Sentences with phrase «development of the doctrine of»

(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.

We have already seen how defending God's omnipotence required the development of a doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in Theophilus and Irenaeus, a notion not at all explicit in Genesis 1:2 where, when God began to create, all was «a formless void.»

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.

As the «new media» of the printed book became common, the debates over the contents of the canon subsided, and instead encouraged by its new fixedness those over the exactness of its inspiration (the development of the doctrines of infallibility, inerrancy, et al) began to spring up.

We are not concerned here to consider the eventual result of this Pauline and early Christian interpretation of Jesus — the development of the doctrine of the triunity of God, with distinctions made between the eternal Father, the Word (or Son) as the «outgoing» of God in creation and redemption, and the Holy Spirit somewhat uncertainly added to round out the three-fold pattern in unity.

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.

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.

In order to get a clearer perspective on the development of the doctrine of love we must examine the main themes of love in the Old Testament, including the covenant with the Hebrews as God's act of love, the human love required in faithfulness to the covenant, and the suffering of God as a result of human sin in failing to keep the covenant.

The proper approach to the determination of the issue As she had done in Aintree v James, Lady Hale took matters back to first principles, by reference to the legislative history of the MCA (and, indeed, its pre-history, including — in essence — a potted narrative of the development of the doctrine of necessity and its ultimate codification).

[69] The approach of recognizing an overarching organizing principle but accepting the existing law as the primary guide to future development is appropriate in the development of the doctrine of good faith.

It is clear from the development of the doctrine of proprietary estoppel that a finding of fraud may, in some instances, be a necessary element, but is not required in others.

Not exact matches

It does mean beyond cavil that Michael Novak has contributed significantly to the development of Catholic social doctrine at the highest level of its teaching authority.

♦ Eye of the Tiber, Catholicism's answer to The Onion, has its own interpretation of the Clintonista interest in «facilitating» the development of Catholic doctrine: «A new series of emails released yesterday by WikiLeaks connected to its dump of John Podesta's server show that ancestors of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attempted to sabotage the Catholic Church by creating the Society of Jesus hundreds of years prior to her nomination.»

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.

But whether the head of the Standing Commission on Evangelism is strategically right or wrong, the more interesting development is the increasingly explicit doctrine that the Episcopal Church is a non-doctrinal communion.

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

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

Whitehead's process doctrines allow us to sort out the phases of interaction constituting such development, and there is also a tradition of literary criticism devoted to the general forms of action, which I shall discuss below.

The insights given through Agnes Holloway are summed up under a key concepta Master Keywhich opens many doors of development in doctrine and philosophy which she called The Unity Law of Control and Direction.

The eternity of the Son was a major concern in the development of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity in the early church.

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.»

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

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

Although they were all published within the period 1925 to 1929, still there are significant developments in the thought expressed, and these have special importance with respect to the doctrine of God.

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.

One of the most important steps in the development of primitive Christian doctrine, and by far the most important for the tradition embodied in Mark and the Synoptics, took place when Jesus was identified with this celestial figure of apocalyptic expectation.

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 oDevelopment of Christian Doctrine has long been the locus classicus for an orthodox discussion of the development of dDoctrine has long been the locus classicus for an orthodox discussion of the development odevelopment of doctrinedoctrine.

Perhaps showing how closely he follows the debates that have exploded over his various pronouncements, Francis devoted some time in his remarks to demonstrating that his new position on the death penalty is part of a «harmonious development» of doctrine.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

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).

, 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.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

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.

I would suggest also that one way into such a new doctrine of analogy is a new understanding of man or history as the image of God, wherein historical development and evolution could be seen as a reflection or embodiment of the development and evolution of God.

The fourth section treats the development of doctrine.

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

Is not Whitehead's doctrine of God, and more particularly his doctrine of the consequent nature of God, a conceptual development and expression of that power?

Early on, in the chapters on contraception, Wills appears to take the familiar «liberal» position that the popes and their apologists are guilty of thwarting authentic development of doctrine and of ignoring the sensus communis of the laity.

To affirm that in this way a necessary, unavoidable, historical process of development on a large scale in the doctrines which are not defined dogma is legitimate and a matter of course, is not to say that this history does not also contain mistakes, over-hasty (though only provisional and revocable) decisions, cases of short - sightedness and lack of understanding.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

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.

Wills» Syllabus errorum leaves virtually no room for what used to be the liberal understanding of the development of Catholic doctrine; as Wills surely understands, false doctrines are not said to «develop.»