Sentences with phrase «for orthodoxy in»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

An employee does not have free reign [sic] to engage in political speech that disrupts the workplace, but punishing an employee for deviating from company orthodoxy on a political issue is not allowed either.

In a sector known for long timelines and fervent secrecy, Bioastra has embraced a research and development orthodoxy that allows it to quickly market its inventions.

If that is so, there is no safe refuge in any of our denominations from the difficult set of problems for Christian orthodoxy unveiled in Benne's report.

It works very well as a method of social control, for it allows for discrete censorship and the reinforcement of socially enforced orthodoxies well disguised by the rhetoric of neutrality and tolerance in his day, and of diversity and inclusion in ours.

Held almost universally in the international community, the liberal peace stands as the global orthodoxy for addressing past injustices.

For a while the notion that homosexuality was a «choice» (as in the phrase «sexual preference») was homosexual - movement orthodoxy; in recent years the correct line has been that it's somehow inherent.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

For a long time now, critique has reigned supreme, and «orthodoxy» has been an empty standard in academic theology.

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.

(6) Such a new ecumenical initiative would, over time, create the conditions for the possibility of a Russian Orthodoxy that is not in thrall to Russian state power, and that could be a partner in the re-evangelization of Europe because its leadership had rediscovered the power of the Gospel.

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.»

And the final thesis: «It is beyond the limits of Catholic orthodoxy to deny any basis for our hope in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.»

I am just as confident that its unabashed Catholic orthodoxy will merit the usual criticism from those Catholic progressives who somehow manage to combine liberal Protestantism's distaste for dogma with a newly - minted ultramontanism that would even make Cardinal Manning turn in his grave.

For this reason, it is more appropriate to speak of prima scriptura» which more adequately represents historic Christian orthodoxy while preserving Scripture's normative place in doing moral theology.

In the present climate, it is for all intents and purposes impossible for a person who publically dissents from gay rights orthodoxies to get a job teaching in higher educatioIn the present climate, it is for all intents and purposes impossible for a person who publically dissents from gay rights orthodoxies to get a job teaching in higher educatioin higher education.

Last year some German bishops of impeccable orthodoxy proposed that exceptions should be made for couples in particular circumstances, but the proposal was firmly rebuffed by the Vatican.

This hostility, shut her up, everything she said is wrong is the same exact treatment I received for years when trying to have a «generative friendship, authentic community, relational generative orthodoxy» from my view they talk it but they in no way walk it.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Whilst Pierre Teilhard de Chardin may not have been renowned for his doctrinal orthodoxy few would deny his perceptiveness in grasping modern scientific trends.

The editorial text seems to imply that the recent crisis - post Vatican II I assume - has deep roots in the outgoing intellectual orthodoxy (Thomism); and you ask rhetorically for a solution to the crisis without reference to that particular synthesis: «Why did everything collapse so quickly in the 1960s?»

The other British movement (with American offshoots) is Radical Orthodoxy, which gathers around John Milbank (in Lancaster for many years, followed by Cambridge, and now at the University of Virginia).

Such refusal to accept responsibility for the crisis was so easy a method of avoiding obligation in the crisis that Ezekiel found in the ancient orthodoxy, according to which one suffers for another's sin, a dangerous stumblingblock to the nation's reconstruction.

It is more because I want Anthony Burgess blotted out as a flaw in the universe: a terrible sin of presumption, orthodoxy might counter, for who am I to question my worth to God?

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

But I can see no reason for enshrining the maleness of God as part of our orthodoxy, and to the extent that the Trinity supports a patriarchal society or sexism it is not in keeping with the Christian message and can not be used.

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.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

Doctrinal orthodoxy and loyalty to the Magisterium were not fashionable causes, and they were made less so by our calls for a real development of doctrine and a theological expression of Catholicism to revindicate orthodoxy in the age of science.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Chesterton's Autobiography is not always a reliable source; but there is corroborating evidence for these protective feelings from his childhood onwards: and since this evidence is virtually unknown, it is probably best here to take this opportunity to publish it for the first time (much of it will appear in my forthcoming book Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, though I discovered some of it too late for it to be included) rather than repeat old arguments.

Because he rooted his new political realism in his own theological conversion — his new meditation on the wisdom and trustworthy observations of Augustine — Niebuhr called the new movement he called for by the theological name, Renewed Orthodoxy or Neo-Orthodoxy.

Stephen Webb is right to say that the Book of Mormon is Christ - centered; that Mormons have more faith in the divinity of Christ than do many liberal Christians; that for Mormons Jesus» divinity is «not trivial»; and that the Mormon Jesus is different from the Jesus of historic orthodoxy.

There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.

For all that the Orthodox have taught or retaught Protestants, there are potential problems in this rediscovery of Orthodoxy.

Rather, to take this radically dissident line of departure from the orthodoxy of the day is to speak what, for many blacks, is a truth inherited from our ancestors, a truth we know as a result of our awareness of our history coming out of slavery, a truth reflected in the ambiguous but great legacy of Booker T. Washington.

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.

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.»

It's so easy to sing along to that you could be forgiven for not questioning the orthodoxy (how sure are we that there will be a big, big yard for playing football in heaven?).

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

While I value historical roots and the search for answers within the church's rich past, I wonder why, in contemporary Orthodoxy in the United States, those answers are so easy to come by.

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

Nothing I had seen in Orthodoxy in the U.S. prepared me for a meeting with Father Christodoulos, the sole monk of this outpost of the Greek Orthodox Church.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

Along the way, Protestants demonstrated what Catholics already knew» namely, that the Bible never stands alone but, even in its translation, is situated in a web of relationships that involve the authority of church leaders and questions about who has responsibility for determining orthodoxy.

In the «The Maniac,» in Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes about the tendency for professional critics to go maIn the «The Maniac,» in Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes about the tendency for professional critics to go main Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes about the tendency for professional critics to go mad.