Sentences with phrase «essential doctrine of»

The essential doctrine of the first few verses of the Fourth Gospel would not have been unfamiliar to educated people in Ephesus; only at the identification of the Logos with Jesus would difficulty have arisen.

Moreover, it is a view fatal to the essential doctrine of the solidarity of the universe.

Sherburne holds that it is and seeks to prove this by showing that regional inclusion is incompatible with Whitehead's essential doctrine of the extensive continuum.

Mormonism is not Christian because it denies one or more of the essential doctrines of Christianity.

So then, I take it that this is just a nice structured chat about what a person believes, what the United Church of Canada (UCC) believes, and about the essential doctrines of the UCC triumphing over, or changing to, or accommodating the essential doctrines of the individual.

Mormonism is not Christian is because it denies one or more of the essential doctrines of Christianity.

Not exact matches

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

Both views preserve God's essential monopoly of power, and, in the end, according to the implications I have drawn from traditional doctrine, DP2 collapses into DP1.

Argues coherently and logically that the doctrine of Infallibility must be an essential element of the true Church of Christ.

Argues coherently and logically that the doctrine of Infallibility must be an essential element of the tr...

For example, he still believed in the Virgin Birth, but when his New Testament professor pointed out that the genealogies in both Matthew and Luke seemed to assume that Jesus» descent was through Joseph and that the doctrine of Mary's virginity played no role in Paul's letters, he found it harder to suppose that this belief was essential to Christianity.

Hence in his presentation, the consequent nature of God appears more as a speculative extension of the doctrine than as an essential part.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

It is true that on various occasions he mentions other doctrines as essential, including more objective ones such as the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

«6 The crux of this doctrine is that while substances may acquire accidental properties, they may not in themselves be affected in any essential way.

We know he did not reject the necessity of grace, but thought of it as leaving man free for co-operation with God.15 But Augustine has always been given credit for having preserved the essential Christian doctrine that God's grace is necessary to give to man what he can not give to himself, that is forgiveness, and the empowerment of his will to love God and his neighbour.

I think that I have thus presented the Catholic doctrine of justification, briefly, it is true, but without having left out anything really essential.

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 connection of «immediacy» and «historicity» is essential for the reconciliation of the classical dissenses between the two doctrines of De Deo uno and De Deo trino, and, hence, of natural and revealed recognition; cL Faber (1995) 38 - 77 & 176 - 192.

Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.

Yet the major note in our doctrine of man may well be man's essential greatness — greatness not of our own achieving but as God's gift.

His plan was so successful that in a short period of time all Ireland was being taught this essential Christian doctrine, with the shamrock becoming its chief symbol.

There are the essential core doctrines of the faith, (that we are saved by faith, that we are no longer under the law, for example) and then there are the details (eating meat sacrificed to idols, for example).

The doctrine of free will of the human being by which he or she can control all passions and guide his or her body is an essential part of Syriac theology.

If the classical doctrine of creation is retained, one can deny essential corporeality, while still agreeing with Hartshorne on relativity, contingency, and potentiality.

This was found in Scripture and in doctrine, and a correct understanding of both was essential.

By the end of the 19th century the scholars of Protestant liberalism had fully accepted the humanistic origins of the Bible, come to terms with the scientific notion of biological evolution, and were completely confident that the essential core of Christian doctrine could be salvaged intact and re-expressed in terms relevant to the modern age.

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

In this final section, we examine more closely the Whiteheadian and Nietzschean solutions to the problem of ultimate evil: Whitehead's God and his essential relation to the temporal world, and Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Whitehead's doctrine of actual occasions, which centrally involves the essential relatedness of these final concreta, is the key to understanding his conception of time.

This doctrine of the essential relation of time to self - constituting actualities strictly determines what the nature of time must be.

Niebuhr's doctrine of grace was as central and essential to his theology as his doctrine of sin or any other doctrine.

Men like Tertullian and Methodius had also rightly maintained that the body is essential for the life of the whole man and any doctrine of immortality which dispenses with it must be inadequate.

Basically this doctrine was designed as a protective measure against Greek speculation designed to safeguard the essential goodness of God's creation and man's responsibility in the fall.

Wrenn and Whitehead do find some commentaries and guides to the Catechism that are a real help, including these: ««Essentials of the Faith» by Father Alfred McBride, O.Praem., and «The Mystery We Proclaim» by Francis D. Kelly (both published by Our Sunday Visitor), as well as «A Concise Companion & Commentary for the New Catechism» (Christian Classics) by James Tolhurst, «The Splendour of Doctrine» (T&T Clark) by Aidan Nichols, O.P., and «New Vision, New Directions» (Thomas More) by Robert J. Hater.»

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

At the existential level of living faith and inner constructs of belief, the clear - cut lines so essential to unified doctrine and distinctive creeds blur, and the world of faith becomes a kaleidoscope.

Widespread ignorance about essential doctrine is the reason why many believers are in danger of drifting away — so say JI Packer and Gary A Parrett in... More

«The new evangelisation, which the modern world urgently needs and which I have emphasised many times, must include among its essential elements a proclamation of the Church's social doctrine.»

However, I think holding a heretical view, as I defined it as denial of an essential doctrine, is to deny the Savior and his salvation.

He presented to the Church of his day, after much dialogue and discussion, a doctrine of Original Sin which the Church recognised as true in all essentials to what she did in fact believe.

Pereiro says that the members shared a view on the need to recover that essential spirituality without which doctrine, principles and life would always be in danger of decay.

These widely accepted formulations of the essential «right doctrine» (orthodoxy) handed down from the apostles were crucial for combating heresy.

The so - called «death of God» theologians have made much of this shift from stoicism to optimism.27 But the essential point of this humanist doctrine of authenticity is that we can «be ourselves» using our individuality for shaping our lives, and that is authentic existence.

If so, what leads you to believe that this issue is essential doctrine for salvation as opposed to an area where two committed followers of Christ can reasonably disagree?

As we know, the belief that the human individual can not perfect himself or fully exist except through the organic unification of all men in God is essential and fundamental to Christian doctrine.

My inclination is to say» that liberation theology is principally a sub-type of the transformationist motif, While Niebuhr illustrates his type with theologians who appeal primarily to the doctrine of creation, the precise theology is not essential to defining the type.

That Process and Reality omits or compresses doctrines or theories essential to the coherence and applicability of Whitehead's system of thought is a fact generally ignored by the traditional and genetic approaches.

The other books, including the later books, are essential for an accurate interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysical system, because they include applications, even doctrines that are absent from Process and Reality (49).