Sentences with phrase «between orthodoxy»

Further conflation is apparent in the same article (discussed at Climate Etc.) and even phrased using terms of (religious) culture: «It is to find the essential balance between orthodoxy and heresy, between a total commitment to the status quo and the blind pursuit of new ideas, between being open - minded enough to accept radical new ideas and so open - minded that your brains fall out.

This moves him to try to formulate the difference between Orthodoxy and Western Christianity.

The line between orthodoxy and heresy has developed over time and through theological conflict, and the line between heterodoxy and heresy is blurry.

Rather, this is a fight between orthodoxy and heterodoxy.

M.N. Srinivas makes a distinction between Orthodoxy and Fundamentalism.

According to Voobus, during the third and fourth centuries, real spiritual and religious strength was found precisely in these movements and the demarcation between orthodoxy and heresy in this situation was very thin and fluid.

I had once thought that I could employ a bipolar scale in characterizing belief, one that assumed that the views of persons might be located at some position between orthodoxy (or conservatism) and modernism (or liberalism).

Conservative Judaism: The New Century by Neil Gillman Behrman, 227 pages, $ 18 paper A concise history and analysis of Conservative Judaism, the movement that has self - consciously sought a middle ground between Orthodoxy and Reform.

Not exact matches

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

Braaten's critics charged that his antiwar enthusiasms led him to violate the Lutheran distinction between law and gospel (he still doesn't think so), but his overall theological perspective clearly placed him in the «evangelical catholic» camp of Lutheran orthodoxy.

«Why, then, make such a point of the vacillation between Arianism and what came to be orthodoxy?»

Corroborating this is the fact that there is apparently a definite correlation between length of sobriety and relative orthodoxy of the theology among AA's.

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

This broader liberalism may oscillate between its libertarian and welfare - state expressions, but it stands as orthodoxy in America because those are the dimensions that define us as a nation.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

The differences between liberalism and the new orthodoxy center more in the doctrine of man than at any other point.

We need to remember that orthodoxy was not a pre-supposition with the early church and in the second and third centuries the demarcation between heresy and orthodoxy was rather thin or fluid everywhere in the church.

He set himself the task of steering a realistic course between the two threats of liberalism and orthodoxy as he tried «to relate Christianity to the modern world.

The very rich (and thick) volume includes a biographical essay, a personal memoir by one of Torrance's students, now an Orthodox priest; nine substantial papers on subjects like St. Athanasius, the Divine Monarchia, and the rationality of the cosmos; a review of the letters between Torrance and Georges Florovsky; and two articles by Torrance himself, «The Relevance of Orthodoxy» and «The Orthodox Church in Great Britain.»

David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire of hell and the light of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine love, which causes divine love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty of the Infinite, 399).

Both Catholic Scholasticism and Protestant Orthodoxy sought to steer a middle course between such false notions of divine transparency and divine opacity by insisting on the distinction between first and second causes.

Ward emphasises the reasonableness of theism but his views are not always consistent with Catholic orthodoxy, particularly concerning the vital distinction between spiritual mind and physical matter.

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

Did the bad blood between Judeans and Galileans have roots in the ancient conflict between Judah, that bastion of orthodoxy, and Israel, whose distance from the Temple was felt to be religious as well as social and geographic?

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

When Karl Barth was at the height of his fame and productivity in the years between 1930 and 1960 and making neo «orthodoxy the dominant force in Protestant thought, another trend in theology was competing for the attention of the public.

Otherwise we should be forced to admit that heresy and orthodoxy exist in harmony or, alternatively, that there was no real difference between them.

Just think about it: for most of the 20th century Christianity in Russia was persecuted, the Orthodox Church was often a tool in the hands of the Soviet government, and relations between Catholicism and Orthodoxy were either tense or frozen in the ice of Cold War realities.

I spent 35 years trapped in false traditional Orthodoxy that almost led to my demise or at least insanity, until I came to this conclusion: This theology reconciles ALL doctrinal problems; and does not create them as tradition has; it gives us the true message that God wills the ultimate reconciliation of ALL that He created; and gives nothing to Satan; hence does not leave the human universe eternally split between Himself and the Infernal Liar.

