Sentences with phrase «development of doctrine»

But within this process a true development of doctrine is possible, indeed at times it is urgently necessary.

As in every age we need a further development of doctrine.

FedEx, Yes, I am not sure I can fully know the history or logic behind the historical development of the doctrine.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

The evidence that these things really happened, will be the power, through development of doctrine in the Church, always to give a new vision of the meaning of the Incarnation, and of the sheer relevance of Christ, and his Church to the nature of man, to personal holiness, and to the need for Man to have as answer from to the question «who am I» and «what is my meaning and my end».

, 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.»

The Bible witnesses to the building up of the «kingdom of God» on earth and the prophetic development of doctrine which is a further expression of the Unity Law of creation itself as God framed it.

Without such development of doctrine, those of us who hold the Bible dear can be forced into closing down all dialogue with modern thought.

Third, he should study the later developments of doctrine as they manifest themselves in Ephesians, Hebrews, I John, etc..

I will briefly address the wavering fortunes of original sin in these past few centuries, and then begin to explore some of the resources of process, feminist, and black theology for a contemporary development of the doctrine.

The quotations which Bunson provides also justify a confidence that the Pope is open to the sort of development of doctrine outlined by Cardinal Newman, as we noted at the beginning.

Catholics, on the other hand, believe that Evangelicals are deficient in their understanding of, for instance, apostolically ordered ministry, the number and nature of the sacraments, the company and intercession of the saints, the Spirit - guided development of doctrine, and the continuing ministry of the Petrine office in the life of the Church.

The trinity was a theological development from a series of councils in the first 400 years or so of Church development of doctrine.

Is there not here in this text, John 1:14, the nucleus of a scriptural and theological development of doctrine concerning the Reservation of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament?

There is another factor involved, in Whitehead's view, in the philosophical development of a doctrine of God.

His unfolding development of the doctrine seems more concerned with illustrating divine freedom than with illustrating divine love.

If a new development of doctrine were possible which re-synthesised the basic principles of all wisdom, human and divine, taking account of the revolution in our world view which while yet remaining true to historic Catholic Christianity, it would be a precious key to have found indeed.

Schleiermacher's major influence in the nineteenth century was in areas other than this unique development of the doctrine of original sin and its transmission.

Suppose, for the moment, that those who read the Catechism as undertaking a radical development of doctrine are right.

Development of doctrine often emerges with the assistance of questions raised as heresies hover — only because of Arius did we get the Nicene creed, only through Nestorius the richer insights into Christology.

And because the Holy Spirit is active in the Church, we also find authentic development of doctrine.

Cardinal Newman articulated seven «notes» that constitute true development of doctrine, a development that stands in contradistinction to the evolution of doctrine.

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.

Whitehead proposes, then, that philosophy should take account of these dimensions of human experience, but it does not appear that they should be particularly restrictive or prescriptive in the further development of the doctrine of God.

The further development of the doctrine of God is jointly determined by philosophical and religious interests.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

Dr. Suchocki addresses the wavering fortunes of original sin in these past few centuries and explores some of the resources of process, feminist, and black theology for a contemporary development of this doctrine.

The position of metropolitan Onufriy reflects the worldview of fundamentalist monastic elites, which reject the development of doctrine, regard with suspicion the church's engagement of contemporary world, and oppose ecumenical dialogue on the grounds that it jeopardizes the «purity of Orthodoxy.»

Ker then turns to the question of the development of doctrine: the hermeneutic of change in continuity.

«At the present time of crisis it offers a way out of modernism, a way that is both modern and orthodox, a true development of doctrine.»

I would like to suggest that this important text refers not only to the Incarnation of the Son of God in Bethlehem but also to the Holy Eucharist and that it is prophetic of the Church's development of doctrine, supporting that development, and putting it within a cosmic context.

One can find a scriptural precedent for the development of doctrine in Christ's claim that «when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth.»

In recent years, and especially in the teaching and writing of Pope John Paul II on this subject, we can see a deepening of understanding and perhaps even a development of the doctrine.

(SMW x.) In these lectures as delivered, there was little to suggest that Whitehead was on the verge of devoting serious attention to the development of a doctrine of God.

In his remarks, Francis indicated a desire to revise the Catechism, to take into account the development of doctrine on the death penalty.

Development of doctrine is not itself a doctrine, but a theory, and there are several such theories.

It is a little surprising that Francis did not mention Newman, since Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine has long been the locus classicus for an orthodox discussion of the development of doctrine.

However, Dei Verbum seems to come closer to Cardinal Newman's understanding of the development of doctrine when it emphasizes that the teaching office of the Church is the servant of the word of God.

In the Essay, Newman identifies several «notes» (he does not go so far as to call them «tests») of an authentic development of doctrine.

When Francis talks about doctrine becoming «clearly contrary» to a «new understanding of Christian truth,» it seems that he rejects Newman's notion that a development of doctrine is conservative of the doctrine's past.

Griffiths further fails to understand Newman's «development of doctrine» when, one assumes by innocent ignorance rather than willfulness, he obscures Newman's tenets on «preservation of type.»

It has fifteen essays divided into four main sections: Faith and Reason, The Church, Conscience and Development of Doctrine.

The fourth section treats the development of doctrine.

For him the development of doctrine does not simply derive from progress in thought and ideas, but is an aspect of deepening in being and communion of both mind and heart with God in Christ, which is the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

In his writings there is explicit acceptance of the traditional Catholic doctrine about Jesus and yet also a development of that doctrine with special emphasis on the cosmic Christ adumbrated in the Pauline literature and expounded by Teilhard in the evolutionary perspective.

It undergirded the development of the doctrine of individual rights.