Sentences with phrase «articles of faith by»

These three norms were upheld as articles of faith by EU countries throughout most of the 1990s.

Upon closer examination I think many will have to agree that actually many views such as how high or low taxes should be, etc. are not articles of faith by any means and as such require flexibility and pragmatism.

No; the real difficulty is that the resurrection is itself an article of faith, and you can not establish one article of faith by invoking another.

Like The Gift of Salvation statement issued by Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1997, the Joint Declaration represents a measure of convergence between Catholic and Reformational understandings of that article of faith by which the Church either stands or falls, to quote a favorite Lutheran saying.

Not exact matches

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.»

Concerning «getting pearls of wisdom» from research and review of original documents posted on the Internet, versus doctrinal justifications by a specific denomination which begin with enamored language, such as «most convincingly», «sublime article», «holy Christian faith», «believe and confess»....

and by that i mean the clergymen, not the author of the article, i believe in the good faith you good people have with the loss of your loved ones... god bless

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»

Again, we can ask whether the spate of hate - speech and «equality» legislation in Britain and other European countries — not to mention the restrictions on public manifestations of faith, the right to which has been upheld again and again by both domestic and European courts — also falls foul of this Article.

As seen in the chiastic structure noted above, the parallel statements «not of yourselves... the gift of God» are not explaining «faith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift fromfaith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift fromFaith a Gift from God?

She has written more than one hundred articles and blogs and has contributed to nine books, most recently Living Faith: The Fragrance of Christ, published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief.

Dear Father Editor, As anti-family legislation gathers pace, as recorded by John Deighan's articles, -LCB- Faith, «Learning from homosexual Activism» March 2009, «The Undermining of the Family: Where are we at?»

I want in this article to explore a sacramental vision, a kind of «seeing beyond», that is empowered by faith in the God - man who reveals the transcendental attributes of beauty, goodness and truth of the Godhead.

I was pleased to see Fr Conlon's letter (July / Aug) about Dom Philippe Jobert's article in the previous issue of Faith, having been considerably bewildered myself by the burden of Fr Philippe's song.

I have read many of these articles and everyone mentions walking by faith.

Mary's Assumption was defined as an article of faith in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, who made clear that he was speaking infallibly.

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

In this line of reasoning, which has the most liberal, even antinomian, consequences, «justification by faith alone» is the only article of faith that matters.

And when the so - called «divinity of Christ» becomes an article of faith independent of that divine world - orientation, then the gospel of the incarnation of the Word has been replaced by yet another declaration of the divinization or apotheosis of a seemingly human being.

They were to teach and indoctrinate «those articles in the creed of republicanism, which are accepted by all, believed in by all, and which form the common basis of our political faith.»

A postscript on Cardinal Sodano: in my last article, I recounted the disgrace of Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legion of Christ, who has been suspended as a priest after investigations into charges against him of sexual abuse carried out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.

The ancient creeds, the Apostle's, the Nicaean and the Athanasian, contain different numbers of articles, formulated to meet different difficulties, [13] but today the chief things of which we are said to be assured by faith are that God exists and Jesus Christ was the son of God, both human and divine.

The Thirty - Nine Articles of the Church of England say, «We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings.»

Consider James Talmage, a very important Mormon figure who said, «The sectarian dogma of justification by faith alone has exercised an influence for evil,» (Articles, p. 432), and «Hence the justice of the scriptural doctrine that salvation comes to the individual only through obedience,» (Articles, p. 81).

It's difficult to understand by the author — John Blake — would write such a ridiculously one - sided article based upon Borg's narrow, secular view of the Faith.

I am not saying disappointment on your article, my only point is that its faith, and only God can judge the correctness... The word of God cultivates the mind, and the seed of faith should bloom in its natural way, urging anything to study by words and its meaning is in - vain because the use of that will not gain you anything from God, but yes maybe in politics and people like you.

Again, it's an article of faith since this belief of Bart's (and by no means shared universally) is dictated neither by science or logic.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

CNN: My Faith: How Jesus saved my dad and my family This article was adapted from «Kingdom Man» by Dr. Tony Evans, Senior Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas and president of The Urban Alternative.

The upshot is that every article of faith we have, no matter how obvious or how arcane it may appear, has run a gamut of fatal threats throughout the centuries, and has been vouchsafed to us, multa inter alia, by bishops and censors and canonists and judges.

These are quoted constantly by Talmage in his discussion of the Articles of Faith, which is really a study of Mormon theology, alongside the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

Indeed in the next edition of Faith magazine we will have an article by Dr Dudley Plunkett that is a sustained reflection on just this theme: beauty as a path to God.

Our beliefs are summarized by the Articles of Faith:

The Articles of Faith themselves were, according to Mormon belief, «given by inspiration» by Joseph Smith about 1841, in a short history of the church which he furnished at the request of a Chicago editor.

If we had religious freedom in the U.S., the Mormons would be able to practice polygamy, a basic article of faith as preached by the Prophet Smith

It contains a long article by a Ralph Della Cava of Queens College, New York, «Financing the Faith: The Case of Roman Catholicism.»

Neither these teachings nor these narratives may be imposed as articles of faith on those who seek the ultimate truth of which these things are but the temporary vehicles, and who are themselves conditioned by a totally different world view.

There are plentiful speculative articles, the Catholic media continually feature the subject, and there are informative events and discussions being planned by dioceses, parishes and other groups as part of the Year of Faith.

Though Mormonism teaches that Jesus is God in flesh, it teaches that he is «a» god in flesh, one of three gods that comprise the office of the Trinity (Articles of Faith, by Talmage, pp. 35 - 40).

This statement has been sharply criticized by the former Director of the Faith and Order Commission, Lukas Vischer, in an article entitled «Is This Really «the Unity We Seek»,» in the Ecumenical Review, Vol.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

This article is excerpted from the volume she edited, Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, which includes chapters on 11 other «practices of faith,» published in January, 1997 by Jossey - Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, which includes chapters on 11 other «practices of faith,» published in January, 1997 by Jossey - faith,» published in January, 1997 by Jossey - Bass.

There are more ways to show respect than by praying to some article of faith.

This article, like our August cover story, appears as a chapter in Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith, a collection of essays edited by Susan Bergman (Harper San Francisco).

The principles of the science of theology are given in the articles of the Creed and in Sacred Scripture and they are known by us through faith, not through philosophical reasoning: you can not, by unaided reason, conclude that the doctrine of the Trinity is true, for example.

In this fortieth anniversary year of Faith magazine, we republish the editorial article from May / June 1989 by Edward Holloway, chiefly because it is still so relevant to this controversy.

In addition, articles by or about Shoemaker were written in The Calvary Evangel, published by Calvary Episcopal Church in New York; in the Faith at Work magazine, 150 South Washington Street, Suite 204, Falls Church, Virginia; and in the literature of The Pittsburgh Experiment, 1802 Investment Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222.]