Sentences with word «orthodoxy»

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

A recent post by Christopher Benson on the Sunday of Orthodoxy in which he mused about the anathematising of the iconoclasts... and what that says about him as a non-icon worshipping Christian.

Basil and the two Gregorys, collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers, were leaders of Christian orthodoxy in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) in the later fourth century.

Yet with the influence of Eastern Orthodoxy on the one hand and various Anabaptist influences on the other, this «forensic» or «juridical» understanding of justification is being questioned.

Historian Perry Miller began his monumental reexamination of American Puritan thought with Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933).

But, we've been about challenging orthodoxy from the beginning, so eventually Mark and Peter's wisdom prevailed.

This is an attempt by the lead author, Mr. Osler, to fold acceptance of gay marriage and gay coitus into Christian orthodoxy as defined in the BIble.

Frederica Here and Now: My friend Khouria Frederica Mathewes - Green, an author and lecturer, is probably the most popular apologist for Orthodoxy in America today.

Worst still, the shrill complaints made about people who challenge climate orthodoxy by Bob May effectively close down any possibility of debate.

This is applied to anyone who questions the new orthodoxy about global warming.

For Bell, the arguments about orthodoxy between Christians are only alienating those looking on, and his frustration is evident.

In The Living of Maisie Ward, Dana Greene succumbed to the temptation to paint her subject in the colors of her own choosing, with little regard for Ward's true colors as a staunch and resolute defender of Catholic orthodoxy against modernism.

No one has a right to demand that science textbooks conform to some religious orthodoxy on environtmentalism.

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.

Rather, Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace the current state of Russian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion in order to take these traditions seriously.

Ball's view has become orthodoxy in both political parties, in the world of business and finance and in the universities.

The Church has insisted on doctrinal orthodoxy of its members, but not on moral rectitude to the extent of tolerating the greatest iniquities of communal holocaust in human history perpetrated by its members.

More specifically, he challenged prevailing orthodoxies on the history and politics of the Palestinians and investigated the role of the intelligentsia in building para-state institutions and in fostering socio - economic and political changes within the Palestinians in exile.

-LSB-...] current economic orthodoxy within the Parliamentary Party, and outside of it, such as «Plan C», authored by Dr Prateek Buch, and published by the Social Liberal Forum last year.

I also liked A Generous Orthodoxy because Brian is so generous in affirming the good he finds in each Christian tradition.

This, in fact, is not Christian orthodoxy at all, but rather Gnosticism, one of the great heresies.

He punctured the complacent acceptance of the current orthodoxy with insistent questioning — «Why?»

Well, it was a turbulent time in history, but Calvin's off - with - their - heads approach to theological orthodoxy doesn't do much for so - called Calvanism.

Despite the vulnerability of many of his own properties to sea level rise, on the campaign trail President - elect Donald Trump stuck with Republican orthodoxy in questioning human - driven climate change, and criticizing the steps the Obama administration has taken to combat it.

I don't know whether the suffering of the damned in hell will be eternal, as traditional orthodoxy holds, or if God, «who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell» will in fact do so.

F. Graham's experience with this topic is pretty extensive and it's never easy to stand against the headwinds of prevailing liberal orthodoxy on national television.

And it feels weird to me for people to proclaim their independent spirit and yet take what any one figurehead says as gospel — isn't being indie about questioning orthodoxies and not creating new ones?

The line between orthodoxy and heresy has developed over time and through theological conflict, and the line between heterodoxy and heresy is blurry.

The new orthodoxy does a very different thing; it places faith in the whims and trends of the culturally influential.

In this manner, debate about the environment and associated issues is effectively and routinely silenced by an indiscriminate wall of contempt that associates anyone questioning any part of the warming orthodoxy as either the moral equivalent of a neo-Nazi or of someone who thinks the earth is flat.

And she voted against GOP conservative orthodoxy on reauthorizing the Export - Import Bank, which she saw as a helpful financial backer for North Country businesses seeking to export products.

In fact, as Mere Orthodoxy makes clear, the expression comes much earlier than Lewis.

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.

Which creed do you think is most useful for defining orthodoxy?

Bettany's Darwin is not someone who falls away from religious orthodoxy because such questioning comes easily to him, but because his scientific investigations have radically altered his way of looking at the world, whether he likes it or not.

His floating castle appeared suddenly on the day the peace treaty between the Duchy of Eternia and the Crystal Orthodoxy was due to be signed.

Defending orthodoxy by the severe punishment of deviants was not only a Catholic practice.

To deviate from established orthodoxy in one's beliefs was to be guilty of the heinous sin of heresy.

A more dialectical understanding of imagination could aid the cause, he allows, of making orthodoxy more generous and compelling.

Although he is the first party leader since Margaret Thatcher to change the minds of some colleagues and commentators about the electoral consequences of espousing radical policies he is still constrained by party orthodoxies of which he is personally opposed.