If, as I recently argued in the Century («The Suffering God: The Rise
of a New Orthodoxy,» April 16), belief in the suffering of God is the most basic revolutionary development of 20th - century theology, then Paul Tillich and others were wrong in contending that, in his movement from Romans to the Dogmatics, Barth went from a revolutionary to a conservative stance.
The disposition effect in stock trading, once a heretical idea, is now mainstream, and even arguably part
of a new orthodoxy.
Not exact matches
Way back in the winter
of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes
of his agenda as the
new leader
of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic
orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.
In this respect the
new orthodoxy is very much like earlier forms
of orthodoxy that sought to serve the church from within a very particular confessional stance.
After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights
of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes
of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's
new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.
The Assembly heard «progressive» theologians attempt to advance
new formulations
of the gospel, and felt the strength
of Orthodoxy and evangelical Protestantism in asserting biblical doctrines.
(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a
new generation
of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf
of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian
Orthodoxy needs a
new theory
of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars
of Catholic social doctrine.
Conservative Judaism: The
New Century by Neil Gillman Behrman, 227 pages, $ 18 paper A concise history and analysis
of Conservative Judaism, the movement that has self - consciously sought a middle ground between
Orthodoxy and Reform.
(6) Such a
new ecumenical initiative would, over time, create the conditions for the possibility
of a Russian
Orthodoxy that is not in thrall to Russian state power, and that could be a partner in the re-evangelization
of Europe because its leadership had rediscovered the power
of the Gospel.
Bloom's own review
of Wieseltier's book, in the
New York Times, is revealing in this connection: «One parts from Wieseltier with gratitude, but confirmed in a conviction he does not share, which is that the God
of Akiba [ben Joseph], and
of all the
orthodoxies, always exacts too steep a price for the Sanctification
of His name.»
In a reflection
of the influence that the «
new perspective» on Paul and Judaism has exerted in recent decades, no longer does a rigid Protestant
orthodoxy centered on a forensic conception
of justification push Paul in theologically tendentious directions.
The power to evince
new levels
of synthesis will depend upon
orthodoxy, as a rising cathedral grows naturally so to speak out
of the foundation laid to take it.»
This point may seem counterintuitive at first, since one
of the main claims
of the «
new orthodoxy» is that it can offer a better reading
of the Hebrew Bible.
Theology has usually had a high stake in truth, so high that it has refused all play
of the imagination: through creedal control and the formulations
of orthodoxy, it has refused all attempts at
new metaphors «trying their chance.»
With the breakdown
of creedal
orthodoxy, Hegel and his followers developed a
new form
of Christology from above.
Feminist and liberation theologians have questioned the
new orthodoxy's valorization
of divine helplessness, expressing concern over whether the emphasis on God sharing our abuse and death may underwrite our own passive acquiescence to violence.
What do we gain, though, if we set aside the «
new orthodoxy»
of divine suffering and return to an older one?
A manifesto in the form
of a set
of essays, Radical
Orthodoxy: A
New Theology, edited by Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward, was published in 1999.
The
new orthodoxy does a very different thing; it places faith in the whims and trends
of the culturally influential.
His dozen - plus books include A
New Kind
of Christianity, A Generous
Orthodoxy, Naked Spirituality, and Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Nonetheless, all
of these
new allies in
orthodoxy are greatly to be welcomed.
Because he rooted his
new political realism in his own theological conversion — his
new meditation on the wisdom and trustworthy observations
of Augustine — Niebuhr called the
new movement he called for by the theological name, Renewed
Orthodoxy or Neo-
Orthodoxy.
There are now many voices championing
orthodoxy in matters
of faith, and
new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power
of the modern media.
Whenever women challenge the spiritual authority
of men, whether by claiming a
new faith or interpreting the
orthodoxies of establish faith, their views have been seen as a political challenge to male dominance.
It hardly needs to be said that the
new view
of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine
of man assumed and taught by Christian
orthodoxy.
