Sentences with phrase «dogmatic principles»

It was by this dogmatic principle that Galileo unfortunately found himself cornered, and while «there was indeed a range of enlightened opinion within the Roman hierarchy at the time of Galileo's trial... the trial itself was not averted» (p. 62).

Newman confronted me on my own ground — that of the importance of doctrinal orthodoxy — and demanded that I examine what my dogmatic principle meant for my Christian life.

In response to the first claim, Pelikan quotes Lionel Trilling: «It is probably true that when the dogmatic principle in religion is slighted, religion goes along for a while on generalized emotion and ethical intention — «morality touched by emotion,»» but it «then loses the force of its impulse and even the essence of Its being.»

There is the dogmatic principle which argues that supernatural truths committed to human language are necessary and definitive of their very nature.

Not exact matches

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

Two disciplines that have often in the past pretended lack of awareness of each other, dogmatics and exegesis, now share a preoccupation with principles of interpretation.

In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.

Mangold's new works, as Prather writes, show «He is artistically principled but not formally dogmatic, and that the mutability of any formula has become one of the touchstones of his life's work.»