Sentences with phrase «established orthodoxy»

Because it is not; and can not be, because science progresses by scientists trying to disprove the work of others, and hence the established orthodoxy.

It upsets the established orthodoxy.»

To deviate from established orthodoxy in one's beliefs was to be guilty of the heinous sin of heresy.

And yet, when the gifted musician / author Jeremy Begbie reviewed art historian Dan Siedell's book God in the Gallery in the current issue of Image, Begbie appeared - ever so subtly - to take issue that Dan Siedell, in a book about art, limited himself to «one particular current within the Nicene river, the Eastern Orthodox tradition... and the council of Niceae (787 CE), the conference which established the orthodoxy of icons.»

It is now experienced more as the established orthodoxy than as the hope of the world's salvation.

It does all that even though it ignores the established orthodoxy of the online news business, which puts a premium on sharing via Facebook, Twitter and every other tool available.

He was after all one of the great literary modernists of the early twentieth century, and modernism was a kind of radicalism, because it a refused to remain within the frame of established orthodoxies.

They seemed to oppose the established orthodoxies — bringing in underrepresented ethnic and sexual subjects and, indeed, a strain of ruinous, unedifying sarcasm that distorted future audience expectations.

Lit reviews are designed to find hidden trends and establish orthodoxy, i.e. consensus.

Not exact matches

He's the dean of a well - established divinity school, a Baptist theologian and an earnest Christian, a gifted writer and a theologically articulate lecturer, a champion of orthodoxy, «distinguishing heresy from truth,» and one who has rightly discerned, as Neuhaus puts it, the «pattern of Christian truth, a pattern derived from the apostolic witness and maintained across time as the depositum fidei.»

Our cultural marginalization, even the manhandling of our religious freedom by cynical uses of the law to establish various orthodoxies of the sexual revolution, can be that kind of Christ - conforming poverty for us.

In the fourteenth century the leadership of the church moved from Kiev to Moscow and independence from Greek Orthodoxy was established.

Whenever women challenge the spiritual authority of men, whether by claiming a new faith or interpreting the orthodoxies of establish faith, their views have been seen as a political challenge to male dominance.

Orthodoxy was the ony Cristian faith for over 100 years - when Rome broke off to establish a papacy.

Very recently the university established the Bavinck Center for Evangelical and Reformed Theology (Herman Bavinck, a brilliant and productive champion of Reformed orthodoxy, was Abraham Kuyper's younger colleague).

According to what was, in due time, established as Christian orthodoxy, the distinctions that we draw in our attempts to speak of God go, as it were, to the very heart of the matter.

As the developing sciences began to get into their stride, and that brings us into the last hundred years, there was a tendency for them, having refuted so much of what Christian orthodoxy took for granted, to establish their own form of dogmatism.

By skillful manipulation of categories and definitions, the Darwinists have established philosophical naturalism as educational orthodoxy in a nation in which the overwhelming majority of people express some form of theistic belief inconsistent with naturalism.

As long as the media and the courts are quiescent, they may retain the power to marginalize dissent and establish their philosophy as orthodoxy.

Rather than being a subject for rational discussion in the classroom, Darwinism is now protected orthodoxy - and has acquired all the bad habits of an established religion.

As Chesterton understood, «orthodoxy» is the exact reverse of what people suppose it to be, an assertion of «established» ideas and standards: the «chief merit» of orthodoxy, said Chesterton, is «that it is the natural fountain of revolution and reform».

The decision of the Church this week to establish Personal Ordinariates to give Anglican converts flexibility in their liturgy is just the latest step towards reaffirming that Catholic orthodoxy is ready for whatever the world may bring.

From such influences came an established doctrine, the orthodoxy of a large part of the Old Testament, that all human suffering presupposes corresponding sin.

This grimly humorless ideology has established itself as an unquestioned orthodoxy throughout the mainline churches.

Aquinas thus established a new norm for Christian orthodoxy, and by the Reformation the world view derived largely from Aristotle had become firmly entrenched as Christian dogma and the Bible was interpreted in the light of it.

Iberian Catholicism with its emphasis on orthodoxy, rituals and the divinely established monarchical nature of all society conquered physically but itself was absorbed by the pre-Colombian spiritualism with its emphasis on the cosmic - earthly rituals expressing the harmonious unity of opposing tensions: male and female, suffering and happiness, self - annihilation and transcendence, individual and group, sacred and profane, life and death.

In the long struggle in the history of ideas, established insti - tutions, both public and private, have attempted to censor inquiry, to impose orthodoxy on beliefs and values, and to excommunicate heretics and extirpate unbelievers.

Miliband challenged many of the orthodoxies of British politics established under Thatcher's government which led David Cameron to conclude before Thatcher's funeral «we are all Thatcherites now».

«Do such considerations affect the current orthodoxy regarding the role of CO2 in establishing climate characteristics?»

Question: Do such considerations affect the current orthodoxy regarding the role of CO2 in establishing climate characteristics?

It seems that only well established scientists can even contemplate raising their voices against that orthodoxy, but only at the risk of denigration and personal attacks.

In fact, sustainability is predominantly a religious movement that is primarily concerned with defending the orthodoxy of its slowly - evolving existing teachings (particularly when those teachings are opposed by logic and scientific evidence), with establishing hierarchies within the community of believers, and with persecuting non-believers and non-adherents within the believer community.

One can think of orthodoxies being established materially, rather than «ideologically», so to speak, to achieve the same effect.