Sentences with phrase «of orthodoxy»

Southern Protestant theologians denounced their Northern brethren for leaving the Catholic Church as the sole defender of orthodoxy in the region.

In Gag, a series of new works by Analia Saban at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, the artist plays on different notions of the orthodoxy of the minimalist canvas, especially those located around the idea of the materiality of the support becoming the very subject of the work.

The conservative extreme defends the bulwarks of orthodoxy as long as it can.

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's trenchant analysis of Hans Urs von Balthasar represents an effort to recover a functional standard of orthodoxy for Catholic theology.

This despite the fact that some thought von Balthasar stepped across the line of orthodoxy on a few subjects.

Neo-orthodoxy's basic affirmation was the need to return to a new kind of orthodoxy, one that would, recognize the importance of historical research while professing a distinctive and particular Christian proclamation: The Bible is the final and unique authority for Christian faith.

But it is a strange notion of orthodoxy which defends a bishop who — however strong he may be upholding Catholic doctrine — shamefully covers up child abuse.

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.

That famous defender of orthodoxy saw reason and revelation as companions, not enemies.

Oddly the Democratic Party is far more rigid in my opinion on matters of orthodoxy.

He draws a direct analogy from religion: â $ œThe pattern of orthodoxy in religion, because it is well known, gives us a useful paradigm.

Andrew Stephen Damick is pastor of St. Paul Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and author of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy and An Introduction to God.

What if we refused to draw lines of orthodoxy about which people were in and which people were out?

Fundamentalist Christians regard themselves as the last bastions of orthodoxy because of their commitment to the literal text of the Bible, and this meets the needs of people looking for certainty in a time of rapid change.

In this context a series of judicial decisions concerning obscenity, freedom of expression, and, most notoriously, abortion itself has effectively elevated these new «rights» to the status of an orthodoxy from which dissent is increasingly not tolerated.

Over time, again, due to the witness and magnetism of Pope John Paul II and to the dogged and effective work of some academics and a small army of lay people, progress was made in showing the intellectual strength of orthodoxy in contrast to the intellectual impoverishment, the illogical and arrogant posturing of dissenters.

In any event, the pro-abortion faction went ballistic at the suggestion that Clinton might appoint judges who did not pass their test of orthodoxy on «women's reproductive rights.»

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).

Furthermore, neither one is afraid to approach (and sometimes cross over) the traditional boundaries of orthodoxy.

Having said that, parts of Orthodoxy make me so angry I could scream.»

The conservative extreme attempts to defend as many of the bulwarks of orthodoxy as it can, and for as long as it can.

He saw himself as the guardian of orthodoxy of the Council.

This passage from my article conveys how his purposeful rejection of orthodoxy was at least partly learned (and thus illustrates the potential to foster an enthusiasm for «breaking things on the path to breakthroughs» in our classrooms):

[38] In his «Reason and the rule of faith in the second century AD,» in Rowan Williams, ed., The Making of Orthodoxy: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 54.

By accepting the wonderful «challenge of orthodoxy» that is the placing of Christ at the center of their lives, clergy of all stripes would find the inspiration to minister God's love to all the baptized as they labored to promote the Kingdom of God.

The position of metropolitan Onufriy reflects the worldview of fundamentalist monastic elites, which reject the development of doctrine, regard with suspicion the church's engagement of contemporary world, and oppose ecumenical dialogue on the grounds that it jeopardizes the «purity of Orthodoxy.»

That is why, if the Ecumenical Patriarch would dedicate himself to solving Antioch's problem, he could show himself a truly honest broker and not merely a representative for the Hellenic churches of Orthodoxy.

In this context, Pitstick's focus on the formal question of the orthodoxy of Hans Urs von Balthasar moves us in a helpful direction.

Proponents of orthodoxies do not recognise themselves as vulnerable to ideology.

This probably isn't the space for me to get into all of the painstaking research and reading, prayer and spiritual wrestling that has occurred in our home as we challenged our traditional understanding of hell — truly with the heart to learn — and emerged from the discussion on the other side of orthodoxy.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 6) Rather their lack came from the rigidity of orthodoxy after their zest for newness dimmed, their abundance of fruitfulness declined, and their spring of inspiration dried up.

Frederica is an Orthodox Christian and the author of nine books, including the critically - acclaimed and beautifully - written Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey Into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy.

SOGI policies attempt to impose, by force of law, a system of orthodoxy with respect to human sexuality: the belief that marriage is merely a union of consenting adults, regardless of biology, and that one can be male, female, none, or both, again, regardless of biology.

«Pope Francis is rescuing the Catholic Church from those grim - faced watchdogs of orthodoxy who in windowless rooms reduce Catholicism to a laundry list of nos,» Gehring said.

But his spirituality is anything but conservative in a static sense: It is, rather, one of growth and dynamism» albeit a «progress» within the context of orthodoxy.

In the first millennium the faith of the «City of the Two Apostles» stood still while the world revolved; its lack of innovation made it the touchstone of orthodoxy during the Arian and Iconoclastic crises and enabled it to be the memory of the Tradition of the whole Church.

Tietjen believes that the struggle over Concordia Seminary was an essential element of Preus's plan to solidify his control of the church and impose his brand of orthodoxy on the entire denomination.

In contrast, representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate (the dominant branch of Orthodoxy in Ukraine and under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church) called on the churches not to take a political position.