Sentences with phrase «parts of orthodoxy»

This is an all - too - common example of an environmentalist ignoring certain parts of the orthodoxy, because of personal financial opportunities.

Having said that, parts of Orthodoxy make me so angry I could scream.»

But I can see no reason for enshrining the maleness of God as part of our orthodoxy, and to the extent that the Trinity supports a patriarchal society or sexism it is not in keeping with the Christian message and can not be used.

Not exact matches

Orthodoxy offers them a sense of what is valuable about their culture and how they are part of, yet different from, the West.

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 Orthodoxy, fasting is part of the notion of Spiritual Combat.

Aurangzeb was largely influenced by the religious ideas of Shaikh Ahmad of Sirhind, who played a prominent part in reestablishing Muslim orthodoxy and combating Sufi deviations from Islam.

True, some Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.

Orthodoxy became an essential part of Eastern Slavic identity, whether a particular person was a believer or not.

After Constantinople fell in 1453, Ukrainian Orthodoxy became part of the Russian Church, which declared Moscow to be the Third Rome, now entrusted with defending Christian civilization in the East.

Calling Crimea an inseparable part of Russia, President Vladimir Putin declared that Vladimir the Great's «spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization, and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.»

the asyrian church, the armenian apostolia, the syriac orthodoxy, the ethiopic orthodoxy, the slavic orthodoxy, the greek orthodoxy, the georgian orthodoxy, the roman catholics, and the protestants — all include books, parts of books — as well as exclude books, in all their cannons.

I would in no way minimize the immense significance of his treatment of sin, but I believe he spoke of it in the light of the shallow moralism of both theological orthodoxy and liberalism, and as one part of the task of relating Christianity to the twentieth century.

Are you going to actually stand your ground and debate what constitutes orthodoxy within the Christian tradition, and whether or not a belief in Incarnation is part of that, or are you just going to stand at a distance and * observe * patterns within Reformed theology [like, gosh, a concern for truth!

Meeting the Open Letter on its own ground There are three related beliefs which are profoundly relevant both to the Open Letter's presentation of the call to love God and to Christian orthodoxy: God's transcendence of creation, a certain reaching out on the part of God to us and the existence of the human soul.

This is why the Bible is so little concerned with orthodoxy (except certain later parts of the New Testament).

My assumption in each case is that she is an American convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, probably from the Episcopal Church, whose defection to the Christian orient was in large part inspired by reading The Brothers Karamazov at an impressionable age, and so she simply can not imagine what depraved aesthetic criteria could prompt anyone to deliver himself of so bizarre an opinion.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

From such influences came an established doctrine, the orthodoxy of a large part of the Old Testament, that all human suffering presupposes corresponding sin.

And an important part of this implicit ontology of Mormon Christianity that distinguishes it from the particular orthodoxy Mouw is eager to defend is the pronounced rejection of divine impassibility in favor of the being Terryl and Fiona Givens have eloquently presented as The God who Weeps.

That is part of the cost of orthodoxy.15

Orthodoxy began to think of itself as divinely ordained, rather than as part of a larger historical conversation about the meaning of Jesus.

Seen in a broader context, this new call for Baptist catholicity is part of a deeper Protestant impulse to reclaim the foundations of historic Christian orthodoxy.

The flourishing of Modern Orthodoxy has deprived Conservative Judaism of what it once perceived to be its natural constituency, and its contemporary discontents are due in part to its need to discover a new clientele and to define a new mission.

The disposition effect in stock trading, once a heretical idea, is now mainstream, and even arguably part of a new orthodoxy.

She immediately set about persuading the Crystal Orthodoxy and the Duchy of Eternia to form a peace and, following years of animosity and endless effort on Agnès» part, a truce between the two is finally near.

Taking in all the work in the Neue Galerie occupies the better part of a day, a fact which lays bare the ultimate curatorial - bubble orthodoxy informing Documenta 14.

Robert's frenetic and outlandish diversions, for example, seem to me no more than a part of a larger partisan, hopped - up push back on this thread by an alarmed orthodoxy.

Realising that you find any «scientist» who dares to do anything at all political to be repugnant, I am sure that you will be shocked to the core and deeply disappointed to know that Dessler (he of the superquick paper guarding orthodoxy against the barbarian hordes) counts «climate change policy» as a major part of his research interests.

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.