Sentences with phrase «implications of the doctrine»

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

But it is difficult to see that such implications of this doctrine as that God is strictly impassible are admitted in the Bible.

This is the teaching of the Scripture and the implication of the doctrine of the good creation.

My second point is that I do not see how one who adheres to the doctrine of regional inclusion can avoid affirming that one prehension has two subjects and this implication of the doctrine constitutes a reduction ad absurdum.8 That if established, it would be a reductio is clear from passages such as the following: «A feeling is in all respects determinate, with a determinate subject, determinate initial data...»; no feeling can be abstracted either from its data, or its subject» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 338 and 355).

The stress here is generally placed on working out the implications of the doctrine of creation and specific «Christian» stances with respect to the major issues in the various academic disciplines.

Boff has undertaken the task of formulating, based on the general ecumenical consensus — that it is the triune God in whom Christians believe and that it is necessary to reflect theologically on this — what are, in his perspective, the contextually relevant implications of this doctrine.

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.

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.

Those people take advantage of the doctrine and let everyone else know that they've got the church, the church's doctrine, and by implication the Bible and God himself backing up their bad, bullying behavior.

But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about pastors who know and embrace the full implications of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a pastor like that as one who teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because of it.

The main point is to underscore the contrast of the implications of his philosophy with the traditional doctrines that have insisted only on the permanence, unity, eminent actuality, transcendence, and creative power of God.

If the doctrine itself is not explicit in the Bible, and if its implications are not admitted in the Bible, it is hard to see how the doctrine can be defended on the basis of Biblical revelation.

This has immediate implications for the elaboration and development of moral doctrine, for consultative processes and for the free flow of ideas in the church.

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

The vital issue in the debate is the implication of such belief for the doctrine of God.

Thus his conclusion on Williams» project: «Building on insights first developed by Beard, he unearthed the assumptions underlying the doctrine of liberal internationalism, explained its logic, identified its purposes, and divined its implications.

As a small contribution to this discussion: One implication of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination, if it really is what the Bible teaches, is that someone may spend his or her life passionately serving in a full - time church capacity and yet not be one of the elect (and therefore «saved»).

Seminary, then, is a learning laboratory in which Christians can learn to think about the logical implications of Christian doctrine.

Consider Marsden's contention in Outrageous Idea that the «doctrine of creation... has important implications in the field of epistemology....

We can then turn to a brief consideration of some major doctrines that are affirmed by Brunner to see how they articulate the implications of his method.

Thus... if «the personal is the political» (to use the familiar feminist slogan), then no doctrine of the Trinity, however construed, can be wholly devoid of political, spiritual and sexual implications....

There are three implications of this view of the Spirit for a doctrine of the Church.

Along the way, I came upon this excerpt by David Little, who does a fantastic job of encapsulating the implications of Calvin's doctrine of natural....

As far as I know, this last is not an explicit doctrine in Whitehead's system, but it seems to be a possible implication of the theory of «objective immortality.»

My understanding of the implications of beginning with dogma has developed greatly (see The Nature of Doctrine), but not the creedal and confessional starting point.

We're very interested in how the doctrines and beliefs of the church grow out of communities of practice and also have implications for those communities.

Actually, even Niebuhr sought to protect God from the full implications of the old doctrine of original sin.

This particular doctrine does not tell us how the world actually came into being, but seeks rather to convey the implications of the fact that we stand as responsible beings before God.

The issue is, instead, whether drawing the conclusions I have suggested from ecological egalitarianism depends on a misunderstanding of the doctrine or might instead be its most consistent implication.

I want to use this response as a way of clarifying the implications of the no - self doctrine.

The fully consistent implication of sensationalism seems to be solipsism, the doctrine that each person's experience is self - enclosed and makes to reference to any wider context at all.

The first Implication is that a doctrine of God Inspired by emerging scientific models is speculative rather than dogmatic, not fixed in stone but open to new information and revisions.

In the early 1920s, leaders in the Church of England asked one of their own, John Kenneth Mozley, to prepare a report on how theologians were dealing with the doctrine, particularly as the British were coming to grips with the implications of massive human waste in the World War just concluded.

We can then reflect upon what implications our account of these structures may have for a doctrine of God's being and his relationship to the world.

This had been the doctrine of Leibniz in the seventeenth century, and Leibniz saw the philosophical implications of this theory with great clarity.

What are the implications of the theory for Christian faith, especially for the doctrine of the sovereignty of God?

By the time this implication of his idea was realized in practice, the doctrine was losing acceptance among intellectuals, who were discussing Malthus and Hume and social Darwinism.

And of course there is Benedict's Deus Caritas Est, itself a set of meditations on the meaning of the biblical doctrine that God is love and on the implications of that theme for man's erotic nature.

And the moment espousal of reform became strongly linked with criticism of doctrine, and particularly of practice linked with doctrine, and very particularly if it had financial implications, it was time to beware.

The doctrine of revelation has two implications for congregations seeking clarity.

A second is the Catholic doctrine of baptism, especially its emphasis on the regenerative quality of the sacrament and its possible domestic and political implications, which the Church continues to acknowledge in her codified counsel regarding near - death situations, as well as in her use of the Pauline privilege, which allows for the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons if one of them should subsequently receive baptism.

David A. Scott and Ray S. Anderson discuss the implications of feminist proposals for the doctrine of creation (Scott) and Christology (Anderson).

Whatever may have been the social implications of Isma`ilism — and scholars claim a good deal — the doctrines of the Fatimid Caliphate did not appreciably affect the procedures of the Egyptian administrative system, and Egypt emerged from two hundred years of Isma`ili rule and intensive indoctrination as solidly Sunni as before the coming of the Fatimids.

Now, to their credit, these purveyors of patriarchy correctly recognize that despite its reputation, the doctrine of the Trinity has profound practical implications for everyday life.

David Oxenford of the Broadcast Law Blog suggests that the implications of Citizen United might be a return of the Zapple Doctrine (23 F.C.C. 2d 707 (1970)-RRB-, which hasn't been used in over 25 years.

The majority disagreed with the Crown's contention that «mild sexual touching» could be dealt with using the de minimus doctrine, stating that «Without suggesting that the de minimus principle has no place in the law of sexual assault, it should be noted that even mild non-consensual touching of a sexual nature can have profound implications for the complainant» (at para. 63).

(2) In general, the particular implications of the broad principle for particular cases are determined by resorting to the body of doctrine that has developed which gives effect to aspects of that principle in particular types of situations and relationships.

Of course, in the Martinez case, the Supreme Court held that states» decisions to relegate IAC claims to collateral review had important implications for the scope of procedural default doctrine in later federal habeas proceedingOf course, in the Martinez case, the Supreme Court held that states» decisions to relegate IAC claims to collateral review had important implications for the scope of procedural default doctrine in later federal habeas proceedingof procedural default doctrine in later federal habeas proceedings.

In a decision with far - reaching implications for patent misuse doctrine generally, the court (1) affirmed that patent misuse is applicable only to specific anticompetitive patentee conduct; and (2) recognized that an agreement between partners to a joint venture not to compete with the venture can have legitimate and pro-competitive purposes, and therefore can be condemned only on proof of anticompetitive effects under the rule of reason.