Sentences with phrase «faith against the heresies»

Why not do both What if, instead of practicing «apologetic evangelism» where we are always trying to defend the faith against the heresies of the heathen, we loved people and served people?

The ministers are providing leadership and inspiration not only for Black Americans but for the rest of us as they defend the Christian faith against the heresy of Obama.

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Let her fight against heresies, expound the Catholic faith, trample on the rites of the heathen, strike down thy idols, O Rome, devote song to the martyrs, and praise the apostles.»

A disembodied Word expressed in creedal statements, which were constructed to defend orthodoxy against heresy rather than proclaim the faith, will not communicate the joy and redemptive power of the gospel.

When the inquisitors arrived in a locality, the first step was the proclamation of the Edict of Grace, which listed the various heresies against the Faith and encouraged sinners to «relieve their consciences».

Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.