Sentences with phrase «discussions of the doctrine»

Of course I'm thinking specifically of destructive behavior; discussions of doctrine wouldn't fall under this model.

But the third source of Tillich's thought, the tradition of German idealist philosophy, gives greater emphasis to impersonal conceptions and is more evident in his systematic discussion of the doctrine of God.33 He does not accept Hegel's vision of participation in the all - inclusive Absolute in which all differences are overcome in harmonious synthesis.

Two Protestant theologians have recently given us major discussions of the doctrine of vocation in relation to Protestant ethics.

His discussion of the doctrine of the resurrection in terms of a deeper (pancosmic) relationship with the universe, while pregnant with possibility, is brief and somewhat vague.

Good examples of various levels of avoidance of discussions of doctrine — regardless of one's views on the merits of the result and the separate question of the mertis of the analysis used by the SCC to reach the result — are the SCC's recent Young v. Bella, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 108, 2006 SCC 3, Childs v. Desormeaux, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 643, 2006, Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada v. Guardian Insurance Co. of Canada, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 744, 2006 SCC 21 SCC 18 and most recently Resurfice v Hanke 2007 SCC 7.

Although the case did not ultimately turn upon proportionality, the judgments contain detailed discussion of the doctrine, and evidence judicial

Not exact matches

For example, many churches of the ILC feel the doctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justifdoctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of JustifDoctrine of Justification.

A further discussion of the problem to which this doctrine is an answer may help.

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 dDoctrine has long been the locus classicus for an orthodox discussion of the development of doctrinedoctrine.

But in the last quarter of a century a considerable convergence took place, partly due to members of the Society for the Study of Theology, which covers the whole island and which set out in its annual conference to create a forum for wide - ranging discussion of major doctrines and allied themes.

Furthermore, many of the discussions in which philosophy plays the primary role consist in developing distinctions or new concepts that make possible the intelligent affirmation of doctrines that are believed strictly on the grounds of revelation.

What we certainly must assume at the outset is that the question of such distinctions requires discussion, and that therefore every type of doctrine implied as formally possible if the distinctions are genuine must be given full and fair hearing.

The discussion will be somewhat more extensive than otherwise appropriate to this context because this doctrine is crucial to other theological positions as well as to that of Thomism.

The response is not, therefore, serious debate of the alternative doctrines of nature that the discussion embodies but a not altogether benign neglect.

The discussion of basic doctrine is too important to leave to scholarly journals and seminary graduates.

It became clear that not only the traditional doctrines of Christology, but the whole context in which the discussion was couched was problematic.

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

The ontological principle, and the wider doctrine of universal relativity, on which the present metaphysical discussion is founded, blur the sharp distinction between what is universal and what is particular.

As a small contribution to this discussion: One implication of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination, if it really is what the Bible teaches, is that someone may spend his or her life passionately serving in a full - time church capacity and yet not be one of the elect (and therefore «saved»).

He rightly considers it a «temptation» that a philosophical concept of God could determine the distinctly theological discussion of trinitarian doctrine.

The discussion, I hope, illustrates my major point that when you ask the meaning of a doctrine or, in other words, what was the insight or truth of experience that those who formulated these doctrines wanted to safeguard, you find yourself grappling with them with concepts almost too difficult for words.

6 But see H. H. Rowley's discussion of «Election without Covenant,» The Biblical Doctrine of Election (London, 1950) PP. 121 if.

The real issue concerning a doctrine of inspiration centers on complex matters of interpretation - issues which I have attempted to speak to in the discussion above.

These groups are not substitutes for the total life of the congregation in worship and witness; but they may be a most important means of breaking through rigidities and opening up a frank discussion where there will be no fear of probing sacred symbols and doctrines.

The focus of theological discussion among evangelicals concerning Biblical authority has naturally gravitated to a consideration of the doctrines of inspiration and revelation, i. e., to a discussion of Scripture's source.

His panentheistic doctrine of God (For a discussion and definition of this doctrine, see chapter 4.)

From the doctrine of God, we must turn in our discussion of authority to the matter of Biblical hermeneutics and questions of theological formation.

Similarly, can one's doctrine of human nature (which lies behind all discussion both of homosexuality and of women's place in the family and church) be considered of secondary interest within Scripture?

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

But the discussion so far suggests the possibility that a new Christian perspective on history may be emerging which will hold together the truth in the liberal doctrine of progress and the truth in the neo-orthodox affirmation of the judgment of God upon all existing things.

Since 1950, philosophical discussions of Whitehead's view of God have been influenced primarily by Charles Hartshorne and William Christian.50 Hartshorne has continued to develop and apply the doctrines of panpsychism and panentheism explained in Part One.

Also, it makes unclear the reasons for his doctrine of the «divisible» character of individual existents (whereby «causation is the transfer of a feeling and not of a total satisfaction»), and his discussion of the «medium.»

I will not argue this view here and will try to carry on the discussion presupposing as little as possible my own peculiar proposals for a doctrine of God, proposals which depend upon, but differ from, Whitehead's own position.

This consideration might lead us to ask whether Gaine could have added a little more constructive (and less defensive) discussion of how — after the doctrine of Christ having the visio was dropped — our contemporary reengagement with it might be more than a mere retrograde move but an important locus for ongoing theological discovery.

The «Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian» issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1990, stated that no public discussion of non-infallible doctrinal statements is permitted within the Church.

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.

Niebuhr's discussion of the church and social justice assumed the doctrines of sin and grace in all of their ramifications.

(Except in some statements of the doctrine of incarnation — on which see the brief discussion in Chapter XIII).

The reader is referred to the discussion in The Living God and the Modern World, pp. 108 - 41 where Peter Hamilton outlines the problem of the traditional doctrine of the after - life more fully than we have room for here.

Sin is the best - known aspect of his work (and has received a disproportionate amount of discussion), but it is misleading to think that this doctrine is the launching pad for his thought.

According to a story on ucanews.com, the website of the Union of Catholic Asian News, Christian leaders in Pakistan are urging their followers not to engage in discussions of Islamic doctrine with their Muslim neighbors.

We can and should debate theology and doctrine, but we must never think that we are the infallible interpreters of Scripture and determiners of people's destiny, and should also remember that doctrine, as important as it is, becomes evil when debates and discussions about theology keep us from living out the loving gospel in tangible ways to a hurting and dying world.

The ways in which this task could be carried out, and the interesting metaphysical revisions and alternatives to which it would lead regarding the central doctrines of process metaphysics, has constituted an interesting discussion and dialectical tension between Ford and Nobo over the years, to which many of the rest of us have attended with the greatest interest.

Third, the discussion will enable clarification of how the doctrine of internal relations is related to (II).

With particular pertinence to the present discussion, Levada, for all his considerable gifts, did not distinguish himself in his teaching, and his seeing to it that others taught, the Church's moral doctrine during his ten years as archbishop of San Francisco, a city commonly called the gay capital of the world.

Thus, along with the element of universality mentioned above, the doctrine of the unsurpassability of Christ as the final revelation of God has come to be a crucial point of controversy in inter-religious discussion involving Christians and other traditions.

The discussion is about Catholic doctrine and the Catholic church's treatment of women, not the allmighty atheist agenda.

(See the discussion of this in Joseph Owens, The Doctrine of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics [Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1978]-RRB-.

Full critical discussion of the history of the doctrine of the imago dei in Emil Brunner, Man in Revolt (London: Lutterworth Press, 1939; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939), Appendix 1.

He presented to the Church of his day, after much dialogue and discussion, a doctrine of Original Sin which the Church recognised as true in all essentials to what she did in fact believe.