Sentences with phrase «strength of orthodoxy»

Around the formula powerful influences gathered, the like of which, in every age and among all peoples, have constituted the strength of orthodoxy.

The Assembly heard «progressive» theologians attempt to advance new formulations of the gospel, and felt the strength of Orthodoxy and evangelical Protestantism in asserting biblical doctrines.

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George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»

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.