Sentences with phrase «challenge of orthodoxy»

By accepting the wonderful «challenge of orthodoxy» that is the placing of Christ at the center of their lives, clergy of all stripes would find the inspiration to minister God's love to all the baptized as they labored to promote the Kingdom of God.

Not exact matches

This advice may befuddle generations of guidance counselors with their insistence that love should precede career choices rather than follow them, but Newport isn't the only person challenging the passion orthodoxy.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Whenever women challenge the spiritual authority of men, whether by claiming a new faith or interpreting the orthodoxies of establish faith, their views have been seen as a political challenge to male dominance.

It hardly needs to be said that the new view of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine of man assumed and taught by Christian orthodoxy.

Today it's Grover Norquist and not Richard Epstein who polices the boundaries of contemporary conservatism, funding primary challenges to those who deviate from tax - rate orthodoxy.

The essays in the Sigmund volume address both the challenge of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux volume is an essay by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness of the martyrs.

This failure of orthodox minds on the one hand to tackle the scientific challenge, and of some of our cleverest intellectuals, on the other hand, to remain loyal to orthodoxy, sums up the root of our crisis.

Spurred by their recent condemnation of Rob Bell, I was going to rail against their narrow view of Orthodoxy, challenge their commitment to Christian unity, judge them for being so judgmental, and then throw a bunch of Bible verses around like Rambo in a last - ditch siege.

Now even as ancient Jewish apocalypticism profoundly challenged the orthodox guardians of the Torah, a challenge which is profoundly renewed in Paul, modern apocalypticism profoundly challenges Christian orthodoxy.

What they seem to miss, however, is the potential of Catholics who are Democrats challenging the current orthodoxy of their party.

This probably isn't the space for me to get into all of the painstaking research and reading, prayer and spiritual wrestling that has occurred in our home as we challenged our traditional understanding of hell — truly with the heart to learn — and emerged from the discussion on the other side of orthodoxy.

Now, in fact, Davies's intention, made clear in his response to critics of the article, is to challenge this orthodoxy concerning an immutable law which is just a «given».

Honestly, the only Christians I read on a regular basis are bloggers / writers who are willing to challenge the orthodoxy, the ones who tell the church it's wrong when it comes to science, homosexuality, its treatment of women, etc..

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.

The doubts which challenged the traditional orthodoxy reached their classical expression in the book of Job.

In effect, his insights lead to a challenge to orthodoxy to give up the myth of claiming that the Christ of the gospels was a historical figure and to content itself instead with recognizing that he is a historic figure, admittedly known to us only from Christian preaching but in any case the only legitimate concern of Christian faith.

Following the birth of one's first child, most of us are not in a good place to challenge orthodoxies on our own.

More specifically, he challenged prevailing orthodoxies on the history and politics of the Palestinians and investigated the role of the intelligentsia in building para-state institutions and in fostering socio - economic and political changes within the Palestinians in exile.

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.

Our panel discussions will cover a broad and critical range of concerns such as gender, challenging left orthodoxy, trade unions and community, education and culture.

For all Mr Brown's presentational failures, his equivocations and paranoia, his greatest problem is that he has done nothing as Prime Minister to challenge the neoliberal orthodoxies of the past 30 years - nor did he as chancellor.

Miliband challenged many of the orthodoxies of British politics established under Thatcher's government which led David Cameron to conclude before Thatcher's funeral «we are all Thatcherites now».

This is the most detailed challenge yet to the 40 - year - old orthodoxy of the Big Bang.

But challenge one of its central orthodoxies, and you may end up branded as either a genius or a charla - tan.

Similarly, we need to guard against losing our ability to hear the voices of those at the margins who challenge orthodoxies — some of our greatest breakthroughs have come from that quarter.

How a science diplomat's career was influenced by things he learned from his father: a shared commitment to solving a problem is the bedrock of a friendship, life is not linear, and change requires challenging the orthodoxy.

In the last few years, though, that orthodoxy has been challenged by a few studies that claimed to see muscle increases after just a few weeks of training.

With the distance of nearly four decades, it's possible now to look back at this period and recognize that yet again, the Bard from Hibbing, Minn., was doing what he's done so consistently through all phases of his career: challenging orthodoxy.

Irving is the sort of figure who has become oversized in today's culture — the maverick, the self - taught authority, the outsider challenging the orthodoxy of the establishment.

Challenging orthodoxies within the school: demonstrating what has been achieved elsewhere in similar contexts with similar pupils, suggesting new ways of tackling problems, inspiring and challenging staff to raise expectations and confideChallenging orthodoxies within the school: demonstrating what has been achieved elsewhere in similar contexts with similar pupils, suggesting new ways of tackling problems, inspiring and challenging staff to raise expectations and confidechallenging staff to raise expectations and confidence levels.

«We must challenge the orthodoxy and find a new way of doing business in our schools because nothing less than the future of our kids is at stake,» the governor - elect proclaimed.

Challenged by Twitter Jacobins for his failure to toe the political orthodoxy of the moment, Van Zandt fired back with gusto.

But the very robustness of the debate is testament to the fact that Mr. Klein did deliver on a central promise: to challenge orthodoxies, shake up the status quo and risk dislike in the name of progress.

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.

In all of that, he's a welcome departure from the bombastic thuggery of his predecessor, A.J. Duffy, who rallied the UTLA membership by scapegoating those who challenged union orthodoxy.

Nowhere are the orthodoxies of the human rights movement, its wishful universalism and its proximity to power, challenged with such rigor, creativity, and severity than in the realm of culture.

Presents artworks by early and mid-career artists whose close examination of contemporary issues and use of materials challenge orthodoxies.

Today, the 73 - year - old Benglis may be less confrontational, but she has continued to push the boundaries of artistic acceptability and to challenge orthodoxies with her exploration of a wide and often vividly coloured range of materials, from pigmented latex, luminous polyurethane, beeswax and glitter to lead and bronze.»

However, this orthodoxy is juxtaposed against the propensity to challenge the system through severe aphorisms that imitate anarchist tropes — the surfaces of the work act as an awkward oxymoron.

«If there is a defining strand which can be drawn from this collection of essays, it is a determined will to challenge orthodoxy.

They evoke space and suggest a bond between the inside and outside by extending the charcoal lines to the top edge of the canvas and presumably beyond, directly challenging the formalist orthodoxy that defined painting as a self - contained object or surface.

Each artist's approach presents a challenge to the orthodoxy of beauty and mimetic precision in creative production, mediated through humor, fantasy, and the grotesque.

This shift of mindset will challenge orthodoxy and could be transformational.

Its mission statement includes ``... a commitment to publishing scholarly articles in defense of the practice of private medicine, the pursuit of integrity in medical research... Political correctness, dogmatism and orthodoxy will be challenged with logical reasoning, valid data and the scientific method.»

Alarmist challenges to the orthodoxy deserve as much or as little weight as complacent ones, independent of the amount of funding behind them.

But does the work really «challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs», as the Mail would have it?

By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is by a team of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary view?

He is vilified in some quarters today only because he has challenged cherished orthodoxy that is inconsistent with the idea of a grand maximum explanation for global warming.

The problem is that most of the public who want to believe in AGW are predisposed to do so and don't take the time to challenge the orthodoxy.