Sentences with phrase «doctrine of the trinity as»

Volf argues that Muslims have routinely misunderstood the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of polytheism, but the fact remains that traditional Muslims do not accept Jesus as the Son of God.

In recent years, however, certain West German theologians, notably Jürgen Moltmann, Heribert Mühlen, and Eberhard Jüngel, have «rediscovered» the doctrine of the Trinity as the basis for contemporary Christian belief and practice.

Tissa Balsuriya from Sri Lanka mounted an attack on the doctrine of the Trinity as an example of Western imperialistic theology.

Mystery does not belong to the doctrine of the Trinity as a doctrine.

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They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

Reactions to this revelation have varied — from serious and constructive engagement to bewilderment that anyone would regard a complicated doctrine like the Trinity as being of any importance.

But you left out some pretty crucial details, such as the fact that Mormons do not accept the pivotal doctrine of the Trinity.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

When the Catholic church is examined carefully from its inception down through the centuries till now, it can be likened to a beast that has sought to control everyone through fear and intimidation, as during the Crusades and Inquisitions, slaughtering those who disagreed with its «policies» and beliefs, such as the unscriptural doctrine of the trinity.

Although Powell quite accurately notes that «Protestants were distinctively cool to this method of expounding the doctrine of the Trinity,» such philosophers as G. W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716)(with his description of the Trinity as force, intellect, and will) and Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781)(who defined the Trinity as an eternal act of self - knowledge) did go this route.

It is true that on various occasions he mentions other doctrines as essential, including more objective ones such as the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

The technical term is the doctrine of the Atonement, although this has never been officially defined in the same way as the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...as Three as now and for eternity...as now and for eternity...!?

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.

Darrell L. Guder (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1980); Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God (New York: Harper and Row, 1981), and God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985); Robert Jenson, The Triune Identity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982).

Most Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, a description of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

1See Eberhard Jüngel, The Doctrine of the Trinity: God's Being is in Becoming (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976) / and God as the Mystery of the World, trans.

As I shall make clear later, there still remains some ambiguity as to the strict consistency of their process approach, but their efforts thus far nevertheless establish that a process interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity is quite feasiblAs I shall make clear later, there still remains some ambiguity as to the strict consistency of their process approach, but their efforts thus far nevertheless establish that a process interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity is quite feasiblas to the strict consistency of their process approach, but their efforts thus far nevertheless establish that a process interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity is quite feasible.

Applying this to the doctrine of the Trinity, Jüngel suggests that the Father, Son, and Spirit enhance their previously existing relationship to one another through the decision to give of themselves to their rational creatures: the Father through the gift of his Son to us, the Son through freely allowing himself to be given as such a gift, the Spirit in virtue of his activity as mediator, not just between the Father and the Son, but now likewise between the Father and his adopted sons and daughters (GGW 446 - 53, 505 - 14).

It could contain doctrines that were not inherently understandable (such as the doctrine of the trinity), or that seemed to be self - contradictory (such as the full humanity and deity of Jesus), or that were contradicted by other doctrines (as, for example, human freedom by divine predestination, or God's omnipotent goodness by human sin).

The author shows how the doctrine of the Trinity, understood as revealing community within Godself, is consistent with women's experience.

Islam: To reject the Islam as a heretical doctrine, it is not necessary to read the Koran, because it is publically known that the Islam rejects the Trinity and the devine sonship of Jesus Christ.

It upholds core doctrines such as the Incarnation, God as Trinity, Christ's physical resurrection, and the necessity of Christ for salvation.

Where there is a real attempt to listen to the other, even the doctrine of the Trinity may not be so divisive as it appears.

Whilst the very title of «Protestantism» depicts its genesis as a reactive movement, it is the case that strong protests against the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation form part of the Koran and so of Islamic faith.

Now I do know that you know much about church history but I would like to remind you that the Church formulated many of its doctrines, such as the Trinity, Jesus» divinity, etc., by way of combating heresy.

In fact, only if we allow for the introduction of other non-Biblical conceptualizations can we accept the orthodox doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation as legitimate Christian options.

For the great majority of Christians they were answered satisfactorily at Nicaea and Chalcedon in the adoption of the doctrine of the Trinity with its assertion of Christ's co-eternity and co-substantiality with the Father and with the doctrine of his nature as being the perfect and indissoluble union of two quite distinct but complete and authentic natures; but a significant minority in the church, then and ever since, has found these answers either unintelligible or incredible.

By emphasizing a doctrine of Christ without the whole perspective of the Trinity, theology developed in a very one - sided way and has come to be pre-occupied with the church as the body of Christ, with its structure, hierarchy, and its rules and regulations.

God as Trinity had happened in the experience of the early church before it was formulated into a doctrine.

In the doctrine of the Trinity, he finds an excellent imagery for this: The triune communion which is communion - in - diversity creates the human being as a communitarian being, and nature as communitarian, letting them go into freedom and receiving them back in the eschaton.

We can say that it is not true, as suggested Erik Peterson, that the doctrine of the Trinity has made impossible any political theology.15 But it continues to resist direct deductions of political and economical systems from the Trinity even in its Boffian notion.

Cosmotheandric «trinity» offers, as a concept, both dynamics and coherence: the Cosmotheandric Reality is a differentiated reality which is in movement and holds together the three dimensions of God, Man and World.57 This «trinity» is perichoresis and relation, it is not monism or dualism but difference - in - relation: this aspect is shared by Panikkar and nearly all contemporary elaborations of the doctrine of the Ttrinity» offers, as a concept, both dynamics and coherence: the Cosmotheandric Reality is a differentiated reality which is in movement and holds together the three dimensions of God, Man and World.57 This «trinity» is perichoresis and relation, it is not monism or dualism but difference - in - relation: this aspect is shared by Panikkar and nearly all contemporary elaborations of the doctrine of the Ttrinity» is perichoresis and relation, it is not monism or dualism but difference - in - relation: this aspect is shared by Panikkar and nearly all contemporary elaborations of the doctrine of the TrinityTrinity.

The book certainly showed that Wills regards himself as an orthodox Christian, for he stoutly insisted there that he holds to the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation as understood by the first six ecumenical councils of the Church.

My own trinitarian conception of the God - world relationship, as expressed in previous publications, lends itself even more dramatically to a field - oriented understanding of the God - world relationship since it makes clear how the three divine persons of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity can be said to possess a field proper to their own divine being which likewise serves as the «matrix» or ontological ground for the field of activity proper to creation (see, for example, The Divine Matrix 52 - 69 and «Panentheism from a Process Perspective»).

How we are to make place theologically for the reality of Judaism, where the Law is the center of religious life, in light of the Church's confession of Christ as Lord and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not at all evident to me.

The doctrine of the trinity raises the problem of individuality as well as other ontological issues.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

Oh, they accepted the NT canon, and also the doctrine of the Trinity, as well as some other things, but they always say if it's not in the Bible, then it's not true.

JW's do not accept Jesus as the Son of God, second person of the Trinity, essential doctrine to Christianity.

The doctrine of the Trinity keeps us from settling for a God who is too small or, as in much contemporary spirituality so big or vague that God becomes what a friend once dubbed «the Sacred Blur.»

Fourteen out of fifteen was a substantial achievement for the Landgrave, especially as it included a long list of central doctrines: the Creator, the Trinity, the Son of God, Jesus, Original Sin, Redemption, Faith, Holy Spirit, Baptism, good works, confession, the State, optional traditions — a formidable list.

At the time of the Reformation, the doctrine of the Trinity once again emerged as a major point of dispute, especially between the mainline reformers and certain evangelical rationalists among the radicals.