Sentences with phrase «time with no orthodoxy»

He broke new ground for treating the whole family, in a time with no orthodoxy, no rules firmly in place, and no managed care.

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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.»

Well, it was a turbulent time in history, but Calvin's off - with - their - heads approach to theological orthodoxy doesn't do much for so - called Calvanism.

Time (March 10, 1975, p. 83) introduces its comment on the case with the striking words of the Westminster catechism — a document written in the amazing Cromwellian age of Protestant orthodoxy when moral absolutes were thought to be not only propositional but «in the nature of things.»

And indeed, the principal target of Hard Times is such an orthodoxy, namely a hard - nosed utilitarianism combined with an unbending liberalism.

Mathewes - Green, a strong a spokesperson for Orthodoxy, has said that Orthodoxy is incompatible with feminism, and she has declared herself «twice - liberated,» the second time from a feminism she has decided is a lie.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

By entering into an honest dialogue with the Marxists who ran their countries at the time, Christians, he said, were trying to force the communists «to be what they said they were, socialist and scientific, and to get them to stop trying to create a new holy orthodoxy.»

All three were deeply shaped by Christianity in their childhood and youth; all wrestled with Jesus Christ in their philosophical work and attributed a central role to him; all rejected the orthodoxies of their times; all contributed to the refashioning of Christianity.

The majority of Chesterton's best apologetic writing begins with his arrival at the place his journey finally came to an end, that is with Christian orthodoxy «as understood by everybody calling himself Christian until a very short time ago».

While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian theology.

The point is that Orthodoxy intentionally does not «change with the times.»

Film - maker Peter Greenaway, whose career includes art - house hits such as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, was then presented with the outstanding contribution award by Juliet Stevenson who said «he has no time for convention or orthodoxy»

Minimalism also fought Greenberg's orthodoxy at the same time as conceptual art — by rejecting the Modernist idea of painting and instead working with industrial materials — but contained the dialogue within the gallery system.

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.

I once argued with a fried regarding some of the accepted orthodoxy regarding climate change alarm and at the time I really didn't have a good answer for «how is it that all these scientists and politicians got it so wrong if you're right?»