Sentences with phrase «orthodoxies which»

They like their leader's authentic disregard for political orthodoxies which makes them perhaps the only electorate for whom amateurishness and disorganisation is regarded as positive.

Heresy can be defined as any departure from Christian orthodoxy which is a teaching, doctrine or practice that goes beyond the apostles teachings — the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).

Elites in a society generally represent and uphold a designated orthodoxy which Redfield calls the Great Tradition.

Therefore after the revolution, initially the Bolsheviks gave tolerance to religion with the exception of Orthodoxy which was subject to massive persecutions.

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

What we note is the free and frank doubt of orthodoxy which reveals itself in every chapter of his book.

Since the end of World War II, however, there have been alarming signs that it is not just Christendom that is vanishing and not just Christian orthodoxy which is disintegrating.

Along these lines we can find a new development of orthodoxy which will bring out the full majesty of Christ as Mysterium Fidei.

This began around 1750 when G. E. Lessing led the fight against a stupid orthodoxy which stuck to traditional interpretations.

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.

However, the reformist tendencies will always be counterbalanced by orthodoxy in Islam, an orthodoxy which is kept alive by influences from Mecca, by pilgrimages, and by local educational institutions.

The effect of Serota's tunnel vision is to create a stifling orthodoxy which permeates all the Tate's activities.

However, when seen clearly, it is the orthodoxy which is radical.

However, a true religion requires more: — a system of doctrine, or orthodoxy which directs what followers must believe — an organisation (usually led as a heirarchy) to disseminate that doctrine and administer rewards and punishments.

In other words, it is an orthodoxy — not good science — which Hansen is nervously protecting, an orthodoxy which he is determined will not be challenged, and he will use NASA - headed paper to make his point.

The husband had to take the chance of her remarriage in accordance with accepted orthodoxy which had prevailed for over 30 years (see, for example, Smith v Smith [1976] Fam 18).

Not exact matches

It does all that even though it ignores the established orthodoxy of the online news business, which puts a premium on sharing via Facebook, Twitter and every other tool available.

Mindful that a government which sidesteps its own laws in attacking lawyers and writers who stray from official orthodoxy may also be tempted to ignore local and international legal standards on trade, we should continue to emphasize legal compliance.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

In fact, I would say that the manner by which you can affirm that God loves men determines whether or not you have the right orthodoxy.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

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.

Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.

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.»

Paul came along, and sold a different version which met the market better and bang — orthodoxy!

On almost every subject, Bulgakov employs Western, and especially Thomistic, thought as a foil by which to illuminate the distinctiveness of Orthodoxy's accent on the cosmological and Sophialogical in the Christian construal of reality.

For this reason, it is more appropriate to speak of prima scriptura» which more adequately represents historic Christian orthodoxy while preserving Scripture's normative place in doing moral theology.

In its 1.0 phase, Church Revival failed to address its top priority: «churching» those who were attracted to Orthodoxy, which meant catechizing Russians and incorporating them into the Church.

Therefore, we must conclude that both Pike and Basinger have failed to make intelligible a view in which God can share power and at the same time maintain the over-power that orthodoxy demands.

They are looking for an infallible teaching office (Catholicism) or a finally definitive teaching tradition (Orthodoxy) which can have the last word on interpreting the Bible.

They have shown unthinkable negligence in failing to weigh up objectively arguments that might challenge the new orthodoxy — one which, seemingly overnight, has been imposed on our society.

But the defence of faith and lifestyle which is Russian Orthodoxy tolerates other faiths except «where an alien faith and alien standards of life have been imposed on our people by force or by proselytism» (p. 4).

The other British movement (with American offshoots) is Radical Orthodoxy, which gathers around John Milbank (in Lancaster for many years, followed by Cambridge, and now at the University of Virginia).

Such refusal to accept responsibility for the crisis was so easy a method of avoiding obligation in the crisis that Ezekiel found in the ancient orthodoxy, according to which one suffers for another's sin, a dangerous stumblingblock to the nation's reconstruction.

Muslim orthodoxy, in general, remained so firmly anti-British in outlook that it could not reconcile itself to the Muslim League politics which it suspected of being pro-British.

All three speakers granted that some kind of reunion with Rome (and with Orthodoxy) must be eventual goals for Protestantism, which could not think of itself as the sole bearer of the church's future.

It reflected the early modern impulse to submit Scripture to reason more than it harmonized with early church tradition, which regarded a literal six - day creation as unnecessary to Christian orthodoxy.»

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

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.

In Potok's The Chosen it is the rigid orthodoxy and ascetic demands of an apparently harsh Hasidic father which create the test faced successfully by Danny (bolstered by the friendship of Reuven).

It exhibits a stubborn refusal to acknowledge merit in any sociological, historical, philosophical, medical, psychological, ethical, or biological arguments which might challenge and chasten its pet orthodoxies.

Ancient orthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties couorthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties couOrthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties could learn.

Today's successful Evangelicalism, putatively the stronghold of orthodoxies, often finds its congregants lured by «health and wealth» or «signs and wonders» gospels which, in Butler's terms, manipulate the supernatural in hardly conventional forms.

Long ago for love the church substituted orthodoxy, which is very much less expensive.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

Orthodoxy is a word, however, which no dictionary can define, there being several hundred meanings, depending upon which communion one is a member of.

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.

We don't have that wonderful tradition in Eastern Orthodoxy, to which I converted in 2007.

A disembodied Word expressed in creedal statements, which were constructed to defend orthodoxy against heresy rather than proclaim the faith, will not communicate the joy and redemptive power of the gospel.