Sentences with phrase «abandoned traditional doctrine»

On the one hand, there is the liberal Christian who has abandoned traditional doctrine and barely seems to believe in God — certainly not in the divinity of Christ.

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That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

The Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Philip Clayton, begins with the premise that the beliefs and doctrines of traditional theism can be modified or abandoned in light of emergentist theories.

My only quibble with Hasker's account would involve his statement that for process theists «the traditional doctrine of creation ex nihilo must be abandoned.»