Sentences with phrase «actual doctrine and practice»
The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
The actual true doctrine of Jesus could have been recorded in some of the ruled out books and practiced by groups of Christians that the stronger party in Rome declared «heretic» and stamped out long ago.
Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.
Some of the more conservative Baptist - affiliated schools require employees to be in accord with more detailed Baptist doctrine, though there is plenty of slippage between stated policy and actual practice.