Third, he should study the later
developments of doctrine as they manifest themselves in Ephesians, Hebrews, I John, etc..
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
(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 the Essay, Newman identifies several «notes» (he does not go so far
as to call them «tests»)
of an authentic
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).
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.
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.
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.»
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.
Even
as early
as his 1845 Essay on the
Development of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea
of infallibility, and precisely
as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:
The word
doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety
of biblical teaching on these and other subjects
as well
as the factor
of development in some themes
as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.
For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands
of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches,
doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and
development environment that has caused the mass immigration
of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated
as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether
as culture, race or religion....
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.
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As John Henry Newman famously wrote: «It may be almost laid down as an historical fact that the mystical interpretation and orthodoxy will stand or fall together» John Henry Newman, A.n Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, ch 7, section 4, no5
As John Henry Newman famously wrote: «It may be almost laid down
as an historical fact that the mystical interpretation and orthodoxy will stand or fall together» John Henry Newman, A.n Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, ch 7, section 4, no5
as an historical fact that the mystical interpretation and orthodoxy will stand or fall together» John Henry Newman, A.n Essay on the
Development of Christian
Doctrine, ch 7, section 4, no5).
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.
A similar difficulty is presented by John Macmurray's attempt to combine a Christian - Augustinian
doctrine of God's sovereignty with a Marxist interpretation
of the structure
of historical
development as leading inevitably toward the fulfillment
of the good society.
True
development of doctrine can only be made on the basis
of a faithful continuity
of principle with what has already been defined, just
as true theology can only be done in the spirit
of loyal service
of the magisterium.
In Fr Nesbitt's article «The Christ - Centred Vision
of Creation», in last November's issue, he pointed out that Newman «found the Scotist perspective to be truest to the Greek Fathers he studied so closely» -LCB- Discourses to Mixed Congregations 32,1 - 2, and 358), and that in The
Development of Christian
Doctrine Newman says that «the Incarnation «establishes in the very idea
of Christianity the sacramental principle
as its characteristic» because: «It is our Lord's intention in the Incarnation to make us what He is Himself.»
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 meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus
of the University
of Saint Mary
of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety
of topics including several difficult ones such
as the Council
of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic
doctrine of the church
as the prolongation
of the incarnation
of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair
of the event),
as well
as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent
developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.
Thus did Vatican II vindicate Newman's great work on the
development of doctrine, which grew from a theological method that brought history, and indeed life itself, back into play
as sources
of reflection and growth in our understanding
of God's revelation.
Who better to discuss the
development of doctrine in the Church than the man who assisted at the Second Vatican Council
as a peritus?
Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction
of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible
doctrines, and producing a theory
of Whitehead's own historical
development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power
of causal efficacy is reduced to the status
of the past
as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process
of concrescence).
Suppose, for the moment, that those who read the Catechism
as undertaking a radical
development of doctrine are right.
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.
As in every age we need a further
development of doctrine.
If,
as a body, they assume the intrinsic goodness
of religious freedom and the intrinsic evil
of slavery, perhaps that is because the
development of Christian
doctrine has rightly tended in that direction — and thus steered between dangers that are theological
as well
as political.
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.
For another,
as most
of her middle - aged informants make clear, the type
of father involvement allowed by the
doctrine of separate spheres was too thin (and often too authoritarian) to contribute very positively to the
development of children and wives, even though it underwrote men's own masculine status
as breadwinners.
Indeed, such a
development would bring us back very close to
doctrines that he always has rejected: either the materialistic view» (
as he called it in The Concept
of Nature), or the traditional
doctrine of creation.
As a parent, I may contemplate and discuss birth, early childhood
development, adolescence, the teen yrs, etc., but when I say,» I love my children», I'm not loving a
doctrine of my children... it's beyond concepts....
True
development of doctrine, therefore, always operates within the analogy
of faith; it operates,
as Cardinal Ratzinger has noted, in a diachronic and not simply a synchronic sense.
