Sentences with phrase «in orthodox ways»

If we understand creatio ex nihilo, the Incarnation, miracles, and the Last Judgment in orthodox ways, then these doctrines seem to require divine coercion..

The one who supports liberal bishops and priests, or the one who speaks in an orthodox way?

Not exact matches

I am kind of with Wzrd1 on this, even if you don't know he difference between hebrew and arabic (pretty different languages, but not everyone can tell) orthodox jews dress in a very specific and unique way, not anything traditional arabic garb or the western clothing that we wear and most terrorists use to blend in on planes etc..

I find it interesting that people who adhere to orthodox / fundamentalist streams of Christianity feel the need to make everyone live as they do (regardless of their beliefs)-- it's as though the only way these people can come close to living in accordance with their views is to make sure everyone else pretends to be like them in order to remove the temptation for them.

Natural Supernaturalism was important for me to read, because Abrams shows the many ways in which the Romantic movement was at odds with orthodox Christianity.

In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truIn order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truin and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truin which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.

There are many ways in which such language can be given an orthodox construction: If, for example, you take your definition of «justice» from a law textbook (Aquinas likes the Roman jurist Ulpian) or from ordinary political usage, then there's no problem in saying God's mercy surpasses that.

She had a way of saying old orthodox truths in fresh ways.

There are times when one feels another persons empathy in a way that suggests a more immediate response to ones feelings than can be accounted for through the orthodox view of interpretation of physically mediated stimulation of the brain.

The purpose of fighting to defend religious liberty is therefore not only defensive but also missionary: It is to allow the orthodox to meet their obligations, and to show the country a better way in practice.

It is certainly not a church that teaches orthodox Christian beliefs in any way shape or form.

A completely biased, uninformed statement is made in such a way that it will incite orthodox on all sides to violence against the others.

Rainey comes bearing the new, academically orthodox, message that «modernism... is a strategy whereby the work of art invites and solicits its commodification, but does so in such a way that it becomes a commodity of a special sort, one that is temporarily exempted from the exigencies of immediate consumption prevalent within the larger cultural economy and instead is integrated into a different economic circuit of patronage, collecting, speculation, and investment.»

In fairness to Niebuhr, he was a good deal more of an orthodox Christian than one might gather from the way some thinkers and activists selectively employed his elegantly framed «spiritual insights» for their own purposes.

The very superficial epidermis of the cross-section of Christianity is a theological orthodoxy, but beneath that the flesh of Christianity is not very theological in an articulated way and it is not very orthodox.

In different ways, Green, Placher, Hauerwas and Marshall are all committed to renewing an orthodox Christian center.

There is no way to escape the fact that our common sense approach to the universe, our common sense of how it works, is very different in some important ways from the common sense of the Biblical authors and the formulators of orthodox Christian doctrine.

Written in 1947, the book bemoaned the needless assault fundamentalism was undergoing for refusing to apply «the genius of our position [i. e., the orthodox faith] constructively to those problems which press most for solution in a social way.»

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

But in rejecting orthodox literalism he restated the doctrine in a «radical» way: he reinterpreted the dogma in a parabolic or mythical fashion.

Such a God may appear as grace active in the most surprising places, and is in no way limited to institutionally approved, socially acceptable or religiously orthodox manifestations (cf. Deutero - Isaiah's understanding of Cyrus as God's messiah [45:1]-- and, of course, Jesus himself).

We have already seen that the orthodox belief in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is (1) only one of the possible ways of explaining his centrality that can be developed from the New Testament; (2) does not fall within the limits of what is logically possible; and (3) is contrary to our common sense.

Flannery O'Connor, remarkable in that she was at once profoundly orthodox and imaginative, suggested that her vocation as an artist was to re-tell the gospel parables in startling and shocking ways.

If same - sex marriage is accepted as a constitutional right, the rights of orthodox religious groups regarding their approach to and public judgment of the moral quality of same - sex couples» relationships may lose out, and in numerous ways.

Resurgence magazine may be called the flagship of many of these groups; it is in many ways an excellent magazine and is deeply concerned with «spiritual awareness» as well as with environmental matters, but needless to say it considers orthodox Christianity to be totally irrelevant.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

The orbit of an electron around a nucleus conceived as a route of occasions would not significantly differ from that orbit conceived as the route of the continuous motion of the electron.2 Hence, Whitehead gave up his work on reformulating the equations of relativity theory, as well as any quest for ways in which his initial work would yield some confirmably different prediction from those of the equations of orthodox relativity theory.

