Sentences with phrase «accept the canon as»

When the Sky Clad folk returned they refused to accept the canon as formulated at Pataliputra, and have their own which while agreeing substantially in content, at least as to the names of the books included, nevertheless omits some, includes others, and within the texts bearing the same name differs at significant points.

Not exact matches

Also Mormons hav added their own Book of Mormon to the accepted canon of the revealed word and that by itself is enough to disqualify them as Christians.

It was received into the New Testament canon with hesitation, considered second - class Scripture by Luther, reluctantly accepted by Calvin, rejected by Erasmus, and now is repudiated as pseudonymous by modern scholarship.

Creeds, the canon of scripture (the books accepted as the official Bible) and the institutional structure of the church emerged only toward the end of the second century.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

You know as well as I do that the current accepted canon is not what has always been accepted and there are dozens of 1 century letters and books that were written and included and then removed by the Church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

The first is that when certain writings are officially accepted as the sacred canon, they tend to assume a position of finality which resists any further critical testing by corporate experience.

Using his experience as a detective, Wallace showed the «Chain of Custody» of the evidence which was recorded in the New Testament Gospels and how they went from the actual life of Jesus to the «courtroom» or the Council of Laodicea in 363 AD where the four Gospel accounts were officially accepted into the New Testament canon.

But before this question can even be addressed we have to ask first whether we do in fact accept the Bible as authoritative canon; and if so, why; and if so, do we accept the whole or parts of it; and if parts of it, which parts, and why?

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field: «the durable canon of American short fiction» (William Styron).

The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic: the entire Shakespeare canon.

And the writings that were accepted as canon were accepted by a group trying to keep and maintain power.

Oh, they accepted the NT canon, and also the doctrine of the Trinity, as well as some other things, but they always say if it's not in the Bible, then it's not true.

It will take time, struggle and maybe even new sexual revolution in America to change the traditional concept of marriage and accept simultanious love, but it will happen as people are clearly moving to that direction despite hypocritical social canons.

He notes that Norman Rockwell — who spent his life making illustrations for such publications as The Saturday Evening Post — is now being accepted into the canon.

As recently as 2011, Christian Rattemeyer wrote that there was an urgent need for an «accepted canon of important exhibitions even in the most general form.&raquAs recently as 2011, Christian Rattemeyer wrote that there was an urgent need for an «accepted canon of important exhibitions even in the most general form.&raquas 2011, Christian Rattemeyer wrote that there was an urgent need for an «accepted canon of important exhibitions even in the most general form.»

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

The news came up on my Facebook feed late on Sunday night: Acting - Bishop of Newcastle Dr Peter Stuart revealed Canon Bowyer had unanimously been accepted as the next Dean and Parish Priest of Christ Church Cathedral.