Sentences with phrase «orthodoxy at»

So in my third book The God Species I junked all the environmentalist orthodoxy at the outset and tried to look at the bigger picture on a planetary scale.

Minimalism also fought Greenberg's orthodoxy at the same time as conceptual art — by rejecting the Modernist idea of painting and instead working with industrial materials — but contained the dialogue within the gallery system.

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.

«Apparently, according to Gove's orthodoxy at the time, any requirement imposed upon schools to provide meaningful careers advice and guidance was regarded as a breach of the sacrosanct autonomy of schools.

From The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, which can be taken to summarize intellectual orthodoxy at the time of its publication in 1979, one would gather that neo-Darwinian theory is as settled as Newtonian theory.

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

I'm reading Brian McLaren's A Generous Orthodoxy at present — probably anathema to some frequent visitors here — but I find it in accordance with what I understand of Jesus.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

If religion can be turned on its head like this — where the Invisible Hand of Wall Street (invisible to the Justice Department, at least) is elevated to a faux - Deist moral philosophy — is it any surprise that economic orthodoxy and formerly progressive tax policy is succumbing?

After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

At random, I turned to page 1005 and started reading on the future of Eastern Orthodoxy:

At the end of his essay, Griffiths gives the impression that Pitstick should have limited herself to a school debate with Balthasar over the merits of his theology of Christ's descent rather than raising the formal question of orthodoxy.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

At the end of our discussion, I still had one question: «All that being said Father, and granting the necessity, beauty, and orthodoxy of the Council's teachings» how did their implementation go so disastrously wrong in the immediate years that followed?»

A theologian who is an Episcopalian, Lutheran, or Baptist (at least a high church Baptist) might agree with all his stated «limits of Catholic orthodoxy.»

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.

At least the brahmins who represented Aryan orthodoxy affirmed an ambiguously defined brahman.

Marsh, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, gives us a sympathetic and theologically informed portrait that emphasizes Bonhoeffer's close and enduring ties to Christian orthodoxy, but also his restless curiosity and experimentalism.

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).

This point may seem counterintuitive at first, since one of the main claims of the «new orthodoxy» is that it can offer a better reading of the Hebrew Bible.

Theology has usually had a high stake in truth, so high that it has refused all play of the imagination: through creedal control and the formulations of orthodoxy, it has refused all attempts at new metaphors «trying their chance.»

It has, at least, done one service to orthodoxy.

I had once thought that I could employ a bipolar scale in characterizing belief, one that assumed that the views of persons might be located at some position between orthodoxy (or conservatism) and modernism (or liberalism).

He blogs at Mere Orthodoxy.

Since it is five steps away from atheism out of a possible six, lovers of the letter of orthodoxy who might feel inclined to attack case two as little better than atheism, or as a blasphemous or at best a crudely inept doctrine, might pause, before indulging in such judgment, long enough to consider — and I am confident they will not have done so before — what the five steps really mean.

But that is not true at a Catholic event, a FAITH Movement gathering, a pro-life conference, a get - together at a major Catholic venue known for its orthodoxy and devotion.

There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.

Andrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, «The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?»

At the other end of the spectrum, Orthodoxy's revival is at least partly indicative of the same trend, namely the stress it places on Judaism as a religion and a way of lifAt the other end of the spectrum, Orthodoxy's revival is at least partly indicative of the same trend, namely the stress it places on Judaism as a religion and a way of lifat least partly indicative of the same trend, namely the stress it places on Judaism as a religion and a way of life.

Today's civil rights orthodoxy is to denounce as «racist» ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair.

I'll be happy to refute the orthodoxy of his scriptural proof texts if anyone is truly interested, but let's simply look at one statement.

From this perspective then, orthodoxy could entail a more critical look at tradition, since what has been passed on may in fact be a perversion of the original message.

Here, in rural Wiltshire, where there are no orthodoxies, I am at peace with this, as Spinoza was at peace circulating the manuscript of the Ethics among his friends.

Sometimes «teaching» is translated as «doctrine» and so we get the impression that orthodoxy is at issue.

The theological imperialism of the protesters — demanding that the statement say exactly what Lutherans have traditionally said about «faith alone,» law and gospel, simul iustus et peccator (at the same time justified and sinner), etc. — might give the impression that they represent hard - core orthodoxy.

The differences between liberalism and the new orthodoxy center more in the doctrine of man than at any other point.

At the same time, I can not help but suspect that some of the rejected whom he interviewed really are rigid and refractory in ways only marginally related to orthodoxy or traditional piety, and would likely not have made good priests.

Yoel Finkelman lectures in Jewish studies at Bar - Ilan University and is the author of Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

I'll presume to call it Neuhaus's Law, or at least one of his several laws: Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

However, religion does not stop that at all, and in fact usually positions itself to profit handsomely — cases in point of your new religion: the Crusades, and the invasions of Russia in the 1200s by Teutonic Knights to bring the Eastern Orthodoxy back under Catholic rule (brutal, by the way).

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.

Dr Justin Thacker takes a closer look at the «right wing economic orthodoxy» being promoted by many evangelicals More

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

Cross posted at Mere Orthodoxy, which you should also be reading.

John Milbank, the theologian of «radical orthodoxy» who now teaches at the University of Virginia, was there.

I attempted to articulate one answer over at Mere - Orthodoxy.

The right embraces a market orthodoxy that places the choosing, autonomous individual at the center of its economic theory and accepts the larger liberal frame in which the only alternative to this free - market, individualist orthodoxy is statism and collectivism.