Sentences with phrase «doctrine of vocation»

At the same time, a doctrine of vocation that claims all of existence will summon workers to attend to the concerns of the common life.

As it is usually formulated, the doctrine of vocation is unrealistic especially for people who work in the industrial plants of our nation.

The old doctrine of vocation is unrealistic, especially for people who work in the industrial plants of our nation.

A rediscovery of the doctrine of vocation can't come soon enough, not only for the sake of discipleship and godly living but for the sake of our civilization.

We must ask, however, whether with all the realism of the Reformers in their doctrine of vocation, they solved the problem of self - sacrifice in the spirit of agape.

Of course, some of us have been so schooled in a doctrine of vocation that we know better and would hasten to include any and all virtuous jobs in this world under the heading of God's potential callings.

It is perhaps futile to speculate upon what might have happened if the doctrine of vocation had been thus understood from the beginning.

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

The doctrine of vocation thus transcends both the conservative and progressive attitudes.

In contrast to the liberal view the doctrine of the universal fact of sin as the context of moral decision forms the substance of Brunner's doctrine of vocation.

One is Dr. Robert L. Calhoun in God and the Common Life, and the other is Dr. Emil Brunner in The Divine Imperative.18 It is instructive to examine these side by side, not only because both contain such great merits, but because taken together they strongly suggest that neither Calhoun's liberalism nor Brunner's neo-orthodoxy gives a wholly satisfactory foundation to the doctrine of vocation.

Nevertheless, the doctrine of vocation claims that God calls each of us into the world for a purpose.

But sadly, almost from its conception, the doctrine of vocation has been at best half - taught.

All too often, the doctrine of vocation placed burdens only on the already burdened.

Kelby Carlson, writing at Alastair's Adversaria, proposes a richer theological model of disability as he brings his experience as a disabled person «into dialogue with two important concepts: the evangelical doctrines of vocation and the theology of the cross.»

Not exact matches

Rather, Lutherans should reconsider this doctrine in light of Luther's teaching on vocation.

The doctrine of divinisation, however, puts our vocation into a new perspective.

Daniel T. Rodgers, in his book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850 to 1920 University of Chicago Press, 1978), enlarges upon Weber's original thesis, suggesting that «at the heart of Protestantism's revaluation of work was the doctrine of the calling, the faith that God had called everyone to some productive vocation, to toil there for the common good and for His greater glory.»

That is an ancient doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is more perfect than any secular life can be.

It stems from the two closely related doctrines of the universal priesthood of believers and the universality of Christian vocation.

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.

Father Hermann Geissler of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith believes that Cardinal John Henry Newman's four sermons on the apostolic zeal of St Paul can help all Catholics rediscover their missionary vocation.

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.

Attentive to the New Testament conviction that ministry was service, to be exercised by all Christians appropriately, it developed both the doctrine of universal priesthood and that of Christian vocation of all Christians.

Complaints such as Prof. Johnson's would be taken more seriously if they engaged carefully nuanced reflections on the problem, such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's 1990 document, «The Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian,» or Avery Cardinal Dulles» 2003 essay, published in these pages, «True and False Reform.»

In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), Pope Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points.

This doctrine of the church is most congenial to his own theology and theological vocation.