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.
The
development called forth anew
as history goes on will often be seen to depend on orthodox and Catholic
doctrine which was unpopular at the time, perhaps which went clean contrary to the mood
of the times, and the always ready concessions
of well - meaning heresy.
Not perhaps what Pope John Paul had in mind
as development of doctrine.
Mezsaros explains how
development as seen by Newman and Congar differs from the modernism
of perennial evolution, resulting
of its nature in a relativization
of doctrine.
His Ten Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology dealt with the historical origin and
development of individual religions
as well
as the historical survey
of certain key ideas and
doctrines, such
as doctrines of God, man, and salvation.
During my two decades
as a professor
of theology I saw how the academic Catholic left reduced itself to repeating easy slogans about the contextual nature
of knowledge, the historicity
of revelation, and the
development of doctrine.
In 1965, he published his most famous book, at once classic and immediately consequential
as a study in the
development of doctrine: Contraception: A History
of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists — 533 pages
of dazzling historical research, unpretentious erudition, and contextual analysis that concluded by offering reasons why the papal magisterium could and should support some forms
of contraception for married couples.
Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities
of Thomistic
developments in the wake
of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts
of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode
as far
as social
doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred
doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church.
As if writing 40 years ago, the authors
of On the Way to Life present the Second Vatican Council in a manner neither in keeping with the true
doctrine of doctrinal
development, the purpose
of Councils, or the nature
of the Tradition.
Donald Dayton observes that, in the
development of North American Pentecostalism, the
doctrine of «healing
as part
of expiation» (Dayton, p. 6) played an important role.
These could encompass the establishment
of real and constraining confidence - building measures, and the
development of defence
doctrines and military procurement policies that better reflect the cooperative security ideas inherent in what China referred to
as its «New Security Concept» first introduced in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Gill, 2005).
The suit also debuts a new legal framework to fight climate change, one that portrays federal support for the
development and use
of fossil fuels
as a violation
of the Fifth and Ninth Amendments,
as well
as the public trust
doctrine.
Age
of Greed: The Triumph
of Finance and the Decline
of America by Jeff Madrick Scarcity in Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation by Edward Barbier Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer 1491: New Revelations
of the Americas before Columbus by Charles Mann
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Kicking Away the Ladder:
Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha - Joon Chang
70 While the principles
of fairness and flexibility have informed the modern approach to the application
of proprietary estoppel,
as adopted by this Court in its jurisprudence (see Idle - O Apartments Inc. v. Charlyn Investments Ltd., 2014 BCCA 451 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 49; Sabey v. von Hopffgarten Estate, 2014 BCCA 360 (B.C. C.A.); Scholz v. Scholz, 2013 BCCA 309 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 31; Sykes v. Rosebery Parklands
Development Society, 2011 BCCA 15 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 44 - 46; Erickson v. Jones, 2008 BCCA 379 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 52 - 57; Trethewey - Edge Dyking (District) v. Coniagas Ranches Ltd. [2003 CarswellBC 657 (B.C. C.A.)-RSB- at paras. 64 - 73; Zelmer v. Victor Projects Ltd. (1997), 34 B.C.L.R. (3d) 125 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 36 - 37), there remains a necessary balancing between an overly broad application
of the
doctrine under the general guise
of «unfairness» and an overly narrow application
of the
doctrine that places excessive weight on the technical requirements
of the
doctrine.
He added that the following values were all to be appreciated and brought into a pragmatic balance: that an efficient and cost - effective and relatively informal type
of alternative dispute resolution should not be stifled by the imposition
of legal
doctrine; that the opportunity for the
development of new ideas fitting to financial service industries operating in consumer markets should be appreciated for the benefits they could bring; that on the other hand transparency, consistency and accessibility
as to the principles which informed the ombudsman's determinations remained virtues in the new setting; and that publicity
as to those principles and those determinations could assist in that regard.