Sentences with phrase «matters of orthodoxy»

Oddly the Democratic Party is far more rigid in my opinion on matters of orthodoxy.

Not exact matches

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

For many Catholics, like myself, this was not a matter of hewing to orthodoxy but of religious freedom.

He was advocating a posture of gracious, generous orthodoxy that keeps things simple, refusing to obsess about peripheral matters, and recognising that our current opinions about non-essentials are unlikely to be universally important and absolutely correct.

For Wesley, true Christian religion was not a matter of opinion or even of mere orthodoxy but more a matter of the will and a «disposition of the heart.»

However, despite their best intentions, the confusion of matter and spirit that is common to their thought inevitably leads to the effective identification of God and creation, of nature and grace with far reaching consequences for the subversion of Catholic orthodoxy.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.

According to what was, in due time, established as Christian orthodoxy, the distinctions that we draw in our attempts to speak of God go, as it were, to the very heart of the matter.

Ward emphasises the reasonableness of theism but his views are not always consistent with Catholic orthodoxy, particularly concerning the vital distinction between spiritual mind and physical matter.

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

My concern with Douthat's analysis is that it leaves no room for a «merely Catholic» center — for the possibility that younger generations of Catholics might finally get beyond the culture wars to a real Catholic consensus on orthodoxy, one that would still allow for political disagreement on less than fundamental matters.

-- matters if love isn't present... which means that love is the most - important doctrine we can ever embrace... which means that our willingness to love is the most important criteria of orthodoxy... which means that, if ever it is appropriate to label anything «heresy,» it is the failure to love...

CNN: My Take: Christians ought to shrug off inaugural pastor rejection Matthew Lee Anderson is the Lead Writer at Mere Orthodoxy and the author of Earthen Vessels: Why our Bodies Matter to our Faith.

Thus Barth's «neo-orthodoxy» stood in remarkable tension with 18 centuries of orthodoxy and, for that matter, with mainstream liberalism as well, for both, in their own ways, denied God's suffering.

Many are losing faith in the evangelical church and find it increasingly difficult see eye to eye on matters of politics or orthodoxy.

And I continue to agree with Richard John Neuhaus (and Cardinal Manning) that when orthodoxy becomes a matter of private judgment, the point has already been lost.

It didn't matter that the majority of Liberty students and faculty would consider Beck's Mormonism to be outside the bounds of Christian orthodoxy or that Beck had a reputation for sowing discord, what mattered was that he shared their conservative voting habits.

It mattered somehow beyond measure that there was a truth that Cohen conceded, a specific altar at which he worshiped (regardless of his level of orthodoxy).

«The orthodoxy says that you will be attractive with a certain waist - hip ratio no matter how the rest of your body varies.

In Orthodoxy he writes: «The worship of will is the negation of will... If Mr. Bernard Shaw comes up to me and says, «Will something», that is tantamount to saying, «I do not mind what you will», and that is tantamount to saying, «I have no will in the matter.»

Sadly however, contradictory facts to the prescribed orthodoxy matter little in the ideological echo charmer of the great global warming swindle.

The orthodoxy of the CJEU in this matter has put it in an uncomfortable position in a couple of environmental cases.

This orthodoxy has recently been challenged as a matter of principle.