Sentences with phrase «dogmatic formulations»

Consequently came the widespread reaction against the whole ethos of the eighteenth century, during which the churches tended to turn back to the dogmatic formulations of classical Protestantism for theological structure.

The danger is that when a man has no religious experiences of his own, he tends to repeat those that have been handed down from others in their creedal and dogmatic formulations.

In the third lecture we are shown what Christians did with that original belief, why they constructed impressive but perplexing dogmatic formulations, and what relation these credal structures have to the faith by which the Christian community actually lives.

Dogmatic Formulations The Catechism also presents the various terms used by the Magisterium of the Church with regard to the Trinity (in particular substance / essence / nature, person / hypostasis and fnally relation) and also the various key points of doctrine that need always to be kept in mind.

The ideas expressed in these and in similar dogmatic formulations must in time have spread further and further.

The Roman and the Greek Orthodox churches were estranged from each other and excommunicated each other in 1054 due to differences in their dogmatic formulations of the Christian faith.

To be a theological liberal means to insist upon a significant degree of freedom from strict dogmatic formulations and church discipline.

The theoretical interest visibly grew during the course of its development and dogmatic formulation.

The rigid dogmatic formulation of Trinitarian belief in The One God, is a stumbling block among Moslems.

Now, in making this contrast between two quite different kinds of language about God I am not suggesting that the elaborate dogmatic formulation is worthless: still less that it is ridiculous.

Mark's theory of the messianic secret was therefore only a dogmatic formulation of something which was basic to the whole of the earliest evangelic tradition.

Not exact matches

«Speculative philosophy,» writes Whitehead, «is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element in our experience can be interpreted,» but they «are not dogmatic assertions of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.»

There is obviously a place for logical deduction in the actual formulation of dogmatic decrees, but Newman interposes a kind of deep internal sense which enters the mind through the grasp of faith before being formulated objectively.

Whitehead summarizes this point well: «Metaphysical categories are not dogmatic statements of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.

Thus even in the middle of the third century the laity preserved their «1iturgy» of electing, of bringing the offerings or tithing, of identifying themselves with the prayers of their celebrants in antiphonal amens.97 Moreover, their consent was sought in dogmatic and moral formulations.98 Closely connected therewith was the people's prerogative in the recognition of martyrs which in the fourth century was to become the communal voice in the authoritative canonization of saints.99