Sentences with phrase «important doctrines of your faith»

Another option is to go the Way of Fundamentalism — if important doctrines of your faith conflict with reason, dismiss or radically reinterpret the evidence from reason.

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The Office of Peter (the ecclesial role assumed by the man who becomes head of the Church) involves the ability and responsibility to define truths concerning doctrines of faith and principles of morality, especially to «confirm the brethren» (Luke 22:32) when there is disagreement on important issues.

The doctrines of those illustrious men, like the scattered members of a body, Thomas collected together and cemented, distributed in wonderful order, and so increased with important additions that he is rightly and deservedly esteemed the special bulwark and glory of the Catholic faith.»

Of course, it plays an important or crucial role that we have the right faith and doctrine.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

For faith to reject the historical traces of its most important figures doesn't make sense to Catholics, of course, who venerate shrines associated with saints and martyrs, but Wahhabi doctrine is clear and simple.

Consider James Talmage, a very important Mormon figure who said, «The sectarian dogma of justification by faith alone has exercised an influence for evil,» (Articles, p. 432), and «Hence the justice of the scriptural doctrine that salvation comes to the individual only through obedience,» (Articles, p. 81).

These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

St Bernard makes an important point for readers of Faith, «The beams (of the building — cf. Song 1:4) are the supporting structure of doctrine and regulations that prevent weakening of the structure by individuals.