Sentences with phrase «question of the 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.

Not exact matches

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).

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?»

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?

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Feminist and liberation theologians have questioned the new orthodoxy's valorization of divine helplessness, expressing concern over whether the emphasis on God sharing our abuse and death may underwrite our own passive acquiescence to violence.

You know: the subject of God's love is not an either / or question in the face of orthodoxy.

As you turn it is inevitable that you should question orthodoxies, be suspicious of opinions that serve the interests of those who adopt them, and explore the problems that confront us without fear of being proven wrong.

Hence if Wojtyla is going to ask and answer seriously the question of what it is like to be a Christian, he has to start off with the traditional doctrines; he has to start off with pure, uncompromising orthodoxy.

Now if we consider the question of what it is like to be a believer, and if we mean by a believer someone fully formed by orthodoxy, we have to admit that there are very few believers out there.

Along the way, Protestants demonstrated what Catholics already knew» namely, that the Bible never stands alone but, even in its translation, is situated in a web of relationships that involve the authority of church leaders and questions about who has responsibility for determining orthodoxy.

That the question is a viable one points to something that may be less obvious to those outside of Orthodoxy's circle, and that is that the Orthodox in America are in the process of figuring out just who we are.

But I've come to see the question as mostly the fault of the Orthodox themselves, who have not quite figured out how to convey that Orthodoxy — being Christianity — is for everyone and doesn't require a particular cultural identification.

The condom has become a symbol of freedom and - along with contraception - female emancipation, so those who question condom orthodoxy are accused of being against these causes.»

Change or Die will become the mantra of those that deeply question the rightness or utility of so many orthodoxies (and unorthodoxies too).

The book of Job is an excellent example of a dialogue which questions much of absolute orthodoxy.

Those of us outside Rome and Orthodoxy should note that the question of where the one true Church resides is not quite the problem that Mr. Nuechterlein says it is.

Only so, it would seem, was the certitude of orthodoxy attained; when questions of his reality and his nature had been honestly met, then, and then only, could the best thinkers affirm: «All the gods of the nations are vanities; but the Lord made the heavens» (Ps.

Growing religious diversity and the loosening of confessional orthodoxy have meant that Americans can no longer expect to deal with public political questions from a common theological perspective.

Questions about the unity and authorship of a book can not be settled in terms of a scholar's orthodoxy but solely on the basis of his competence in assessing the evidence.

He punctured the complacent acceptance of the current orthodoxy with insistent questioning — «Why?»

Especially is this so, as long as there remains a certain hangover from the not so distant past when orthodoxy was virtuous, doubt was appalling, and heresy was morally wicked, if, then, without being repelled by the wide range of disagreement and uncertainty among Christian people, we ask questions about their idea of God, we shall expect to receive diverse answers.

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.

The absurd notion that questioning is good but finding (or even desiring) answers is bad, far from being the bright idea Greenberg pretends it to be, is precisely the false orthodoxy of today in academia.

Rather it means that I have a special responsibility to question it, I have less of a responsibility to deal with the contradictions of Methodism, Lutheranism or Eastern Orthodoxy.

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.»

These are worthy ideas, but where is the call to question the contemporary orthodoxy of growth?

Previous crises have been accompanied by radical questioning of existing political and economic orthodoxies.

Karl Hoenke questions whether we should adhere to the medical orthodoxy of completing a course of antibiotics, suggesting that this might encourage the emergence of resistant bacteria rather than discourage it (13 June, p 25).

Karl Hoenke questions whether we should adhere to the medical orthodoxy of completing a course of antibiotics, suggesting that this...

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.

Growing quickly, it became a magnet for noted law faculty, conveying to students that conservative thought was worthy of consideration and creating a safe space to question law school orthodoxies.

Of course, one doesn't have to be a post-modernist to question how long the Ab Ex orthodoxy can hold.

Question: Do such considerations affect the current orthodoxy regarding the role of CO2 in establishing climate characteristics?

Plenty of elements of his past arguments questioning scientific orthodoxy deserve a thorough airing.

The e-mails were written by the «A-team» — members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and raise questions if the work of other respected scientists may have been disregarded or hampered by a climate change orthodoxy (or «climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and dissent.

«for me to raise even the driest, most analytical criticisms or questions regarding the frame of reference of the «climate science» orthodoxy is to commit a revolutionary act.»

Despite the vulnerability of many of his own properties to sea level rise, on the campaign trail President - elect Donald Trump stuck with Republican orthodoxy in questioning human - driven climate change, and criticizing the steps the Obama administration has taken to combat it.

And yes, this paper opposes some of the IPCC orthodoxy (orthodoxy always needs questioning if not opposition).

But the moderator immediately pressed Mandia back on track to the real question of who gets funding and whether researchers outside the orthodoxy are likely to be funded.

In a new screed against a free exchange of ideas on climate change, «Earther» Brian Kahn argues that those who question global warming orthodoxy have no right to voice their opinions in public.

The response of some GWPF scientists to the climate orthodoxy shows that scientists do not need to be paid to have reason to question the climate orthodoxy.

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.

IOW we have both the magnitude and the sign of water vapor feedback still in question (except, of course, by the IPCC orthodoxy, which assumes positive feedback at a rate high enough to essentially maintain constant relative humidity in lockstep with Clausius - Clapeyron).

There being no challenge to this orthodoxy, and no questions asked about either its effectiveness or its consequences, how could the process of the greening of the UK be seen as democratic?

To the consternation of alarmists, New York Times op ed writer Bret Stephens openly questioned the «consensus» that has demanded uniform acceptance without question of the global warming / climate change orthodoxy.

Perhaps there will be a cascading effect from all the papers published in the last year that will allow more of a willingness to present papers that are questioning the orthodoxy.

Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe Throws doubt on orthodoxies around «global warming» By Ted Thornhill Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the -LSB-...]

In his official statement, Soon wrote that he has «been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups» and that the «effort should be seen for what it is: a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming.»

They are «a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming,» says Dr. Soon.