Sentences with phrase «christian doctrine of faith»

The methodological section of the Dogmatics is supplemented in a valuable way by Revelation and Reason: The Christian Doctrine of Faith and Knowledge.

Not exact matches

The Reformation introduce a wave of man - made false doctrine (the most degenerate of all being Calvinism - TULIP) It is IMPOSSIBLE to be in a church and practice Christian faith.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

Augustine arrived at this insight not by studying the world scientifically but by reflecting on the basic datum of the Christian faith: the doctrine of God as informed by the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

More sustained than his vision of judgment is his statement of Christian faith and doctrine in verse.

Indeed the kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its peculiar tendency to reduce the whole of the Christian faith to the doctrine of justification.

This view defines Christian faith in terms of continuity in a mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Hey Jeremy I am probably way behind the eight ball, but I hope these questions do not reflect a change in the more basic doctrines of the Christian faith.

This sort of definition of faith is surely a caricature of any Christian position, but it is totally opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church:

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

It has resulted in a doctrine of God which in the era of the secular city forces men like Camus to choose between God and human freedom, between Christian faith and human creativity.

Ogden also states that Christian faith could be explicated as a doctrine of God just as well as it could as a certain possibility of self - understanding, ibid., 170; Christ Without Myth, 148

«The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith.»

Two things: (1) that I place myself firmly and staunchly within the Church and the Christian faith; and (2) that I am firmly and staunchly convinced that much of what the Church has taught as doctrine for most of its twenty centuries, and much of what constitutes orthodox belief today, is just plain wrong.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

A third task for the Christian theologian is to reinterpret and reformulate the doctrines of historic Christian faith in the light of the foregoing and following dimensions of the overall task.

Since it is the faith that marks us as Christians, the life self - consciously lived in love of God and neighbor according to Jesus» precepts, then we can disagree on doctrines and still share this faith.

The first ten chapters of Demonstrations deal with ten specific aspects of Christian life and doctrine such as faith, fasting, prayer and humility.

D. F. E. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928), and Albrecht Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1900), are major works in modern theology.

In this chapter I will try to do two things: first, examine the difference between faith and doctrine; and second, show why saying a belief is a valid Christian belief is not the same as saying it is «right» in the sense of being consistent with truth.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

Still, we honor those, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, who were able even without the blessing of Jewish or Christian faith to develop «positive rational doctrines of what life ought to be»» doctrines that (while not free of error) contain much that is profoundly true.

Perhaps the clarification Neuhaus needs is provided by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration, Dominus Iesus (2000): «The lack of unity among Christians is certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she is deprived of her unity, but «in that it hinders the complete fulfillment of her universality in history.

To turn a particular view of inspiration, i. e., inerrancy, into the «essence» of Christianity is to confuse one's priorities concerning the Christian faith.64, While maintaining the doctrine of sola scriptura, evangelicals must resist any attempt to elevate one inference from its subsidiary doctrine of inspiration to a position of ascendancy over solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and sola scriptura itself.

90 He said that he had changed his vocabulary but not his analysis, and remarked that he still thought that the London Literary Times Supplement was correct when it observed that the «doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith.»

Faith is the way we live our lives, doctrine is the intellectual explanation of this, so one may have a valid Christian belief that is not factually accurate, if this belief leads one into right relationship.

Indeed, with regard to the historical development of philosophy and science we know it to be the case that it was the doctrine of the Fall, which is peculiar to the Judeo - Christian faith, which enabled the Christian culture to maintain an ontological distinction between matter and evil in the face of cultural opposition.

Whilst the very title of «Protestantism» depicts its genesis as a reactive movement, it is the case that strong protests against the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation form part of the Koran and so of Islamic faith.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

I would add though that the doctrine in question is not simply one of its doctrines... but rather the very core tenet of the Christian faith.

But according to the Christian doctrine, it is the center of the true faith to believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

The passive reception of information and someone else's ideas does not constitute education any more than merely giving mental assent to a set of doctrines constitutes Christian faith.

It is one of the great merits of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought that while he regards the doctrine of «original sin» as a myth which is absurd to reason and necessary to faith, he has given us one of the most astute analyses of the source of sin in human nature which Christian thought has ever achieved.12 His account is this.

It appears to be of capital importance that Christians and theologians at the present time should reflect more clearly and attentively on the «obviousness» of this doctrine of the faith.

Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»

5 The word (Greek) which is usually translated «perfect» occurs fairly frequently in Paul's letters.6 The problem of the various forms of perfectionism in Christianity has been thoroughly analyzed in such works as Dr. Sangster's Path to Perfection, a study of John Wesley, and R. Newton Flews» The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology.7 The meaning of this doctrine of perfection is one problem for Christian faith.

In 1944, when I published Christ and Christian Faith, I was already wrestling with the doctrine of Christ in the light of process - philosophy.

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

Non-christians in this country are continually bombarded with Christian doctrine and a denial of recognition of our own faiths (or no faith).

We need to go out of our way, as Christians, to make sure we don't explicitly or implicitly demonize the views of other believers on doctrines that are secondary to the faith.

But, even from these theologians one encounters the claim that although «faith does not entail the correctness of any particular cosmological theory,» some such theories «would lend the Judaic - Christian doctrine of creation a certain degree of external support.

Consider this one: Christians might think that the dynamics of grace and faith in human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.

This different perspective on contingency constitutes, for Pannenberg, one of the major contributions that Christian theology has made to the philosophy of science; e.g. «The doctrine of creation and modern science», 1989, Toward a theology of nature: essays on science and faith, ed.

He explores four doctrines the affirmation of which define «boundaries» of Christian faith: sin and salvation, biblical revelation, the Trinity, Christology, and then describes the ethical outgrowth of accepting these doctrines: piety, polity, policy and program.

Wrenn and Whitehead do find some commentaries and guides to the Catechism that are a real help, including these: ««Essentials of the Faith» by Father Alfred McBride, O.Praem., and «The Mystery We Proclaim» by Francis D. Kelly (both published by Our Sunday Visitor), as well as «A Concise Companion & Commentary for the New Catechism» (Christian Classics) by James Tolhurst, «The Splendour of Doctrine» (T&T Clark) by Aidan Nichols, O.P., and «New Vision, New Directions» (Thomas More) by Robert J. Hater.»

But if Christian experience of genuine exemplification of divine aim among us through Jesus Christ is valid at all as I have described it, this unification and transformation of humanity will exhibit striking coherence from the perspective of the historical Jesus, and congruence with him, and will manifest the «truth» of Christian faith in a way that is deeper than mere doctrine.