If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among
the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.
The problem is that even with
more conservative circles there's the question of whether Jesus might have said some of the things «recorded» at all.
Not exact matches
But even the
more conservative wings of the Wesleyan tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the
circles of either modem fundamentalism or
more recently in neo-evangelicalism.
Songs that didn't jibe with the standard line in our
more conservative Christian
circles.
But now signs of great stress within the coalition are appearing, including a new stridency and aggressiveness on the part of theologians in some
more conservative Reformed
circles.
There is also a «
circling of the wagons» going on among the
more conservative churches... These social movements are always hard to predict where they will end up.
Opposition was aroused in
conservative circles, but so much of what was written was obviously from reverent scholars, constructive rather than negative, completely devoted to Christ and His Church, that in time general assent was given by the majority of thoughtful churchmen to the
more moderate conclusions.
Conservative American theological
circles were
more deeply shaped throughout the nineteenth century by continuing waves of religious revivals on the American frontier.
Third, we must be
more vigorous in resisting the
conservative trend in religious
circles these days.
However, if books like these gain popularity within
conservative Christian
circles, if doubt becomes regarded as a
more acceptable (if not necessary) element of faith, then perhaps we searchers will finally have a voice... or at least a safe place to land.
More recently, President Obama's foreign policy
circle have come to distrust Mr Cameron over his choice of Michal Kaminski as leader of the European
Conservatives and Reformists.
Participants who had expressed
conservative political values tended to cluster their tokens
more tightly, putting most of them in the smallest
circles.
Be
conservative, and know your
circle of competence In the dying moments of this posts series, I wish to underscore Warren's mantra once
more: Be aware of your
circle of competence, and stick within it.