Sentences with phrase «more conservative traditions»

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The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

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.

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse than many of us realize, and since we've already featured the more conservative Justin Taylor for «Ask a Calvinist...» I thought it was time to interview someone from the progressive end of the Reformed spectrum for our «Ask a...» series.

Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent of the Protestant congregations we studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers of their denominational tradition.

So I've heard from more than a few of my Reformed brother and sisters that I have a bad habit of painting the Reformed tradition with a broad brush (especially when I'm disagreeing vehemently with more conservative groups like the Gospel Coalition!).

If the liberal type is less bound by the Bible, creed and tradition and more concerned with the demands of reason and contemporary society, the conservative type tends to be the opposite.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

The church's website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that's more conservative than the Southern Baptists.

Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that socialism there has in some sense «frozen» traditional ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some conservatives believe it must in any healthy society.

Churches in the more conservative Protestant traditions attract new members and are growing because they still support «the American way of life.»

If we can give a positive answer to these questions, then we can affirm the various religious traditions in a much more concrete sense than either liberal or conservative theologians allow.

Ferguson adds in the new edition, extracts of which were published on Tuesday, that Moyes went against United's traditions by adopting a more conservative style of playing.

From Aristotle, conservatives derive their sense of the need for practical experience in judging both moral and political matters, and their understanding of the role of tradition in inculcating habits of virtue and wisdom in the young.For more see https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/conservatism/v-1

Cameron's version of the Conservatives had more in common with Blair's Labour than with the more socially conservative tradition of his own party.

As such, despite her more conservative social views, Smith follows in the Central Scotland tradition of a more socialist Labour Party ideology.

«Southern and rural cultures have been described as emphasizing tradition and order, and are more conservative in their religious and political affiliations.»

He also maintains that Western science is more than simply Western, because it is universal, but this is precisely the claim which conservatives have made a point of rejecting: they do not see a tradition so obviously tied to the history of the West as a system of objective, neutral or universal truth.

This use of nouns, rather than adjectives, is seen to preserve stability, familiarity and tradition — all of which appear to be valued more highly by conservatives than liberals.

Pre-homologation, Porsche is stating its output as «greater than» 641bhp and 553 lb ft. Nobody's denying those figures are fairly conservative, and in the best GT2 RS tradition the expectation is they'll be a good deal more than that.

Most of the works from this era in the museum's collection, however, represent the more conservative aspects of the academic tradition.

If, on the other hand, the artist is aligned with the more conservative European figurative tradition rooted in perceptual study, the painting will be signed.

It is also important to know what kind of law firm culture existing, including traditions, social behaviors of the members of the firm, whether the firm tends to be more conservative or innovative, and the basic demographics of the law firm that might create more than one law firm identity within the larger firm culture.