Sentences with phrase «defining orthodoxy»

Later, in a post about Jim Belcher's Deep Church (and in response to some of your suggestions), I explored the role that traditional Christian creeds should play in defining orthodoxy.

Even with Constantine's efforts to define the orthodoxy of Christianity in the 4th century, there were so many different beliefs — mostly varying on the nature of the divinity of Christ which ultimately led to lots of persecution in the Byzantine empire to schismatic groups that did not follow the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Greeks.

But they must never be allowed to define orthodoxy or divide the Church.

Is trying to define orthodoxy counterproductive or helpful?

How do you define orthodoxy?

Not exact matches

After a decade of worshiping an anti-debt orthodoxy that defined former Premier Ralph Klein «s era in Alberta politics, the natural governing party changed their tune.

At least the brahmins who represented Aryan orthodoxy affirmed an ambiguously defined brahman.

In sum, McDermott's probing analysis of history, tradition, and orthodoxy never calls the issue what it is: Evangelicals can't define or describe the church beyond personal piety.

Heresy can be defined as any departure from Christian orthodoxy which is a teaching, doctrine or practice that goes beyond the apostles teachings — the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).

Combining the beauty of what he calls the «true gospel» with a biblical orthodoxy that will inescapably mark Christians as «strange,» Moore holds forth on the charged issues defining the 21st century.

This broader liberalism may oscillate between its libertarian and welfare - state expressions, but it stands as orthodoxy in America because those are the dimensions that define us as a nation.

Orthodoxy is a word, however, which no dictionary can define, there being several hundred meanings, depending upon which communion one is a member of.

Orthodoxy has rightly perceived that, if sin is defined negatively, all of Christianity totters.

Later one segment of Mahayana scholarship devoted itself with particular zeal to treating the fundamental metaphysical problems without, however, going beyond the limits of orthodoxy (defined rather broadly, to be sure).

exhibit interest in the social and discursive processes of «demarcation» by which orthodoxies define, and thereby in some sense create, heresies — not only as the inevitable cartographic by - products of the impulse to draw boundaries and create centers, but also (paradoxically, and in multiple ways) as necessary sources of «nourishment» for orthodoxies themselves.

Conservative Jews don't like to be described as the in - between group, but they inevitably are, because the best and simplest way to define the Conservative position is to say that it is more strict than Reform and less strict than Orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy defined itself: against heresies, against the West, the East, the Turks, etc..

Many defended Wellhausen against charges of anti-Semitism by correctly pointing out that he was evenhanded in his negative judgments: his hostility was directed at all forms of orthodoxy, as he defined these.

My argument is that the early church has defined the theological issues and set out the limits of orthodoxy.

Evangelicalism, as I define it, is a renewal movement within historic Christian orthodoxy with deep roots in the early Church, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and the great awakenings of the eighteenth century (and it includes puritanism, pietism, and pentecostalism, as well as fundamentalism).

If you're familiar with church history, you know that the latter Trinitarian formula of equality was defined as orthodoxy in the fourth century in what has come to be known as the Nicene Creed.

The flourishing of Modern Orthodoxy has deprived Conservative Judaism of what it once perceived to be its natural constituency, and its contemporary discontents are due in part to its need to discover a new clientele and to define a new mission.

Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.

«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.

«Orthodoxy, conformity and the hounding of the dissident define the default position of mankind, and there is no reason to think that democracies are any different in this respect from Islamic theocracies or one - party totalitarian states.»

Furthermore, this orthodoxy has thrived and gone mostly unchallenged because of a profound lack of defining political ideas across the political parties.

Many aspects of Rod Macdonald's scholarly life were defined by his challenging of the status quo and perceived orthodoxy.