Often viewed
as Radical Reformers, these Christians were convinced that the reforms of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin didn't go far enough in their attempts to decentralize power.
But these reforms will contribute little to affirming the new leadership's credibility
as radical reformers.
He also cannily used the expenses scandal that rocked Westminster to portray
himself as a radical reformer bent on cleaning up politics.
Not exact matches
Guilt by association has been a frequently invoked form of polemics — and an effective one, since the ecology movement has been a bizarre congeries of political reactionaries, romantic conservationists, political cop - outs, solitary poets, anarchic life - stylers,
as well
as genuine political
radicals, serious - minded
reformers, and level - headed natural scientists.
Yet the
Reformers combined this
radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known
as the community which God creates by his grace.
At the time of the Reformation, the doctrine of the Trinity once again emerged
as a major point of dispute, especially between the mainline
reformers and certain evangelical rationalists among the
radicals.
Otherwise, they are in danger of looking like conservatives with Osborne and Cameron placed
as the great
radical reformers.
We allowed ourselves to be painted
as the resistant establishment rather than the
radical reformers.
Bringing in a «trust buster» to help reinvent a monopoly public school system was hailed by many education
reformers (myself included)
as a stroke of genius and more proof of Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to
radical change.
But
as recently
as last year, the
radical change envisioned by school
reformers still seemed far off, even there.