Sentences with phrase «orthodoxy as»

topics likely to be discussed include matters relating to orthodoxy as well as other religious confessions, politics, economics, social issues and more.

That alone should invalidate a major chunk of the (C) AGW orthodoxy as currently reported global warming certainly doesn't incorporate all of the globe.

His lecture, given the title, «Science: a challenge to TV Orthodoxy» was disappointing given his previous arguments for scientific research, and didn't challenge orthodoxy as much as it reproduced it, almost entirely uncritically.

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.

Dovid has risen in the ranks of the Orthodoxy as a rabbi and Esti is now his wife, creating odd maneuverability around what their group has been and how it has changed.

In one sense, it is no longer Russia as a country, but Russian Orthodoxy as a supranational movement, that is becoming a geopolitical factor.

Laughing because it has the scent of desperation all dying traditions have when they try to enforce tighter and tighter orthodoxy as a pathetic effort to save themselves from extinction.

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.

Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»

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

As were the émigrés, so to speak, from Protestantism and Catholicism who sought out Orthodoxy as an escape from history.

Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom of the Church from state control, and the predominance of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new orthodoxy as the prevailing theological climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.

Deists attacked traditional orthodoxy as Socinus had done.

Naturally many Christians regard this extreme form of the contemporization of the Christian faith as such a radical departure from Christian orthodoxy as to be something quite different, and perhaps they are right.

... Indeed, the agnostic philosopher Mary Midgely is famous for her critique of «Dawkinsist» orthodoxy as in itself «a strange faith»; a reductionist ideology.

President Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II both intervened with President Boris Yeltsin in 1997 when they saw drafts of a new law which threatened to negate the freedoms of the non-Orthodox and move toward reestablishing Orthodoxy as the state religion.

He set himself the task of steering a realistic course between the two threats of liberalism and orthodoxy as he tried «to relate Christianity to the modern world.

One of the arguments that the «Christian nationalists» always make is that the country was founded on Christian principles, when in fact many of the founders held beliefs that were about as far from any Christian orthodoxy as you could safely be back in those days.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

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.

That divinity is given a particular shape and history by the biblical drama, conceived in orthodoxy as enacted by a single God in three persons.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Shoring up national security has long been a pillar of Republican orthodoxy, as has staunch opposition to gun control.

He was not only breaking with Republican orthodoxy, but was also inviting a trade war that would threaten the livelihood of the working class that he had based his campaign on; it was altogether likely that price increases as a result of his tariffs would wipe out the small income gains that his tax cut bill had brought and slow the healthy economy.

Going against the Silicon Valley orthodoxy, the venture capitalist has urged technology start - ups to go public as soon as they are able, instead of continuing to take venture capital funding: Taking on too much venture funding, he has said, can fuel a lack of discipline.

Soon it branched out, with the launch of Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Peace, all designed to counter what Breitbart described as the «bully media cabal» that ignored stories at odds with prevailing liberal orthodoxy.

As such he could be expected to offer a trenchant counterpoint in a political pantheon now entirely dominated by centre - left orthodoxy, whether in Ontario, Alberta or federally.

Those who believe all combat sports are immoral, even those who choose to see mixed martial arts as «human cockfighting,» a degradation of Marquess of Queensberry orthodoxy, would have seen nothing to change their minds at the dome.

But in Eastern Orthodoxy, the separation from those called «to the desert» and we who live «in the world» is not as wide as it might seem.

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.

Karl Barth was a creative, innovative theologian, so much so that Calvinists of strict observance question his orthodoxy, and a Thomist - inspired Matthew Rose reads Barth as beholden to modern assumptions («Karl Barth's Failure,» June 2014).

So the liberal peace and its signature tribunals are like a theology, complete with institutions that are like a church, and this theology reigns as the global orthodoxy.

It works very well as a method of social control, for it allows for discrete censorship and the reinforcement of socially enforced orthodoxies well disguised by the rhetoric of neutrality and tolerance in his day, and of diversity and inclusion in ours.

Held almost universally in the international community, the liberal peace stands as the global orthodoxy for addressing past injustices.

For a while the notion that homosexuality was a «choice» (as in the phrase «sexual preference») was homosexual - movement orthodoxy; in recent years the correct line has been that it's somehow inherent.

Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy by Richard J. Mouw As Man Now Is, God Once Was Slouching Toward Orthodoxy?

Orthodoxy is not anathema to reason, and it should not be treated as such.

Their «orthodoxy,» as it were, would hold to creationism.

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.

Those of us who continue to fight for orthodoxy, in dogmatic as well as moral theology, miss those days when there was a clear beacon shining from across the Tiber.

As our inquiries proceed analogically, they are both enriched and disciplined by an awareness of what Eastern Orthodoxy calls the «apophatic» and in Western thought is known as the via negativAs our inquiries proceed analogically, they are both enriched and disciplined by an awareness of what Eastern Orthodoxy calls the «apophatic» and in Western thought is known as the via negativas the via negativa.

Further what you are attempting to classify as orthodoxy is simply common sense.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

Teilhard, of course, was suspected by some of deviating from Christian orthodoxy, and his notion of the «hominization» of the universe has been interpreted» unfairly, I think» as a truly relentless form of anthroprocentrism.

The Church believes that the explanation is both simple and powerful: Orthodoxy helps Russians understand who they are as a people and what makes Russia unique among the world's nations.

As David noted, we can use «orthodoxy» to support just about any theological position that suits our sectarian fancy.

This meant that resolutions of synodical conventions, while no doubt offering useful direction and guidance, could not be binding and could not be used as a standard for assessing orthodoxy.