Sentences with phrase «in religious orthodoxies»

Not exact matches

In the east, the Russian czars, jealous of the religious power of Kiev, made the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church the dominant force of eastern orthodoxy.

All religious orthodoxy appears to him as a kind of mental zombism, as in this strange passage: «Devout Catholics, orthodox Jews, fundamentalist Protestants, or Shiite Muslims... are told what to do and they do it.

In «The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy» (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes «Neuhaus» Law» concerning the life of religious institutions: «Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribeOrthodoxy» (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes «Neuhaus» Law» concerning the life of religious institutions: «Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribeorthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribeorthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.»

In the postwar era of weakening, religious orthodoxy was always on the defensive.

Most of them, however, respected the religious law and some, like Firuz Tughlaq, went to unreasonable lengths in their orthodoxy.

Aurangzeb was largely influenced by the religious ideas of Shaikh Ahmad of Sirhind, who played a prominent part in reestablishing Muslim orthodoxy and combating Sufi deviations from Islam.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the BritisIn later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the Britisin an effort to wrest power from the British.

But sadly, too often the religious education in those schools is woefully lacking in sound Catholic orthodoxy.

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.

According to Voobus, during the third and fourth centuries, real spiritual and religious strength was found precisely in these movements and the demarcation between orthodoxy and heresy in this situation was very thin and fluid.

The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in concern for religion in public education.

Freed from the restraints of tribalism and religious orthodoxies, and not yet aware of the imperatives of globalism and the eco-system, modern individualism can manifest itself in massively self - centered behavior.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxy and the revival of traditional religious supernaturalism and institutionalism are further evidences of the struggle for reassurance in an age of disintegrated values.

The essays in the Sigmund volume address both the challenge of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux volume is an essay by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness of the martyrs.

While faith today is treated as little more than a lifestyle option, in the past religious orthodoxy was equated with social order and security and thus became an important concern for any regime.

Did the bad blood between Judeans and Galileans have roots in the ancient conflict between Judah, that bastion of orthodoxy, and Israel, whose distance from the Temple was felt to be religious as well as social and geographic?

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.»

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.

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.

The effort was largely motivated by their desire to pry evangelicalism from the grip of the religious right, and the resulting document is quite generous in its definition of evangelical orthodoxy, thought it has been criticized for being too vague.

Religious orthodoxy» the tradition of long - standing faith communities» embeds the sacred time of redemption in the rhythm of human life.

His assertion that mainstream religious orthodoxy presents a standard too high for ordinary folk is dispiriting, although nothing in today's religious landscape refutes it.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxies has brought to the fore the issue of the religious ground of democracy and its role in social policy.

Supposedly, intelligence is grounded in the distrust of any orthodoxy, be it religious, atheistic, social etc..

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

That assumption of objectivity is a great temptation to us, whether the claim is given in the name of religious orthodoxy or in the name of technological certitude.

For example, the decline of orthodoxy may beassociated with a rise in personalized religious interpretations that make religion more adaptable to changing circumstances.

In the relentless pursuit of partisan politics, the endless fight against heresy or entrenched orthodoxy, Left or Right, the religious community's arteries have hardened.

If he complained about Orthodoxy living in an ahistorical world of religious Let's Pretend, it was not because he thought the Church had that much to learn from history, especially the history of the West.

On the other hand there is very little in Fascist ideology to escape condemnation at the hands of religious orthodoxy, had the church desired to apply rigorous standards.

If instead, as Hamburger at times suggests, we should look to the intentions of those early religious dissenters so active in the disestablishment movement, why should we transform the views of unelected citizens who held no governmental office into constitutional orthodoxy?

He found also that closed - mindedness and doctrinal orthodoxy were significant variables in determining a preference for traditional religious programs.

It is the religious aspect of the conflict that may prove to be the most significant, because Moscow Orthodoxy has been presented as the thing holding the «Russian world» together, and thereby as the main actor in the bloody Russian Spring.

Revolting against the growing religious orthodoxy she became a pioneer in Indian experimental video, shadow plays, and ephemeral wall drawings.

«Unorthodox does not comment on Jewish religious orthodoxy or critique it, but takes its inspiration from the legacy of progressive Jewish thought, in particular the Jewish tradition of dialogue and debate,» said Jens Hoffmann.

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.

In fact, the heroic mythology of science taught to every school child portrays the close - minded forces of medieval religious zealotry suppressing scientific challenges to their orthodoxy using their era's version of the tactics employed by the global - warming faithful against apostates today.)

Further conflation is apparent in the same article (discussed at Climate Etc.) and even phrased using terms of (religious) culture: «It is to find the essential balance between orthodoxy and heresy, between a total commitment to the status quo and the blind pursuit of new ideas, between being open - minded enough to accept radical new ideas and so open - minded that your brains fall out.

In fact, sustainability is predominantly a religious movement that is primarily concerned with defending the orthodoxy of its slowly - evolving existing teachings (particularly when those teachings are opposed by logic and scientific evidence), with establishing hierarchies within the community of believers, and with persecuting non-believers and non-adherents within the believer community.

Simple — because this is how religious fanatics act when a heretic (in their eyes) challenges the Orthodoxy that just happens to give them a steady paycheck.

The debate over reasonable accommodation, religious orthodoxy in the modern age, and polite discourse on tolerance (a word I've come to dislike intensely) seems to have flared up in response to demographic changes in Quebec and Canada.

The doctrinal orthodoxy section is intended to measure the extent to which an individual believes in traditional religious doctrines, for example, «I believe God created the universe» (Batson et al., 1993).