Sentences with phrase «orthodoxy because»

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.

The Reformers reaffirmed Nicene Orthodoxy because they thought it agreeable to the word of God, and this logically implies the possibility of second thoughts if scriptural exegesis so requires.

The Democrats with all the devices available at their outfits could not stop the Russians, Holland is not using the biometric system in its elections because of the infiltrations going on and most western nations have decided to reverse to the old electoral orthodoxies because of the manipulations going on.

Not exact matches

They say all this stuff and they make it up, because their orthodoxy didn't work out.

(6) Such a new ecumenical initiative would, over time, create the conditions for the possibility of a Russian Orthodoxy that is not in thrall to Russian state power, and that could be a partner in the re-evangelization of Europe because its leadership had rediscovered the power of the Gospel.

He was after all one of the great literary modernists of the early twentieth century, and modernism was a kind of radicalism, because it a refused to remain within the frame of established orthodoxies.

Many of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly authentic.

Before the Council he was considered unsound because of his espousal of evolution, and he was shunned after the Council because of his undoubted orthodoxy - he himself said, with a smile: «I could never win!»

It is more because I want Anthony Burgess blotted out as a flaw in the universe: a terrible sin of presumption, orthodoxy might counter, for who am I to question my worth to God?

Nor can the wish to replace orthodoxy with a more modern theology be a compelling motivation, simply because the hold of orthodoxy upon Western civilization has been so clearly broken that only a Don Quixote would choose to tilt in such a tournament.

So Catholic orthodoxy is in fact a defender of the integrity of science and its methodology, because it is through its very rationality and intelligibility

Because he rooted his new political realism in his own theological conversion — his new meditation on the wisdom and trustworthy observations of Augustine — Niebuhr called the new movement he called for by the theological name, Renewed Orthodoxy or Neo-Orthodoxy.

But the orthodoxy of a Catholic theologian should not be suspect only because he does his duty honestly and weighing his own views, remaining in an open dialogue with the magisterium and prepared to leave the last word to the authorities of the Church, always lovingly adapting his individual under - standing of the faith to that of the whole Church.

This broader liberalism may oscillate between its libertarian and welfare - state expressions, but it stands as orthodoxy in America because those are the dimensions that define us as a nation.

Converts are sometimes eager to point out that Orthodoxy, because of its emphasis on continuity, can not be «liberal.»

We can probably find some point of disagreement that would cause us to not get along but theology will never be one of them because, like you, I don't consider any brand of orthodoxy to be necessary for salvation.

I say «apparent» because he rightfully wonders if the orthodoxy on Madison is correct.

Indeed, because «biblical thought does not easily lead towards traditional orthodoxy,» the biblical theologian willy - nilly often undermines the received tradition.

Born in Russia and steeped in Russian Orthodoxy, Sorokin spent time in jail because of his resistance to the Czar.

Heretics have been shamed, exiled, or killed because they failed to submit to the discipline of truth as interpreted by the guardians of orthodoxy, whether religious, moral, aesthetic, or scientific.

The pattern of orthodoxy in religion, because it is well known, gives us a useful paradigm.

Rather, it would impose upon everyone a ruthless orthodoxy that subjects unborn and infirm human beings to the capricious whims of those who believe themselves to be superior because of their ability to exert their will, to realize their autonomous selfhood.

And the Lutheran pastor down the street may do the opposite with complete impunity because our communion is organized not around orthodoxy but around a series of pragmatic compromises designed to hold a loose coalition together.

Orthodoxies of all kinds often become viciously intolerant because they claim their formulations or creeds to be eternal Truth (drawn up at some time, however!).

Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.

Because it was one of the books rejected by the developing church orthodoxy and because a number of scholars today claim that Gnostic influences dominate most of Thomas, the Gospel has not caused mucBecause it was one of the books rejected by the developing church orthodoxy and because a number of scholars today claim that Gnostic influences dominate most of Thomas, the Gospel has not caused mucbecause a number of scholars today claim that Gnostic influences dominate most of Thomas, the Gospel has not caused much stir.

