Not exact matches
That led TM to seek a ruling from the NEB confirming that the Board had the jurisdiction to authorize TM's activities, and, to the extent that Burnaby's
by - laws were
making it impossible for TM to carry out the necessary tests, a ruling that the
by - laws were constitutionally inapplicable, or if not inapplicable, were in conflict with the provisions of the National Energy Board Act and therefore inoperative on the basis of the paramountcy
doctrine.
A combination of bad economic news from Germany, hawkish comments from key Federal Reserve committee members that appeared to contravene Janet Yellen's
doctrine, and the continued bullish endeavours of the markets ensured that the dollar started this week in a very similar position to last, as demonstrated
by the chart (from IG's global forex trading system) that shows AUD, GBP and EUR retracing gains
made on Wednesday October 8
by Sunday 12..
Our theology and
doctrines, no matter how they are interpreted or
by whom, do not
make any of us righteous — the resurrection of Christ does.
This is not some
doctrine I
made up or some outdated, legalistic ruleset created
by power - hungry Christian leaders.
Some theologians and bishops present an account of
doctrine that strongly resembles the proposals
made by the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo in his interview book Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue.
@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man
made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the
doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God
made by men throughout history.
Whatever may be the correct
doctrine regarding the teaching authority of the bishops conference, in practical fact that authority is at stake in every statement
made by the conference.
The ONLY reason for polygamy was that Joseph Smith got caught with his pants down
by Emma, and so
made up the parts in your
Doctrine and Covenants (I assume as a «good» Mormon you've actually read it???) that commanded her to accept polygamy or be damned.
The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's
doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up
by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles
by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt
make rapid progress among them.»
But one thing that has
made me more repelled
by Calvinism is the rudeness with which many Calvinists express their
doctrine.
In various passages within his oeuvre (e.g. see the conclusion of the last editorial of this magazine) he alludes to the grounds, well articulated
by Cardinal Newman,
by which one can discern whether the synthesis
made between the
doctrines of Catholicism and the state of modern learning is authentic or a blind alley.
What has been called the «small print» of Pastor aeternus (the preamble to the definitions)
makes it plain that ex cathedra definitions of
doctrine by the pope are intended for situations where the college of bishops is divided — where it finds itself in a condition of irresoluble internal doctrinal conflict.
Of these five books,
by far the most significant for the study of his
doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the
Making, and Process and Reality.
Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian
doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God,
by virtue of which each threatens to
make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God
by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»
, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis...
made [even less fashionable]
by our calls for a real development of
doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»
Doctrinal orthodoxy and loyalty to the Magisterium were not fashionable causes, and they were
made less so
by our calls for a real development of
doctrine and a theological expression of Catholicism to revindicate orthodoxy in the age of science.
Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized
by the Cross, together with the
doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet
makes genuine advance a possibility.
This formulation
makes sense, but I find myself compelled
by Scripture, reason and experience to disagree with much of what constitutes traditional
doctrine.
The main problem with the Way of Fundamentalism is that if you decide carte blanche that there are
doctrines of faith that can not be scrutinized
by reason, you risk
making huge mistakes about your faith.
Natural law
doctrine only
makes sense in a universe governed
by a benevolent Creator.
Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant
doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but
made another mistake
by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?
We are not saved
by man
made doctrine or prepositions.
Roman Catholicism
makes it very easy...
by any orthodox standards, you believe what the church has laid down in its cannons and
doctrine, or you aren't truly a Roman Catholic in good standing.
At least in the sphere of sacred
doctrine (and the metaphysical principles conjoined to it
by way of faith's preambles), the Church could
make no compromise.
«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another
doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened
by divine grace, and
made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.
While there is room for talking about such a step, one should not ignore the specific contribution
made by traditional cultures to the whole process of formulating Christian
doctrines.
At that meeting, one of the things agreed on
by all participants was the belief that unity in
doctrine was paramount; it is telling that ILC representatives praised PCPCU representatives for
making it clear that «that both unity and truth are a priority for them.»
