Sentences with phrase «do with some orthodoxy»

We do not wish to disappoint Dr. Mouw in his quest for fruitful conversation with Mormons, but we must alert him to the fact that any tendency he may observe among Mormons to downplay speculation on God's origin has nothing at all to do with some orthodoxy - envy on our part.

Not exact matches

Daniel says: «The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical 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.

Bloom's own review of Wieseltier's book, in the New York Times, is revealing in this connection: «One parts from Wieseltier with gratitude, but confirmed in a conviction he does not share, which is that the God of Akiba [ben Joseph], and of all the orthodoxies, always exacts too steep a price for the Sanctification of His name.»

Familiarity with Episcopal orthodoxy does not equate to Godly knowledge of the Scriptures.

Evangelicals insist I MUST believe in the Trinity and JW's don't want to touch me with a barge pole, so I'm stuck in the middle; but you are like a breath of fresh air as you prize away people from orthodoxy of «religion» and a dependence on institutions to the true Church, the Body of Christ.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

(CNN)- The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy.

Well, it was a turbulent time in history, but Calvin's off - with - their - heads approach to theological orthodoxy doesn't do much for so - called Calvanism.

But the orthodoxy of a Catholic theologian should not be suspect only because he does his duty honestly and weighing his own views, remaining in an open dialogue with the magisterium and prepared to leave the last word to the authorities of the Church, always lovingly adapting his individual under - standing of the faith to that of the whole Church.

«The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy.»

The second way in which the cause of Reformed orthodoxy was diminished has to do with what happened to the conservatives themselves after they left the mainline denomination.

Even though orthodoxy actually contributed to unjust social structures by its neglect, it did contribute to a realistic social ethic with its doctrine of sin.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

Regarding classical cultures as a dialectic of Christian theology and theoria, much work remains to be done in recovering the egalitarian and anti-imperialistic communities of reform - minded Christians, how their orthopraxis in communal experiences of repentance and inclusive wholeness envisaged an orthodoxy expressive of solidarity with the poor and outcast.

And the Lutheran pastor down the street may do the opposite with complete impunity because our communion is organized not around orthodoxy but around a series of pragmatic compromises designed to hold a loose coalition together.

In a delightful passage in Orthodoxy Chesterton insists that even if life does proceed with a predictable pattern, that does not mean that God is not active as a creator:

In examining Bultmann's thesis and his personal orthodoxy (As has already been done in various official memoranda, sometimes with very negative conclusions.)

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.

This does not mean that (for example) the Protestant denials of real presence or transubstantiation are now compatible with orthodoxy, or that the need to «cite apostolic succession» in relation to heterodox communities has ceased.

This was before the pall was cast over social life by the dreary anti-smoking orthodoxy, and I'm convinced that the enveloping smoke had much to do with the liveliness of these conversations.

Somewhere in the depths of my confused soul, the previous point has a bit to do with why I've never converted to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy even while finding many of their criticisms of my evangelical Protestantism convincing.

Zwingli, a former humanist whose abandonment of medieval Catholic orthodoxy predated Luther's, gets extended treatment, as does Calvin, who built on Zwingli's initiatives to create the disciplined structures and alliances with civic society which would become the normative form of Protestantism.

While he does stand with the Reformers» position Niebuhr becomes the critic of the formulations of the sixteenth century and of later protestant orthodoxy.

I do agree with some of Radical Orthodoxy's critique of the ideology that has dominated much of Western social science.

We are all victims of the way theology has been done in the West since the split with Eastern Orthodoxy.

It does not claim to be exhaustive of or coextensive with historic Christian orthodoxy.

This reviewer chose to use «Living the Mystery» as a Lenten exercise for a study group within the parish: it was much appreciated and stimulated wide ranging discussion, combining, as it does, an accessible orthodoxy with fresh insight.

The point is that Orthodoxy intentionally does not «change with the times.»

many of the serious and devout ones that I personally know seem to have a wide and tolerant approach to their faith, in fact, much more so than many of the popular sects.Of course, the official institution claims to have the true orthodoxy, but I've never come across a Catholic who has been threatened with expulsion if they didn't comply.What yr suggesting sounds more like Mormonism.

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.

Clayton says the Nobel Committee's decision probably had more to do with Hoyle's rejection of scientific orthodoxy than any missing equation.

With the distance of nearly four decades, it's possible now to look back at this period and recognize that yet again, the Bard from Hibbing, Minn., was doing what he's done so consistently through all phases of his career: challenging orthodoxy.

Although that kind of academic orthodoxy is moth - eaten — a medium has potential until the ideas it addresses are exhausted — it's a shame they didn't go all the way with that notion.

Eisenhower's insight is evident in the massive hypocrisy with which ambitious politicians and self - interested academics treat research and teaching that doesn't conform to «official» academic / political global warming orthodoxy.

By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is by a team of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary view?

For me, as with countless other skeptics, my engagement in the climate discussion started with me reading a blog written by a Canadian statistician with the temerity to challenge the orthodoxy and state, «YOU»RE DOING IT WRONG!!!

This is driven less from the data generated by these experts — they aren't as expert as is claimed, and the consensus is not unassailable — and more to do with the desire to drive politics by creating scientific orthodoxy.

Even if every environmentalist and climate campaigner agreed with me that we need a radical reappraisal of our present «growth at all costs» orthodoxy (hint: they don't), that still wouldn't mean the only alternative to business - as - usual is some anarcho - primitivist dystopia.

The government funded scientific community calls those who don't agree with their orthodoxy, deniers, and punishes them (no grants).

I once argued with a fried regarding some of the accepted orthodoxy regarding climate change alarm and at the time I really didn't have a good answer for «how is it that all these scientists and politicians got it so wrong if you're right?»

Don't avoid the question, or get sidetracked with non-relevant GHG orthodoxy just answer the query.

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.