Sentences with phrase «central doctrine»

When I call myself an evangelical, I also remember this recent period when being an evangelical came to mean embracing justice while holding to central doctrines of the faith.
Most Protestants may not be able to give a precise explanation of the doctrine of justification or, for that matter, of any other central doctrine of the Reformation, but they often have a vague sense that Martin Luther's protest began with an attack on indulgences.
These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.
The notion of «dignitary harm» develops John Stuart Mill's central doctrine of liberal freedom, which can only be limited insofar as our freedom leads to harm of others.
Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.
No, again, this is an example of one of those central doctrines of the Gospel which help a person believe in Jesus for eternal life, but are not required for a person to believe in order to receive eternal life.
«The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion — the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.»
Here was a dedicated and highly successful churchman who had no genuine belief in the central doctrines of the Christian faith whatever.
All of this is a way of expressing what I should have told Sam all those years ago: There is a necessary connection between the choice of the Jewish people to survive and the central doctrine of God's election of Israel in the giving of the Torah.
In the «70s and «80s, as logical positivists found their central doctrines under severe attack by fellow analytic philosophers, epistemological issues emerged as the dominant concern.
Rather, one of the central doctrines of the Christian faith, worked out as far back as the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, is that Jesus is 100 percent God and 100 percent human — at the same time... This way of thinking of Christ is analogous to thinking about the Bible.
• surrender - the wholesale abandonment of central doctrines, compromise with secularising and atheist trends, and passivity or even hostility towards the idea of evangelisation; and
Even our central doctrines of redemption and renewal while not being purely natural theology, gain much of their strength as ideas because they tap into our collective experience of the ability of nature to renew itself.
Many of the central doctrines of our faith not only were expressed in natural images, but they gained their authority because they resonated with people's subconscious experience of the world in which they lived.
The notion that morality applies to individuals and not to governments is completely contrary to a central doctrine of Reformed theology which is endorsed, in varying forms, by other Christian traditions as well: that Jesus Christ is the Lord not just of the church, nor of a special sphere of religious activity, but of all of the natural and human world.
Even many liberals for whom faith in activist government had earlier been the central doctrine of their political creed have recently felt twinges of agnostic uncertainty.
Its central doctrine — that to break free of the past, designers must create a new landscape stripped of all historicist ornament — found a favorable setting in this valley, about two hours from Los Angeles, where movie stars and America's ultra-rich came to play.
inspired the central doctrines of evolutionism and historicism.»
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