Sentences with phrase «test of orthodoxy»
When conservative & liberal Christians applied that all - important litmus test of orthodoxy to me: «What are your views on homosexuality?»
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In Potok's The Chosen it is the rigid orthodoxy and ascetic demands of an apparently harsh Hasidic father which create the test faced successfully by Danny (bolstered by the friendship of Reuven).
In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton tellingly confided his own experience of gratitude: «The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom.»
Perhaps this is the force of Stackhouse's contention that theological education must focus on «orthodoxy»: it must not focus on those theories about God certified once and for all to be «right» or true, but instead must focus on the ongoing task of testing our theories about God to get them as «straight» or as «right» (orthos) as we can.
But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»