Sentences with phrase «old orthodoxy»

I became a repeater of old orthodoxies, increasingly rigid, increasingly afraid.

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.

Relevant religion seeks not to defend old orthodoxies but rather to aid persons in spiritual discovery, encouraging them to be as true to their own light as the prophets and Jesus were to theirs.

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:

«The key 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,» he said.

It is past time to challenge the old orthodoxies.

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

The new orthodoxy puts more emphasis on sinful inner motives, particularly pride, than the old orthodoxy; and at least in the American scene it has more social emphasis.

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.

The old orthodoxy had it that when we can't relate to God we ought to search ourselves and reflect on whether perhaps we have made a god of something else.

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).

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.

With the older orthodoxy it is possible to disagree, as in having an argument.

The old orthodoxies will not serve us well in the future,» he continues.

«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.