Sentences with phrase «for orthodoxy»

They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.

I have noticed as well that Jesus wasn't much of a stickler for orthodoxy.

Howell vouches for the orthodoxy of Yeshu Darbar — its members repent, take baptism, and renounce idol worship — as well as God's blessing.

On Friday, 78 of the Illinois school's 200 - plus professors publicly vouched for the orthodoxy of Hawkins's theology and requested the same.

Sin does not undermine the case for orthodoxy — that is what the Protestant propaganda at the Reformation tried to argue.

Whitten seemed to have learned from the debates of the late 1960s but had little patience for their orthodoxies, pursuing his own synthetic vision.

So for orthodoxy the movement of divine attributes in Jesus is the reverse of that for the LDS view: Instead of gradually accumulating the divine nature, He always was divine.

Those of us who continue to fight for orthodoxy, in dogmatic as well as moral theology, miss those days when there was a clear beacon shining from across the Tiber.

And he seemed really to be asking questions, not giving her an exam for orthodoxy.

The evangelical imagination is very much in thrall to the idea that tinkering with the doctrine of scripture is lethal in the long run for orthodoxy, but history indicates that tinkering with the doctrine of God is just as devastating.

But that is not true at a Catholic event, a FAITH Movement gathering, a pro-life conference, a get - together at a major Catholic venue known for its orthodoxy and devotion.

Without exception, they are dioceses with bishops noted for their orthodoxy.

Mathewes - Green, a strong a spokesperson for Orthodoxy, has said that Orthodoxy is incompatible with feminism, and she has declared herself «twice - liberated,» the second time from a feminism she has decided is a lie.

That would be a boon for orthodoxy everywhere.

Now I experience a liberation for orthodoxy in the endless flexibility of centered apostolic teaching to meld with different cultural environments while offering anew the eternal word of the theandric, messianic Servant in each new historical setting.

Just as pro-abortion activists are stunned at the youthfulness of the prolife movement, dissenters are saddened by the greying of their ranks and stunned that younger scholars have such a passion for orthodoxy.

A bulwark for orthodoxy, this man of «angelic stubbornness» is both a timely and prophetic figure.

Frederica Here and Now: My friend Khouria Frederica Mathewes - Green, an author and lecturer, is probably the most popular apologist for Orthodoxy in America today.

He regarded himself as arguing for orthodoxy against liberalism and he claimed, (1) that the gospels are not and can not be sources for the life of Jesus, and (2) that the Christ of the gospels is the only concern of Christian faith, not the historical Jesus.

Jude thus contends for orthodoxy in opposition to some kind of proto - Gnosticism not unlike that of the later Cainites, described by Irenaeus.

Paradoxically, it was another fine drug for orthodoxy, producing laid - back people in tune with the prevailing social ethos.

It used to be conservatives who stood for orthodoxies; traditions, and «knowing one's place» in natural and social orders.

One need not be a stickler for orthodoxy to find such attitudes toward the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist - one of the central affirmations, if not the central affirmation, of the worshiping Catholic community - to be cause for alarm.

Brought on to support Carroll's apprehensions is Elaine Pagels, a highly controversial academic with no patience for orthodoxy.

This meant for the early church and for orthodoxy in general that God was genuinely present in Jesus in a unique way.

I'm all for orthodoxy, but I'm not convinced that we need to police our terms so minutely.

The challenge then becomes to explain what specifically is the symbolic activity that is necessary for this; how does the symbolism work, and, for orthodoxy, why must it involve openness to procreation?

(No, this isn't a test for orthodoxy.

For Orthodoxy, however, church unity has become closely tied to ethnic and national identity.

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.

For orthodoxy was primarily given shape in the liturgy, and the creeds were originally part of the larger liturgical witness.