It's certainly more in line with a lot of modern liberal thought than
modern conservative thought.
One of the cornerstones of
modern conservative thinking - indeed, of conservative thinking generally - is the critique of utopianism.
Not exact matches
Tocquevillian postmodern
conservative thought suggests we can't fully understand Rock, nor Disco, until we admit that the fully
Modern and fully Democratic age only arrived recently, during the 60s, of course.
The target is, rather, those forms of broader
modern liberalism which have produced certain ways of
thinking about faith and the church which can be found in both
conservative and in so - called «liberal» churches.
The
conservative reaction to the 17th century rise of experimental methodology and the new
thinking that followed has significantly reduced the intelligibility of the Church's proclamation in the
modern world.
Somebody earlier in these comments asked what Jefferson would
think of
modern conservative Christians.
In putting such faith in political creeds, mission statements, and manifestos — in what he called «the ideological style of politics» — Oakeshott
thought that
modern conservatives had become nearly as «rationalistic» as
modern progressives.
Old - line Christians may
think that
conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the
modern world.
Some ugly and foolish
thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the
modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19
conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»
Given the collapse of
conservative neo-scholasticism and the failure to bear fruit of
modern synthesises, it is our view that Holloway's «Unity - Law»
thought should be given a hearing.
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Conservative Party is generally
thought to derive from the Tory party and the MPs of the
modern conservative party are still frequently referred t
conservative party are still frequently referred to as Tories.
For a long time, commentators made the mistake of
thinking that
Conservatives could only be
modern if they had metropolitan values.
Conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby puts forward a little
thought experiment where he evaluates the chances of a long - deceased, young - Earth creationist, who happened to possess possibly the greatest scientific mind of all - time, getting employment as a professor in a scientific discipline at a
modern university.
A new study claiming renewable energy is the «most expensive policy disaster in
modern British history» was written by climate sceptic Rupert Darwall and published by UK
conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
Red rooms are
modern and minimalist, blue rooms more sophisticated; green rooms are for the artistic type, while yellow are more
conservative; taupe is for glamour (
think chrome and leopard prints).