I want to say something about the way in which reflection upon Jesus» own faith in God led to the historic formulations of orthodox Christianity, and why these doctrinal constructions are important, both because of what they positively affirm and because we can not revise or replace them unless we understand what they were intended to do.

To speak of «God» properly — in a way, that is, consonant with the teachings of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Bahá» í, much of antique paganism, and so forth — is to speak of the one infinite ground of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things and for that very reason absolutely immanent to all things.

In the absence of proof that the God so confidently invoked by the orthodox bishop really exists in the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacIn the absence of proof that the God so confidently invoked by the orthodox bishop really exists in the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacin the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacin his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacin his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacin their efficacy.

As James Davison Hunter suggests in Culture Wars, churches have been paralyzed by a division between orthodox and progressive parties that see the family issue — as they see abortion, homosexuality, education and popular culture — in vastly different ways.

In one point only is it correct, that in fact the community separated more and more from orthodox Judaism, that the disputes between Jesus and his opponents were now recounted and written down as models, and were naturally told in such a way as to correspond to the interests of the churcIn one point only is it correct, that in fact the community separated more and more from orthodox Judaism, that the disputes between Jesus and his opponents were now recounted and written down as models, and were naturally told in such a way as to correspond to the interests of the churcin fact the community separated more and more from orthodox Judaism, that the disputes between Jesus and his opponents were now recounted and written down as models, and were naturally told in such a way as to correspond to the interests of the churcin such a way as to correspond to the interests of the church.

These are anabaptist, holiness, missional, generously orthodox leaning evangelicals (like myself) who see new perspectives on an authoritative scripture and new incarnational ways of doing church as the only way forward in a post-Christendom world.»

Let me close by saying that «cult» does NOT equal «bad people», or in any other way imply disqualification from political office, it is simply a way to distinguish those belief systems which are heretical from the perspective of orthodox Christianity.

Or, expressed in another way, to be Christian conversations on the meaning of «mission» must give attention to historic and orthodox theology, and to the established creeds and doctrines of the church.

The all - embracing sweep of this way of seeing the world has its attractions, but when matter and spirit are identified in this way, it has some serious implications which are not compatible with orthodox Christianity.

The entirely orthodox and scriptural truth that there are mysteries within Christianity and we can not know God in full in this life («For now, we see through a glass, darkly») becomes the half - truth that we can not understand God's will or nature in any meaningful way, and we don't really know how God wishes us to behave.

His norms in the present case, while thoroughly orthodox in relation to the general consensus, were also in some ways not far from the same German mysticism which was at work among the visionaries themselves, typical as they were of a chronic spontaneous eruption of apocalyptic and individualistic reaction to the directive legalisms of the official Church.

Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»

This important confession of the Church rejected as heresy the subordinationist teachings of a man named Arius and defined as orthodox the notion that God is one ousia in three hypostases, fancy Greek words for declaring that God's nature is one unified essence that has three ways of being in the world or in the universe or wherever God decides to hangout.

The important thing is to make the necessary developments in both philosophy and theology which will allow us to present the Catholic faith to the modern world again in an orthodox and intellectually convincing way — not least to defend the realistic concept of «human nature», as did St Thomas, and does our current editorial.

Nevertheless, for those in mainline churches these converts raise in a pointed way the question of what it means to be evangelical, catholic and orthodox.

It's in gaps between the orthodox positions and departments of defence, midfield and attack where managers and players are evolving the game to find new ways to gain advantages, to surprise opponents and drag them into areas they don't want to go, uncertain of how to react to a footballer seemingly playing as a law unto themselves.

In many ways he's a traditional Tory with orthodox views on tax, crime and Europe for example.

Because traditional hacking is based on the network itself; the idea of that is that you are looking for someone who is finding [a] way to go in [through] the orthodox ways of accessing the computer information.

But if you're trying to meditate in the more orthodox, hard - way - in style — to tune in rather than out; to be here, right now; to wake up into reality — you run into something of a conundrum.

Having made it up the steep dirt bank without killing ourselves or being accosted by police, we then off - roaded it down another steep bank, in order to find our way back on the more orthodox trail up the hillside!

No way today social areas have become orthodox places where you can feel yourself guilty in crowd of folks or you may be shy at social places.

Esti, after all, is married, in a restrained and acceptable kind of way, to Dovid who is a rising power in the consuming culture of the orthodox faith.

And please take the orthodox form of the movie review or deliberative essay and toss it aside, just the way Walton Goggins crumples a precious letter in The Hateful Eight.