Sentences with phrase «as traditional conservative»

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A traditional shirt like this calls for a spread collar, too, as the conservative cuff style pairs best with a medium - to - wide necktie and a half - Windsor or Windsor knot.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

There seems to be fewer responses from those holding more Traditional / Conservative beliefs which often served as a catalyst to evoke Progressive / Liberal responses.

Traditional and conservative Christians will tend to regard the gospels as straightforward accounts of Jesus» life and death.

I've known hundreds of conservative christians, and none of them would describe the traditional, conservative hermeneutic as being that God's behavior was «just like Hitler» but since he's omnipotent it's ok to be like Hitler.

You've got to give as much airtime to conservative views as liberal ones, equal time in debate to secular and religious views, the same column width to progressive and traditional opinion.

Traditional conservatives should certainly seek to elect capable and morally responsible leaders and work with non-religious allies as far as conscience permits.

On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

Cardinal Llovera was seen as conservative and traditional and had changed the way mass was celebrated.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

He is liberal enough to call Cardinal Ottaviani a «reactionary» but conservative enough to comment that Rocco Buttiglione» rejected as justice minister for the European Union because of his traditional social beliefs» was subject to a «secularist media witch - hunt.»

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights in the next generation of conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.

Putin's cynical pose as a defender of traditional Christian values and persecuted Christians in the Middle East is part and parcel of this new, cooler Cold War attack on the cognitive security of the West — and too many Christian conservatives have swallowed that noxious bait.

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

I hear «heresy» used in a joking manner more than a serious one, as most younger Christians have been so inundated by the word to refer to any deviation from «traditional» (read: conservative) Christianity that they are inoculated from the possibility that heresy is a real and dangerous thing to avoid.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»

His «vision of a traditional service infused with English, decorum, and modern education,» writes Michael R. Cohen in his recent book, The Birth of Conservative Judaism, was perfectly compatible with what later became known as «Modern Orthodoxy.»

Because of a traditional Dutch rationalism (which can be conservative as well as liberal), it has never made the headway in the Reformed churches that it has in some others, though there are some RCA congregations in which the charismatic movement has proved to be divisive.

Despite the nostalgia of some conservative social critics, the traditional father - as - helper - only model is outdated and outmoded, and it won't work nowadays.

Firstly, let us consider the Prime Minister as a traditional social conservative.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

They want to weaken the forces that prevent them from shaping the future as they imagine it must be: the sentimental Left, the statist EU, the traditional Conservative party.

But sorting out such issues is not politically convenient for Cameron, especially as many traditional Conservative voters in the south have had most to gain from runaway house prices over the last 30 years.

Pluralistic democratic politics was constitutionally hardwired into the three traditional parties as a basis for securing the peace of the federal republic, whereas in this country the perpetual evolution of party structures means that there remains a representative body of opinion on both right and left within Labour and the Conservatives which tends to revert to dogma.

I'm biased and not a bystander in this project (as ConservativeHome has noted) but a new parliamentary group has been established to help the Conservative Party becomes at least as fluent and thoughtful about a one nation agenda as it is about immigration, defence, tax or other «traditional» Tory issues.

The Republican Party is an ideological mix of social and fiscal conservatives once held together by eloquent intellectuals such as Bill Buckley; gone are the days of the Eisenhower Republican; here to stay is the Reagan Republican jumble, with a few vestiges of traditional conservatism tacked on for good measure.

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

Hayes describes himself as the personification of blue - collar Conservatives, and is strong on traditional family issues.

Making compromises; doing things you find uncomfortable; challenging some of your traditional support — these are the dilemmas the Conservatives are coming to terms with, just as my party has had to.»

While Governor Paterson's directive received widespread approbation from same - sex marriage supporters, it was met with criticism from conservative legislators and from traditional marriage advocates, one of whom referred to the directive as Governor Paterson's «first major blunder.»

Just as damaging to morale was Labour's failure to take, or make the hoped - for headway in, any of the traditional Conservative strongholds in London — Wandsworth, Westminster, and Barnet (where the row over antisemitism in the party had a devastating effect).

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

We can not prove the link with aggregate data, but the mirror image pattern of UKIP and Conservative support in the past few months suggests the burst of publicity for Farage attracted the interest of disgruntled Tories who have drifted back to their traditional home as UKIP have fallen off the front page.

In a paper being published today, he writes: «The traditional Conservative vision of welfare as a safety net encompasses another outdated Tory nostrum - that poverty is absolute, not relative.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

He impressed Tory colleagues as orthodox, traditional and usually loyal, although he insisted, on occasion, on voting against Conservative measures on agriculture.

Despite Mr Cameron's rising personal popularity, the Conservatives have dropped four points as voters abandon the traditional parties of government for small parties, including the SNP.

«Thousands of e-cigarette users have pleaded with the European parliament not to take these products off the shelves,» said Conservative MEP Martin Callanan, who tabled an amendment to the vote that would only require e-cigarettes to go through the same authorisation process as traditional tobacco products.

And now it seems many more traditional Conservative core voters may stay at home or vote UKIP - as in Bromley.

David Cameron is acting in a «hurtful» way towards traditional Tory voters by imposing social change through «diktat», a former Conservative frontbencher warned as the party embarked on an inquest into its poor showing in the Eastleigh byelection.

Nigel Farage has often claimed that UKIP appeals to a large number of traditional Labour supporters as well as being a threat to the Conservatives.

Traditional conservative values, such as the return of capital punishment, leaving the EU, restoring the police force (not service), etc., are very popular with the general population.

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

«Bill McCollum has a record as a principled conservative leader who has always fought for lower taxes, less government and traditional values, and I'm proud to support him as Florida's next governor,» Romney said in a written statement Monday.

Upstate was once a traditional GOP stronghold, with voters leaning more conservative as one travels further north and west.

Trump's GOP has become an unworkable vehicle for the propagation of traditional conservative policy, such as free trade and democracy promotion.