Sentences with phrase «instead of the doctrine»

Pope Francis is trying to create a new culture of how bishops lead, and he wants them to think first of the person and her circumstances, instead of doctrine in the abstract.

Before you interfere in secular matters, you have to swear that you will allow fact and reason to guide your choices, instead of the doctrine of any religion.

In traditional terms this is the doctrine that God is everywhere instead of the doctrine that God is nowhere.

Not exact matches

And yet most economists would agree instead with the doctrine of trade deficits and its benefits for consumers.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

Adam and Eve forsook sound teaching and instead chose to eat of the fruit (doctrine) of unbelief.

If we understood it as a constant evolving and adapting entity instead of thinking that our doctrines and systems are perfectly suited, then maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation.

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

Instead, it was a priest, teacher, parent, or friend who demonstrated the ideas and doctrines of our religion to us in a living way.

As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.

It seems to me that instead of to explaining how these three things are really one things, we must try to do what the doctrine of the Trinity was originally formulated to do: give words the faith.

There, in his otherwise lucid and illuminating explanation of Whitehead's doctrine of creativity (pp. 81 - 87), he says nothing of «the many becoming one» with its strong note of the agency of the many, and he identifies creativity instead exclusively with the «self - creating activity» (p. 87) of concrescing occasions.

Jürgen Moltmann objects to the «monarchical monotheism» of Christianity, which supports hierarchalism and individualism, and insists instead that a social, Trinitarian doctrine of God is needed.

On the other hand, Professor Martin Werner has studied the evidence for this supposed influence of «Paulinism» upon the Gospel of Mark, and concludes that instead of «Paulinism» Mark presupposes only the common Christianity, the generally accepted Christian doctrine, of the Gentile churches at the middle of the first century.

«mysticism» and instead embraces the doctrine of the Reformed tradition and its emphasis on knowing God through Scripture alone.

Quakers don't worry about doctrines, but instead welcome anyone who wishes to engage in the practices of worship and community with us.

Instead of belittling Christ and circumscribing his power, Scotus argues, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception exalts him, attributing to Jesus the most perfect and sublime redemption.

I am arguing for God, I am arguing to free our understanding of God from the prison of these doctrines — doctrines from a particular time and place that are too often considered to be our final destination, instead of guideposts along the way; doctrines that are too often used to stop questions instead of to help find answers.

As the «new media» of the printed book became common, the debates over the contents of the canon subsided, and instead encouraged by its new fixedness those over the exactness of its inspiration (the development of the doctrines of infallibility, inerrancy, et al) began to spring up.

The legitimacy of legislation depends instead on whether the state can advance some justification for its law beyond its conformity to religious doctrine.»

We can get so caught up in the doctrine instead of living it out.

Fox - Genovese uses doctrine instead of biological science to ground her position.

Instead of looking for a church that perfectly aligns with your views on every issue, focus on the most important parts of the Christian doctrine: the creeds.

Hence, he discards the classical Christian doctrine of God's creation of the world out of nothing and affirms instead that the world, just as God, never had a real beginning and will never have a final end.

Look at history: By Muhammad's doctrine the ancient Arabs became worse instead of better.

«Biblical natural law,» he argues, «avoids the self - cleaving tendency in anthropocentric natural - law doctrine and instead recognizes human fulfillment as achieved through imitation of the divine ecstasis.»

Instead, the Vatican the pope had thanked Cardinal Gerhard Mueller for his service and would be adopting the next in line in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Jesuit Monsignor Luis Ferrer, to succeed him.

LOL David, you make it sound like there actually is somebody who knows correct doctrine instead of it being each christian makes up his own doctrine because NOBODY can demonstrate by any reliable method whatsoever what the «true doctrine» should be..

So instead of valuing human experience their emphasis has been on the exercise of the intellect, on putting the doctrine straight — God is understood to be transcendent, wholly other, unchangeable, hardly one who inspires a desire for a personal relationship.

Nietzsche's doctrine is Eternal Recurrence, instead of Return.

I do think there is a larger problem within Catholicism (even more so than Protestants) of the strict formality of the doctrine instead of answering straightforward questions.

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.

Some churches prefer evangelistic sermons every week, and other churches prefer one person to deliver an expositional monologue for one reason: People no longer put up with «sound doctrine» but instead gather around themselves a host of teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear (2 Tim 4:3 - 4).

There was no possibility of repentance after death; as we must note, there was either the definite sending to eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.

If we have learned anything from the dispensationalists» repeated warning of an imminent return of Christ that somehow never seems to occur, it is the folly of basing Christian doctrine on current events instead of clear scriptural teaching.

This involves a complete rejection of the doctrine of the ultimate existents as «matter»; the doctrine maintains instead that they are fundamentally «psychical» in nature.

The king and the university condemned this doctrine and requested him not in preach this doctrine, but he refused to comply and instead published a lengthy treatise in defense and amplification of his teaching.

But in the context of dialogue, instead of simply rejecting the Buddhist idea, Christians listen to what Buddhists mean by their doctrine.

When you learn and live this way, you will no longer be spiritual children (cf. 1 Cor 13:11), tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, but instead, we will become mature and Christlike spiritual adults.

Try instead of judging the doctrines or other people, judging yourself.

Steve Chalke co-wrote a book entitled The Lost Message of Jesus (Zondervan) which briefly took issue with a doctrine of the cross in which God pours out his wrath upon Jesus, punishing him instead of us.

They are preaching their own doctrines instead of leading people to the Word of God.

Promoting the false «trinity «doctrine fantasy, Luke 11:13, Matthew 16:16 & 17, and promoting reverence toward statues, crosses, pictures and dead «saints» instead of teaching that true worship means absolute obedience to the word of God.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

Yet instead of a new love and reformation of the will, the sixteenth century turned to doctrines, a reformation of the intellect, as it were, with argument and counter-argument shifting Christian attention away from caritas rather than seeking its restoration.

Instead of one parent and the «winner takes all» doctrine of the past, we believe in «shared parenting» that offers proper access and visitation to both parents; even if that access must be supervised.

The doctrine of Jean - Jacques Rousseau, that the will of the people must always prevail, much admired by autocrats ever since the days of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, now prevails in Westminster instead.

In the decades that followed, the use of the term «neoliberal» tended to refer to theories which diverged from the more laissez - faire doctrine of classical liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.

Instead, they made the difficult decision to «cover» a broad and sanitized survey of U.S. foreign policy from the Monroe Doctrine to the Cold War.