Sentences with phrase «guardian of orthodoxy»

He saw himself as the guardian of orthodoxy of the Council.

Heretics have been shamed, exiled, or killed because they failed to submit to the discipline of truth as interpreted by the guardians of orthodoxy, whether religious, moral, aesthetic, or scientific.

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He fancies himself the guardian of small - c conservative orthodoxy in the Harper government, and the autonomy he enjoys within Harper's government has no match.

Just what has South Africa's religious guardians of political orthodoxy all worked up is revealed in The Road to Damascus» charge that «right - wing Christians» are guilty of «vicious attacks against liberation theology.»

Now even as ancient Jewish apocalypticism profoundly challenged the orthodox guardians of the Torah, a challenge which is profoundly renewed in Paul, modern apocalypticism profoundly challenges Christian orthodoxy.

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.