Sentences with phrase «nature of orthodoxy»

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $.

He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $.

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $ (p. 174).

Not exact matches

Even with Constantine's efforts to define the orthodoxy of Christianity in the 4th century, there were so many different beliefs — mostly varying on the nature of the divinity of Christ which ultimately led to lots of persecution in the Byzantine empire to schismatic groups that did not follow the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Greeks.

But it is important to note a passage of his exact words here: «I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school.»

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.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

Time (March 10, 1975, p. 83) introduces its comment on the case with the striking words of the Westminster catechism — a document written in the amazing Cromwellian age of Protestant orthodoxy when moral absolutes were thought to be not only propositional but «in the nature of things.»

By «orthodoxy» I mean any political - philosophical approach that admits the possibility and necessity of theoretical metaphysics and philosophical ethics rooted in a reflection on the «nature» of things.

We may say with orthodoxy that in encountering the person of Jesus we encounter also his nature as deity, but then we have no basis for affirming God as Person.

Only so, it would seem, was the certitude of orthodoxy attained; when questions of his reality and his nature had been honestly met, then, and then only, could the best thinkers affirm: «All the gods of the nations are vanities; but the Lord made the heavens» (Ps.

Religious orthodoxy, concerned about certitude, may deny the dynamic nature of metaphor.

Iberian Catholicism with its emphasis on orthodoxy, rituals and the divinely established monarchical nature of all society conquered physically but itself was absorbed by the pre-Colombian spiritualism with its emphasis on the cosmic - earthly rituals expressing the harmonious unity of opposing tensions: male and female, suffering and happiness, self - annihilation and transcendence, individual and group, sacred and profane, life and death.

But then abstraction itself became an orthodoxy, and those who wanted to paint nature or the human figure found themselves swimming against the tide of earlier revolutions.

Meanwhile, the «ecomodernists» behind the manifesto — a cadre of environmentalists, many of whom are associated with the Breakthrough Institute, a center - left think tank — have faced accusations of apostasy from their liberal and environmentalist brethren for endorsing nuclear power, criticizing the idea that we can live in harmony with nature, and generally rejecting the ecological orthodoxy that we need limits on growth.