How absurd it is, therefore, to contend
against the doctrines of election, or decrees, or divine sovereignty.
A formulation such as this is the only defense
against a doctrine of love which involves the annihilation of the self.
Moreover, and more seriously, it ends by pitting the doctrine of salvation
against the doctrine of creation.
this woman is anti God, first her husband allows anti-moral behaviour and now she is telling religious people to be in politics which is totally
against the doctrines of the church.
A minority, largely among the wealthy intelligentsia who favored states» rights, protested
against the doctrines of election held by the church.
At one point, Spencer's character claims that the entire Trinity, not only Christ's human nature, suffered on the cross at Calvary — a rank heresy
against the doctrine of divine impassibility.
In the video that has gone viral on social media, nine females and four males were seen gyrating their waist in a «profane» fashion that the school authorities apparently thought was
against the doctrines of the Islamic Religion.
Insisting that Boko Haram insurgency was not about religion, Buhari said, it would be wrong to read religious meanings into the activities of the sect as it is
against the doctrine of any religion that worshipers and children should be killed.
Not exact matches
An Ontario Court
of Appeal justice has warned
against «summary judgment at all costs» in her dissent
of a ruling on the application
of the
doctrine of emergency in a personal injury case.
First question should always be, it is not just the rational science these people are arguing
against, it also the numerous other faiths, many
of whom have their own
doctrines of how the world started.
Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty
of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness
of religious
doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack
of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.
Wycliffe also leveled sharp criticisms
against papal authority, the legitimacy
of mendicant orders, and the
doctrine of transubstantiation.
While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings
against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role
of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects
of Catholic
doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims
of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings
of popes or church councils.
Further, most non-supernaturalists that I know have nothing
against Christians, they only despise the
doctrines of Christianity that are incompatible and oppressive to modern society and personal freedom.
• Catholic social
doctrine from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI, Bernard Laurent relentlessly argues, is one
of relentless «intransigence»
against the Enlightenment, modernity, liberalism, and all their pomps and works.
Mormon
doctrine teaches that the Second Coming
of Jesus was imminent, [48] and that God would soon exact punishment
against the United States for persecuting Mormons and martyring Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, Patten and Pratt, all
of whom were considered by Mormons to be prophets.
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.
No one with a shred
of self respect would willingly return to a dogmatic belief that requires, at its core, the negation
of thoughtful questioning, the denigration
of thinking, a prohibition
against careful evaluation
of beliefs and assumptions, and relegates those who honestly disagree with the
doctrine and its conclusions to the status
of a despised, damaged, and damned «other».
When the winds
of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them, using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly
against the hand.
But however tempting such a position might appear, however weary we are before the onslaught
of irreconcilable theological claims, we ought to be cautious about answering Paul's warning
against being «tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind
of doctrine» with a refusal to believe much
of anything.
Joining the continuing debate over whether pacifism and just war
doctrine share a prima facie «presumption
against war» are Helmut David Baer
of the University
of Texas and Joseph Capizzi
of the Catholic University
of America.
Along the way, Mattes argues strenuously
against all easy reductions
of the
doctrine: It is, he insists, the critical feature
of Christian theology, and so it must not be compromised by programs
of ecumenism or ethics.
Feminist theologians are wise to call upon this
doctrine to denounce the structures
of domination and injustice that human beings perpetrate
against one another.
Against the Hegelian tendency to identify God with man and to see the
doctrine of Incarnation as expressing this unity, Barth stressed with new force the transcendent otherness
of God.
Also, do you suggest this blog is David's way
of rebelling
against «legalism» or strict
doctrine, precise laws and rules?
Such a vision
of Christ warns us
against absolutizing our
doctrines of Christ and limiting the ways
of God to our familiar ways.
He associated his thought with the liberal Arminius
against the dominant conservative Calvinism that insisted on the
doctrine of predestination and all its consequences.
Furthermore, Wesley argued (
against Reformed
doctrine) that Christians could enjoy entire sanctification in this life: loving God and their neighbors, meekness and lowliness
of heart, abstaining from all appearance
of evil, and doing all for the glory
of God.
As late as the 16th century Martin Luther the «father
of the Protestant Reformation» was still arguing for the books
of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation to be dropped from the New Testament altogether because he perceived them to go
against some
of the
doctrines he was promoting.
It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass
against the orthodox Anselmian
doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.
There is a second consequence
of the
doctrine of the absoluteness
of God over
against all temporality and change.
A second line
of argument
against the presence
of any contingent element in God stems from the
doctrine that God is Being.
Its
doctrine of creation and faith in the dependability
of God contributed to the rise
of modern science, as Whitehead has persuasively shown.9 Yet the scientific method had to make its way
against a heavy weight
of ecclesiastical opposition.
once he had defeated all his enemies his later sura were quite violent
against all non believers., under the
doctrine of abrogation, when there are conflicting sura, the one written last is the one that is valid.
Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development
of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea
of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark
against infidelity in all its forms:
For priests, too, are not necessarily immune
against misunderstanding the historicity
of the Church's
doctrine and practice either from an irritable conservatism or from revolutionary progressivism.
This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination
against people
of faith - would seem to be the necessary result
of a
doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect
of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.
A group
of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these
doctrines and in standing adamant
against any innovation, even including useful contributions
of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy
of modernization.
Such a history does not only exist because a very great deal
of time and theological development and clarification was needed in some cases before the Church's awareness
of its belief had finally fought its way to a clear realization that such and such a definite
doctrine of the Church is really contained in divine revelation, is a genuine expression
of what has always been globally believed or an obligatory defence
against heretical misinterpretation
of what has been handed down.
Statements like the NCCB's well - known 1983 pastoral on peace and the Catholic bishops
of France's 1979 declaration do not emphasize the
doctrines of creation and human persons but argue
against abortion by granting priority to the gospel.
«Until we know the power
of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick
against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another
doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight
of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment
of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.
Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type
of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon,
of which most
of these churches have preached
against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type
of doctrine.
Against all soft - centered optimism, Updike salutes the
doctrine of original sin for acknowledging this obdurate fact: «The world is fallen, and in a fallen world animals, men, and nations make space for themselves through a willingness to fight.
All
of the
doctrine of Catholicism goes
against Christ actually, and yes it is
of satan who can perform signs and wonders and blind peopel to believe whatever even lies infront
of their eyes.
As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception
of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer
against the inroads
of the elective system with its attendant
doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»
Again, we come up
against that spike covered high wall, the
doctrine of free will.
Also, if idealism means the
doctrine that mind in various forms and manifestations is all we can possibly know, then I am one
of many around the world who find no cogent argument
against this.
All
of this blue - chip evangelical clout is brought to bear in support
of the
doctrine of biblical «inerrancy»
against a growing party
of theological compatriots inclined to speak more
of the «authority»
of Scripture with regard to «faith and practice.»
Of course there is nothing in an environmental
doctrine that prohibits murder
against human beings is there.
Against this he argues that a beginning
of time is self - contradictory.14 Be this last point as it may, the
doctrine need not be so construed.