Sentences with phrase «importance of this doctrine»

His controversial utterance, «Whoever knowingly separates himself from the Confessing Church in Germany separates himself from salvation,» stressed both the importance of doctrine as well as the idea that separation from the church is equal to cutting oneself off from Christ who exists in the church.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

The response of others among Whitehead's admirers is to appreciate the possibility, through our encounter with Buddhism, to learn of the positive existential and religious importance of this doctrine.

Unlike most process theologians, Gilkey defends the importance of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo.

Although it is unfortunate that Leclerc has in this way introduced confusion into the discussion, 11 it is fortunate that we have his strong and independent corroboration of the importance of a doctrine of real causal relationality bonding the entities of the world together.

Despite his insistence on the personal character of revelation and its correlate, faith, Brunner did not deny the importance of doctrine.

Not exact matches

Reactions to this revelation have varied — from serious and constructive engagement to bewilderment that anyone would regard a complicated doctrine like the Trinity as being of any importance.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Although they were all published within the period 1925 to 1929, still there are significant developments in the thought expressed, and these have special importance with respect to the doctrine of God.

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

True, the concepts, and the terms used to express them, are of great importance, especially for the later history of doctrine; and we are not likely to minimize them if we view New Testament theology as Book One or perhaps Chapter One in the History of Christian Ddoctrine; and we are not likely to minimize them if we view New Testament theology as Book One or perhaps Chapter One in the History of Christian DoctrineDoctrine.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The interest for us in this doctrine is primarily that it illustrates further the importance and persistence of the questions raised by the human experiences of change and of dependence.

He admits that whereas it is relatively easy to trace the legacy of Athanasius and Basil, the fourfold gospel apart we find in Irenaeus teaching of great importance, above all in his opposition to Marcion, a near contemporary, his doctrine of recapitulation and his treatment of Mary as the second Eve in his Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching 32 and 33.

Immutability, impassibility, and doctrines such as the eternal generation of the Son have been abandoned or reduced in importance by large sections of the evangelical world.

I am quite sure that they are wrong, but my point here is that Whitehead's lack of appreciation of the religious importance of the no - self doctrine leads some of his readers to think they can follow him in general without appropriating this doctrine.

In the past the Church has appeared to many Catholics as an absolutely monolithic structure, a system of doctrine and life which had to be either accepted or rejected as a whole, without degrees or nuances of importance in its various components.

(E.L. Mascall, The Importance of Being Human: Some Aspects of the Christian Doctrine of Man, p. 14.)

One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.

Some Christian doctrines might require modification, but his convictions about the supreme importance of loving God and neighbor would in no way be weakened.

So the actual situation of personal faith may be the same in the Catholic Church as in Protestantism, though it is hidden behind the facade of the official doctrine (though we do not dispute that this is also of theological importance).

Much emphasis was placed on the importance of building a strong foundation, which usually involved employing materials like the «concrete» of absolute truth, the «joists» of biblical inerrancy, and the «bearing walls» of Christian doctrine.

The Fox network could not have existed three decades ago because the Federal Communications Commission still used the Fairness Doctrine and equal time rules to require stations to provide time — even free time — to air all sides of issues of public importance.

In particular, they have driven home to me the importance and significance of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

Nicholas Lash suggests in Easter in Ordinary that there is a pattern to the doctrine of God as it is confessed in the creed, a pattern that reminds us of the importance of the movements among the confessions of «Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

All of these, but especially the last named, were doctrines of paramount importance during the half century preceding the fall of Japan, at the end of World War II.1 But of that we shall speak at greater length presently.

And, not least in importance, we look for any such statement of doctrine to make sense, to fit with our common sense.

If this were simply a dogmatic statement of the importance of relationships grounded in Whitehead's doctrine of prehensions, we would all have to recognize the danger of moving in this way from the metaphysics to the more concrete theory.

Those like Beegle, on the other hand, seem to have little appreciation for the doctrine of Scripture, I. e., the importance of maintaining its message to be authoritative and inspired.

Hartshorne's main importance for Christian theology is his application of modern logic to the doctrine of God.

It appears to be of capital importance that Christians and theologians at the present time should reflect more clearly and attentively on the «obviousness» of this doctrine of the faith.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

Chapters in this section are also devoted to a consideration of recent scholarship of importance to theological education, such as that of Robert Schreiter (Constructing Local Theologies), George Lindbeck (The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age) and Edward Farley (Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education)

Doctrine is of an importance too great to be exaggerated, but its place is secondary, not primary.

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.

That does not diminish the importance of correct doctrine, but rather allows it its proper place in glorifying the triune God, who graciously saves sinners because of the person and work of Christ.

In rejecting Plato's doctrine, and also the atomistic cosmology of Democritus, Aristotle had assigned fundamental importance to ousia («substances» or «supposits»), the discrete persistent entities of ordinary experience (this ox, that tree)(NPE 45, 204).

However, those familiar with the Church's doctrine on the importance of marriage and family know it is based on principles of respect and love for all of God's children.»

Moynihan's thinking on this was influenced by his own experiences of deprivation and the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which led him to put particular stress on the importance of families in alleviating poverty.

The low initial plausibility of the doctrine combined with the high importance of it in current process metaphysics makes an intriguing problem.

A verse of paramount importance to Job — and equally so for Christian doctrine — is 42:6: «Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes» (NRSV).

First - hand evidence of Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French, due to the influence of Marc - Antoine Laugier's doctrines that sought to discern the principles of the Greeks instead of their mere practices.

As such, it is hard to underestimate their importance as we cast about today for subject matter that moves beyond our contemporary doctrine of the ironic, abject and just plain superficial.

In a jurisdiction that has prided itself on the importance of «doctrine» in interpreting the law, the fact that the major French language university opts for content with the lowest common denominator, while a foreign owned commercial publisher offers an authoritative work by leading academics and legal practitioners, is a remarkable case of role reversal, as well as a reflection on how times have changed.

Sorochan claims that social covenant is of the same «constitutional importance as promises by the representatives of government to the First Nations» where court cases evoked the legal doctrine of «honour of the Crown» which asserts that Canada is honour bound to carry out the promises of the social covenant.

In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.

Major differences include the lesser importance of case law compared to legal doctrine and, accordingly, of case law databases.