Sentences with phrase «implied by the doctrine»

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It is decisive for the Christian doctrine of freedom that it implies the possibility of a Yes or No to its own horizon, indeed that it is constituted by this very possibility.

We are told that Bruce Reichenbach is an example of such a FWT in that he «says that he rests his belief in the omnipotence of God solely on the fact that this doctrine is implied by various biblical statements» (ER 50).

As noted above, Whitehead's doctrines imply that a narrowing pessimistic attitude, a lack of faith in the possibility of creative advance, is evil, particularly by its obvious tendency to become a self - fulfilling prophecy.

More recently, 3 however, I have advocated reserving the term «classical theism» for the version of traditional theism affirmed by classical theologians such as Augustine, Anselm, and Thomas, according to which God is timeless, immutable, and impassible in all respects — a doctrine that implies that creaturely freedom must be denied or affirmed at most in a Pickwickian, compatibilist sense.

In this doctrine he proposed that the most basic component of reality is not the particle, as implied by physics, but the «least event,» or the shortest departure from the state of nothing.

Guy Fawkes masks qua protest devices might be legal, if that is covered by «constitutional doctrine of implied freedom of political communication».

Justice Thomas in his dissent, joined by Justice Kennedy, characterized Basic as a «judicially invented doctrine based on an economic theory adopted to ease the burden on plaintiffs bringing claims under an implied cause of action» while highlighting the dissent of Justices White and O'Connor in Basic.