You may disagree with the premises of religion as much as you want, buddy, but the reasoning and conclusion leading to religious
doctrine, especially catholic
doctrine, are among the best works in logic in the history of mankind,
made by men a lot more skilled in it than most who live today, I dare say.
Assuming that I
make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required
by a single experience (and this because my experience includes both the clear, conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim experience of other members of the nonsocial nexus); or, my experience is that of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance of a
doctrine of regional inclusion.
«Founded
by atheism, claimed
by atheism, supported
by atheism, and exclusively in the interests of atheism, suppressing without mercy every jot of evidence for the divine existence, and so
making a positive rational faith in God wholly impossible, the
doctrine of evolution may well be set down as not only a foe to theism, but a foe of the most thoroughgoing sort.»
There is at least one: since being is power, every being has some power just
by virtue of being; but then it is metaphysically impossible that God should have all the power.20 Or to
make this an internal argument against the classical
doctrine, the conclusion could be softened to read: «If there is anything other than God, God does not have all the power there is.»
Precisely the concept
by which Christianity distinguishes itself qualitatively and most decisively from paganism is the concept of sin, the
doctrine of sin; and therefore Christianity also assumes quite consistently that neither paganism nor the natural man knows what sin is; yea, it assumes that there must be a revelation from God to
make manifest what sin is.
Radical proposals are
made that we abandon the myth of incarnation and, indeed, all
doctrines that can not be accepted
by members of other religious communities.
I see no harm in its being believed, if that belief has the good Consequence, as probably it has, of
making his
Doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss,
by distinguishing the Unbelievers in his Government of the world with any peculiar Marks of his Displeasure.»
Remember, Jesus (actually his name was wilfred) espoused the
doctrine that we should love and care for our brothers and sisters, thus
making him
by current daffynitions, a SOCIALIST!
The passage has been misused both
by Marxists some of whom have
made atheism part of their
doctrine and
by followers of religion who want to show that Marxism is a rejection of rejection of religion.
I would like to show this is simply not «what the Bible teaches» but is far more something rooted in man -
made doctrines heavily influenced
by western Medieval philosophy.
By making a distinction between your faith which is constant and your beliefs that change, you can claim consistency while being inconsistent, and faith without commitment to any
doctrine.
Yet modern Protestant interpretations of the same issue
make the Catholic
doctrine wise and prudent
by comparison.
But if this novelty did not
make us think, then hope, like faith, would be a cry, a flash without a sequel; there would be no eschatology, no
doctrine of last things, if the novelty of the new were not
made explicit
by an indefinite repetition of signs, were not verified in the «seriousness» of an interpretation which incessantly separates hope from utopia.
He
makes the conference realize the great harm done
by unethical representations of the
doctrine of the Atonement, and how pathetically missionaries are handicapped who do not appreciate the inner life of the people whose religion they wish to supplant.
A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his
doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He
makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated
by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.
Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his
doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to
make a place for unselfish love within the Christian
doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered
by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.
It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the
doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy
by making it appear to be an institution influenced
by politics.
Thus the theological
doctrine of freedom proclaims the grace of God, while the «natural» freedom of man in potency and act is only the presupposition, created
by God himself, to
make it possible for him to give himself to man in love.
And it was this
doctrine, in turn based on the
doctrine of justification
by faith, which
made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16
For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the
doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation
makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and
by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.
You believe the nonsense taught to you
by your religions and never bother to check the accuracy of your man
made doctrines.
This reality
makes us aware that every narrow definition of Christian doctrinal certainty will finally have to be abandoned; every claim
by any branch of the Christian church to be the true church or the only church will ultimately have to be sacrificed; every
doctrine of infallibility — whether of the papacy, or of the Scriptures, or of any sacred tradition, or of any individual experience — will inevitably have to be forgotten.
While it does not exclude a lengthy period of time over whichGod may bring about distinction within his creation, nor many subordinate means through which he may have executed his designs, the
doctrine here manifestly excludes pure chance: «
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mout
By the word of the Lord the heavens were
made, and all their host
by the breath of his mout
by the breath of his mouth.