But Greenblatt sees Othello as the victim of another aspect of Western Civilization, the tension between «erotic intensity» and «Christian orthodoxy.»

JH: Because there is always some room for mystery and speculation, both the Roman Catholic and Reformed traditions have been careful to distinguish three «zones» between strict orthodoxy and outright heresy.

Conservative Jews don't like to be described as the in - between group, but they inevitably are, because the best and simplest way to define the Conservative position is to say that it is more strict than Reform and less strict than Orthodoxy.

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has provided a model of the vibrant orthodoxy that addresses the doctrinal deformations at the source of the scandals, provides a shepherd's care for all the flock, and preserves the necessary bonds of trust between bishop and priests.

The links connecting the chain between beliefs and attitudes are: the amount of orthodoxy, particularism, and participation in the life of the church.

The present growing schism between the remnants of Christian orthodoxy and the secular world is a false one, which can lead both to ruin.

In his 1986 book A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities, though offering a more balanced use of the terms clarity and mystery, Dillenberger argues that a blatant contrast between language and painting followed the rise of Protestant orthodoxy.

When in his journals he speaks of Orthodoxy in America, it is not always clear whether he means the OCA or the more hard - line traditionalists of the Russian émigré community, the line between the two being frequently blurred.

However, when theological education's focus is on «orthodoxy,» the relation between theory and practice seems to be treated as though it were precisely what the first view rejects.

Nancy Ammerman of Hartford Seminary said the evidence suggests that there is an inverse relationship between female leadership and religious orthodoxy.

In all such cases the intimate relation between the prophet and the Lord is apparent in the story, and undoubtedly this was the orthodoxy of thought as it developed.

In 1892 the liberal movement was at its height, Schweitzer's work was still fourteen years in the future, and the discussion was between, on the one hand, an orthodoxy still claiming the gospels as historical documents and the Christ of the Church's faith as a historical figure, and, on the other hand, a liberalism claiming the gospels as non-historical in their present form, but as capable of being used as historical sources, sources for the reconstruction of a historical Jesus to be distinguished from the Christ of the gospels.

In «A Closed Question and Ecumenism Now» (Public Square, October), Richard John Neuhaus asserts: «Mainly because of the fragmented condition of Orthodoxy itself, the healing of the millennium - old breach between Rome and the East will not likely happen anytime soon.»

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

The centre - left thinktank's study, which challenges the orthodoxy of pursuing a stable inflation rate at the expense of everything else, envisages a major improvement in employment among 18 - to 24 - year - olds and those aged between 50 and 64.

Though a latter - day Afenifere joiner, his delicate positioning between Awoist high orthodoxy that balks at injustice from any quarters, and the Babangida - era new breed progressives that accused Shehu Musa Yar» Adua and co of perfidy, at throwing MKO Abiola's June 12, 1993 presidential mandate, splendidly paved Falae's way.

He was caught in a pincer movement between the new leader of the Tory Party, Boris Johnson, who had accused Ed Miliband of complete surrender to Brussels and the Green and Justice Party which said that Europe had become too enslaved to monetary orthodoxy and austerity to be supportable.

This is notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Katko's district, NY - 24, is fairly closely divided and has changed hands between the major parties over the past several election cycles, which means whoever the incumbent is needs NOT to hew too closely to the party leadership and orthodoxy.

Vicariance is a HISTORY OF ARIANISM including Alexandria and Arius, Nicaea and orthodoxy, Between two councils, Ulfilas and his alphabet, Heresy and the barbarians

Kurt presents the «seven psychological death sins» you should be aware of in an attempt to downtone System 1 and advance System 2: 1) excessive self - confidence, 2) herd mentality, 3) blind orthodoxy, 4) denial, 5) confirmation bias, 6) deadlocked ideas and attitudes, 7) cognitive dissonance (the tendency to go with the thought that «feels best» when stuck with the choice between two contradicting ideas rather than investigating which is more rational).