April 10, 2018 • In a pronouncement, Pope Francis challenges
conservative thinkers who claim to know the true mission of the Church.
Latinos are, after all, overwhelmingly Christian, and even Catholic, and Buchanan's most emphatic affirmation, in agreement with a distinguished line
of conservative thinkers, is that culture is grounded in cult.
As one
Conservative thinker succinctly put it, «Conservative Judaism emphasizes the People Israel... [the] early and constant concern for founding a state for the Jewish People in the Jewish homeland is easy to understand.»
It seems to me that a whole range of more or
less conservative thinkers aim to steer a middle way between a deductive, natural law approach to political things and the anti-rationalism highlighted by Muller.
Mr. Allitt's analysis would be the stronger, however, had he taken more fully into account the evidence of reformist (not reactionary) vitalities
among conservative thinkers in American religion today.
Visions of Order, precisely because it relentlessly drives to the heart of things, remains a powerful analysis by a
serious conservative thinker.
Perhaps, as the union leaders become even more gung - ho, the Labour Party will never come back to election - winning strength,
say Conservative thinkers.
I studied under him at the LSE and he was an inspirational teacher, a renowned philosopher who has been described as one of the most important 20th -
century conservative thinkers.
Some business figures and
hardline Conservative thinkers believe the PM's reaching out to women will damage his efforts to unleash the forces of capitalism.
There is some hope that if they keep up this kind of study, they will discover that liberal / democrat / progressives simply believe what they are told without any attempt at critical thinking and that
more conservative thinkers use their existing knowledge, seek further knowledge when unsure, and then critically examine the issues and data and make up their own minds, being natively distrustful of self - appointed «authorities».
While congressional Republicans rejected the trading model when Obama proposed it, many
conservative thinkers like the idea and some governors may be willing to experiment with it.
Muller is right to emphasize the conservative critique of rationalism and the strongly historicist or anti-universalist character of
many conservative thinkers.
These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and
conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.
Some conservative thinkers confidently assert that the unnaturalness of homosexuality places severe limits on its general acceptance, and I expect there is a great deal to that.
But that objection to historicist conservatism was raised, as Muller notes, by Leo Strauss, certainly
a conservative thinker, at least in the sense that classical political philosophy is a major source of modern conservatism.
These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and
conservative thinkers.
This case has garnered international attention because it highlights Vladimir Putin's split Russia between Western and
conservative thinkers.
«In retrospect, it seems strange that so many liberals bought into an idea that emanated from conservative think tanks and
conservative thinkers,» education scholar and anti-privatization activist Diane Ravitch wrote.
She and Checker Finn,
a conservative thinker (and, later, a Reagan official), formed the Educational Excellence Network to promote standards - based reform.