Sentences with phrase «developments of doctrine as»

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

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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.
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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.
[21] 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, no5As 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, no5as 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.
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