Sentences with phrase «concerned with orthodoxy»

This is why the Bible is so little concerned with orthodoxy (except certain later parts of the New Testament).

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A continuing pietism flavors that orthodoxy with a deep concern for personal conduct and devotion.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

The situation is not entirely without concern — witness the article by Stan Wocial on p4 — but now numerous examples can be found in Scotland, Ireland, the United States, Canada, England, Australia and elsewhere where dioceses are meeting this challenge with orthodoxy and imagination.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Vitaly Vlasenko, director of external relations for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, instead blamed controversy and concern surrounding Russian Orthodoxy, including the patriarch's decision to meet with Pope Francis.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in concern for religion in public education.

My involvement with the Reformed Journal provides a continuing education on a more general level; several of my fellow editors have been promoting a combination of sane orthodoxy and enlightened social concern for decades.

While faith today is treated as little more than a lifestyle option, in the past religious orthodoxy was equated with social order and security and thus became an important concern for any regime.

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.

My concern with Douthat's analysis is that it leaves no room for a «merely Catholic» center — for the possibility that younger generations of Catholics might finally get beyond the culture wars to a real Catholic consensus on orthodoxy, one that would still allow for political disagreement on less than fundamental matters.

While only the «de fide» category ever had any formal agreed designation, they did perhaps, through their setting of parameters, allow for a freer debate with less risk of raising concerns about orthodoxy.

It is true that the Reformation was chiefly concerned with a few very relevant though central issues, and that many affirmations and presuppositions of Christian orthodoxy remained undisturbed.

In Christian theological education, these will be best treated by careful, critical, and constructive concern for orthodoxy and praxiology, with the constant recognition that an apologia is necessary at every juncture.6

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.

Of course, the recognition of the validity of this distinction, and of faith's concern with Geschichte rather than Historie, means the end of both liberalism and orthodoxy in their nineteenth - century forms, which is why Kähler is so immensely important today.

I just don't know whether the anti — Joe folks who have kindly written to me are as sincerely concerned as they profess about the purity of his orthodoxy or, perhaps, whether they are struggling with a darker, more ignoble, concern.

As far as Byzantine Orthodoxy is concerned, as late as 1963 a popular book by a popular hierarch of English origin concluded its section on marriage with the unadorned statement, «Artificial methods of birth control are forbidden in the Orthodox Church.»

But with opposition MPs and human rights groups raising concerns at the government's illiberal record, he maintained a «fashionable but false orthodoxy» sought to deny Labour's achievements since 1997.

One of the many problems with orthodoxies that exist only because nobody can come up with anything better is that they are just a bit of a laugh for everyone concerned.

In fact, sustainability is predominantly a religious movement that is primarily concerned with defending the orthodoxy of its slowly - evolving existing teachings (particularly when those teachings are opposed by logic and scientific evidence), with establishing hierarchies within the community of believers, and with persecuting non-believers and non-adherents within the believer community.

I have always found presumptuous the writings that stressed the post-communist Member States» courts» need to «learn», or which reacted to some of their judgments, which did not correspond to the CJEU's orthodoxy, with suspicions concerning the competence of the respective judges, who were said to have «misunderstood» what it entailed to be the EU.