JH: Because there is always some room for mystery and speculation, both the Roman Catholic and Reformed traditions have been careful to distinguish three «zones» between strict orthodoxy and outright heresy.

History shows that «mystic, crystal revelations,» such as are celebrated in the song «Aquarius,» tend to degenerate into absurd orthodoxies, simply because «mystic revelations» allow no reality - testing.

Is this because Christianity is broader and more flexible than orthodoxy?

Conservative Jews don't like to be described as the in - between group, but they inevitably are, because the best and simplest way to define the Conservative position is to say that it is more strict than Reform and less strict than Orthodoxy.

I infer from Kevin Martin's questions about papal power that he thinks that Dostoevsky would have balked at John Paul's anti «Communist mission, even though Russian Orthodoxy was among its major beneficiaries, because papal realpolitik is un «Christian and should never be enlisted even in the cause of Christ's Kingdom, which is not of this world.

They are speaking from within a living tradition which, because it is living and developing, is neither bound to a particular system of doctrinal orthodoxy nor compatible with static uniformity.

Despite» or perhaps precisely because» he is so rooted in Jewish Orthodoxy and so persuaded of God's special love for Israel, Wyschogrod has not hesitated to engage Christians.

By this logic Bloom would also have to be judged innocent of charges of anti-Semitism because of the evenhanded character of his assault on orthodoxy and piety, whether Jewish, Christian or otherwise.

One of her pet themes, to which she returns time and again, is that the modern Christian focus on orthodoxy is mistaken and anti-historical, because historically it has been ritual and practice that have been at the heart of the Christian community, not doctrine.

If he complained about Orthodoxy living in an ahistorical world of religious Let's Pretend, it was not because he thought the Church had that much to learn from history, especially the history of the West.

Because evangelicals tend to subordinate discursive truth to evangelical truth, limiting inquiry by the creation of discursive orthodoxies to match their evangelical ones, dissipating the tension and traducing the complementarity which reside within the fullness of truth, they appear to have disabled themselves for the kind of free university inquiry out of which, historically, has come the growth of knowledge and culture.

Fourth, I fear that our societies have reached the sad point where the belief that some humans command a favored right to life simply because of their physical strength is now unquestioned orthodoxy.

Apparently he thinks that this is necessary because orthodoxy and praxiology are two sides of a single enterprise of which apologia is the center: «Apologia..., marked by a quest for orthodoxy and praxiology, must become the core of theological education» (208).

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 it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

It is the religious aspect of the conflict that may prove to be the most significant, because Moscow Orthodoxy has been presented as the thing holding the «Russian world» together, and thereby as the main actor in the bloody Russian Spring.

In «A Closed Question and Ecumenism Now» (Public Square, October), Richard John Neuhaus asserts: «Mainly because of the fragmented condition of Orthodoxy itself, the healing of the millennium - old breach between Rome and the East will not likely happen anytime soon.»

Letters From A Tory Might one concede, contrary to neoliberal orthodoxy, that there's a need for regulation precisely because Smith's invisible hand, which is partly how inequality comes about, is too often in someone's pocket?

Hanna, a moderate who represented Central New York in Congress for six years before retiring at the end of 2016, said he dismissed the idea because GOP state committee members likely would not support someone who has repeatedly broken from the party's conservative orthodoxy.

«Maybe he would suggest government would go to private - sector companies and say, «Let me tell you how to run your business because you really don't know what you're talking about,»» Cuomo said, adding that it was a «total reversal of the ultra-conservative orthodoxy.»

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.

Such attitudes put Diane on a collision course with Kevin, her head of department, mainly because he wants to make a lucrative commercial deal with a foreign company, and needs to project an image of green orthodoxy.

«We must challenge the orthodoxy and find a new way of doing business in our schools because nothing less than the future of our kids is at stake,» the governor - elect proclaimed.