Sentences with phrase «case for orthodoxy»

They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.

Sin does not undermine the case for orthodoxy — that is what the Protestant propaganda at the Reformation tried to argue.

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Birzer makes a case for Kirk's orthodoxy, but acknowledges that his outlook was more Stoic than Christian, especially in his most intellectually productive period.

In fact, there is a case for saying that the zeal with which ID is attacked by materialist scientists and philosophers is, arguably, evidence of its explanatory force and the threat it poses to the materialist orthodoxy.

For parallel to (and in some cases generating) the explosion of historical knowledge about American Catholicism has come an effort to put that knowledge — better, a distinctive interpretation of that knowledge — to various partisan purposes in today's struggles over the meaning of orthodoxy, authority, and ministry.

They reflect the Church's growing concern for unity and doctrinal orthodoxy and, in the case of Ignatius, for the importance of the sacraments.

Chuka Umunna has recently made welcome noises about changing the voting system; some voices one would once have associated with 1997 - era orthodoxy have lately been making the case for a citizen's income; the idea of an unconditional payment granted to every individual as a right of citizenship..

The journal continues to challenge the (re-emerging) orthodoxy of fixed ability thinking and practice, whilst also making the case for the democratic control of education and education as a public good.

By #EtherIssue time on Wednesday, author and poet Dan Holloway had added a substantive comment to the column, in which he made a case for how evolving orthodoxy in self - publishing might threaten the author community's natural diversity.

Bob; I'm glad you linked to McIntyre's discussion of the «Bucket» case; this has always intriqued me because the AGW crew have been furious with the 40's dip in temp as it contradicts the effect of the linear increase in CO2 and its monotonic connotations for temp; to overcome the mid-century decline the global dimming hilarity was espoused; the Bucket case added a further dimension of hilarity to this because if the temps actually hadn't dropped as per the Bucket case then global dimming was rubbish; such is the illogic of the orthodoxy.

For some time now I have thought that the science - based arguments have been «too cute» (radiative forcings and all that) and that the strongest case against the orthodoxy is rooted in common sense.