Sentences with phrase «historical development of the doctrine»

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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).

I would suggest also that one way into such a new doctrine of analogy is a new understanding of man or history as the image of God, wherein historical development and evolution could be seen as a reflection or embodiment of the development and evolution of God.

To affirm that in this way a necessary, unavoidable, historical process of development on a large scale in the doctrines which are not defined dogma is legitimate and a matter of course, is not to say that this history does not also contain mistakes, over-hasty (though only provisional and revocable) decisions, cases of short - sightedness and lack of understanding.

This is not the place to attempt a full historical sketch of the development of that doctrine.

[21] As John Henry Newman famously wrote: «It may be almost laid down as an historical fact that the mystical interpretation and orthodoxy will stand or fall together» John Henry Newman, A.n Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, ch 7, section 4, no5).

Indeed, with regard to the historical development of philosophy and science we know it to be the case that it was the doctrine of the Fall, which is peculiar to the Judeo - Christian faith, which enabled the Christian culture to maintain an ontological distinction between matter and evil in the face of cultural opposition.

A similar difficulty is presented by John Macmurray's attempt to combine a Christian - Augustinian doctrine of God's sovereignty with a Marxist interpretation of the structure of historical development as leading inevitably toward the fulfillment of the good society.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

But if this is true, then it can not now separate its doctrines of God, Christ, Church, and Faith from the historical development of human consciousness and the fact of cosmic evolution.

His Ten Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology dealt with the historical origin and development of individual religions as well as the historical survey of certain key ideas and doctrines, such as doctrines of God, man, and salvation.

In 1965, he published his most famous book, at once classic and immediately consequential as a study in the development of doctrine: Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists — 533 pages of dazzling historical research, unpretentious erudition, and contextual analysis that concluded by offering reasons why the papal magisterium could and should support some forms of contraception for married couples.

With an ironic reference to conservative historical doctrines Altintzoglou's current work employs the analytical and reflective inter-disciplinary methods of Conceptual art in order to explore the ways by which new technologies can affect the development of art.

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