Sentences with phrase «fundamental doctrines of»

He wrote that while Adventists had some distinctive doctrines, when it came to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith, they were in unity with the rest of the Church.

What would happen if someone called for a change to the fundamental doctrines of Islam?

Christian instruction involved a considerable amount of teaching in what the missionaries called «the fundamental doctrines of the Gospel.»

In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.

In short, the very logic of Nietzsche's philosophy of will to power, coupled with his conception of time and evil, leads him to his fundamental doctrine of the eternal recurrence of all things.

The balance issues in his fundamental doctrine of creative process or evolution, which modulates between the notion of mere possibility (lacking directional influence or aim) and the notion of a rigorous directional determinism.

«Any law passed by Congress to impose its will and mandate cameras in the Supreme Court would violate our fundamental doctrine of separation of powers.»

The third piece, Cycle, is a video animation projected onto the back wall, between the other two pieces, that somehow integrates and summarizes them, advancing the notions of temporality, processes of change and evolution - the dialectic governing the fundamental doctrine of life: everything is born, develops and then dies.

Not exact matches

Maybe it is time for those Protestants who disagree on this most fundamental and distinctive of Christian doctrines to face the implications and amicably to go their separate ways.

First, and fundamental, is the doctrine of justification by faith alone: we are not saved by our works.

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

I personally find those that challenge the fundamentals of the gospel to be heretical, not those that question non-essential doctrine.

In terms of the fundamentals of religious experience, these doctrines must be interpreted chiefly in the light of the experience of imperfection.

In the light of such fundamental experiences, these doctrines refer to the relationship between the quality of life and the degree to which one participates in the new dimension already spoken of.

And they must admit that on paper and purely cognitively, so far as the content of fundamental doctrines is concerned, most evangelicals have these «right.»

Quite the contrary, its purpose is to argue that the fundamental Thomist vision of finite existence as pointing to its self - sufficient cause is fully compatible with a doctrine of God that can embody the real strengths of the Thomist position without entailing its religiously and logically unsatisfactory conclusions.

... this doctrine is the most debated and divergent of all the fundamentals (one may choose among premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial, pretribulational, midtribulational, posttribulational, partial rapture, and other views)...» So fundamentalism is also to be taken à la carte, cafeteria style!

It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

For here it is a matter of the application of the ultimate fundamental attitudes and doctrines of the Gospel to the unimaginable multiplicity of situations in human life which, moreover, are involved in a perpetual historical flux and change.

In the spiritual sphere he attempted to rejuvenate Islam by a clarification of its fundamental principles and an elucidation of its doctrines in modern terms.

Because I take seriously Whitehead's claim that the most fundamental order of reality is aesthetic, and the attendant doctrine that «The real world is good when it is beautiful» (AI, Chapter XVIII, Section III), I want to propose that we use the category of beauty as the norm in constructing our images of person - hood and of personal and communal relations.

Those who recognize the signs of the times will move beyond the outmoded doctrines that the State has a divinely delegated power to kill and that criminals forfeit their fundamental human rights.

If we were to identify a backward movement to a primordial and quiescent Totality as the ground of Oriental mysticism, then we must acknowledge that a Christian doctrine of God as an eternal and impassive Being shares this fundamental ground with Oriental mysticism.

Two years later, when the AG adopted a «Statement of Fundamental Truths,» the doctrine of entire sanctification was defined in such a way that both «Second Work» and «Finished Work» adherents could sign the document in good conscience.

They embody the interpretation of the cosmological problem in terms of a fundamental metaphysical doctrine as to the quality of creative origination, namely, conceptual appetition and physical realization.

The interpreter's cognitive presuppositions and his or her spiritual capacity for understanding the truth of God are fundamental in the formation of doctrine.

For him this doctrine is not only the fundamental discriminator whereby one discerns the «true Christian» but also the universal teaching of the Christian church — at least prior to the rise of biblical criticism.

