Sentences with phrase «forms of orthodoxy»

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.

Brunner holds that the great error of liberalism (and some forms of orthodoxy) has been its effort to begin thinking outside the sphere of faith.

In this respect the new orthodoxy is very much like earlier forms of orthodoxy that sought to serve the church from within a very particular confessional stance.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that here the historical Jesus becomes disjoined from the Word of faith, and all too naturally the priestly followers of Bultmann have reinstituted a quest for the historical Jesus as a means of reviving a Protestant form of orthodoxy.

This conviction makes it impossible for me to seek alignment with any form of orthodoxy or neo-orthodoxy.

Not exact matches

Taylor finds the solution not in the rules of modernity or the rules of Christian orthodoxy but in practical reasoning that seeks to evaluate «forms of life» from within broadly shared «conceptions of the good.»

Teilhard, of course, was suspected by some of deviating from Christian orthodoxy, and his notion of the «hominization» of the universe has been interpreted» unfairly, I think» as a truly relentless form of anthroprocentrism.

I was so happy when I started reading a book by the current Patriarch of Eastern Orthodoxy and realized that there actually IS a form of Christianity that doesn't deny scientific evidence!

And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

Many of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly authentic.

Calvinism has lines that are attractive to certain forms of toxicity, while Arminianism or the Anabaptist orientation... Orthodoxy... Catholicism, each has elements easily turned into toxicity.

With the breakdown of creedal orthodoxy, Hegel and his followers developed a new form of Christology from above.

A manifesto in the form of a set of essays, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, edited by Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward, was published in 1999.

Today's successful Evangelicalism, putatively the stronghold of orthodoxies, often finds its congregants lured by «health and wealth» or «signs and wonders» gospels which, in Butler's terms, manipulate the supernatural in hardly conventional forms.

Now if we consider the question of what it is like to be a believer, and if we mean by a believer someone fully formed by orthodoxy, we have to admit that there are very few believers out there.

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.

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.

We should take pains to avoid both a fusion of form and content (as in the older orthodoxy) and a separation of form and content (as in liberalism).

Douthat himself points to the need for «a deeper process of discernment,» acknowledging that a form of liberalism «is fully compatible with doctrinal orthodoxy, and indeed, its flourishing should be regarded even by those who differ with its politics as a sign of a healthy Catholicism, one not imprisoned by partisanship and ideology.»

The serious answer that follows talks about «forming an alternative culture, where it is easier to be good and where the fruits of the Spirit are cultivated,» while embracing orthodoxy to the point of emphasising the bodily resurrection of Christ.

And so, while claiming the banner of objectivity and open inquiry, he became adept at using biblical phraseology to form a new orthodoxy.

Theological orthodoxy is one thing; it is quite another to embalm Christianity in the form of nineteenth «century American Protestantism.

Certainly all possible efforts to spread the knowledge and technology of contraception is the first priority, along with the duty of fighting the current orthodoxy of the Roman Catholic church which forbids all forms of effective birth control.

The formal analogy affects the substance at only one point: a Christian content without the form of commitment and engagement becomes a this - worldly Christendom at ease in Zion, a dead orthodoxy, a white - washed tomb, a tinkling cymbal, and ceases really to be the Christian content.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

Naturally many Christians regard this extreme form of the contemporization of the Christian faith as such a radical departure from Christian orthodoxy as to be something quite different, and perhaps they are right.

The Bible, the church, Jesus Christ and God have all lost their absoluteness in modern times, and the attempt of the guardians of Christian orthodoxy to restore any of them to the pillars from which they have fallen becomes only a new form of idolatry.

And it quickly becomes clear that Hedges» real target isn't Dominionism but any form of Christian orthodoxy ¯ and any orthodox Christian active in politics.

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.

The leaven of the Christian heritage now began to penetrate further than either Protestant or Catholic realized, and in forms which could not readily be evaluated by the traditional canons of Christian orthodoxy.

Arturo Carlo Jemolo, with his ceaseless struggle to defend religious liberty, critically, polemically, and legally, is such an example.42 So is Danilo Dolci, with his effort to find, outside of any religious or ideological orthodoxy, forms of social participation that will be neither impersonally bureaucratic nor boss dominated.43 Nor should the achievements of many such men, working through parties and independently, be underestimated.

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

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In 1892 the liberal movement was at its height, Schweitzer's work was still fourteen years in the future, and the discussion was between, on the one hand, an orthodoxy still claiming the gospels as historical documents and the Christ of the Church's faith as a historical figure, and, on the other hand, a liberalism claiming the gospels as non-historical in their present form, but as capable of being used as historical sources, sources for the reconstruction of a historical Jesus to be distinguished from the Christ of the gospels.

Societies are actually formed for his cult; a periodical organ exists for its propagation, in which the lines of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are already beginning to be drawn; (I refer to The conservator, edited by Horace Traubel, and pubished monthly at Philadelphia.)

She immediately set about persuading the Crystal Orthodoxy and the Duchy of Eternia to form a peace and, following years of animosity and endless effort on Agnès» part, a truce between the two is finally near.

The problem is, though, that environmental economic orthodoxy can not be challenged politically — especially in the UK — because all politicians hide behind the «scientific consensus», even though it is formed by a large number of economists and social scientists.