Sentences with phrase «most conservative traditions»

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The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

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.

It is not without accident, I think, that some of the most creative social thought emerging today in the church is coming out of the conservative - evangelical tradition.

If this is true, it follows that the most conservative method of doing theology is to go back into history to a time when the tradition of faith carries the least amount of cultural baggage.

The Florentine is the most full - throated dissenter to this conservative intellectual tradition, the only writer before the 19th century to give voice in his writings to the aspirations of plebeians, lower guildsmen, and popolo minuto within republics, and to assert that they should hold preeminent authority over the elites of their polities.

From Benjamin Disraeli to Winston Churchill, some of its most famous leaders have come from outside the Conservative tradition; and it has always been an eclectic mix of free traders, protectionists, little Englanders and global traders.

«As a conservative, I identify with the tradition of American Individualism, the notion that individuals, not the government, are the most important units of our society and culture.

Yesterday, Miss Sturgeon also echoed former party leader Alex Salmond, now bidding to return to Westminster as an MP, by insisting that the SNP would vote down a minority Conservative Government, despite the long - standing tradition that the party with the most MPs should have an opportunity to form a Government.

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

The common assumption with most churches is that they're conservative and are beholden to time - honored traditions.