Sentences with phrase «as essential doctrines»

Not exact matches

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

I must admit, as a 21 year old, I'm still learning when to «give up» debating over issues that aren't essential doctrines (namely, salvation in Jesus alone).

Hence in his presentation, the consequent nature of God appears more as a speculative extension of the doctrine than as an essential part.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

It is true that on various occasions he mentions other doctrines as essential, including more objective ones such as the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

We know he did not reject the necessity of grace, but thought of it as leaving man free for co-operation with God.15 But Augustine has always been given credit for having preserved the essential Christian doctrine that God's grace is necessary to give to man what he can not give to himself, that is forgiveness, and the empowerment of his will to love God and his neighbour.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Yet the major note in our doctrine of man may well be man's essential greatness — greatness not of our own achieving but as God's gift.

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

Niebuhr's doctrine of grace was as central and essential to his theology as his doctrine of sin or any other doctrine.

Any doctrine which plainly depicts God as being less in these essential characteristics than we are is flawed at best.

Basically this doctrine was designed as a protective measure against Greek speculation designed to safeguard the essential goodness of God's creation and man's responsibility in the fall.

Wrenn and Whitehead do find some commentaries and guides to the Catechism that are a real help, including these: ««Essentials of the Faith» by Father Alfred McBride, O.Praem., and «The Mystery We Proclaim» by Francis D. Kelly (both published by Our Sunday Visitor), as well as «A Concise Companion & Commentary for the New Catechism» (Christian Classics) by James Tolhurst, «The Splendour of Doctrine» (T&T Clark) by Aidan Nichols, O.P., and «New Vision, New Directions» (Thomas More) by Robert J. Hater.»

However, I think holding a heretical view, as I defined it as denial of an essential doctrine, is to deny the Savior and his salvation.

He presented to the Church of his day, after much dialogue and discussion, a doctrine of Original Sin which the Church recognised as true in all essentials to what she did in fact believe.

If so, what leads you to believe that this issue is essential doctrine for salvation as opposed to an area where two committed followers of Christ can reasonably disagree?

As we know, the belief that the human individual can not perfect himself or fully exist except through the organic unification of all men in God is essential and fundamental to Christian doctrine.

D'Arcy develops the doctrine of the two loves by identifying eros as belonging to the essential self.

One of Francis's sympathetic interpreters sees him as making incarnate in the integrity of loving action the essential Christian doctrines.

JW's do not accept Jesus as the Son of God, second person of the Trinity, essential doctrine to Christianity.

Though predestination was an essential doctrine for the vast majority of Puritans and had consequences both for personal and social life, it can not in itself be counted as one of the central symbols or beliefs that marked Puritan society.

The doctrine of creation assumed the existence and essential dependability of external reality and the doctrine of the Incarnation practically anchored a realist epistemology as an essential philosophical prerequisite of Christian faith.

So ironically it has become tarred with the brush of economic incompetence as opposed to the Tory led coalition which has caused the loss of billions of output since 2010, and removed essential public provision such as civil legal aid, all in the name of a totally discredited economic doctrine — austerity economics.

Although the two bodies doctrine would later be used to distinguish between the property monarchs held as the Sovereign opposed to a natural person, the original, and still essential, purpose of making the Crown a corporation sole was to fuse monarchical predecessors and successors into a single, immortal legal personality.