Sentences with phrase «contends for orthodoxy»
Jude thus contends for orthodoxy in opposition to some kind of proto - Gnosticism not unlike that of the later Cainites, described by Irenaeus.
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George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»