Sentences with phrase «as radical reformers»

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.