Not exact matches

But for all the talk about how Donald Trump is bucking Republican orthodoxy, his actual policy proposals are not only very similar to what the Republicans have been proposing for years, they very much support the interests of those we typically associate with the Republican establishment.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

I would even argue that there's nothing oppressive about Jewish Orthodoxy.

the only important thing in life is how we treat one an other, how we live our lives, dipping into religous orthodoxy and entering a discussion about what god to pray to is nothing more then selfindulgent hokus pocus guesswork.

If anyone had asked me what I thought about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its priests can marry.

Not that I think bad theology is a good idea, but for Anabaptists, living the Kingdom and doing right (orthopraxy) has always taken precedence over theorizing about the Kingdom and being right (hyper - orthodoxy).

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

But I care enough about Bob to talk with him honestly about our deepest differences — including my assessment that on both halves of the Snow couplet, public Mormon theology and traditional Christian orthodoxy are still far apart.

Orthodoxy offers them a sense of what is valuable about their culture and how they are part of, yet different from, the West.

As David noted, we can use «orthodoxy» to support just about any theological position that suits our sectarian fancy.

For Gilkey, the «neo» of his orthodoxy is precisely where he remained most liberal» not just his penchant for talking about biblical symbols and myths but also his conviction that the problem of historical consciousness is the context for all modern theology.

He was advocating a posture of gracious, generous orthodoxy that keeps things simple, refusing to obsess about peripheral matters, and recognising that our current opinions about non-essentials are unlikely to be universally important and absolutely correct.

If you are elected to office and asked to affirm your orthodoxy, it is not likely that you will confess that you are «still thinking about it.»

I will speak briefly about the seven additional emphases noted in the first lecture: orthodoxy, postliberalism, liturgical renewal, multiculturalism, institutionalism, spirituality, and healing.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Thomas learns that orthodoxy about Christ didn't fall from heaven.

Unease also exists about Radical Orthodoxy's account of the church, about Milbank's Augustinianism, and about his refusal to allow for «the haunting of ethics by the tragic.»

, Gerard McKay's ongoing concern about the trustworthiness, perhaps even the orthodoxy of any text that cites Tertullian's famous dictum «the flesh is the hinge of salvation» (caro cardo salutis est) is surely misplaced (Letters, Nov - Dec 07).

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

This is not about a Clarence Thomas, or a Glenn Loury, or any other black critic of today's orthodoxy.

Andrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, «The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?»

I'll let God worry about what He considers orthodoxy.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

He refused to answer my question about his own conversion to Orthodoxy.

In this way, following Jesus is not about sliding scales of orthodoxy, compartments or titles.

The theological imperialism of the protesters — demanding that the statement say exactly what Lutherans have traditionally said about «faith alone,» law and gospel, simul iustus et peccator (at the same time justified and sinner), etc. — might give the impression that they represent hard - core orthodoxy.

Along the way, Protestants demonstrated what Catholics already knew» namely, that the Bible never stands alone but, even in its translation, is situated in a web of relationships that involve the authority of church leaders and questions about who has responsibility for determining orthodoxy.

In the «The Maniac,» in Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes about the tendency for professional critics to go mad.

There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure of any of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery of God by witnessing to the glory of God's actions with a cocksure orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth of things.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

And yet, when the gifted musician / author Jeremy Begbie reviewed art historian Dan Siedell's book God in the Gallery in the current issue of Image, Begbie appeared - ever so subtly - to take issue that Dan Siedell, in a book about art, limited himself to «one particular current within the Nicene river, the Eastern Orthodox tradition... and the council of Niceae (787 CE), the conference which established the orthodoxy of icons.»

One of the arguments that the «Christian nationalists» always make is that the country was founded on Christian principles, when in fact many of the founders held beliefs that were about as far from any Christian orthodoxy as you could safely be back in those days.

Any religious community's desire to safeguard its sacred and saving information often leads it to be very solicitous, at times excessively so, about doctrinal orthodoxy.