Sentences with phrase «lines of orthodoxy»

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.)

What if we refused to draw lines of orthodoxy about which people were in and which people were out?

This despite the fact that some thought von Balthasar stepped across the line of orthodoxy on a few subjects.

Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.

Not exact matches

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

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.

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.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

Parameters demarcate lines of inclusion and exclusion, standards of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and, in due course, religion constitutes the basis of collective identity and social reality.

♦ Michael Kinsley of The New Republic ponders reports that apparatchiks at the Moscow Higher Party School are now parroting Gorbachev's line, just as they parroted the Marxist - Leninist orthodoxies currently being abandoned.

The hierarchical Church is a rigid institution striving in vain to bring the behavior and ideas of its members into line with traditional orthodoxy.

Along these lines we can find a new development of orthodoxy which will bring out the full majesty of Christ as Mysterium Fidei.

When in his journals he speaks of Orthodoxy in America, it is not always clear whether he means the OCA or the more hard - line traditionalists of the Russian émigré community, the line between the two being frequently blurred.

Many of the «Radical Orthodoxy» group would take this line, and they have provoked some sharp confrontations.

But not even this specification sufficiently narrows the meaning to make definition possible, and if one wanted to, one could list a range of possible meanings of the phrase along such lines as these, moving slowly from conventional atheism to theological orthodoxy.

Twenty three years later, all of the Eastern Catholic Churches can breathe a sigh of relief that the Church that co-operated in the destruction of Eastern Catholic Churches under the Czars and under Stalin, has finally come into line with world Orthodoxy and no longer denies their very right to live.

A great deal of simplistic nonsense has been written about The Orange Book, much of which was in line with party orthodoxy.

But this time around it was not my usual amazement that anyone alive today was naïve enough to believe the old avant - garde orthodoxy of shocking the bourgeois, the tired old line offered in support of Deitch by Aaron Rose, a curator of one of Deitch's recent exhibitions: «I feel like [Deitch] is shaking the foundation of the castle, and the people who've been living quite comfortably in that castle for the last 20 years are nervous about it.

They evoke space and suggest a bond between the inside and outside by extending the charcoal lines to the top edge of the canvas and presumably beyond, directly challenging the formalist orthodoxy that defined painting as a self - contained object or surface.

This line of thought has hardened into a new orthodoxy that postulates an unknown fundamental supersymmetric theory involving strings and other degrees of freedom with characteristic scale around the Planck length.

This time, it has delved into the primordial and come up with Graham Young, last seen scoring a double Godwin with pike, making both Nazi and Communist analogies in a single post.Young pushes the now - standard Oz «help, I'm being oppressed line», naming me and Clive Hamilton as the enforcers of orthodoxy.