What that religion is, and how it branches out from Christian
orthodoxy, is perhaps most fully explored in Rebel Angels, through the reflections
of a winsome Anglican divine, Simon Darcourt, whose scholarly pursuit is, significantly enough,
New Testament apocrypha.
Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the
new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions
of the human community's search for some kind
of meaning, an accumulated source
of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.
The differences between liberalism and the
new orthodoxy center more in the doctrine
of man than at any other point.
Which is to say, it will make no sense to any
orthodoxy holding to the belief that, short
of the eschaton, everything has been revealed that is going to be and therefore there is nothing
new to be learned
of religiously relevant truth» certainly not from such thoroughly non-accredited sources as those that typically come up in interreligious dialogue.
However, religion does not stop that at all, and in fact usually positions itself to profit handsomely — cases in point
of your
new religion: the Crusades, and the invasions
of Russia in the 1200s by Teutonic Knights to bring the Eastern
Orthodoxy back under Catholic rule (brutal, by the way).
The author discusses two books he considers most important: A
New Kind
of Christian and A Generous
Orthodoxy, both by Brian McLaren.
Brian McLaren's two most important books — A
New Kind
of Christian and the recent A Generous
Orthodoxy — both open by raising the specter
of an evangelical pastor leaving the ministry or the church altogether.
But he adds, Fundamentalism has to be distinguished from
Orthodoxy; for while the latter involves strict adherence to tradition, the former interprets tradition for political purposes» («Towards a
New Philosophy» in The Times
of India 9.7.93).
Atheists, I haven't said anything
new apart from common knowledge
of the historic Christian
Orthodoxy.
Something
of a
new cult, that has been called «scientism», developed in the popular mind, which reflected how popular opinion had switched its allegiance from Christian
orthodoxy to science and technology.
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one
of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in
Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing
of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the
New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all
of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the
new movie version
of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful
of anything that does not cohere with prevailing
orthodoxy, had expunged one
of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»
His account culminates in a bracing discussion
of the threat posed by the emerging
new orthodoxy of secular egalitarianism.
The unhappy truth is that rejection
of orthodoxy has become a nearly inevitable phase in adolescent development; the happy sequel is that many people work their way back to church or synagogue through excursions into the
New Age or other «alternative» religions.
President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II both intervened with President Boris Yeltsin in 1997 when they saw drafts
of a
new law which threatened to negate the freedoms
of the non-Orthodox and move toward reestablishing
Orthodoxy as the state religion.
And so, while claiming the banner
of objectivity and open inquiry, he became adept at using biblical phraseology to form a
new orthodoxy.
Bring to mind for a moment the people you have seen who conduct
New Age weekends, or feminist workshops, or Peace Studies institutes, those who take glee in having «cut the knot» connecting them to patriarchal institutions, to structures
of authority, to the unglamorous business
of orthodoxy.
Now I experience a liberation for
orthodoxy in the endless flexibility
of centered apostolic teaching to meld with different cultural environments while offering anew the eternal word
of the theandric, messianic Servant in each
new historical setting.
Further, they mean that some Mormon teachings are so far outside Christian
orthodoxy of past centuries that they constitute almost a
new religion.
(«G. K. Chesterton,
Orthodoxy [
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., 1936], pp. 127 f. Reprinted by permission
of Dodd, Mead & Company.
George Weigel believes Benedict's rich insights have «turned the Church definitively toward the
New Evangelization» the evangelical Catholicism
of the future,» and thus placed Catholic
orthodoxy in a far stronger position than his critics realize.
♦ Michael Kinsley
of The
New Republic ponders reports that apparatchiks at the Moscow Higher Party School are now parroting Gorbachev's line, just as they parroted the Marxist - Leninist
orthodoxies currently being abandoned.
This is why the Bible is so little concerned with
orthodoxy (except certain later parts
of the
New Testament).
From The
New Encyclopaedia Britannica, which can be taken to summarize intellectual
orthodoxy at the time
of its publication in 1979, one would gather that neo-Darwinian theory is as settled as Newtonian theory.
Along these lines we can find a
new development
of orthodoxy which will bring out the full majesty
of Christ as Mysterium Fidei.