Sentences with phrase «doctrinal forms»

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

In earlier evangelical theologies content and form were identical; the content of biblical revelation was crystallized into doctrinal form and this doctrine, it was assumed, would be self - evident to reasonable people.

The doctrinal form must arise from and faithfully represent the revelatory content which the doctrine is seeking to present.

Not exact matches

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

The Lord is in the process of gathering living stones to form the new covenant temple to be located in, not separated by doctrinal - opinion - church - buildings, but the territorial locality whose believers will be one Heart, Mind, and one in judgment, so the leaven of sin may not, can not, drag others down.

How does posting a smattering of disjointed, inaccurate doctrinal points form a basis for critical evaluation of a presidential candidate?

And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

This is no time for clinging rigidly to the doctrinal formulae, the ecclesiastical systems and the liturgical forms of the past.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

It likewise implied, however, that faith in Jesus Christ must be on European terms, take them or leave them, and that the forms it took — organizational, ethical, doctrinal, liturgical — must be, with as much adaptation as necessary but as little adaptation as possible, the ones it had acquired in its European configuration.

Yet Boyer's instincts are sound, for it was the unique version of premillennialism nurtured by Darby and brought to these shores after the Civil War that helped form the doctrinal core of virtually all fundamentalist and many evangelical churches.

Douthat himself points to the need for «a deeper process of discernment,» acknowledging that a form of liberalism «is fully compatible with doctrinal orthodoxy, and indeed, its flourishing should be regarded even by those who differ with its politics as a sign of a healthy Catholicism, one not imprisoned by partisanship and ideology.»

How can you write a story about Christianity without even bothering to mention even a few of the BASIC doctrinal concepts that form the very foundation of Christianity??

We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.

The Council goes on to insist that papal infallibility is itself a «divinely revealed dogma,» (Ibid., 102) thus exposing once again its assumption that revelation comes wrapped in the form of doctrinal propositions.

Legalism has dogged Christianity throughout its history whenever a particular structure of the Church, a particular doctrinal statement, or a particular form of behavior, has replaced the living Christ as the expression of divine revelation and the guide for human life.

It led to practical forms of conduct which can not be judged by criteria of dogmatic thought and the division of religions on a doctrinal basis.

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

His argument, which relies on extensive historical detail and vast scholarship, in its simplest form can be put thus: If people turn to «the Bible alone» as their criterion in doctrinal debate, then the debate will necessarily devolve into irresolvable disputes.

The reformation for which David calls is thus not one which requires a mere shift in doctrinal belief, something with which Evangelical leaders seem too often too easily satisfied; it also involves the transformation of a whole form of church life, one which he sees as starting in what happens in gathered worship on a Sunday and leads to a reorientation of thinking and living throughout the week.

Three controversial doctrinal questions form a crucible within which the appropriate interaction of the rule of law, good administration, democracy and separation of powers can be observed and the advantages of a pluralist approach appreciated.

If we accept the doctrinal mission with which Justice Stratas wants to invest us, we must think about the form of our work as well as its content.