Sentences with phrase «standard of orthodoxy»

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's trenchant analysis of Hans Urs von Balthasar represents an effort to recover a functional standard of orthodoxy for Catholic theology.

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.

This doesn't mean that within church - based schools rigid standards of orthodoxy must be enforced on all.

The shift in theology from mainline to Evangelical does not constitute a movement into heresy, even by Douthat's standards of orthodoxy.

Parameters demarcate lines of inclusion and exclusion, standards of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and, in due course, religion constitutes the basis of collective identity and social reality.

Not exact matches

This meant that resolutions of synodical conventions, while no doubt offering useful direction and guidance, could not be binding and could not be used as a standard for assessing orthodoxy.

But the defence of faith and lifestyle which is Russian Orthodoxy tolerates other faiths except «where an alien faith and alien standards of life have been imposed on our people by force or by proselytism» (p. 4).

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?»

With today's environmentalist standard - bearers hailing from Hollywood and the political left, it is tempting to see the environmental movement as a Trojan Horse for liberalism, pantheism, and all manner of threats to orthodoxy.

As Chesterton understood, «orthodoxy» is the exact reverse of what people suppose it to be, an assertion of «established» ideas and standards: the «chief merit» of orthodoxy, said Chesterton, is «that it is the natural fountain of revolution and reform».

On the other hand there is very little in Fascist ideology to escape condemnation at the hands of religious orthodoxy, had the church desired to apply rigorous standards.

Pricey administrators also like to promote the orthodoxy of accountability and standards, getting the public to think that the problem is the teachers, meanwhile they cut out specials and enrichment.

This time, it has delved into the primordial and come up with Graham Young, last seen scoring a double Godwin with pike, making both Nazi and Communist analogies in a single post.Young pushes the now - standard Oz «help, I'm being oppressed line», naming me and Clive Hamilton as the enforcers of orthodoxy.