Sentences with phrase «by doctrinal»

Equally, however, empiricists have to start from somewhere and their starting points are usually fixed by doctrinal, interpretive or theoretical inquiry.

The 19th century idealist - intellectual international lawyer was murdered by his doctrinal - formalist counterpart who rose to prominence at the beginning of the 20th century.

This culture was fostered by doctrinal and practical difficulties plaguing the analytical framework then applicable to the right of accused persons, guaranteed under s. 11 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to be tried within a reasonable time.

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[75] The inherent risk flowing from such non-random assignments is the perception, whether accurate or not, that the jurisprudence of the Court over time may be skewed by doctrinal considerations.

Or are they «united» by common affirmations yet separated by doctrinal and moral idiosyncrasies, geography, social status and so on?

Meszaros says that future development «must be extracted by the mediation of the Christian believer who is in touch with the divine realities transmitted by the doctrinal tradition and sacramental life of the Church... with ambiguity and struggle.»

Analytical philosophy is more characterized by styles of argument and investigation than by doctrinal content.

Therefore, their partisanship for the National Liberation Front was prompted by political views, by doctrinal or intellectual considerations, or — in most cases — simply by propaganda.

«by their doctrinal statement you will recognize them»??? no.

The Lord is in the process of gathering living stones to form the new covenant temple to be located in, not separated by doctrinal - opinion - church - buildings, but the territorial locality whose believers will be one Heart, Mind, and one in judgment, so the leaven of sin may not, can not, drag others down.

Not exact matches

You will note the Reserve Bank's rhetoric is precisely along these lines, with policy driven by common - sense and a strenuous effort to understand the cycle, rather than some doctrinal adherence to a simple rule.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

In the current climate, Christians need to be very careful to make sure that the perceived political needs of the hour do not translate into words and actions that can easily be shown by our critics to be highly selective and very inconsistent with respect to our larger doctrinal commitments and convictions.

Perhaps a modern paraphrase for us today would be: «If I have my doctrinal statement nailed down flawlessly and am able to prove myself right by quoting verses to support my theology, but do not have love, I am dead wrong.»

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»....

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

In a number of doctrinal areas the early Christians were good Mormons and would be rejected as non-Christian by many Christians of today.

Wells begins by positing two kinds of spirituality present within evangelicalism, distinguished in his view not so much by different doctrinal starting - points as differing priorities assigned to moral reasoning.

Doctrinal as well as ethical reforms are thus best undergirded by historic Christian orthodoxy.

We aren't told what Thompson believes now» and his art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end of Habibi he seems to have least worked his way to a beautiful observation: «God's followers worship not out of the hope for reward nor fear of punishment but out of love.»

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

What has been called the «small print» of Pastor aeternus (the preamble to the definitions) makes it plain that ex cathedra definitions of doctrine by the pope are intended for situations where the college of bishops is divided — where it finds itself in a condition of irresoluble internal doctrinal conflict.

There are many spiritual truths and principles in the Gospels and they are of great benefit to us, but doctrinal truths for the church were given by Jesus to us through the Apostle Paul.

But it does appear to be true that, as Dias wrote, InterVarsity will maintain doctrinal accountability by asking any staff who disagree with IVCF's conservative stance on homosexuality, same - sex relationships, and gender to inform their leadership, triggering a process of «involuntary termination.»

Pentecostals live, in other words, by what George Weigel has called the Iron Law of Christianity in Modernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) wither and die.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

He is not giving tests of life or doctrinal and behavioral indicators by which to determine whether or not you have eternal life.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

Thus our discussions must be characterised by Christian charity; emphatically not by a false charity which seeks simply to appease or mitigate doctrinal error — but rather by a true and informed witness, a caritas in veritate.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

Doctrinal orthodoxy and loyalty to the Magisterium were not fashionable causes, and they were made less so by our calls for a real development of doctrine and a theological expression of Catholicism to revindicate orthodoxy in the age of science.

Until the recent past the main emphasis has been on apologetics, catechesis and other reasoned approaches, but there are complementary steps to be taken towards the expressive and inspirational by featuring less rational and doctrinal means, such assacred art, that can in their distinct manner explore the way of beauty.1

After those five seconds have passed, however, it becomes painfully obvious that my efforts at «fruit inspection» or «doctrinal correctness» are being seriously hampered by the massive log stuck in my eye.

A Church That Can and Can not Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $ 30 Doctrinal development follows a different course in social ethics than in the realm of revelation.

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

Too often Christians have clung to the doctrinal formulations of former generations long after they could be honestly held, and this has led to that all too popular idea of faith, so aptly defined by the schoolboy, as «believing what you know ain't true».

As was explained in Chapter Two, the Wahhabi movement was inspired by the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, the great reformer who sought to save the Muslim world from doctrinal divisive forces so it could be more powerful in withstanding foreign aggression.

Seminaries will be under pressure to prepare students for doctrinal examinations judged by these boards.

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

It has to be admitted that the doctrinal controversies were colored by political concerns, especially after the emperor had become a Christian and wanted to use the religion to unify his subjects.

I am currently reading a book «the wisdom of Tenderness» — by Brennan Manning and here is what I just read I quote» When the primacy of love is subordinated to doctrinal correctness and orthodox exegesis, cool cordiality and polite indifference masquerade as love....

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

We shall not prove these statements by earlier doctrinal pronouncements, but confine ourselves to the teaching of Vatican II.

Measuring the success of their ministries by their popular reception, evangelical pastors in America have nourished millions of believers in basic doctrinal content.

Again, theologians who are persuaded of their usefulness in conveying theological meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by which biblical events of history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.

Actually, Katherine, a major thrust of the post, and the point to which I believe is challenged by the verse I cited, is that doctrinal differences should be subordinated to the goal of getting along in «love».

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

Both the foundation and the parameters of any doctrinal formulation must be provided by careful, honest, skillful exegesis.