Sentences with phrase «conservative political tradition»

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

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It remains to be seen whether conservative Southern Baptists can translate their political victory in the convention into a living tradition of genuine reformation.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

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.

Those high on openness to experience tend to favour change and embrace what is new in much the same way as liberals whilst those who are low on openness and political conservatives prefer tradition and the status quo.

The Labour Party had a tradition of fighting local elections on party lines whilst the Conservatives didn't see local politics as party political, although many independents were Conservatives in all but in name.

For all the talk of radicalism and «rupture», Thatcherism was an ideology of restoration: consonant with the ideology and ideas of the Conservative Party and the intellectual tradition of the Establishment Centre - Right and strand of thought within the British Political Ttradition of the Establishment Centre - Right and strand of thought within the British Political TraditionTradition.

From Aristotle, conservatives derive their sense of the need for practical experience in judging both moral and political matters, and their understanding of the role of tradition in inculcating habits of virtue and wisdom in the young.For more see https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/conservatism/v-1

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

A conservative tradition may be intellectually inspiring but can not achieve results; the conservative mobilization after 1964 which accelerated in the 1970s and was further boosted by the Reagan victory produced a movement which reinforced, though was sometimes at odds with, the Republican Party and was able to elect candidates and project itself in the political arena.

Although the parable had been used many times before, it was Margaret Thatcher who started the modern tradition with one of her first big speeches, the 1968 Conservative Political Centre Lecture, entitled «What's wrong with politics?»

Just as Cameron's conservatives sought to rebrand and realign themselves as a progressive force, so today leading thinkers on the left are reaching into conservative and communitarian traditions for inspiration and political renewal.

But I believe my main point stands: conservatives stand with tradition, whether that be political tradition (for political conservatives) or social tradition (or social conservatives) or both (typical US «conservatives»).

«Southern and rural cultures have been described as emphasizing tradition and order, and are more conservative in their religious and political affiliations.»

In contemporary Russia in which the official political and cultural attitudes become increasingly conservative, a new generation of Russian artists continue the tradition of the Russian artistic and political Left: desire to change the reality by means of art, ideals of equality and social justice, radical Utopianism, secularism and internationalism.

But enough has been said to show that senior Harper government misanthropes, whether because of ideology, stubbornness, stupidity or cynicism, continue to run roughshod over fundamental values of our political tradition, which true conservatives should be the first to defend.