Sentences with phrase «as an article of faith in»

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

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

Not exact matches

As further exposition of how blind compliance to authority and the «It Won't Happen to Me» belief pattern work together to prevent us from taking the protective measures we need to take right now, consider a November 2014 article in which a financial analyst stated, «it's time to ditch your golden faith, embrace the truth — and make gold a barbaric relic of your portfolio's past.»

So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

I just have one issue with the article: why do some think that people of Faith are not practical as in the given example of helping someone who is sick — praying for them vs. doing something for them?

As a writer, and a Christian, myself I am not sure I buy all this man of faith talk in this article.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

Her position on this matter, as expressed in this article, however, is most definitely not Catholic, and I re-iterate that if she truly believes this, there are other faiths which are consistent with her beliefs, and she should be intellectually honest and choose one of them.

This article is simply breath - taking in its dishonesty, as a blatant attempt to manipulate public perception of a man who, if he has any faith at all, it is Islam.

Those who held it as an article of faith that on the «Day of the Lord» Israel, being God's people, would triumph over all their enemies, were living in a fool's paradise.

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

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?

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

In this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itselIn this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itselin order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itself.

My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good - faith debate among sincere Catholics.

A colleague of mine, Gary Gutting, published an article in the New York Times this past Easter arguing that the core of the Catholic faith is a commitment to an ethics of love, and that the historical teachings of the faith are best taken as useful parables.

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

So reading this article was uplifting, as I know much of the world today is very much against God and against Faith in general, but He continues to touch hearts.

This point is similar to the distinction Thomas Aquinas makes between some articles of faith which are as such secundum se and others in ordine ad alia (ST 2 - 2, q. 1, a. 6).

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.

Monergism as an article of faith occurs many places in the Old Testament.

To be fair, there are some parts of the article that point out some problems in the Faith — such as the prevalence of the health and wealth gospel (which is clearly at odds with scripture).

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.

«The resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itself....

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

As someone who has been striving to promote a true understanding of the message of Fatima for many years, I was delighted to read Joanna Bogle's informative and balanced article in the last issue of Faith, on the recent resurgence of Orthodox Christianity in Russia, and how this contrasts with the misrepresentations of those who still try to maintain that Russia has not yet been consecrated according to Our Lady's request at Fatima.

But that we old fools march around in bishops» hats and with clerical pageantry and take it not only seriously but as an article of faith, so that it must be a sin and must torment the conscience of anyone who does not venerate such child's play — that is the devil himself.

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

Both Manning and Newman were unwilling to take him up on this, because at that time they could not accept the idea of organic development as it was seen to contradict the unchanging role of Scripture which was part of Anglican faith and enshrined in the Articles.

[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.

Belief in the divine institution of the church became an article of faith, as in the words of the Creed, «I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic church».

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).

Centred upon the Incarnation as the meaning of all things (cf. articles on «The Primacy of Christ» in Faith January 2006, 2007 and 2008), the separation of the sexes into male and female finds its primary meaning in God becoming man, where the female principle is essential to the enfleshing of the Logos.

People who believe in a Bronze Age sky - god have been re-branded as «voters of faith» in this article.

We shall always need theology, and it must be the best theology we can produce; but, on the other hand, there is a sense in which we should ever sit loose to theology, remembering that the «one thing needful» is the gospel itself and the faith which it awakens in the sons of men, remembering too that the articles of belief should be, in the words of Erasmus which I previously quoted, as few as are necessary.

As a direct result of Maximus» refusal to brook any compromise his tongue was cut out and his right arm cut off as these were the offending articles with which he confessed the faith - hence the title confessor - and he died of his injuries in exile in 662AAs a direct result of Maximus» refusal to brook any compromise his tongue was cut out and his right arm cut off as these were the offending articles with which he confessed the faith - hence the title confessor - and he died of his injuries in exile in 662Aas these were the offending articles with which he confessed the faith - hence the title confessor - and he died of his injuries in exile in 662AD.

This is evidenced by the fact that the initial Pentecostal movement wholly assumed the articles of faith of the Methodist Church and perceived itself, at least in Hoover's view, as being a return to the sources of Wesleyan thought.

The oldest creed, the Apostles» Creed, carries it as one of the articles of faith, the belief in which is essential to becoming a Christian.

European Council Directive 2000 / 78 / EC, which established «a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation», sets out in Article 4.2 that organisations with an ethos based on religion or belief, such as «faith» schools, can treat persons differently in recruitment and employment on the grounds of religion or belief where there is «a genuine, legitimate and justified occupational requirement».

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Crain's New York article on BP Adams unveiling affordable housing projects in Crown Heights and East Flatbush as part of his Faith - Based Development Initiative.

But the rise in oil and commodity prices pushed up inflation in the UK more than in other countries, demonstrating the downsides of a policy of deliberate devaluation to which much of the British economic policy establishment remains committed as an article of faith, despite little evidence that it has done much long term good.

In its drive to tame entitlement spending and reduce the federal debt, the Ryan plan has been embraced by the GOP establishment as an article of faith, and it is likely to be a key issue in this fall's congressional electionIn its drive to tame entitlement spending and reduce the federal debt, the Ryan plan has been embraced by the GOP establishment as an article of faith, and it is likely to be a key issue in this fall's congressional electionin this fall's congressional elections.

Physicists have taken it as an article of faith that the bedrock laws are there to be discovered, if only we are clever enough in looking for them.

Many prominent individuals and organizations, including the American Natural Hygiene Society (ANHS), now known as the National Health Association (NHA), promoted it, and it became an article of faith among many in the vegetarian, natural hygiene, and raw food communities.

In education as in other aspects of life, it is an article of faith that «nothing succeeds like success.&raquIn education as in other aspects of life, it is an article of faith that «nothing succeeds like success.&raquin other aspects of life, it is an article of faith that «nothing succeeds like success.»

She has published articles on Islamic education in refereed journals such as the Comparative Education Review and The Review of Faith in International Affairs.

As I read between the lines of a March 8, 2010 New York Times article, «Pondering Good Faith in Publishing,» something occurred to me: nonfiction authors who haven't been 100 % concerned about the veracity of their words should fear book promotion opportunities.

In the decades leading up to the GFC, these assumptions were transformed from empirically (con) testable propositions into the central articles of faith of the ideology of modern finance: the foundations of a widely held belief in the self - correcting nature of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation of society's resourceIn the decades leading up to the GFC, these assumptions were transformed from empirically (con) testable propositions into the central articles of faith of the ideology of modern finance: the foundations of a widely held belief in the self - correcting nature of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation of society's resourcein the self - correcting nature of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation of society's resources.

Conceived as an organic interchange, Friends in High Places, explores the implicit connections within a community and takes as an article of faith that a fluid curatorial approach can yield a comprehensive catalog of practices and principles.