Sentences with phrase «making orthodoxy»

True, some Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.

But it sounds like the thrust of your posts are «Make orthodoxy great again!»

The Cheers theme song should be made orthodoxy.

Christians committed to historic, biblical doctrine on sexuality should be disposed to approve of efforts to make orthodoxy clear, unequivocal, and pastoral.

Not exact matches

They say all this stuff and they make it up, because their orthodoxy didn't work out.

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.

The Church believes that the explanation is both simple and powerful: Orthodoxy helps Russians understand who they are as a people and what makes Russia unique among the world's nations.

I am just as confident that its unabashed Catholic orthodoxy will merit the usual criticism from those Catholic progressives who somehow manage to combine liberal Protestantism's distaste for dogma with a newly - minted ultramontanism that would even make Cardinal Manning turn in his grave.

Last year some German bishops of impeccable orthodoxy proposed that exceptions should be made for couples in particular circumstances, but the proposal was firmly rebuffed by the Vatican.

The enemy in this paradigm is primarily a nominal Christianity that is not serious in its appropriation of the faith but is too often satisfied with orthodoxy that fails to make Christianity a genuine «disposition of the heart.»

Therefore, we must conclude that both Pike and Basinger have failed to make intelligible a view in which God can share power and at the same time maintain the over-power that orthodoxy demands.

Modern neo-evangelicalism focuses on the problem of belief and the maintenance of orthodoxy and makes the modem crisis of unbelief the key issue.

«Why, then, make such a point of the vacillation between Arianism and what came to be orthodoxy?»

His articles over a period of years exercised great influence on youthful minds and made many converts from the modernists and Muslim communists — but very few from the Muslim nationalists, since they belonged to religious orthodoxy and were not inclined to listen to the young Maudoodi.

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 British.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

Doctrinal orthodoxy and loyalty to the Magisterium were not fashionable causes, and they were made less so by our calls for a real development of doctrine and a theological expression of Catholicism to revindicate orthodoxy in the age of science.

Fundamentalism, «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century,» is made up of «the militant and faithful defenders of biblical orthodoxy.»

Nevertheless, full dogmatic articulations of the Bible's canon were not made by Roman Catholicism until 1546 and Greek Orthodoxy until 1672.

Indeed, he might well claim the realization of Francis Cornish as his personal testimony: «Somehow I've drifted into a world where religion, but not orthodoxy, is the fountain of everything that makes sense» (p. 378).

Heterodoxy and heresy always make for better stories than does orthodoxy.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

As Lutherans we knew — if we knew nothing else — that we could not earn our way into heaven by our deeds, but we sometimes gave way to the presumption that we could make our way there by the rigor of our orthodoxy.

But the upsurge of interest in his work has made it clear, on the basis of such theological works in Chinese as The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven of 1603, that Ricci was and remained an orthodox Catholic believer, whose very orthodoxy it was that impelled him to take seriously the integrity of Chinese traditions.

Orthodoxy in the United States was once made up of closed - off cultural enclaves, but this is changing.

At the same time, I can not help but suspect that some of the rejected whom he interviewed really are rigid and refractory in ways only marginally related to orthodoxy or traditional piety, and would likely not have made good priests.

Which is to say, it will make no sense to any orthodoxy holding to the belief that, short of the eschaton, everything has been revealed that is going to be and therefore there is nothing new to be learned of religiously relevant truth» certainly not from such thoroughly non-accredited sources as those that typically come up in interreligious dialogue.

Take orthodoxy away and the whole thing ceases to make sense.

M.N. Srinivas makes a distinction between Orthodoxy and Fundamentalism.

Birzer makes a case for Kirk's orthodoxy, but acknowledges that his outlook was more Stoic than Christian, especially in his most intellectually productive period.

One of the arguments that the «Christian nationalists» always make is that the country was founded on Christian principles, when in fact many of the founders held beliefs that were about as far from any Christian orthodoxy as you could safely be back in those days.

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

It seems the state of man across all systems that we have these sorts of people that need their orthodoxies to be pure, and yet, if we all were to be honest with ourselves we'd have to truly know our assumptions, the assumptions that we each make as we come to our faith and belief and living statements.

David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire of hell and the light of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine love, which causes divine love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty of the Infinite, 399).

Some philosophers cling to «qualia», the latest make of sense - data, but the current orthodoxy, thank goodness, is realism about the material world.

But they no longer make their chief role that of defending historic orthodoxy — especially Reformed scholasticism — against the «acids of modernity.»

Ironically, Christian orthodoxy affirms that the integral relation of body and spirit is what makes us human.

When Karl Barth was at the height of his fame and productivity in the years between 1930 and 1960 and making neo «orthodoxy the dominant force in Protestant thought, another trend in theology was competing for the attention of the public.

I hope it is not only my stuffy orthodoxy that makes me more comfortable with Meier's attachment to canonical sources and (I assume) to more obvious textual parallels; but to follow Crossan is to move into territory where not many scholars have ventured before.

Only so, it would seem, was the certitude of orthodoxy attained; when questions of his reality and his nature had been honestly met, then, and then only, could the best thinkers affirm: «All the gods of the nations are vanities; but the Lord made the heavens» (Ps.

When reforms have been pressed, for example with reference to child marriage, or the problem of permitting divorce, a strong appeal has been made by Orthodoxy to the Laws of Manu as having permanently fixed these relationships.

Ottaviani's approach to theology was neatly summarized in the Latin motto of his cardinalatial coat of arms, Semper Idem [Always the Same], and his fierce defense of what he understood to be orthodoxy made him a not - implausible model for the character of Cardinal Leone in Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman.

More than in relation to Protestantism, this is frequently made explicit in relation to Orthodoxy.

Ignatius might indeed want to restrain the craving for clerical advancement, but he could hardly be imagined making light of orthodoxy.

Now, in fact, Davies's intention, made clear in his response to critics of the article, is to challenge this orthodoxy concerning an immutable law which is just a «given».

Leibowitz's extreme dovishness with regard to the Arab - Israeli conflict, as well as his harsh attacks on institutionalized Orthodoxy — the latter element also appears in Kurzweil's writings — have made him something of a darling to many secular Israeli intellectuals.

[10] This is a comment made by Henry Chadwick in the Introduction to his collection of essays Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church (Hampshire: Variorum, 1991), p. ix, on the writings of Père Yves Congar, which, he says, have «richly illustrated» this point.

These notions, as sociological study made clear, also brought with them the legitimacy of an absolutist economic and political orthodoxy.

[38] In his «Reason and the rule of faith in the second century AD,» in Rowan Williams, ed., The Making of Orthodoxy: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 54.

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