Sentences with phrase «of old orthodoxies»

Some proponents of the old orthodoxy (such as Gordon Clark and Carl Henry) favor a metaphysical - deductive over an empirical - inductive approach, seeking to deduce the concrete meanings of Scripture from first principles given in Scripture.

Some of the theologians of the older orthodoxy would agree but others would say that what the Bible tells us about creation for example, can be adequately understood on its own apart from a reference to the incarnation.

Even the friends of Job, stout protagonists of the old orthodoxy though they turned out to be, had known Job's apparent integrity so well that at first they tried interpreting his disasters not as punitive but as educative --

But there remains a vocal defense of the old orthodoxy — climate variation is normal and human activity can play no role.

Not exact matches

The old orthodoxy, born out of tribal solidarity, Ezekiel could not tolerate.

What do we gain, though, if we set aside the «new orthodoxy» of divine suffering and return to an older one?

What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.

Chesterton's Autobiography is not always a reliable source; but there is corroborating evidence for these protective feelings from his childhood onwards: and since this evidence is virtually unknown, it is probably best here to take this opportunity to publish it for the first time (much of it will appear in my forthcoming book Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, though I discovered some of it too late for it to be included) rather than repeat old arguments.

While disclaiming any nostalgia for neo-orthodoxy, the postliberal theologians are advancing the old neo-orthodox project of rethinking Christian orthodoxy in a modern spirit.

We should take pains to avoid both a fusion of form and content (as in the older orthodoxy) and a separation of form and content (as in liberalism).

But what about my generation, the generation of American liberal Jews who feel increasingly alienated from old - world Orthodoxy and increasingly wooed by Christian denominations that are publishing position papers that redefine Christian attitudes toward Jews and invite us to dialogue?

As queer theorist Hanne Blank recounts, «This new concept [of heterosexuality], gussied up in a mangled mix of impressive - sounding dead languages, gave old orthodoxies a new and vibrant lease on life by suggesting, in authoritative tones, that science had effectively pronounced them natural, inevitable, and innate.»

From such influences came an established doctrine, the orthodoxy of a large part of the Old Testament, that all human suffering presupposes corresponding sin.

Such a pale brand of atheism uncritically permits the same old values and meanings to hang around, only now they can become sanctified by an ethically and politically conservative Darwinian orthodoxy.

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

The real excitement, Campolo seems to suggest, lies in being at the forefront of progressive politics and new - age spirituality rather than with the old Christian «hang - ups» about orthodoxy and the pursuit of holiness.

But the old order turned out to be built on sand, and the generation that was weaned on the movies and TV shows of the 1950s, with their League of Decency seal of approval, grew up to think of orthodoxy as a dead hand and tradition as an epithet.

In «A Closed Question and Ecumenism Now» (Public Square, October), Richard John Neuhaus asserts: «Mainly because of the fragmented condition of Orthodoxy itself, the healing of the millennium - old breach between Rome and the East will not likely happen anytime soon.»

The centre - left thinktank's study, which challenges the orthodoxy of pursuing a stable inflation rate at the expense of everything else, envisages a major improvement in employment among 18 - to 24 - year - olds and those aged between 50 and 64.

The Democrats with all the devices available at their outfits could not stop the Russians, Holland is not using the biometric system in its elections because of the infiltrations going on and most western nations have decided to reverse to the old electoral orthodoxies because of the manipulations going on.

«Proponents of business as usual - roadblocks to reform, reluctant to accept the need to change and modernise, wedded to the old orthodoxies - argue that the best government can do is to stand aside and leave it to the market,» Mr Umunna will say.

This is the most detailed challenge yet to the 40 - year - old orthodoxy of the Big Bang.

Some will say that «Inventing Abstraction» reflects an old orthodoxy at the Museum of Modern Art, where sometimes (although by no means always) abstraction has been regarded as a one - way street leading to ever increasing purity.

But this time around it was not my usual amazement that anyone alive today was naïve enough to believe the old avant - garde orthodoxy of shocking the bourgeois, the tired old line offered in support of Deitch by Aaron Rose, a curator of one of Deitch's recent exhibitions: «I feel like [Deitch] is shaking the foundation of the castle, and the people who've been living quite comfortably in that castle for the last 20 years are nervous about it.

Around the corner, Sigmar Polke, Lucas Samaras and Gerhard Richter — the old lions — hold court with insurgent works that run roughshod over such artistic orthodoxies as the viability of the picture plane or the integrity of the negative.

Today, the 73 - year - old Benglis may be less confrontational, but she has continued to push the boundaries of artistic acceptability and to challenge orthodoxies with her exploration of a wide and often vividly coloured range of materials, from pigmented latex, luminous polyurethane, beeswax and glitter to lead and bronze.»

The keys to making headway in this early conceptual phase of the new agreement is to be open to new ideas that can work in the real world and to keep our eyes on the prize of reducing emissions rather than insisting on old orthodoxies.

And it's Cox's surprisingly fragile understanding of the climate debate and his failure to subject claims about the «scientific consensus» to criticism which causes him to reproduce the same old orthodoxy: