Sentences with phrase «orthodoxy does»

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.

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

As I said earlier, I don't think that means that orthodoxy doesn't matter.

Familiarity with Episcopal orthodoxy does not equate to Godly knowledge of the Scriptures.

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

«I just mean to illustrate that Christological orthodoxy didn't fall from heaven.

But his own idiosyncratic revisions of orthodoxy don't at all follow from his analysis — nor does Taylor ever claim they do.

Proponents of orthodoxies do not recognise themselves as vulnerable to ideology.

Not exact matches

They did that despite the fact that, against all campaign orthodoxy, Obama was advocating for some taxes to go up.

An employee does not have free reign [sic] to engage in political speech that disrupts the workplace, but punishing an employee for deviating from company orthodoxy on a political issue is not allowed either.

The way investors see it, Trump and his economic positions are less predictable than Hillary Clinton's and do not always follow Republican party orthodoxy.

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.

Not that I think bad theology is a good idea, but for Anabaptists, living the Kingdom and doing right (orthopraxy) has always taken precedence over theorizing about the Kingdom and being right (hyper - orthodoxy).

It has been the boast of environmental orthodoxy that «science» is a monolith «settled» on the coming crisis if humanity does not change its ways, or in the jargon, «reduce its carbon footprint.»

WCC leaders and staff do seem eager to capture the energy of Pentecostalism, the assurance and growth of evangelicalism, the authority of Catholicism, and the satisfying and mysterious depths of Orthodoxy for themselves.

Daniel says: «The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy»

He further assures the reader that «orthodoxy is objectively real, and it does matter.»

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.

In what way, then, did these disastrous episodes advance the cause of orthodoxy?

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

Though this idea has been soundly refuted by Father John McCloskey, among other proponents of orthodoxy, and though Francis has strongly upheld the indissolubility of marriage, stating that Catholic divorce «doesn't exist,» it is not so clear to many of the pope's critics, who no longer trust Francis, and who dismiss his affirmations of orthodoxy.

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?»

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

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.»

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.

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.

The idea embodied in this scripture is why Mormons don't accept the exra - Biblical creeds and some of the mainstream orthodoxy of today.

I was so happy when I started reading a book by the current Patriarch of Eastern Orthodoxy and realized that there actually IS a form of Christianity that doesn't deny scientific evidence!

Braaten's critics charged that his antiwar enthusiasms led him to violate the Lutheran distinction between law and gospel (he still doesn't think so), but his overall theological perspective clearly placed him in the «evangelical catholic» camp of Lutheran orthodoxy.

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $ (p. 174).

The challenge then becomes to explain what specifically is the symbolic activity that is necessary for this; how does the symbolism work, and, for orthodoxy, why must it involve openness to procreation?

I once taught a course on Puritan writing, and I recall that they used imagery in the same way Voskamp does, without people doubting their orthodoxy.

Luther plainly asserted the natural law, as did the Aristotelian thinkers of high Lutheran Orthodoxy; he even defended the truth of the Ten Commandments on the basis of natural law.

Evangelicals insist I MUST believe in the Trinity and JW's don't want to touch me with a barge pole, so I'm stuck in the middle; but you are like a breath of fresh air as you prize away people from orthodoxy of «religion» and a dependence on institutions to the true Church, the Body of Christ.

All religious orthodoxy appears to him as a kind of mental zombism, as in this strange passage: «Devout Catholics, orthodox Jews, fundamentalist Protestants, or Shiite Muslims... are told what to do and they do it.

The post-liberal theology reacts to many of the same weakness of contemporary Wesleyan movement as does Orthodoxy.

The editorial text seems to imply that the recent crisis - post Vatican II I assume - has deep roots in the outgoing intellectual orthodoxy (Thomism); and you ask rhetorically for a solution to the crisis without reference to that particular synthesis: «Why did everything collapse so quickly in the 1960s?»

Thomas learns that orthodoxy about Christ didn't fall from heaven.

What do we gain, though, if we set aside the «new orthodoxy» of divine suffering and return to an older one?

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

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

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.

Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace Russian Orthodoxy in order to take these traditions seriously.

His dozen - plus books include A New Kind of Christianity, A Generous Orthodoxy, Naked Spirituality, and Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?

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.

(CNN)- The Bible doesn't clearly express an opinion on the possession of guns, but many evangelicals defend the unlimited distribution of firearms with the same fervor that they defend biblical orthodoxy.

Stephen Webb is right to say that the Book of Mormon is Christ - centered; that Mormons have more faith in the divinity of Christ than do many liberal Christians; that for Mormons Jesus» divinity is «not trivial»; and that the Mormon Jesus is different from the Jesus of historic orthodoxy.

Well, one could justify the orthodoxy of Scotus» doctrine from patristic and biblical sources and there are books that do so.

If the reference is to material salvation from the famine, he can not do anything, and even this is perhaps a manifestation of his orthodoxy.

We don't have that wonderful tradition in Eastern Orthodoxy, to....