Sentences with phrase «doctrine of the trinity in»

The eternity of the Son was a major concern in the development of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity in the early church.

There is no explicit doctrine of the Trinity in the gospels, but these sayings about the Counselor became important material for the formation of that doctrine when, because of certain external pressures in the fourth century, the relation between God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit needed to be made explicit.

Not exact matches

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.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the 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.

And until Calvinism does away with it's inherent Nestorianism (which reemerged recently when a group of Calvinists attempted to redefine the Trinity in order to make it compatible with their new doctrine of «complementarianism», you look pretty hypocritical saying that Catholic theology is «at least in parts heretical».

The trinity was a theological development from a series of councils in the first 400 years or so of Church development of doctrine.

At Harvard Divinity School, with the encouragement of his mentor Paul Tillich, he immersed himself in the classic texts of Christian theology, with special attention to Christology and the doctrine of the Trinity.

The book's title, The Birth of the Trinity, in fact understates the support it gives to the claim that the doctrine of the Trinity was not developed by the Church on slender foundations, but is found with significant richness in the New Testament.

«That's why the doctrine of the Trinity became so important, I guess,» said Chan - Hie, «once they brought in the Holy Spirit.

The only escape at this point is to take shelter in the doctrine of the Trinity, which offers to furnish a social relation between persons all of whom are perfect.

Bultmann called into question not only what could be said about the Trinity, but developed an entire system in which history's effects on doctrine must be overcome so that the Christian message might be meaningful for the concrete individual of the historical present.

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.

The doctrine of the Trinity is often formulated in ways that obscure the unity of God.

The greatest source of difficulty, however, is not in the Bible but in a misunderstanding of the doctrine of the Trinity.

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.

The answer was the doctrine of the Trinity, that there is One God in three persons.

By the doctrine of the Trinity Christians have, however, wanted to say more than that God's activity is known in three ways.

[T] he doctrine of a Trinity is found both in the East and in the West; so is the ceremony of washing; so is the rite of sacrifice.

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...!?

In particular, they have driven home to me the importance and significance of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

In this way, the doctrine of God is grounded in the divine economy, and the understanding of the immanent Trinity flows from the economic TrinitIn this way, the doctrine of God is grounded in the divine economy, and the understanding of the immanent Trinity flows from the economic Trinitin the divine economy, and the understanding of the immanent Trinity flows from the economic Trinity.

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.

Polk's article correctly zeroes in on one of the major challenges that Pannenberg's doctrine faces: how to preserve the real openness of the future in light of his insistence on a completed and changeless immanent Trinity, a final eschaton, and the primacy of the future?

Applying Royce's understanding of community to the doctrine of the Trinity, one could say that the three divine persons are one God by reason of their common participation in an ongoing process of interpretation which is their life in community.

Christians, Catholic, evangelical Christians and Pentecostal Christians all believe in the Trinity; that's the historic doctrine of the church, that God is three - in - one.

Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes... The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible.

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.

The first volume sets forth the doctrine of the Trinity, which in Jenson's view must include also the treatment of Christology.

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).

3 In the only passage from The Problem of Christianity where the doctrine of the Trinity is discussed at length, Royce does not make clear whether he affirms an ontological triunity of persons within the Godhead or simply a distinction of divine persons within the religious experience of the believer (PC 135 - 39).

In recent years I have reclaimed a very old and very important Christian way of speaking about God: the doctrine of the Trinity.

The trinity is a false doctrine invented by the «church / government» at the council of Nicea in 325 AD so that the pagans would feel more comfortable allowing the church into their system.

It is not clear how Volf's perspectives about ordination address this «culture of professionalism» in modern churches that draws a sharp demarcation between clergy and laity and pays no mind to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Perhaps the doctrine of the trinity was doomed to failure from the start, because it tried to express in the ontological language of the hellenistic world an understanding of deity belonging to the tradition of Jerusalem.

The doctrine of the trinity didn't even exist in the first church.

But a truly social doctrine of the Trinity contains the vision of a community of women and men in church and society without privilege or subjection to each other - or to God.

It does reveal, however, the shift of emphasis which took place in the early centuries of the Church from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of doctrine.

If the word person is taken in that sense, the doctrine of the Trinity can come appear to be tritheism or belief in three gods..

Gregory of Nazianzus was involved in one of the early attempts to formulate a definitive doctrine of the Trinity, and he wrote, «It is difficult to conceive God but to define Him in words is an impossibility....

Nowhere in the New Testament will you find the word «Trinity,» nor any speculative doctrine about it, but you do find «the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.»

Both Christians and Muslims believe that God is One, although some Muslims in their criticisms of the doctrine of the Trinity have appeared to think that Christians believe in more than one God.

The 18 authors in this collection ask whether the feminist revision of Christian language changes classical Christian doctrines (especially the Trinity) beyond recognition.

Thus the Word of God gradually took a place similar to that of the Memra in Jewish theology, and the Second Person in the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

In her article» «Batter my heart...»: On Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity,» Coakley sets out three «axioms» of her approach to the Trinity.

748) in his refutation of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which he considered a plurality of eternal attributes in one Essence.

Some Further Reflections on the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity,» Coakley writes that «it is the perception of many Christians who pray either contemplatively or charismatically that the dialogue of prayer is strictly speaking not a simple communication between an individual and a distant and undifferentiated divine entity, but rather a movement of divine reflexivity, a sort of answering of God to God in and through one who prays.»

Stringfellow asserts, «Forgive us, bishops one and all, if we profess to discern in these three affirmations a suspicious resemblance to the doctrine of the Trinity.»