I would never expect a nonmember of this church to understand
enough about its doctrine to make an honest assessment of anything other than superficial, publicized topics.
In examining each of these issues (and more) Wittmer steers a path between the extremes of both sides, as he puts it «conservatives fear that postmoderns don't care
enough about doctrine, and postmoderns think that conservatives don't care enough about people.
Not exact matches
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or
doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't
enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself
about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...
First, there are faithful -
enough poetic reflections on the
doctrines about Heaven, which may (or may not) include a book like the Paradisio of Dante (the Hollanders are your Dante translators to get, BTW), or the last part of Wendell Berry's Remembering.
In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with
doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students
about the importance of writing in their legal careers and
about the relationships between
doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating
doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write
about some legal
doctrine, and they learn that
doctrine better when they analyze it fully
enough to be able to write
about it.