Sentences with phrase «foundational doctrine of»

In frustration, he recognized that the first - year legal writing and analysis course had been less than completely successful at teaching foundational doctrine of legal analysis and writing because the students lacked the user's experience of written legal analysis.

Frankly, the modern western Church seems to have lost track of the new covenant, although it is the foundational doctrine of Christianity.

We should rather regard the command to love as the most foundational doctrine of the church and thus the most important doctrine to be correct on!

As Frank Viola and I hope to show in a forthcoming essay, the label of «heresy» was only applied to people who not only denied, but activity worked against the foundational doctrines of orthodoxy, viz. the doctrines espoused by the Nicene and Apostle's creed.

Even Luther, who in his theology of the cross affirmed the suffering of God even unto death, seemed to take back much of what he said in his equally foundational doctrines of predestination and the Deus Absconditus.

Not exact matches

The doctrine of the Eucharist is among the most sublime of the mysteries of faith whereas metaphysics holds the foundational place in the realm of pure reason.

His link arises from a thesis foundational to his development of Christian doctrine: all systematic theology is but the explication of what is implicit in God's own self - disclosure.

I think that we can do so only if we recover a foundational Theology — a doctrine of God — that is informed by a Judaic sense of the dialectic of divine distance and proximity, otherness and sameness, transcendence and immanence.

There is little doubt that there is much in the Biblical witness that supports this doctrine and that the expectation of such a final End to history has been foundational to much of Christian theology throughout the centuries.

But later in the book Woodworth forthrightly asserts that, «as it pertained to the foundational teaching of Christianity, such rigid stasis was entirely good, for at the heart of the Christian religion are certain basic truths and doctrines that do not change.»

This great gulf must certainly be faced, but to quite a degree one's attitude to the truth of this foundational Christian doctrine rests upon the respective veracities of Muslim and Christian revelation.

See George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine (Philadelphia: The Westminster press, 1984); also, in a Catholic context, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Foundational Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1985) 276 - 84.

But in exoteric Buddhist teaching and esoteric Buddhist tantra prior to Hui - kuo and Kukai, the Dharmakaya is ultimate reality, beyond names and forms, utterly beyond verbal capture by doctrines, while yet the foundational source of all Buddhist thought and practice.

These verses contain the foundational, milk doctrines, elementary principles, Kindergarten truths of the Word of God.

For example, Hebrews 6:1 - 3 contains a list of six key doctrines which are foundational for every new Christian to understand.

It vindicates the foundational principle of the first sale doctrine — if you bought it, you own it.

In this paper, the author aims to locate the evolution of the originality doctrine within the context of a foundational shift in Canadian copyright theory.

While there is a wide diversity among Christians on matters of doctrine and practice, there are foundational beliefs that provide the basis for unity among all Christians.