But religious people would maintain that the inalienability of fundamental rights depend on the doctrine that they are not gifts of the state or even of the people who constitute the state, but the gift of the Creator as the US Constitution puts it or the Spirit as we would say in India, and that therefore these rights can not be taken away by the state or the people.

The doctrine thus cries aloud for a conception of organism as fundamental for nature.

It tells us clearly that the fundamental conception around which Christian belief centered was the doctrine that Christian life is unthinkable outside the bounds of virginity.

The booklets reaffirmed what the writers took to be the fundamental and unchangeable doctrines of Christianity: the infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, miracles, the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the substitutionary view of the Atonement.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

Thus the gospel was concentrated in the person of Jesus; the hope of the Kingdom receded and became eventually only another name for «heaven,» the other world, the state of bliss beyond death, or, as in Thomas Aquinas, a term for the divine theodicy in general — though in truth this interpretation really emphasized a fundamental element in the whole biblical conception, in Jesus» teaching as elsewhere — and thus an intellectual concept of the person of Jesus tended to become central for Christian doctrine, theology, and devotion, rather than the person of God, his sovereignty and his redemptive will, his wisdom and his love.

I When in the seventeenth century the revolutionary new metaphysics of materialist mechanism was introduced, it retained two most significant features from the Thomistic Aristotelianism which it replaced, namely the doctrine of God as prime mover, and the doctrine of locomotion as the fundamental motion.

It is doubtful that this states that there is in each organism The doctrine thus cries aloud for a conception of organism as fundamental to nature.

One of its key tenets is that the modern era reveals something new about the human condition that requires the Church and doctrine to change in fundamental ways.

What those doctrines mean is more than a universal description of the actual state of the world: they describe the most private and most fundamental awareness of insufficiency.

Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.

These Christian theologians have the distinction of being the only thinkers who in a fundamental metaphysical doctrine have improved upon Plato....

Descartes himself acknowledged that his cogito ergo sum is already fundamental in Augustine's philosophy (letter to Colvius, 14 November, 1640), and he believed that his philosophy was the first to demonstrate the philosophical truth of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and could go so far as to claim that scholastic philosophy would have been rejected as clashing with faith if his philosophy had been known first (letter to Mersenne, 31 March, 1641) Indeed, nothing is more revolutionary in modern philosophy than its dissolution of the scholastic distinction between natural theology and revealed theology.

It is true that these questions link up with very general and fundamental problems of a philosophical and theological doctrine of man, and with problems of natural philosophy in its widest sense.

First of all let us turn our inquiries to the faith of Judaism itself Although in the lifetime of Jesus the resurrection hope had not yet become universal in Judaism, it soon established itself as a fundamental doctrine in the rabbinical Judaism which survived the rise of Christianity.

The Christian Doctrine of Deification Edward T. Jones From early Church Fathers... «this (deification) they (all early Church Fathers) regard as a point beyond dispute, as one of those fundamentals which no one who calls himself a Christian dreams of denying.»»

These doctrines also require a pre-existence logos Christology that remains in tension with the fundamental humanity of Jesus» (p. 329, fn.

The second of seven articles of the statement opposes the claim that a consensus has been obtained in fundamental points of the doctrine.

After a conference at Niagara Falls in 1895 said that five doctrines were of fundamental importance, twelve volumes of essays, called Fundamentals, were published privately and circulated free in 1909.

If this statement can be made regarding their Christology, it is not likely that other doctrines will upset the relationship — for Christology is of fundamental importance to both Paul and Mark, and to all of primitive Christianity.

For then it would be open to question whether one is dealing with a concept which is possible but which can correspond to no possible reality, or rather with the concept of something truly real.9 In contrast to these different possible dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extended.

There can merely be change, purposeless and unprogressive... The doctrine thus cries aloud for a conception of organism as fundamental for nature.

This is fundamental doctrine to the Christian faith, and your complete misunderstanding of it has resulted in the blessing of three extra minutes of time for me this morning, not having to read the rest of your article.